Last week I was lucky enough to attend the triennial ECIS Librarians conference in Istanbul, a fantastic conference in a fantastic city.
You can read all my notes on my 2 page conference blog – it’s not just for librarians – the majority of points are relevant to all teachers, looking at the future of learning.
Naturally I have bookmarked everything online but I wanted to highlight some of the tools that were shared, you may know some already, there is literally ‘something for everyone’ J
squrl – bookmark videos, thumbnail for each with your own text
livebinders - create binder online, students or teachers can gather research, inc media
only two clicks – screenshots of everything you want to link to with thumbnail links
only two clicks – screenshots of everything you want to link to with thumbnail links
photo peach – no account needed, slideshow, add music, audience add comments
easywhois – shows you who owns a website - useful for evaluating
polleverywhere – multiple choice poll including by mobile
polleverywhere – multiple choice poll including by mobile
finding dulcinea – pathfinders
wallwisher - for backchat, can post questions for later or look up or for content analysis, building on knowledge
hashtag paper - to pull together info daily from twitter, rather like flipboard on the ipad, good way of using twitter for the first time
hashtag paper - to pull together info daily from twitter, rather like flipboard on the ipad, good way of using twitter for the first time
Flubaroo – takes google forms - runs script, you select answer key and it gives total points and percentages
Mobilefish - tools for web design, inc. qr codes
Mobilefish - tools for web design, inc. qr codes
jamstudio for creating your own music
for ebooks, book trailers and more:
booktrailersforall – collection of book trailers, includes qr codes
booktrailersforall – collection of book trailers, includes qr codes
Digitales – inc. interactive rubrics for video stories
skype an author – for virtual author visits
skype an author – for virtual author visits
children’s digital library – works esp. well on whiteboard, celebrates language and culture
big universe – for ls books
canadian shakespeare – great for Shakespeare – enhanced books
glogster - use to gather book trailers or other info together
@bookchica’s wiki - for book trailers
@mrshureads “Watch Connect Read”
@mrshureads “Watch Connect Read”
and for internet searching alternatives:
google squared - search results tabulated, nice for comparative ideas/perspectives
mashpedia - real time searching - great for up to second news
google advanced - example use local view on issue – specify site:tr for certain country (turkey) etc
sortfix – for sorting searching, good for search process, thinking tool
quintura – a visual search, inc quintura for kids
twurdy – returns results by lexile
searchcredible – reminds of alternative sources, including many i recommend for advanced searching (bubl, intute)
wolfram alpha – you might know this already esp. if you’re a maths/science teacher
pipl – people search
flickr storm – creative commons image search, you can set up a ‘tray’ of images to share with URL
comp fight – image searching (flickr search, cc and safesearch)
sortfix – for sorting searching, good for search process, thinking tool
quintura – a visual search, inc quintura for kids
twurdy – returns results by lexile
searchcredible – reminds of alternative sources, including many i recommend for advanced searching (bubl, intute)
wolfram alpha – you might know this already esp. if you’re a maths/science teacher
pipl – people search
flickr storm – creative commons image search, you can set up a ‘tray’ of images to share with URL
comp fight – image searching (flickr search, cc and safesearch)
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thanks
Donna
just so you know the links got fudged when i pasted them in (trying to save time) but they are now fixed and should all work ok - please let me know if they don't :)
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