I am the Head
of Geography at the
International School of Toulouse and the author of
geographyalltheway.com. Every student of secondary
school age at the International School of Toulouse has
their own laptop computer. This allows me to fully
integrate a wide range of technologies into my daily
teaching.
Richard's Top 10 Tools as at
15 March 2008
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geographyalltheway.com -
The production of my own teaching website aimed at the
teaching of Key Stage 3 geography, IGCSE Geography and
IB Geography has revolutionized my teaching. It acts as
an organizational tool, it holds all my resources in one
easy to access location and the nature of it's use
allows me to review and redevelop resources and lessons
on a nearly daily basis.
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del.icio.us
- I love del.icio.us. The ability to have all my
bookmarks (currently over 3500) online and easily
accessible from both home and from work is
indispensable. The easy of integration with
geographyalltheway.com and the sharing dynamic are top
features of this essential service. My bookmarks can be
seen here:
del.icio.us/geographyalltheway
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Remember
the Milk - Organizing
tasks whether it is something minor like mending a
broken link on geographyalltheway.com or major work
deadlines I use 'Remember the Milk' to organize what I
need to do and when I need to do it. Integrates
fantastically with iGoogle as well!
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Google Reader
- My daily reading of news, blogs, technology, updates,
geography - it all gets delivered to my Google Reader
account.
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Google
Calendar - Google Calendar is my diary and lesson
planner. Syncs with iCal as well - great!
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Flickr - A
gold-mine of images to illustrate geographical teaching.
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ClassTools.net
- Lesson starters, plenaries, revision quizzes all
easily produced and integrated into webpages. My
favorite ClassTool has to be the 'Random Name Generating
Fruit Machine'.
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Firefox -
Customizable, plug-ins, tabbed browsing and fantastic
integration with my del.icio.us links and account.
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YouTube -
'Clip Culture' is here. Embedding links into
geographyalltheway.com to illustrate geographical topics
to my students means more focused teaching as it makes
it easier to watch short examples rather than whole
program episodes.
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Slideshare
- The hosting of PowerPoints that can be shared with
others and embedded into webpages - a very tidy service.
