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Resources for THE DYNAMIC CLASSROOM
Some software and hardware ideas,
complied by the iCT Training Centre (Oundle)

CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGY

AMBRA SOLUTIONS (Romsey, Hampshire)
Excellent prices for classroom ICT
(IWBs, projectors, Tablet PCs, Graphics Tablets, Laptops)


Interactive Whiteboards: summaries from DS Group and Wedgewood
• The amazing new Hitachi Starboard 77 Duo -
. . . touch OR pen!!! . . . can manage two inputs at once!!!
Promethean Active Voting System - Promethean FLP Player (ActivStudio)
Smartboard 2-minute tutorials
Interactive Maths resources for IWBs (Rex Boggs, Queensland)

Interactive Panels: summaries from DS Group and Wedgewood

Graphics Tablets: summaries from DS Group
Interwrite SchoolPad
Smart Airliner
Wacom Graphics Tablet


Visualisers:
L-1n (ELMO)

Tablet PCs (ink-aware laptops)
Table of comparison
Table PC website
Tablet-PC support from Microsoft


Making the news
Free and will host podcases, rss feeds, video, images and text

Shambles web site (Chaing Mai, Thailand)
Amazing general IT site (for International Schools)

PREPARING DEMONSTRATIONS

Discrete Recordings - joinied-up screenshots:

(can be saved as Flash into HTML pages)
Turbo Demo (Bernand D & G, Germany) - top recommendation, very flexible
......- examples from the Autograph web site - 'How to' tutorial
Captivate (Macromedia)

Continuous Recordings:
(large AVI files, to run off CD, or saved as Flash into HTML pages)
Camtasia Studio (Techsmith, USA)
Jing (Instant Camtasia recordings - ready to email) -

All types of screen-grabs
-
Snagit (Techsmith, USA)
All kinds of screen grabbing and image processing; related to Camtasia

Creating Flash Menus
Amara Software -really easy to use!

Online Office:
J2E - online document preparing and sharing
Yugma - Web conferencing and desktop sharing

 
IN THE LAB:
For the price of about one more computer, you can have 'language-lab' control
No more shouting to get their attention, and you can control their screens.

Imperata (from Divace, Finland)
Net Op School (Denmark)
Net Support School (Net Support Ltd, UK)
Useful Utilities for those without MS Office
Word-97/Word-2000 viewer (free download)
Excel-97/Excel-2000 viewer (free download)

Converting files to PDF
FlashPaper
(Macromedia)
Adobe Acrobat family (including free reader)


Converting document scans (OCR) and PDF files to Word

Omnipage Pro Office (ScanSoft)

 

DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS for Intranet Management

Blackboard Worldwide
Digital Brain Home Page - Learning Evolution
Edsys (Stamford, UK) Home page

Intranet Managers (High Wycombe, UK) Home page - Demo
MoodIe - a free Course Management System

Yugma desktop sharing - ideal for demonstrating remotely

 
THE FUTURE?

OWN LIGHT SOURCE SCREENS
- LEP: Light Emitting Polymer
plastic screens from CDT
- (Cambridge Display Technologies)
- OLED: Organic Light-emitting Diodes technology from Kodak
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Autograph:
Home page
Tutorials
Other TSM pages:
Integer Lists to full accuracy
Useful Files for mathematics teaching
Suppliers and Creators of Mathematical Software
Calendar of International Conferences and Events
TSM
Home page


TSM
Workshop

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Email contact:
Douglas Butler
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Last updated: 25th March 2008