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 * __ Links and Cool Stuff __**

Very cool link for making a book with animated characters that you can import photos or pieces of photos like faces into characters. go to :

3D book making go to: [|Zoo Burst] or www.storyjumper.com

__**Concept Mapping - Comparism Charts**__ Thinksheet- free download for 6 months- [|www.fishermarriott.com/thinkshe.htm] Keep loading free on a different computer. Edraw- Freeware very user friendly [|www.edrawsoft.com/freemind.php]



__**Text-To-Speech**__ Wordtalk [|www.wordtalk.org.uk/Home] (easy and has a nice voice) Natural Reader - [|www.naturalreaders.com]

__**Voice Recognition**__ SpeakQ- $185 (needs WordQ installed 385 for both) [|www.goqsoftware.com]

Dragon Version 11 Home Version $140 Premium version $200 (Micro and Mac available) Need to be able to organise thoughts ,if you put rubbish in you get rubbish out!! types as you speak, not good for boys at pubity! [|www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/products/default.asp]


 * Great Ideas from **Inspire Me, Literacy

How to download a youtube video and place it onto an Active Inspire Page. 1. select the video you want 2. copy the url 3. open keepvid.com and paste url into that 4. scroll down (don't choose //convert //), click AVI 5. click download 6. save in 'my videos' (in your documents) 7. To put clip on the IWB page go to INSERT menu, then MEDIA and MY VIDEOS 8. Find your video upload/insert/import!

An idea for taking information out of an Active Inspire Page try using the camera and employing the area snapshot, place it on the clipboard and paste into whatever document you are using, e.g. WORD

The other solution is to turn the page into a PDF file. Go to FILE, PRINT, EXPORT TO PDF and save to wherever you want.

Promethean Planet has some differentiated activities that are very useful for multi-level classrooms! Try hunting for those.

Some of Rachels favourite activities taken from Promethean planet were: Shark Attack - A fun version of hang man (watch out for the shark burping!) Whakapapa Listening activity Newspapers in Education - this is seriously COOL!! There are reading editorials, reading infographics, captions tell more, focus on news photos, everything that's in the hard copy of Nie but available with extras on the IWB. Vibrant Visuals - great for your reading programme


 * iether Pad **

– like having a pad page on the Internet that any one can write on and they can all do it at the same time. [|http://ietherpad.com]

This is fun, the children will love writing/working collaboratively. Jill Hammond led us through a writing project. Let’s use this across the cluster. Use this to write together, brainstorm, solve problems. Don’t go to public page, create your own name when creating a pad This can be saved as a PDF.

** Blogging ** It has to be interactive to keep people wanting to do this. We need to generate interest. A reading group every day could be reading other children’s blogs. The follow up activity could be to comment on the blog. Whenever they leave a comment they should leave a link back to their own blog. Just have a class blog, not individual blogs as this is too hard to maintain. Encourage the children to leave a meaningful comment. If we do this everyday then we will generate interest from other people in our own blog. Jill will give us a list of blogs that are good for children to read from. This can be a draft and kraft process so not everything has to be perfect. Posterous is a great blogging tool because you email it. [|http://posterous.com] To learn more about this check out http://blogalong.wikispaces.com

Bling for your Blog [|http://bling4yrblog.blogspot.com] Allanah King: Lots of neat ideas to hook in those learners