Monday heralds the start of our new academic year, and for the first time in a decade I will be starting a new year with new certificate classes. 10 years ago we used to issue classes with a jotter and some photocopied booklets containing course materials. So what has changed? On Monday I will be [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Web 2.0’
Pixlr – who needs Photoshop anyway?
February 21st, 2010
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Photoshop celebrated its 20th birthday this week. It’s fair to say that Photoshop is one of a handful of applications which have defined the way we use computers in the past couple of decades. It’s probably the number one image editing tool for most graphic artists. And it is a great tool, only it’s not [...]
Xtranormal – a great tool for revision
November 18th, 2009
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UPDATE 12 JAN 2011 – As Xtranormal is no longer free, I have written a similar post explaining how to use GoAnimate for as a revision tool. I had a look at Xtranormal about 6 months ago before I came back into teaching. It could see it had great potential in the classroom but it slipped [...]
Using Edmodo
November 5th, 2009
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I have been trialling Edmodo this week with an S2 and an S3 class and my first impressions are that it is an excellent tool. It may be that when Glow arrives in Edinburgh after Christmas it will offer similar functionality, but until then I am keen to see how pupils handle homework being set [...]
