ICT Club - Activities
Term 1:
Geoguessr: (Maps / location tag) GeoGuessr is a web-based geographic discovery game designed by Anton Wallén. The game uses a semi-randomized Google Street View location and requires players to guess their location in the world using only the clues visible
Animoto: (video editing software) Animoto can be used in education for countless projects and presentations. Students can use the tool to present a concept. A teacher could use the video as an introduction to a lesson. A teacher could also use the tool to teach a concept or the tool itself to other educators. http://animoto.com/education/classroom and http://animoto.com/blog/education/education-videos/are great resources to see what Animoto can do for your classroom.
GoNoodle: (Classroom energizers) a brain break website for teachers, to produce short and fun videos that encourage kids to get up and dance in the classroom. These videos are available on GoNoodle for free.
Pinterest: (Scrapbooking online) Pinterest is a free website that requires registration to use. Users can upload, save, sort, and manage images—known as pins—and other media content (e.g., videos) through collections known as pinboards. Pinterest acts as a personalized media platform. Users can browse the content of others in their feed. Users can then save individual pins to one of their own boards using the "Pin It" button, with Pinboards typically organized by a central topic or theme.
Go Animate: (Make animations)
Wix: (Create a website) Wix.com is a cloud-based web development platform that allows users to create HTML5 web sites and mobile sites through the use of their online drag and drop tools. Users may add functionalities such as social plug-ins, e-commerce, contact forms, e-mail marketing, and community forums to their web sites using a variety of Wix-developed and third-party applications
Animoto: (video editing software) Animoto can be used in education for countless projects and presentations. Students can use the tool to present a concept. A teacher could use the video as an introduction to a lesson. A teacher could also use the tool to teach a concept or the tool itself to other educators. http://animoto.com/education/classroom and http://animoto.com/blog/education/education-videos/are great resources to see what Animoto can do for your classroom.
GoNoodle: (Classroom energizers) a brain break website for teachers, to produce short and fun videos that encourage kids to get up and dance in the classroom. These videos are available on GoNoodle for free.
Pinterest: (Scrapbooking online) Pinterest is a free website that requires registration to use. Users can upload, save, sort, and manage images—known as pins—and other media content (e.g., videos) through collections known as pinboards. Pinterest acts as a personalized media platform. Users can browse the content of others in their feed. Users can then save individual pins to one of their own boards using the "Pin It" button, with Pinboards typically organized by a central topic or theme.
Go Animate: (Make animations)
Wix: (Create a website) Wix.com is a cloud-based web development platform that allows users to create HTML5 web sites and mobile sites through the use of their online drag and drop tools. Users may add functionalities such as social plug-ins, e-commerce, contact forms, e-mail marketing, and community forums to their web sites using a variety of Wix-developed and third-party applications
Term 2:
Canva: (Design software) Easily create beautiful designs + documents. Use Canva's drag-and-drop feature and professional layouts to design consistently stunning graphics.
Storyboardthat: (create a comic) Create storyboards without a storyboard artist! Screenwriters, teachers, students, businesses all love Storyboard That, an easy online storyboard & comic creator.
Sploder: (create a video-game) Sploder is a place where anyone can make games online and share them with the world. Make your own platformer games, space-themed shoot-em-ups, retro arcade games, and even complex physics-based puzzle games. No programming skill is necessary. All you need is a good imagination and a desire to be creative.
Soundation: (Make a song) Soundation Studio is a powerful tool for creating music online. And even though we have always been trying to keep it as simple as possible it can seem a little scary for new users without prior experience in audio production. That is why we created the Learn section here on soundation.com. We try to cover as much as possible, and continuously add more.
Powtoon: (Make a visual presentation) Powtoon is an online animated presentation software that allows anyone to create amazing animated presentations and animated explainer videos.
Storybird: (Create a story including art) Storybird is a visual storytelling community. A global hub of readers, writers, and artists of all ages. Our idea: let anyone make gorgeous, art-inspired stories in seconds. That simple idea has made us indispensable for millions of people.
Storyboardthat: (create a comic) Create storyboards without a storyboard artist! Screenwriters, teachers, students, businesses all love Storyboard That, an easy online storyboard & comic creator.
Sploder: (create a video-game) Sploder is a place where anyone can make games online and share them with the world. Make your own platformer games, space-themed shoot-em-ups, retro arcade games, and even complex physics-based puzzle games. No programming skill is necessary. All you need is a good imagination and a desire to be creative.
Soundation: (Make a song) Soundation Studio is a powerful tool for creating music online. And even though we have always been trying to keep it as simple as possible it can seem a little scary for new users without prior experience in audio production. That is why we created the Learn section here on soundation.com. We try to cover as much as possible, and continuously add more.
Powtoon: (Make a visual presentation) Powtoon is an online animated presentation software that allows anyone to create amazing animated presentations and animated explainer videos.
Storybird: (Create a story including art) Storybird is a visual storytelling community. A global hub of readers, writers, and artists of all ages. Our idea: let anyone make gorgeous, art-inspired stories in seconds. That simple idea has made us indispensable for millions of people.
Term 3:
Explain Everything: (Screencast software) Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer
Khan Academy: (Education) Khan Academy. Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
PicMonkey: (Photo edit software) PicMonkey is a free photo editor that works in your browser — nothing to download or install. Fix your photos and add beautiful filters and text. Touch up facial features or create outstanding graphics. Ridiculously easy, staggeringly gorgeous.
Prezi: (Presentation tool) Prezi is a presentation tool that can be used as an alternative to traditional slide making programs such as PowerPoint. Instead of slides, Prezi makes use of one large canvas that allows you to pan and zoom to various parts of the canvas and emphasize the ideas presented there
Tellagami (Story teller): Tellagami is a mobile app that lets you create and share a quick animated video called a Gami. A Gami can be an exciting tweet or status update. It can be a fun way to tell a story.
Wordle: (Wordcloud generator) or wordclouds.com, Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordleare yours to use however you like.
Khan Academy: (Education) Khan Academy. Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
PicMonkey: (Photo edit software) PicMonkey is a free photo editor that works in your browser — nothing to download or install. Fix your photos and add beautiful filters and text. Touch up facial features or create outstanding graphics. Ridiculously easy, staggeringly gorgeous.
Prezi: (Presentation tool) Prezi is a presentation tool that can be used as an alternative to traditional slide making programs such as PowerPoint. Instead of slides, Prezi makes use of one large canvas that allows you to pan and zoom to various parts of the canvas and emphasize the ideas presented there
Tellagami (Story teller): Tellagami is a mobile app that lets you create and share a quick animated video called a Gami. A Gami can be an exciting tweet or status update. It can be a fun way to tell a story.
Wordle: (Wordcloud generator) or wordclouds.com, Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordleare yours to use however you like.
Term 4:
Evernote: (note taking software) Evernote is a cross-platform, freemium app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving.
Kahoot: (Interactive quiz making) A Kahoot is a collection of questions on specific topics. Created by teachers, students, business-people and social users, they are asked in real-time, to an unlimited number of “players”, creating a social, fun and game-like learning environment.
Weebly: (Building a website) Weebly is a web-hosting service featuring a drag-and-drop website builder
wevideo: (Video editing online) Make and share videos using WeVideo's online video editing software
Gynzy: (interactive board software) Gynzy is a web-based interactive whiteboard program designed to make smart board extremely easy to use. This program works with all brands of interactive whiteboards so teachers are not restricted to the software developed for their specific brand of the board.
Be Funky: (Collage maker) BeFunky develops innovative digital media tools that let people become instant artists and express themselves creatively
Kahoot: (Interactive quiz making) A Kahoot is a collection of questions on specific topics. Created by teachers, students, business-people and social users, they are asked in real-time, to an unlimited number of “players”, creating a social, fun and game-like learning environment.
Weebly: (Building a website) Weebly is a web-hosting service featuring a drag-and-drop website builder
wevideo: (Video editing online) Make and share videos using WeVideo's online video editing software
Gynzy: (interactive board software) Gynzy is a web-based interactive whiteboard program designed to make smart board extremely easy to use. This program works with all brands of interactive whiteboards so teachers are not restricted to the software developed for their specific brand of the board.
Be Funky: (Collage maker) BeFunky develops innovative digital media tools that let people become instant artists and express themselves creatively