USEFUL APPLICATIONS
Tagxedo - Word pictures
Blabberize - Make your photos talk
TImetoast - Create timelines
Prezi - Flash presentations
Spicynodes - Flash mindmaps
Mind42 - Collaborative mindmapping (and it actually works.)
Topsy - the Twitter search engine.
Docstoc - youtube for documents. (Alternatively, scribd)
Free music samples - good quality, creative commons licenses (ie, you can use 'em...)
SCREENTOASTER - EXCELLENT screen recording application.
Gradeguru - share your notes. Or find someone else's...
SLIDESHARE - Youtube for presentations. Upload your own or search for others.
Eyejot - Send video messages!
Online presentations (forget Powerpoint!)
Slidecast How-to
Slidecast-o-matic - for a change from Powerpoint!
Collaborative brainstorming
Backchannel - comment in class
Wordle - word clouds. Very cool!
Weebly - create your own website.
Diigo - Annotate the Internet and save / share the annotations.
MINDMODO - Collaborative brainstorming
CELTX - Integrated film project package
NETVIBES- Media portal to help bring the internet to you through rss feeds & widgets
VOICE THREAD- A collaborative, multi media slide show- excellent for textual analysis
OTHER SITES
Tropfest - World's biggest short film competition
MUBI - Rather cool film community
Video Gaming wiki
Shift happens!
Click
MISCELLANEOUS
Year 6 Taster Lesson
D81 - Home of Sweded Movies
CAS - Digital StorytellingHOMEWORK TASKS
Year 6 Taster Lesson 2009
Year 6 Taster Lesson 2010