A blog to support the EIS it10 Conference July 1st 2010
Despite not posting since July, this small site to support the 2010 EIS IT Conference has seen a large number of visitors. The number of site views now stands at 758. This will be the final post - thanks for visiting. You can visit me here.
Well, thanks for the continued interest in this post-presentation blog. Now at 333 site views.
Turn any browser text into an hyperlink with Hyperwords. To be honest, not sure how installable this is on a school network but on a single PC it will install easily as an add-on for most browsers. It's exceedingly useful.
Finally, a 'safe' (safer?) search engine for young learners and worth exploring.
Thanks for some nice emails and good to see that as of Sunday evening there have been 156 views of this post-presentation blog as this little screenshot from the system admin page shows.
One question during the conference presentation was about how to find useful sites for education. I suggested following a few teachers who blog and write about ICT in education. Here’s a few as a starter – there are many more that a bit of Googling could reveal. Hope they prove useful.
http://www.ictineducation.org/
http://www.timrylands.com/blog/
http://primarynuggets.wordpress.com/
http://kenttrustweb.org.uk/CS/community/kent_teachers/default.aspx
I’ll add a few more blog links over the next day or two but here’s one to start with and featuring Wall Wisher...
http://y62010.heathfieldcps.net/2010/05/10/what-do-you-think-of-sats/
This comment was forwarded to my email box but seems to have disappeared from the page itself. So, just in case an answer is still wanted, I think it might be a reference to Prezi mentioned by Carol in her excellent wiki-wars presentation. It's a great tool for non-linear presentations. Find it at http://prezi.com/
___________________just commented on the post "...mentioned at EIS iT10..." on EIS IT10 "Hi, what was the name of the snazzy powerpoint alternative you showed?"
A lot that I could talk about but in one hour not sure how much of the Smörgåsbord I can manage to get through. Here’s part of the potential list
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