30 Ideas in 50 Minutes

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Setup a blog - a place to offer additional support, ideas and links to help students' learning.
Get students to video their class presentation - really effective use of ICT where students are in control, scripting and preparing a presentation to go online.
Create a webquest task for an ICT-based homework - force students to research and prepare materials by following a webquest. A series of links and tasks to answer which guide students through a topic.
Grafitti a source - project an image onto a whiteboard. Get students to draw all over it with their analysis and ideas.
MP3 your work - only accept the next piece of work in MP3 format. Show students Audacity + a microphone and get them to record their next piece of work / revision
Create an interactive quiz or game with powerpoint. Choose the template, download it and go from there! http://www.netxv.net/esc/technology/InstructionalTechnology/templates/powerpoint.htm http://homepage.ntlworld.com/neil.williams50/free-resources2.htm
Setup a class podcast. Divide students into groups and make each responsible for part of a topic. Each group has to prepare a podcast. All the podcasts are then combined and put online as one class podcast for all to use. Go here for the process.
Student voice. Put together an online evaluation form using a wiki - students can complete this to share their thoughts and feedback about the lesson / topic.
Use PowerPoint timings. Setup tasks using timed PowerPoint slides. Details for the first task appears. Once the time is up, automatically move the screen on. The teacher can just leave this running, allowing her/him to focus on the students. . Here is a powerpoint timer that you can download and here is another one.
Set up a collaborative Wiki - for sharing of ideas
Get to students to present their work in moviemaker
Create movies to show processes (e.g. the uses of the dark room) in action – Moviemaker is an excellent free piece of software that can be downloaded here
Set up a Department Website to share resources between staff and provide online support for students - get students to contribute and take responsibility for sections of the website; use the website to help celebrate student achievement by adding examples of work -..

13. Use whiteboard to teach sketching - project picture - select and draw round the main 'defining lines' of the features shown - remove picture from the background and annotate the key features

14. Use GIS in the classroom – Geographic Information Systems - to develop spatial awareness / help students see spatial patterns Some examples include:

Geography Network (http://www.geographynetwork.com/) National Geographic Map Machine (http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/)Terraserver (http://www.terraserver.com/) Mapquest (http://www.mapquest.com)

15. Creating a Wordsearch /Crossword/Cloze test - http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/teachingtools.html

16. Using the pen tool in Powerpoint. If you right click during a Powerpoint Slide Show, you can select a pen tool to annotate whatever is on the slide.

Setting up a learning blog - Using free blogging software (such as livejournal - which I prefer as it doesn't have the 'next blog' link at the top) to create a class blog to encourage pupil discussion and involvement
Setting up a learning wiki - Using free wiki software (like pbwiki) to set up a class wiki that students create and develop articles they can then use for revision.
Radio Documentaries - using audacity to record pupil written reports. This could be extended, and combined with a learning blog to show people how to set up podcasts.
Mindmapping software - use mindmapping software instead of drawing notes on the board. Free software is here
Getting students to use their mobile phone - with all the new features on phones there are so many possibilities. Recording voices, sharing ideas via bluetooth, texting answers etc.
Immense copies of work. Get students to use Rasterbator to create a wall-sized version of their work - simple and easy mega-poster maker that uses an original image (i.e. digital photo of their work etc.)
Embed video and flash and audio into powerpoints to make them more interactive
Use slide.com for integration of photos into a website.
Wireless keyboard - pass a wireless keyboard round the class for a fairly sedate brainstorm/mindmap (even better if you use mindmapping software)
Theme tunes - use music through speakers to motivate students (in collaboration with countdown timers this can be especially powerful)
Magic answers- when taking feedback from students on a particular task in which you reveal the answers if they are correct or not, first type in the answer on a Word document, then colour them white. When students give you their answer, highlight the apparently blank section of the sheet where you have typed the answer in white, and change the font colour back to black. It's magic!
Go to Access Art at http://www.accessart.org.uk/immersive_learning/launch.php This is an art website by teenagers for teenagers