Other Useful Tools

 

Downloadable

 

• Skype - Make free phone calls using your internet connection!
• Screen Hunter - Take pictures of anything on your screen!  Easy to use screen capture software.
• Google Earth - Travel the globe virtually!  Interactive globe for researching places around the world.
• Tux Typing 2 - Tux Typing 2 is a typing practice program featuring Tux, the Linux penguin.  Intended for kids of all ages.

 

Online

 

• Wordle - A toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
• Dance Mat Typing- A fun colourful website with animation and games introducing touch typing to children aged 7 to 11.
• ToonDoo - Create your own comic strips, Publish, Share & Discuss
• Visuword - online graphical dictionary and thesaurus to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts
• MyStudyio - Create multimedia quizzes that can be embedded into blogs or websites easily.