Tuesday, 11 December 2012

YCLI Cloud


Christmas Word Cloud with Tagxedo


Bird Word Clouds

Created at Tagxedo.com with the bird shapes



Mind Mapping with Popplet


I've been trying to describe the diversity of projects and teaching with You Can Learn It and had a go at this mind mapping tool.
Popplet allows the user to add photos and text. It's easy to move objects around the screen in real time. I've used our company colours for this example.




Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Back to Comic Creating

Exploring some of my collection of resources this morning in preparation for classes and I found one I hadn't tried out yet. It's been a while since I ran a Comic Creating workshop and I'd forgotten juts how many resources I had.
wittycomics.com  helps the learner create a comic strip with different backgrounds, characters and narration. Type in the words then choose a thought bubble or speech bubble for each character. Frames can be duplicated and the comic can be saved.
Not all features work in all browsers and the comic saves to the user's account. A screen shot and credit to witty comics.com would allow for further use. It's also free!

Monday, 12 November 2012

Shortlisted for iTech Award

In June this year, one of my projects was short listed for an iTech award with JISC.

Students with additional support needs worked with me to create content for two social networks using a range of web 2.0 tools


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