Warren Sparrow: April 2013

25 April 2013

Morphing into a 21st Century Teacher

24 April 2013

Tables test

A simple multiplication practise site where learners can choose from 6 difficulty
levels and answer all the questions as quickly as they can. Players answer the
questions using changing buttons, which means no typing is needed, making it
idea to use on interactive whiteboards. I also like the timer on the right that
shows how long it took to answer the questions.

Very Cool!!

23 April 2013

Paper Critters

Design your own 3D 'Paper Critter' to share or print as a 3D net to glue together.
Great for maths and D&T.
This is very cool!!

18 April 2013

Equivalent Fractions

Another really cool resource.

Create your own Equivalent Fractions and see them on the number line.

Very Cool!!

Area Tool

This is a wonderful resource for teaching the area of 2D shapes.
You can move and resize the shapes to change the values.
It's a great resource to use on an interactive whiteboard.

Dr Seuss

Very good!!

17 April 2013

Enercities

This is a great environmental game which is a bit like the early SimCity games.
Build a wonderful town, manage your fossil fuels wisely and keep the inhabitants happy.
A free sign up is required.
Very COOL!!

Map Treasure Hunt

This is a great resource for creating a map based treasure hunt.

Choose the locations for your students to find, write some clues and share the link with your class.

Very clever!!

Sound Gator

This is a useful site for classrooms for free sound effects when making movies.
Very nice and easy to navigate!

16 April 2013

A little inspiration ...

12 April 2013

Zamzar file conversion

Zamzar

Before Zamzar, you had to download a utility—or two or three—to be able to
convert file formats. But with Zamzar, you can convert anything—images,
documents, and videos—and have it e-mailed to your inbox in four quick steps
without downloading a thing. A new feature lets you convert files from URLs,
which means you can save YouTube videos to your hard drive without breaking a sweat.

myhomeworkapp

MyHomework is an app where students can manage their school life.
Available on the iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and the web

Remember the Milk

OK I really like this!!
Get organized with Remember the Milk, a handy online list-making app that makes
your to-do list accessible from anywhere. Adding items to your list is as easy as
sending an e-mail. Can work on iPhone, android, Blackberry, e-mail, g-mail everything
you can imagine you can put your tasks when it should be finished.
You have fine categories such as work, study and personal life which can
help you to be well versed in tasks.

11 April 2013

National Teachers Award

I was very honoured to receive 3rd prize in the National Teachers Award for
Excellence in ICT Enhanced Teaching for South Africa!!!

You can see some of the project here

10 April 2013

Portrait Maker

A superb cartoon portrait maker. Get pass the intro to access the tools.
Click on the hair, eyebrows or mouth to place on your face.
Nice and easy to use!

Avatar Maker

A nice cartoon avatar maker for your children to made images of themselves and each other.
Fun and easy to make!!

09 April 2013

Beginners guide to iPads

This is a nice beginners guide to iPads for students and teachers.

Google Drive for assignments

How to use shared Google Drive folders to distribute assignments and rubrics to students.

BayFiles

Upload your files. There is a file size limit.
5 GB per file ....

04 April 2013

Block Posters

Have you ever wished you could increase the impact of a poster or photograph for your classroom by making it much, much bigger than the paper in your printer?

Block Posters is a free online tool where you simply upload your image in jpg or gif format

Then choose the paper type your printer uses and select the number of pages wide you’d like your enlarged poster to be. BlockPosters will then calculate how big that will be so you can adjust the setting to fit the display space you will have available.

Then, having uploaded the image, the site will then create a series of PDFs ready for sending to your printer, with overlaps so that when you print them you can trim and stick them together. And there you have a very large poster just using your ordinary printer.

Computer Quotes and posters

Computer Quotes

Computer Quotes comprises a series of posters with quotes about various aspects of
technologies in our lives today, with appropriate graphics to illustrate the comment and make
them eye-catching. Many of these quotes can also be used as prompts for classroom discussions about the changing place of technology in the lives of learners.