Daily Classroom Use Classdojo Not specifically RS. Can tailor make it subject specific. Use as a behaviour management system.
Daily Classroom Use Triptico Again not specifically RS. Free desktop app containing over 20 different tools. Make quick plenary games, randomly put students into groups, time activities etc Some examples….
Groups students for you – makes it fair and simple so no complaining!
Deal or no deal style game.
Creating resources Philologus Online game maker Bingo Cards Blockbusters
Creating resources Textivate An instant(ish), free online tool to create sentence jumbles & ordering puzzles. Use interactively or print off.
Creating resources Making Puzzles Eclipse – free crossword download. Puzzlemaker – anagrams, wordsearches etc
Creating resources / Whole Class Classtools Whole bank of (free) online resources Make fake facebook pages, twitter posts, lights out & timelines
Creating resources / Whole Class Read Write Think Superb for when you can get an ICT suite – or set tasks for homework (and some tasks are printable to use in non ICT lessons!) Ideal for meeting literacy objectives using different ideas
Word Clouds Wordle Tagexdo Creating resources / Whole Class
A student’s essay response to the GCSE question: ‘Everyone should have the right to die when they want to.’ Used to: Check key words are used well. Display boards. Visuals for open evenings. Wordle
Tagexdo
Creating resources / Whole Class Content Generator Free & paid for flash based games Space Invaders, Basketball, Penalties, Exam Papers
Creating resources / Whole Class Infographics / Piktochart Either create beautiful infographics yourself for displays Or get students to create on a given theme
Online Clips – RS Specific Wingclips BBC – Wales/BBC Learning Zone BBC – Wales Cumbria & Lancs TrueTube
Horrible Histories Greek Thinkers Evolution Youtube RE channels include 06clared Online Clips – not RS specific
No Access at school??
Future Tech in the RS classroom Ipads / Tablets Ipod Touches Student mobile phones – BYOD Flip Cameras
Future Tech in the RS classroom - Ipad Single Ipad Apps:- Skitch Songify Explain Everything Halftone Quipper Sock Puppets
Future Tech in the RS classroom - BOYD BYOD – Bring your own devices (Mainly applicable to GCSE / A level) Most students have better mobile phones than us, with free texts & internet access – so why not use them?
Future Tech in the RS classroom - BOYD Poll Everywhere Socrative QR Hunts Quipper
Tech as alternative homework Listen to Podcasts Philosophy Bites BBC Religion & Ethics podcasts Read E-Books Free on Kindle, Plato, Aquinas, Augustine and more
Exploring ICT – Getting Ideas (hundreds of links) (little book of ICT in teaching & learning vol 1 & 2) Twitter – use the #reteacher