INSETT: Integrating ICT into project work

Some useful web tools:
Voki – great fun for creating animated characters that speak: a blog post tutorial and an example of it used in a student's blog post.

VoiceThread – for creating online presentations: a blog post tutorial and an example of it used in a student's blog post.

Animoto – for creating slick videos from photos, videos and text: a blog post tutorial and an example of it used in a student's blog post in combination with Podomatic.

Podomatic – for creating podcasts: video tutorial

Glogster – for creating animated, online posters: 90 second video tutorial

A Primary 3 student's Glogster poster 
 


EnglishCentral a great resource to help students to improve their speaking skills and confidence in them. The site contains a huge range of videos you can choose from and uses voice recognition. Students record themselves imitating what they hear (in small chunks) and are given a score. You can set up an account as a teacher and even set your students homework and check how they've done.

Who to talk to for project tips:
Guy has used EnglishCentral in conjunction with a very interesting ongoing radio project he has with one of his classes - so for more ideas talk to him!

Rebbecca has some really good ideas for using PowerPoint with students - so if you're thinking of using this as the end product for your students' projects talk to her!

Sonia worked last year on a successful magazine project with students and also has come up with a really cool idea for keeping students talking in English during class. She allocates each of her students a "persona" who lives in a different English-speaking countries and then gets them to flesh them out. Her students have even ended up creating relations between themselves and all she needs to do when they revert to Spanish is to say "Remember who you are!"

Andy worked on a Reality Show project with her Senior 4 class - see the girls' contribution on her class wiki. Sounds like a great project idea for either now or for Summer intensive course so get the details from her!

Linking with students from other countries
If you want to link up with other teachers and students across the world try elanguages. You can either join in on an existing project or start your own and get other schools to join in with yours. You have to register first.

More resources to download
Ideas and resources for web projects .pdf 
Web tools for teachers .pdf