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Ive created this blog as a means of sharing some of the more exciting educational ICT developments out there which I've already bookmarked in my 'Delicious'. Sometimes a find a brief description about a product useful as a reminder, to myself if nobody else!

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

MARGARET ALMOND 1878-1945 3rd wife of JAMES MARTLAND AINSCOUGH 1854 - 1937.

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I’m doing my family tree and an ancestor of mine MARGARET ALMOND 1878-1945 was the 3rd wife of JAMES MARTLAND AINSCOUGH 1854 - 1937.   Marga...
Friday, July 20, 2012

St.Olav's Wirral Viking Pilgrimage 2012

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Dear all, Can I bring to your attention details of this year’s St.Olav's Day Wirral Viking Heritage walk/Pilgrimage: This year’s walk (...
Monday, March 30, 2009

isquint video converter tool - free!

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iSquint 1.5.2 by Tyler Loch, Techspansion LLC iSquint is an iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X. It's many times faster than QuickT...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

VoiceThread

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VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make co...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Freeplay

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Try Freeplaymusic.com for loops and music. Note:Clips from freeplaymusic.com cannot be freely used for podcasting. Educational use "is ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Avery label maker

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Avery label maker is a free download from Avery, obviously, and has a cd cover template amongst loads of others: http://www.avery.co.uk/uk1/...

PodSafe Audio

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This site aims to provide a location where musicians can upload music under the Creative Commons license for use in Podcasts, Mashups, Shout...

Creative Commons

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The Creative Commons website on the search page lets you select how you intend using the music. http://search.creativecommons.org/ Be warne...

Garageband

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For copyright free music try Garageband - you can also register a band if you play in one and get your music heard!
Monday, February 25, 2008

Soundsnap

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What is Soundsnap? Soundsnap is the best platform to find and share free sound effects and loops- legally. It is a collection of original so...

Photosoup

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PhotoSoup is a visual word puzzle generator that allows users to create word search puzzles with tag-photo pairs taken from Flickr. The tag ...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

wikiHow

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wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual. With your edits, we can create ...

RealeBooks

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RealeBooks - free download from www.realebooks.com Make books which can be emailed, printed off or stored in an online library. They cho...

e2bn - making the news

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The developing National Education Network also has some resources. E2BN's Making the News is a great motivator for engaging students (es...

On Line, On Track - Literacy and Numeracy KS3

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"The great problem is finding material which deals with their skill level without being too juvenile in content and context I'm not...

EditGrid - Online Spreadsheet

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EditGrid is an online spreadsheet. It works solely in a web browser. It serves you and your spreadsheets better than ever in many aspects. E...

Race to Ramses

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Looking for a fun but simple word level activity? - try Race to Ramses! a game about combining prefixes and suffixes to create new words. h...

Fliptrack Slide Shows

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Take a look at Fliptrack as an alternative to something like Animoto. Fliptrack Slide Shows offer the Most Ways to Express Yourself: http://...

Animoto

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Animoto - http://animoto.com/ is very simple but offers no real creative control over what you produce. Just throw some photos at it, choose...

TeacherTube & BlipTV

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If you were hoping to use Youtube with your students but find it's been blocked by the LA/ school firewall you might consider using thes...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

voices of the world

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onevoice Voices Of The World was created by Sharon Tonner from The High School Of Dundee in Scotland to connect children from around the wor...

many voices

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manyvoices "manyvoices is an ongoing collaborative story being written by 140 different elementary and middle school students across th...

tumblr

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Why Tumblr? "Tumblelogs are miniblogs — a fast way to share links, photos, and videos without the bells and whistles of a regular blog....
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

diigo - engage & respond to text

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http://www.diigo.com/ Highlight, Clip and Sticky-Note for any webpage - Just as you would on paper ⇒ Write on any webpage! - Make them priva...
Monday, October 29, 2007

FlickrCC

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FlickrCC , a search engine drawing solely from Flickr’s Creative Commons licensed images. Really easy to use - search on a theme - results ...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

Top 5 Times Tables Resources

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Thanks to Tom Barrett for these links.....they look great as a maths resource for ks1 and 2. Multiflyer by Dan Perkins - A wonderful resour...
Thursday, August 16, 2007

Zwinky

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Create your own customizable Zwinky character by choosing your eyes, hair, skintone as well as your shirt, pants, shoes, pets and other acc...
Thursday, July 26, 2007

Ferry Halim

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Tom Barrett (tgbarrett@btinternet.com) writes: Ferry Halim is a digital artist and has created a site showcasing current projects and flash...
Friday, July 20, 2007

flickr badge

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Flickr badge may be gimmicky but I like it....it adds an extra something to a blog and once again very easy to use. step 1 - choose the typ...

Visual Hub

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Thanks to David Baugh I have just successfully managed to create my first videoblog and it was so simple I will definitely do it again... I ...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

Box.net

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Box.net File Sharing See the Box.net filesharing widget - Instructions for adding this to your blog. You can share very large docum...

webbliworld

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http://www.webbliworld.com/images/logo.gif"> webbliworld is an exciting, stimulating, virtual world that kids can explore, inhabit,...

Scratch

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Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and s...
Sunday, July 08, 2007

The Podcast Recipe: Producing a successful show

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Podcast Seminar The Podcast Recipe: Description: Find out what it takes to perform a great-sounding podcast, produce a professional show, an...

Adam Burt - homepage

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Adam Burt's Homepage Adam is a fellow Apple Distinguished Educator and a very talented one too! he never ceases to amaze me regarding hi...

Vienna

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http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/images/newsletter_image.jpg"> Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X...

GhostReader- text 2 speech

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http://www.convenienceware.com/ghostreader_files/page1_1.png"> GhostReader™ allows you to listen while your Mac does the talking. ...

Tondoo - cartoon strip creator

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http://www.toondoo.com/images/login_toon1.gif"> ToonDoo - The Cartoon Strip Creator - Create, Publish, Share, Discuss! ... Create ...

Podcaster - Kudlian

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http://www.kudlian.net/products/podcaster/images/0003.jpg"> Podcaster is now Available for Windows and Mac Users. A podcast is an ...

Profcast

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http://www.profcast.com/images/21/PresentationRecording.png"> Profcast is a versatile, powerful, yet very simple to use tool for re...

Griffin iTalkPro Stereo Microphone for iPod 5G

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http://www.ilounge.com/images/uploads/itpls.jpg"> italk According to Griffin, iTalkPro will be able to record for 3.5 continuous hou...

iQuiz for ipod

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iQuiz. A new way to learn with iPod. iQuiz iTunes games You already know that iPod extends access to learning beyond the classroom. Now with...

Media-Convert

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Media-Convert is 100% free... Document, Compressed archive, sound and video converter. No software is needed, and you don't have to re...
Saturday, July 07, 2007

Comic Life Windows B2

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http://plasq.com/components/com_joomlaboard/avatars/69.png"> Comic Life is one of my favourites.....it's been bundled free on a ...
Friday, July 06, 2007

iShowU

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http://www.shinywhitebox.com/files/blocks_image_5_1.png"> iShowU software to capture and record video from your screen into a Quick...

Skitch + mySkitch

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Skitch is an amazingly fun and super useful duo. Everyday we all share images, ideas and have fun with friends online — this should be easy...

Sequel

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http://www.sequel-music.de/typo3temp/pics/461ffba396.jpg"> Sequel turns you into a producer, and gives you your own fully-loaded mu...
Thursday, July 05, 2007

BubbleShare

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BubbleShare is an easy and fun way of sharing your photos and the stories that go with them. Create a slideshow and share your photos with ...

snip url

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Do you ever have to handle an extremely long URL in e-mail? .... why not try URL shortening with the snipurl tool.

j2e

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Web based document creation: Create : Share : Learn What is it? j2e It's a web based document processor, designed for Education. Use it ...

ipod in education

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If you're interested in developing the use of ipods in education then visit ipodined A site which devoted to doing exactly that, design...
Thursday, January 04, 2007

shortText.com

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http://www.shortText.com/ ShortText is a simple tool to post text online, with minimum fuss. No sign ups, no sign in, just instant web prese...

zamzar

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http://www.zamzar.com/ They've just launched support for WMV video file conversions - read their blog for more information.......
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

del.icio.us

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What is del.icio.us? del.icio.us del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's. You can use del.icio.us to: *...

MOGOPOP

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http://www.mogopop.com/login/ WHAT IS MOGOPOP? It only works with Firefox but it is really cool! Create and download content for iPod. Mog...
Friday, December 15, 2006

Pulpmotion....

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And Ross Wallis writes...... http://www.pulpmotion.com/index.html/ This only came out yesterday! - I have had a lot of fun since I discovere...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

iMovie Chroma Key Plugins

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iMovie Chroma Key Plugins - they work with iMovie6 and Mac OS 10.4. http://www.kudlian.net/products/essential/ http://www.geethree.com/slic...

Animation montage - FIRE!

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I spent the day working with Newman Special school creating an animation montage yesterday- it was set to original music the children had be...
Saturday, December 09, 2006

Image manipulation software - teach-ict.com

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If you're looking to get started with image manipulation then try: teach-ict.com Theres a flash video on common mistakes: http://www.tea...

Huckleberry for MacBook and MacBook Pro

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Now this looks like a very interesting alternative to DV camera......designed to sit on top of your screen, just like an isight camera (when...
Friday, December 08, 2006

TextToMP3

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For Macs only........ macupdate.com "TextToMP3 is a simple droplet application that accepts dropped text files and converts them into s...
Friday, November 24, 2006

Flickr & Skype- two old favourites

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Just realised that Ive not mentioned a couple of my old favourites yet...... Flickr Flickr is an excellent, free, web based photo sharing sp...
Monday, November 06, 2006

E2BN's Myths and Legends

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I've just come across E2BN's Myths and Legends web link: e2bn Myths & Legends It has an exciting story creator program which cou...
Wednesday, November 01, 2006

CrazyTalk 4

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Have you seen CrazyTalk 4? CrazyTalk It enables you to create virtual animated actors from digital photos adding a perfect personality to mu...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006

"bubblr"

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I was introduced to Bubblr the other week………… Its a very simple comic strip program and free too! It works seamlessly with images in Flick...
Saturday, October 28, 2006

"Gliffy"

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I've just discovered Gliffy . It's a simple online drawing program and still free at the moment while in its Beta stage of developme...
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Saturday, October 14, 2006

quikmaps????

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Thought I’d try out quikmaps today, but not had much luck. I can see the potential but getting frustrated. Maybe some of you clever peopl...
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