e-Learning+Resources



===These are resources that I have used myself. For a comprehensive list have a look at dakinane's resource page. ===

Answergarden:

Dipity: This fabulous tool brings to life all those timelines and history roads of the past. Organise events with quick additions; link events to supporting material including; video, images, information and by adding the location of the event, Google Maps shows you exactly where it took place.

FlashVortex: Add some bling to your wiki buttons, menus and text banners with the flash animations available here. Make sure you have time to complete all editing in one sitting as you cannot save it to go back to.

LittleBirdTales: A lovely tool for teachers and children to use in a literacy program. Children can draw or upload images, add written text and/or voice. The tales can then be embedded on their wiki or blog page.

MeeGenius: Books brought to life. There are plenty of free and low cost children's eBooks on this site. They are beautifully illustrated with an audio tool that highlights words as they are read to the child. The application can also be installed on iPad, iPhone etc.

Mind42: This is a collaborative mind mapping tool. You can add links to video, information, add notes, create image nodes rather than text nodes and rearranging ideas is as simple as dragging and dropping. The pearl is being able to link to other mind maps.

Storybird: Another fantastic literacy tool. This collaborative tool allows teachers to create a class account with student log ins. A collection of beautiful artwork is available for students to use in their stories. Just search a theme, drag and drop the desired image and add your text. Ask other class members to review your work, or work on a story together. Stories by other users are available for reading.

Vocaroo: A simple to use, even 5 year olds are using it, recording tool that can be embedded, with its own player, into your wiki, blog or website. Due to its popularity, recordings are only available for 6 months.

VoiceThread: A group conversational tool around an image, piece of text, video, topic where students, using their own identity, can record ideas via webcam, microphone, text, audio file or telephone. It is fully embeddable.

Wallwisher: This online noticeboard allows the creator to pose a question, task, topic and students can add post-it notes with their ideas. Video, audio, images and text can be linked in. Embed it in your wiki and the students can add their post-it any time.