Many thanks to the nice folks at ICT for Education for the opportunity to speak to teachers at the conference in St Helens today – the venue: the brand new Langtree Stadium. The conference had an exhibition area and interesting ideas for sessions. One ‘Question Time’ session...

The most complicated thing about a pencil is knowing to use the sharp, pointy end – and what to do when it’s not so sharp and pointy. Shouldn’t web tools be like this? Discuss… Checkthis looks to meet the pencil test – balancing features and ease of use well. No...

Publishing online offers a fantastic way of celebrating learners’ achievements and helping to create a genuine audience. Issuu and Scribd have been around for a while and both do the job well of converting PDF documents to online texts. Not sure how long Youblisher has been around but,...

Asking learners to re-tell, explain or summarise is an effective way of consolidating learning. It’s good to combine with tools that focus less on the technology and more on the message. One such is GoAnimate Very easy to use – if you can type, you can animate. Pupils can record...

Asking learners to re-tell, explain or summarise is an effective way of consolidating learning. It’s good to combine with tools that focus less on the technology and more on the message. One such is Make Beliefs Comix  Very easy to use – it’s free to use and doesn’t...

Quite simply, Storybird is nothing short of gorgeous. The site provides high-quality art work to inspire writing. Surely ideal for primary school, English and MFL teachers? I created this short story for 4-6 year olds, playing with the expectations of who the narrator could be. iPad users...

Two resources for musicians, music teachers and those interested in sound… 1. JamStudio  is a online tool to create music. It allows users to mix different instruments (guitars, drums, bass, etc.) with simple clicks to create music. Tracks can be saved online or...

This is a beautiful and stunning animation. No dialogue. I love the way it plays with perspective and expectations – worth 10 minutes of your day

I’ve been a fan of Lulu for a long time. It’s a great service for print-on-demand book making – for making real books of bookstore quality. Even in the age of digital-Kindle, there’s nothing more satisfying than analogue publishing. Two things prompted to mention this...

At the beginning of July I gave a keynote presentation at the Kent EIS IT 2010 Conference and, just to illustrate the power and simplicity of Posterous, I posted links and reference materials from the presentation to a specially created Kent EIS IT 2010 Posterous blog. The more I use...