TeacherTechnologies.com

I came across this little gem whilst wandering through the Chrome App store.  Lots of free books that you can read together on your IWB as well as letting your students read them on their 1:1 devices.  It’s a really tidy looking site too which make the experience all the more fun!

MeeGenius is a reading application for the iPhone, iPad, iTouch, Google TV, Google Chrome Web Store, and the Web. Launched in April 2010 by Wandy Yeap Hoh and David Park after 16 months of research and development, MeeGenius digitizes children’s stories, classic and new, and adds features such as word highlighting and audio playback for easy read-along. Also available on certain platforms are text and audio personalization tools, which further engage young readers.

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Tagged In: Any board, big books, English, Google, iPad, iPhone, IPod Touch, Primary | Posted on December 16th, 2011 | Comments Off

This site provides schools with simple and easy to use resources. Schools can use all of the evaluation resources for free. CD ROMs of resources can be purchased to be used throughout the school on one easy administer site license. The site is also providing users with an online community. A subscription is paid and schools then get access to all resources; including new and updated ones which are not on the CDROMS yet. This element of the company is designed to act as a community where schools can request resources for their particular programmes of study.
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Tagged In: English, Literacy, Maths, Numeracy, Primary, Secondary | Posted on February 2nd, 2011 | Comments Off

A website with some very easy to use and pupil friendly interactive activities for reading, maths and more! Also contains some inspiring videos for educators!

Tagged In: Any board, big books, English, Literacy, Maths, Primary, Special Needs | Posted on April 22nd, 2010 | Comments Off

Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge! Perfect for virtual learning environments and IWBs.

My favorite tool is the “Random Name Picker” fruit machine.  My students never argue over who goes first if the fruit machine chooses them!

resources also include:

• Diamond 9
• Fish Bone (Fishy Bob!!)
• Venn Diagram
• Time line
• Priority Targets
• Interactive Hamburger Diagram….  (perfect for essay writing?? )
• An interactive accelerated learning cycle
• A Jigsaw diagram
• A priority Chart

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Tagged In: Any board, Business Studies, Citizenship, Cross Curricular, English, Food Technology, French, Game, Geography, History, HSIE, ICT, Irish, Latin, Literacy, Media Studies, Primary, Secondary, Special Needs, Teacher Tools | Posted on February 17th, 2010 | Comments Off

Storybird is full of Big Books that you can use on your interactive whiteboard.  All of the books are free because they are created by their readers.  You could even have a go at creating your own class big books and sharing them with each other.  Good fun!

“Storybirds are short, visual
stories that you make with
family and friends to share
and (soon) print.”

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Tagged In: Art + Design, big books, English, Literacy, Primary, Secondary | Posted on February 15th, 2010 | Comments Off