Make Your Images Interactive

Tuesday, 15 January 2013 by

ThingLink is a great, iPad friendly free tool for creating interactive images with music, video, sound, text and more! Embed and share your images easily in BB Learn, Edmodo, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ as well as html and email options. Endless applications for teaching and learning including student generated content. Checkout these fabulous examples

With social media continuing to grow globally and the rapid introduction of mobile devices in schools and colleges around the world, here’s an idea for a class project that uses social networking to enhance English language learning. The educational benefits of blogging have been well documented over the years (Downes 2004), (Richardson 2009), (Tolisano 2012).

Learning Workflows

Monday, 10 December 2012 by

A great 5 minute video explaining the concept of ‘learning workflows’ to create exciting and engaging lessons for students using the iPad.  

WordTag free social gaming App

Wednesday, 31 October 2012 by

WordTag is a great new FREE social gaming App similar to ‘Draw Something’ and excellent for learning new vocabulary and left brain exercise. The aim of the game is for students to describe words to other students, friends or random players in 120 characters or less. There are 3 levels of word difficulty to choose

Introduction to SAMR

Wednesday, 24 October 2012 by

For those not familiar with Dr Ruben Puentedura’s SAMR model of transforming learning through technology, there’s an easy to digest video below that explains the concept.

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Oxford Bookworms trial

Tuesday, 23 October 2012 by

There’s an iPad Oxford Bookworms trial currently running at HCT from Oct 21 to Nov 8th. There’s also an OUP App available called ‘How good is your English’ which helps students find their Bookworm reading level. Click here for the trial Click here for the App

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