Amazing Web 2.0 Projects book

This is a great book to download for free! Loads of ideas for using Twitter, Vocaroo etc etc across the curriculum.

Wallwisher.com in class

Wallwisher enables you to collaborate on one screen, or wall if you will, and has numerous applications in the classroom. You give out the url (in the format http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/yourtitle where yourtitle is what you have decided to call the page. For example, year2adverbs, or whatever title relates to your work.
Children simply navigate (Year3/4 managed this fine) to the site and enter their sentence/idea/answer to question along with their name, and it immediately gets posted to the wall. Children love the collaborative aspect of it and can see their work appear when the page is refreshed. I introduced it in a staff meeting today and hope to get more staff using it in due course!

Twiddla collaboration

This looks great for collaboration between pupils. I've not used it with a class yet but the possibilities seem many and varied. Rather like Etherpad this extends on the text collaboration to include tools for drawing, graphics, audio and photos. I think posting a picture for children to add descriptive sentences/phrases around the edge could be a starting point to test its worth. Previous use of Etherpad with Year 4 pupils has taught me that each child should be given a pre-determined area of the screen to work in, and that 4-5 children per document is probably enough before it becomes unmanageable!

Futurelab podcast on Games & Learning

Year 3 and ChartGo

Looking for a different way to address the objective 'can use information from a database to create a bar chart' I found the online service ChartGo. It was pretty easy for even lower ability children to produce a barchart, and re-edit as required. There is no logging in to the website - they can get straight on with labelling axes and entering data. There are other charts and I am sure there would be a use for these further up the school. Don't have x-axis names too long though as they all bunch up at the bottom. The children saved the picture and could save to PowerPoint.

Anti-bullying posters - Roflbot and Resize It

We have looked at anti-bullying posters and images over the past few weeks. Last week the children familiarised themselves with our new digital cameras and in groups of three produced four 'freeze-frame' images to be made into our own anti-bullying posters. They saved the photos from the camera to their own My Pictures folder on the network.
This week we have used Resize It to crop our images to focus on a suitable part of the photo. We used MS Word to brainstorm some suitable slogans, ready to cut and paste into Roflbot. Roflbot.com allows you to add text easily and professionally to your photos.

Scrapblog

I used this today for my Year 4s to create a poster on the theme of anti-bullying. Having less than an hour for this, I saved some photographs onto the shared area for them to use. The key focus was locating the website and logging on to the class Scrapblog account, and also adding a suitable tagline. The application 'Scrapblog' enables users to share their work with the whole world, or just a selected group. It creates very professional results. With more time and older children some amazing projects could be created!