Why should students always be writing their homework for you? Why don’t they record it instead? This incredibly easy to use resource allows students to record themselves and then send an email to their teacher, who can open the recording and listen to the track. A fantastic resource to prepare for oral assessments, self- or peer- assessments.
Using social networking to enhance independent learning
Mr Jeremy Scott has conducted extensive research into the use of social networking in education. This excellent resource analyses the results of this research and how to use social networking to further student progress.
You can also check out Jeremy’s presentations on social media that he delivered at the National Education Show at the NEC using the links below.
Guide to outstanding online resources
JWS Staff only – Here you can find an online guide to the wide variety of online learning resources (e.g. Prezi) being promoted by Mr. Danny Bidwell in his lessons.
Have you tried managing your online resources yet? pearltrees.com is a fantastic place to publish and share resources and get your classes involved in adding and developing the online material. For an example click on the example jwslearning pearltree above.
Ok, so word clouds are not necessarily new, but Tagxedo does make them extraordinarily easy to produce – fabulous for creating discussion/debate on key texts and issues.
Connect, collaborate, and co-create in real time! Nota, a dynamic whiteboard wiki, allows multiple users to write and integrate text, paste photos and maps, add video and audio to make brainstorms, presentations, and scrapbooks in a snap.
3G Vision i-nigma 
i-nigma lets users create Quick Response barcodes that will link users to website links, encoded messages, contact information, or text messages. i-nigma also has a QR reader that users can download for their computer, i-pad or mobile device. i-nigma can be used by 400 different devices to read QR barcodes.
Lingt Language
Get your students speaking, in another language. Lingt Language allows students to practice their foreign language skills online by allowing teachers to build assignments online that use voice, video, images, and text with the Lingt online editor. Students can then interact with the assignments and respond.
Another great resource to allow you to develop your AfL practice – create surveys, pop quizzes or a discussion forum for your class and get responses in real time that you can collate and use to plan future learning – can be created using a nuber of different devices for easy use.
This is an online notice board resource that seems ideal for information sharing and discussion. Try it out and see for yourself.
Radiowaves is the award winning safe social learning environment that makes it easy for schools to deliver fun learning activities through blogs, video and podcasting.
This site is one for the STEM lovers – some useful conceptual videos and worked examples for a variety of topics
1100+ talks to stir your curiosity. Browse by subject, length, or rating (inspiring, jaw-dropping, funny…)
Improve student behavior and engagement by awarding and recording real-time feedback. This great piece of software lets you record live achievements and behaviour updates with one click. Being trialled by staff as action research at JWS.
This innovative search engine finds age-appropriate educational content on any topic presented with interactive multimedia interfaces, generates quiz questions based on student’s research activity and skill level and supports creation of research journals and concept maps for learning assessment. This would probably dovetail very nicely with your pearltrees.
For those of you seeking an alternative to Pearltrees that allows you to create mindmaps and insert your own comments as well as add hyperlinks this may be a useful tool for you to look at.
A fabulous free online storage space for files, photos and videos that can be accessed from any device that has internet access, including iPads/phones. You can also set up and access shared folders to widen your repertoire.
