News Reels

An excellent site for old news reels that have been digitised  -  http://www.britishpathe.com/

Web Toolboxes: Free Tools

A great resource with “Links to Web sites that features free tools or downloads that can assist teachers to meet the needs of all students” – http://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/toolboxfree.html

Google and all that you can do with a Google account

Thanks to a post on Drape’s Takes from Darren Draper in the US – this list is a very comprehensive list of ‘free stuff’ from Google – http://drapestakes.blogspot.com/2007/06/why-every-teacher-should-have-google.html

Creating Mind Maps on-line

Thus is a simple and free web application to let you brainstorm on-line – your mindmap can be emailed, printed, embedded in a blog or a wiki – http://www.bubbl.us/

Another on-line mindmapping tool - http://www.mindomo.com/

Movies in teaching and learning

A wonderful resource from an inspiring educator Marco Torres, Flickschool is a “sharing community, a creative learning space’ for podcasts, movies, multimedia – http://web.mac.com/cinedelagente/iWeb/Site/%5B%20FLICKSCHOOL%20%5D.html

Marco, with his students, has run a film festival for a number of years in San Fernando – http://www.sfett.com/

Marco the Teacher – http://homepage.mac.com/torresu/

Resources for Inspiration

This is a collection of resources for Inspiration mind mapping software:

Ideas for using Inspiration in the Classroom as well as some tutorials  -  http://www.4teachers.org/testimony/inspiration/

Five instructional videos – http://www.sd6.k12.mt.us/techhelp/inspiration/inspiration.html

Storyboards

Adobe has a great site for the ‘Story behind Storyboards’  -

http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/lessons/storyboards.html 

Comic Life in the Classroom

A great site for help with using comics in the classroom, why comics, student participation and more

http://www.macinstruct.com/node/69

There is a Beta version of Comic Life for Windows at http://plasq.com/

Teacher Tube has some great videos to demonstrate how you can use Comic Life to add titles and speech bubbles to you slideshows in iPhoto – http://www.teachertube.com/search_result.php?search_id=making+slideshows+with+iPhoto&search_typ=search_videos&x=0&y=0

Voice Thread

Thanks to Peter MacKay from the Teacher List and Terry Korte, for “this awesome blogging tool the other day. A VoiceThread is an online media album that allows people to make comments, either audio or text, and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows an entire group’s story to be told and collected in one place. Here’s what caught my attention from the site: “Creating VoiceThreads will always be free for educators and the students that fill their classrooms. This includes publishing them on the web, and sharing them with the child’s friends and family. It’s really important to us that there are no barriers; no cost to fully participate, no software to buy or download, and no contracts to manage.”"

http://voicethread.com/

Animacat’s Web site

From Peter MacKay and the Teacher List Animacat’s House Web site, for children aged 5 to 8  -  visit Animacat’s House/La maison de Chanima, a fun and interactive Web site where children can learn while playing games and watching short animated films online.  A teacher’s and parents’ guide is also available on the site. The Web site can be used in conjunction with classroom activities and themes or as a stand-alone investigation into animation.
http://www.nfb.ca/animacat