40 ICT ideas

in 40 minutes
Three of the most
intelligent men in
the world?

Jon Postel, Steve Crocker, and Vint C

 Background

• ICTAC group
• Usual suspects
• Way to engage all staff both in
the training but also in terms of
confidence
• 20 ICT ideas in 20 minutes
 The plan

• 40 ICT ideas
• 1 minute per slide
• A complete range of ideas –
the impact of the initial
training
• ICT as a tool for learning
Add pace and tension
with a countdown
timer
 Create funky
PowerPoint via
SlideRocket.net
Dynamic office online
via Acrobat.com
Online mindmapping -
Bubbl.us
ContentGenerator.net
– Flash learning
games
Random name picker
and more…
ClassTools.net
Developing your own
PLE – Moodle -
NineHub.com
 Collaborative online
learning - setup a
wiki
• Could be within your VLE
• Alternatively –
www.wikispaces.com

• Excellent and scary tool

• Student ownership
Using Google Apps to
create webpages
Create a website just
in PowerPoint
 FlashMeeting – video
conferencing for
everyone
• Flash-based online video
conferencing
• Free for educational use
• Give it a careful look – very
powerful tool
Online discussion
forums
Creating a backdrop in
Drama
• Low level ICT, high level Drama
• Used Audacity, Moviemaker
and some imagination
• Created a multimedia
backdrop to perform in front of.
 Graffiti-ing sources
• The one real justification for
an interactive whiteboard…
 Automatic timing in
ppt
• Obvious technique, but worth
looking again
• Useful with sound effects, timed
tasks and for ‘episodic elements’
within your lessons
• Let PowerPoint ensure the next
part appears on time
Interactivity without a
IWB
• The justification for the
technology
• … yet isn’t really a
justification

• Cost : Benefit analysis

• More affordable tools –
spreading the use of ICT
Confuse and enthuse
with Wordle.net
 Puzzlemaker

• www.puzzlemaker.com
• One of the older online activity
makers
• Still useful today
• Generate your own
wordsearches
• But…
 In the news – School
Report
• MFL activity
• Clear time constraints – 2
hours
• Had to research & present a
tabloid news report in French
• Script, present and record as
if live TV
Smogging
Podcasting with
students
Blogging in class

Wordpress.com
Terrible PowerPoint

• One of the most basic

uses
• Potential to be the most
powerful
Movies without sound

• Really simple technique

• Effective use of ICT
• Ideal springboard
towards further creativity
Photoshop Express

•
www.photoshop.com/exp
ress
• Online photo editing
Twitter
Using an
anamorphic Annotation in
painting
PowerPoint
technique, The
• Simple, but very effective tool
classic
interpretation of
• Again,
the skull is that low level ICT,
potentially
it marks the higher level thinking.
painter’s ironic
• Annotations,
commentary on
highlighting –
interactivity
the vanitas of without additional
cost
Renaissance
science and art,
represented by
the finery of the
men’s costumes,
and the many
 Google Apps
spreadsheet
• Another of the free online Google
apps
• Transforming how we can use
application software
• Basic – but the functionality you
need
• Brilliant collaborative
opportunities – e.g entry forms
 Del.icio.us
• www.del.icio.us
• Online bookmarking service
• Ideal for use in schools –
especially if restrictions have
locked down ‘favourites’
• Brilliant Web 2.0 tool allowing
you to share and gather
together similar links
 YouTube in better
quality
Add:

&fmt=18
 Flyovers in Google
Earth
• Brilliant – and free – Google
Earth
• Nothing to do with Spaghetti
junction
• Fantastic way of representing
journeys / movement
 Online storyboarding
• Another free online too –
E2BN.net
• Really effective tool as
students – creativity &
guidance
• Many more tools like this
appearing…
 Pecha Kucha

• Strict PowerPoint
presentation
• 20 slides
• Each shown for 20
seconds

• 6 minutes 40 seconds
 SCORM tools
• Extension of your VLE
• ‘Trackable’ resources
• My programs at
ContentGenerator.net
• Higher lever usage of VLE
Jooce.com
IWB for £30
Scribd.com
Not using ICT

?
Install Open Office as
an alternative Office
Film an ‘e-Address’
Power up not power
down
 Your contributions
• Post-it notes
 Finally…
• Thank you!
– Not always about the geekiest, funkiest
latest stuff
– How the ICT is used to support learning

• Please get involved

– Share ideas at www.effectiveict.co.uk
– Join the forum
- Copies of all these materials will be
there 