16 February 2009 7 Comments

Amazing Ideas for Inspiring Writing

I’ve long been an admirer of Tom Barrett’s fantastic ‘Interesting Ways‘ presentations, and it’s great to see so many people contributing to these resources, sharing ways of using a range of tools in the classroom. I’ve even been invited to add my own ideas to some of those presentations, but I haven’t got round to [...]

31 July 2008 3 Comments

Essential software – Skitch

Essential software – Skitch

If you use a Mac, and have any need to take screenshots or want to edit / annotate images quickly, you need Skitch! This free software allows you use different kinds of images:

Screenshots of entire pages or small areas (using simple cross-hairs to define the area),
Web cam images,
Any other pre-existing image… simply drag and drop [...]