Module+A+Technology+as+a+Teaching+Tool

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Technology as a Teaching Tool Technology enables teachers to create engaging and highly effective learning objects. They can use WEB 20 tools to enrich the learning and encourage students to use a plethora of tools to investigate, research, collaborate and create.

**Deliver New Information or Concepts ** To deliver information or introduce new concepts you can use:
 * Power point with embedded audio and video clips converted to a PDF. e.g.
 * Slide Shows or short films[[file:1984 – An Introduction to context and text.pdf]]
 * Podcasts
 * OneNote: Share all resources with your class
 * Screencast- o -matic: Create videos for your class and flip the learning - [|screencast]
 * Explain Everything: An App that allows you to use powerpoint and record your voice.

Sharing with the class

 * Google docs and Google Drive
 * Dropbox
 * Haiku Deck
 * Keynote

**Access Effective ICT Sites **
 * EDSITEment - a raft of lesson plans with resources: [|Lesson plans]
 * Reading Australia great teaching resources [|Reading Australia]
 * New Teachers' resources: [|New teacher resources]
 * Tutorials on using Google tools for teaching: [|Google tools]
 * Teacher Tube: [|Find teacher created videos]
 * School Tube: [|Teacher and student videos]
 * TED talks: [|Ted talks]
 * Snag free films: [|Snag films]
 * Cool Tools for Schools - a amazing range of sites to access: Cool Tools
 * Edmodo - create a virtual classroom: [|Edmodo]
 * Save YouTube clips to use in the classroom: [|Save YouTube]
 * Join IWBNet to access great resources: [|IWBNET]
 * Visit EDNA to access fabulous resources: [|EDNA]
 * A-Z of Web20 sites to visit: [|A-Z of Ideas]
 * Virtual World sites: [|itvision]
 * Creative tools: [|Great Web20 links]
 * Crossword maker: [|Crosswords]
 * Google Littrip: []
 * Play/Film script: []
 * Celestia: students explore the universe in three dimensions - travel throughout the solar system to any of over 100,000 stars…[]
 * Fakebook: __[]__
 * Youtube: []
 * Grammar Skills: __[]__
 * Grammar Monster: __[]__
 * Cyber Grammar: __ [] __
 * Visuword: __[]__ - a beautiful online thesaurus to find more effective synonyms
 * Webquests: []
 * * Bookdrum: This amazing site provides contextual maps, information and photographs for the texts it features: [|Bookdrum]
 * Global education: [|Global Education idea]
 * Great site for global teaching resources: [|Global Dimension]
 * Global Education: [|Global education] - ways to connect your students globally.
 * Hash tags for education - [|http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/09/the-comprehensive-dictionary-of.html]
 * Creating games to teach - [|Super Teaching Tools]
 * [|Excellent tools]
 * Approaches to teaching: [|Geoff Petty]
 * Analysing photographs: [|Analysing photographs]
 * Fabulous film resources! [|The Film Space]
 * Great film clip by a student on film techniques [|Film Techniques]

**Google Apps** [|Best Apps for Schools] [] Ipads in the classroom:[|Links and ideas]

**Gaming:**
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