Twig produce short films which support learning in Science. Through high quality films and accompanied lesson plans, they provide an inspiring resource for science teachers. Currently their products are for secondary learners, but TigTag, a primary product is on the way.
Last night they won a BETT award, so I joined them to celebrate.
Siftables can be used to play digital games with real life, tactile objects.
Each one displayed a letter and we were challenged to make as many words as possible with them. The objects are smart and react to the words you could make.
Just imagine if they were open and you could program them…
In a sea of educational games, conquermaths.com are taking a different approach.
3D animation can be tricky (ever opened 3D studio max?!). Muvizo is pitched as a GarageBand for 3 D animation. Free for education users -worth a look.
Sonosent audiotutor and audionotetaker allow a visual, structured record to be made of spoken audio. Notes can be captured along side the audio and shared, so rather then ending up with a massive audio file, you can get to the bits you need. Great for note taking, or for analyzing in detail your spoken presentations to allow formative assessment of oral presentation skills.
Moople is an educational wrapper for web 2.0 tools.
Tools such as google apps and other web 2.0 sites are great for learning, but can sometimes be a lot of work to manage. Multiple usernames and passwords, getting children to the right site for the right lesson. On a bad day they can sometimes feel like more trouble than they are worth.
Moople don’t want to call their product a VLE, as that term has connotations of locked down, limited and clunky tools that can’t compete with consumer web services. What they do is provide a directory of tools (free and paid for) and bring them all together under a custom designed, single sign on environment. If a tool can do Shibboleth it can do Moople.
Their aim is to create a system which makes using a wide range of web 2.0 tools straightforward to manage and flexible for educators.
Pora Ora is a big hitter in the educational games market. I wasn’t sure about the jumping frogs game I saw on their stand, but certainly one to investigate further.
