http://itstandish.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:08:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://itstandish.edublogs.org/2008/07/06/sports-day/ Apologies for being so slow to post recently... exams and OFSTED make things run a little slow around here! One thing I have been meaning to talk about is studeous. An amazing pupil communication site that I have been playing around with quite a lot and I will soon be inflicting ... http://itstandish.edublogs.org/2008/06/09/studeous/ Fancy posting a quick quiz on your blog for your students? Check out mystudiyo for free, amazing looking quizzes. Have a look at this one to see what I mean. Optical Illusions Challenge http://itstandish.edublogs.org/2008/04/27/mystudiyo-quizzes/ An awesome 'baby' French news site for all us French teachers out there. Just a brilliant site which I can't wait to get on as a starter. Have a look for yourself : http://www.monjtquotidien.com/ http://itstandish.edublogs.org/2008/04/21/french-news/ [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/qiP79vYsfbo" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] An interesting animation by Tim Cowie about social collaboration on the web. Thanks to Tim for the animation and Joe dale for posting on his blog. Definitely gets you thinking... http://itstandish.edublogs.org/2008/04/07/mass-collaboration-mass-innovation/ 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 http://itstandish.edublogs.org/2008/03/27/six-stories-six-authors/ 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 http://itstandish.edublogs.org/2008/03/20/3d-anatomy-site/ 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 ... http://itstandish.edublogs.org/2008/03/16/quizlet/ 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 http://itstandish.edublogs.org/2008/03/10/some-science-educational-games/ 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 ... http://itstandish.edublogs.org/2008/03/10/bonjour/