Technology is like electricity: it’s pervasive, it’s everywhere… it’s useful. We ignore it at our peril.  We wouldn’t expect our pupils to read by candlelight or to write on wax tablets. Equally, we should be encouraging them to use the...
Topics: internet resources, modern languages, podcasts and tutorials, video, video editing, Xtranormal

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Myna, an audio recording and editing tool, is the latest addition to the Aviary family of web applications, a suite of image creation and editing web applications which allow you to manipulate images to very high standard within your browser.Myna will...
Topics: Audacity, audio, internet resources, Podcasting, podcasts and tutorials

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This video is also available on Podomatic. You can subscribe to this series of video podcasts in iTunes.Diigo is a social bookmarking site that allows teachers and students to share interesting and useful links on the internet. I recorded this guide to...
Topics: Diigo, edtech, edtechtips, internet resources, podcasts and tutorials, social media

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Twitter is being abused. I’m not talking about spammers or celebrities, who we know use Twitter as a means to achieve self promotion. I am talking about people like you and me, with similar interests and expertise (education in this case), who are...
Topics: Social interaction, social media, twitter, views and opinions

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Lingt is a very promising new tool designed for language teaching. It allows teachers to create assignments online into which you can add, images, text, voice recordings and videos, although currently only from YouTube, which could be a problem for some..
Topics: internet resources, lingt, modern languages

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