Free Flash Cards

This site looks quite good. Helps to make flash cards for revision with a few clicks. Visit http://cobocards.com/ and see for yourself.

Education 2.0 - Edmodo - Free Private Microblogging For Education

Ok! Now I am enthused. I love the idea of this portal. I have toyed about with it and can see wonderful times ahead!

As it says on the box, "Edmodo provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers have the ability to send alerts, events, and assignments to students. Edmodo also has a public component which allows teachers to post any privately shared item to a public timeline and RSS feed."

I have decided that I am going to run a project. I will now setup all of next years classes and use this as a means of communication with them. I don't know what to do about the blogs I have setup. They are all working very well. Perhaps all that will become clear when I start using this stuff in September.

Anyway go have a look, it's well worth it. It is actually something I have been searching for my whole teaching career. Its available at http://www.edmodo.com

LCA ICT Project Gets Green Light!

At last! We have just signed, sealed and are awaiting delivery of 10 new Netbooks, a wireless router, digital projector and mono laser printer for our LCA suite.

The demands of the LCA course on the existing ICT framework in our school is very heavy and is now causing a detrimental impact on the computer contact time for other students in the school. We need to free up the general computer room whilst increasing the ICT facilities for our LCA students.

It has been decided to make the LCA suite fully ICT proficient in order to meet all the day to day needs of the students and teachers involved in this course.

There is a project framework in place but it has no meat on it yet. I suppose my summer holidays will be slightly compromised by my having to take action on the plan of implementation for September 09.

More later.

Notely - A great online organisational tool

I would urge all of you who are serious about organising your last terms work and preparing for the summer exams to have a look at 'Notely' which is an online organiser.

It is free to register and easy to use. I would urge you to take a look and try it out. http://www.notely.net

Convert from anything to anything!

Another little gem I must add is this universal converter! Available at Format Factory. I hope it is as good as the universal remote when it made its debut.

For Network Administrators

Here is a jewel that one can load up for free and take some of the running around out of your daily routine. Desktop Central

The site that hosts it says "Desktop Central provides a set of free Windows tools that Windows Administrators might require on a day-to-day basis. It has a set of ten tools, viz: Remote Task Manager Tool, Wake on LAN, Software Inventory Tool, Remote Command Prompt Tool, GPO Update, Shutdown/Restart Tool, Join/Unjoin Computer Tool, , Currently Logged On User, Hard Disk Space Detector Tool, and Local Users/Groups List Tool. This is very handy as it can be performed on multiple computers simultaneously. These tools are made available from the Desktop Central family and is provided as a separate download, which is absolutely free to use."

Once again you can't beat free.

Virtual Classroom Online for Free!

I have stumbled across this, what seems to be revolutionary tool for teachers who are serious about integrating ICT into their teaching and more impressively integrating teaching into their ICT.

Have a look at this place, sign up play around and you'll be hooked. All I have to find now are some guinea pigs to test it on.

I am also wondering how long it will last in the present recession?

Virtual Online Classroom