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ICTs in English

Key resources

  • Digistore : A storehouse of digital content to support leaning from early childhood through to senior secondary.
  • Software for Learning : Quality software recommended for New Zealand teachers.

Other resources

  • Breathing E-learning into the Literacy Progressions
    This wiki captures teachers’ ideas about how ICTs can support and extend teaching and learning in reading and writing, through suggested uses of ICTs linked to the Literacy Learning Progressions.
  • Derek's Blog :Musings on the use and impact of technology in education, and of the future of education in general.
  • Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in the Classroom
    Creating a digital story as a class is a valuable way to introduce iMovie fundamentals. Storytelling provides opportunities for teachers to model the basic skills of the iMovie programme.
  • Digital Conversations : Check out the latest selection of video conferences added to the Digital Conversations website. Students chat with experts in the areas of writing, theatre, music, motivation and goal setting, sport, and environmental issues.
  • Google Docs and Spreadsheets : Create, share, and collaboratively edit documents and spreadsheets online from any computer.
  • Hyperizons : Teachers wanting to introduce students to a new form of writing should visit this site. Hyperizons is dedicated to hypertext fiction to create fiction written by multiple authors, with multiple narrative pathways, endings, and beginnings.
  • Learning with iAdventures : An iAdventure is a problem-solving activity in which students determine the direction and outcome of a content-rich storyline, using resources available on the Internet, particularly resources providing real-world data and primary documents.
  • Museum of Web Art : A beautifully presented site dedicated to the 'Art, Technology, and Culture of the World Wide Web'. Start with the guided tour.
  • NetLingo : NetLingo is an online dictionary about the Internet. It contains thousands of words and definitions that explain the technology and community of the World Wide Web, email, chat, and newsgroups.
  • PB Wiki : A wiki is a type of website that allows anyone visiting the site to add, remove, or otherwise edit all content, quickly and easily. At this site, you can create a free class or course web page, which can then be collaboratively built and edited.
  • We Tell Stories : Follow this digital writing project where Penguin Books has challenged six of its published authors to create new forms of stories designed for the Internet. All the stories are interactive, and unfold over six weeks.
  • This snapshot explores how a teacher has used class blogmeister to create authentic contexts for writing.
  • New snapshot on Software for Learning . Students use computer generated illustrations and video to make explicit the connections between oral, written and visual language when creating texts.
  • The 101 English Blogs project : This project aims to encourage 101 English teachers from around the world to start blogging about their English classrooms.If you are an English teacher and are keen to share your reflections, ideas and resources with a wider English community, all you need to do is establish a blog, or share an already established one. You can also become an author of the 101 English Blogs , so you can post occasional updates.

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