Sue and I went on a course at which we met the indefatigable @timrylands. It is to him I must give much of the credit for the list of useful sites, apps and widgets that appear below:
- Padlet - online collaboration
- RealtimeBoard - a great place to organise all your teaching and to work collaboratively.
- Tag Galaxy - great for brainstorming themes
- Multicolr - applications in art and design?
- Simple English Wikipedia - applications for EAL, SEN (everybody in fact!)
- InstaGrok - an alternative to Google for searching
- Build your wild self - applications for creative writing?
- 360 panoramas - Mali malaria
- Nice translator - great for the cosmopolitan mix of pupils that is Oswestry School!
- Ambient mixer set the mood in your classroom!
- Hyperlapse - rid yourself of the frustrations of street view
- Streetview stereographic - build your own world!
- 360 cities - a similar theme
- Tagxedo - Wordle with a difference
- Your weight on other worlds – one for the physicists
- The scale of the universe – really nice
- Cell size and scale – amazing!
- Stellarium – a free open soure planetarium
- Wikisky – exlore the Galaxy
- Autodesk homestyler – never have a bored weekend again!
- Mozilla Thimble – make something amazing on the web, learn HTML etc.
Happy playing....!