I am a Mathematics and Science teacher
and currently hold the position of ICT Teaching and Learning
Coordinator at the Australian International School Hong Kong.
Jason's Top 10 Tools as at
9 February 2008
del.icio.us Makes sharing online
resources within faculties easy. Promotes
student collaboration in research. I visit the
main page a couple of times a day to check whats
new, hip and happening.
Sprout
Builder An easy to use interface for
creating embeddable flash widgets for your wikis,
blogs, OLPs and social networks. It has numerous
templates and enabes the easy creation of
custom Youtube viewers, podcast jukeboxes,
slideshows, Polldaddy polls, etc
PollDaddy Create free polls and surveys.
What do students like/dislike about your
teaching style? What do you do too much of in
class? What would they like to see more of?
Wikispaces Wikis for collaborative research,
assignment submission, general information
dissemination.
Wikipedia
For all the criticism levelled against it; it is
a brilliant source of information.
YouTube
Video student presentations and upload for the
student's themselves to assess their work.
Search for physics, history, language etc videos
to use as tools in the class.
ActivStudio
We have Promethean boards and I find the
screenshot and screen recording tools to be
extremely useful. Also, excellent mathematical
tools.
Geogebra
Great maths tool. Graphing, equations,
pythagoras, area etc, this is excellent free
software with a corresponding help wiki that
contains many excellent lesson ideas
Stage6
Youtube is too low-res for most desktop
demonstrations. Stage6 is a high-def video
uploading site that allows means you can
actually see what the cursor is doing in desktop
demonstrations.
