Literacy

Worth a try- recommended highly on twitter.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/poetry_engine.htm

Moodling

5 tips to enhance your moodle course http://bit.ly/8jkyVy

A site worth watching- free tech for teachers

Let's all collaborate

E2BN has excellent collaborative tools- http://www.e2bn.org/. Discovery box and Museum box are also very good presentation tools-good for all those fed up with  PowerPoint!
Creaza has a whole suite of possibilities: http://www.creaza.com/
and don't forget mind mapping collaboration with Mindmeister.
Google Apps for collaboration will desrve a post all of its own at a later date!

An oldie but goodie- children collaboratively annotate photos/pictures or videos
http://voicethread.com/#home
Share your favourite parts of the day
http://www.memiary.com/
Great slideshare with ideas for Memiary
http://www.slideshare.net/markwarner/using-memiary-in-the-classroom
Ether pad
Real time sharing by multiple users
http://etherpad.com/

Little 'uns

Nice site for activities: http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/

Communication is the name of the game!

Crack into pdfs -legally.
http://freemypdf.com/
My favourite free mind mapping tool- can be used collaboratively at the same time: http://www.mindmeister.com/ Seriously- this is one to try. Children can share mindmap online - updates without refreshing!
2 connect
http://www.2simple.com/2connect/
Even more in the Cooltools4schools wikispace
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Presentation+Tools

Brilliant presentation tool- add audio to make a webinar!
http://www.slideshare.net/
Don't forget the fabulous E2BN presentation tools_
Discovery box
http://discoverybox.e2bn.org/

Describe a journey using photos and video
http://mapvivo.com/

This isn't communication unless you count playing an instrument- for the wannabee rock musicians
http://gigajam.e2bn.org/

BETT highlights and Merthyr conference.

BETT turned up some useful things. The future is interactive plasma screens it seems- both on wall and flipped to form table top! Fantastic 3D also- pehaps these will tour schools in the same way as Star Lab?
Loved the Mantra Lingua pens. Fantastic for adding recording to display/ books etc. Coed y lan purchased one so will be interested to see the outcome.
The E2BN stall was great- useful links to NEN.  To get all age appropriate free tools go to this link
http://www.e2bn.org/tandl
http://www.nen.gov.uk/tandl


We've booked John Davitt for the Merthyr Conference- hopefully this will enthuse everyone.
Remote Learning -pre Moodle
New ideas for remote learning or linking groups of schools together include using Centra 7 or Flash meeting E2BN, Online Mango databases, wikispaces and using Mindmeister online mindmapping.