ideas for IT in teaching

Penguin have recently launched an amazing project – to have 6 modern authors rewrite 6 classic novels, using web 2.0 technologies to bring them alive for an entirely different audience.

Just an amazing use of technologies.

Thanks to ewan macintosh for this.

http://wetellstories.co.uk

One for the scientists!

Visible body is a site with fully searchable, 3D images of the human body, featuring:

• Complete, fully interactive, 3D human anatomy model
• Detailed models of all body systems
• Dynamic search capability
• Easy-to-use, 3D controls
• Seamless compatibility with Internet Explorer

Quizlet is my new favourite app for making vocab flashcards that my students can access online to help them with their learning.  It is free to get an account and dead easy to input the terms and definitions. Sure, at the end of the day they are only flashcards, but you know what they say – sometimes the old ones are the best!

Some games to get kids thinking about alloys, or different types of plastics? What about the working of the ear?

Check them out at nobelprize.org

Rainlender is a free calendar and organiser tool that can sit on your desktop and includes to do lists and upcoming events as set by what you input into your calendar. You can also set it so that it loads up automatically on startup, so if you put in all your tasks and appointments you should never miss another one again.

Damn, there goes my excuse.

Want to do a group project with some other people, or make a form/group space where people can work on things together?

Some time ago Google acquired the wiki site, JotSpot, and has been developing it ever since. Now it has been re-born within Google’s new application, Google Sites, which makes “creating a team site as easy as editing a document”. “People can work together on a Site to add file attachments, information from other Google applications (like Google Docs, Google Calendar, YouTube and Picasa), and new free-form content. Creating a site together is as easy as editing a document, and you always control who has access, whether it’s just yourself, your team, or your whole organization. You can even publish Sites to the world. The Google Sites web application is accessible from any internet connected computer.” Google Sites is available from within Google apps Each Google Apps account receives at least 10GB of storage in Google Sites.