Cool+Tools

=Cool Tools=
 * ===="Online learning now depends more on the ability of educators and trainers to tutor and support learners online than on the technology itself." Dr. Ian Heywood ====

TOOL 1
This is the best Web 2.0 tool yet for teachers. You can create an amazingly interactive presentation with images, video that appear with a mouseover. You have to try it to understand it - free of course and easy to use. JUST INSTALL, IT INTO YOUR WIKI PAGE - FULL INSTRUCTIONS ARE GIVEN. [|HERE IS AN EXAMPLE].  []

TOOL 5
===Want your students to make a podcast? Want to add narration to Windows Movie Maker? Want to use imovie? Want to make a presentation using flick'r? [|This is your site AND lots more besides.]===

TOOL 6
==="[]">Teaching Tips Machine Get some general tips and suggestions for getting more students to complete homework, manage classrooms better and be more effective.===

TOOL 7
==="[|http://successfulteaching.blogspot.com]">Successful Teaching New teachers can get some ideas for successful classroom projects and strategies through this blog.===

[] Tools for the thinking classroom

 * TOOL 9**

TOOL 10
===Check out [|Crappy Graph] — excellent for creating quick, easy and fun graphs. Below is the Crappy Graph created by the edublogger, Sue Waters(one handed while drying her hair) titled the Web 2.0 Technology curve. What a great way to attract attention to your (and your students') work and pique curiosity.===

TOOL 12
Try this link: [|Top 100 Tools] ===[|Top 100 tools] for teachers. This is a list compiled by 223 learning professionals.There are descriptions and inks to all the tools. The whole website is excellent with a lot of rich resources.===

**TOOL 14**

 * [|E-Cast Education, This NZ] developed on-line video site has teaching resources streamed from over 30 NZ and International channels.**

TOOL 15 [|Comic Strip CREATOR]
===Get your students to make their [|own comic strips or cartoons]. Easy to use, fun and free online cartoon/ comic strip generator- for ANY subject! [|Here is another site] that you could try.===


 * TOOL 16**

====**[|This site is wonderfully practical, concise and relates well to NZC]. Would also be really easy to select topics for "Teacher Talk" sessions**====

TOOL 17

 * Here is a fantastically creative goal seting site: []** ||