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Google Launches Lively a Virtual World Across Social Networks

Google has launched Lively , a new social network built around the concept of each user creating an avatar and a personal virtual room that can be embedded anywhere on the Web. Although, as with all pupblic chatroom, we can't see Lively being a safe tool to use it schools , it is being used with...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 07-15-2008
2 Simple Offer

Just to let you know the 2 Simple offer for the entire software collection at £999 will end on July 15th. For more information visit http://www.2simple.com/

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 07-03-2008
Creative use of Flickr

Taggalaxy is one of many online tools that that is a search engine for Flickr. ( Flickr is a photo sharing site powered by Yahoo! that allows users to upload and share their photos. http://taggalaxy.de/ The way it works is that you type in your key word e.g. Egypt and Taggalaxy finds all of the photos...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 06-20-2008
2 Simple offer maybe 2 good 2 miss.

As part of the 2Simple ' 10 Year Birthday Celebrations' , for short period of time schools are able to purchase site licences for the entire collection of 2Simple software ( 28 titles and 2 online titles that could be used at home) for either £999 (existing customers) or £1499 (new customers...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 06-02-2008
Adventure Rock

Adventure Rock is a 3D virtual environment offering exploration and creative opportunities for children to experiment with music, drawing and animation. The online world is a themed island built for the BBC’s CBBC. Children explore the world and use message boards so they can share what they find and...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 05-30-2008
Free Ict cross-curricular lessons plans from Ictopus

In an English activity this week 5-6 year old children use their developing understanding of context and grammatical cues to help them predict hidden words in a text. Simple turtle graphics using a freely available online application provides a mathematical challenge for children aged 6-7. In science...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 05-01-2008
Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008

The Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008 list has now been finalised from the contributions of 155 learning professionals from education, workplace learning and continuing professional development. http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-06-2008
Lite Brite online simulator.

James Hollis over at Teachers Love Smartboards has posted a link to a fun site that will allow your pupils to create, share, and save pictures using a " Lite Brite" online simulator . http://notian.net/litebrite/

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 03-18-2008
The WorldWide Telescope

Move over Google Earth and Google Sky , Microsoft is releasing a new product called WorldWide Telescope (WWT) It looks absolutely stunning. Watch the brief video at TED , then bookmark the new WorldWide Telescope website for more details. WorldWide Telescope will be available for FREE download in later...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 03-11-2008
Typing Game

PacWriter is a free educational arcade-style typing game similar to the classic Pacman game. It is fun and addictive. Your character, either Mr. Pacwri or Ms. Pacwri, is chased by dangerous ghosts. Whenever you meet an obstacle, you quickly type the letter(s) or numbers(s) on the obstacle to remove it...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 01-31-2008

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