This document provides a summary of online tools that were shared on Twitter with the author by other professionals. It lists several word cloud generators, animation software, story writing websites, superhero character creators, photo poem generators, and book recommendation blogs that could be used for various educational purposes such as analyzing text, promoting events, encouraging creative writing, and getting boys interested in reading. Screenshots and brief descriptions are included to demonstrate how each tool works.

1. Caroline Roche
Advanced Lead Practitioner
carolineroche1@hotmail.co.uk

2.  Twitter is an excellent tool for communicating with
other professionals
 You can get instant answers to your questions
 All of the online tools I will show you were shared
with me on Twitter
 Best practice, blogs, information from DFE
 I downloaded the White Paper within minutes of it
going online thanks to tweets

3. @carolineroche

5.  Wordle: http://www.wordle.net
 Tagxedo: http://www.tagxedo.com/

6.  To analyse the content of a website
 To analyse a speech
 To analyse an essay, picking out the main
themes
 To use as shelf ends, showing Dewey
 To use as a poster

7.  http://animoto.com
 Create a short free video, or get a free
educational account for slightly longer
ones
 Promote author events, visits, books –
whatever you choose
 Animoto on school libraries

8. • Click on Create, once on the website, and then choose
Short video, which are the free ones
Use this
button to
import
pictures
from your
computer
Put your
pictures in
these
boxes, in
the order in
which you
want them.
You can
only have
15 pictures
and text.
Use this tab to add music, your own or
Animoto’s preselected range
Use this tab to finalise your
Animoto. Effects are added by
Animoto, and can’t be changed

9.  Go to http://storybird.com
 Either sign in to create your own stories and save
them, or you can create a story right away
 Simple, easy and quick to use. Great for
encouraging creative writing
 http://storybird.com/books/an-unexpected-party/?
token=nwg3nv

10. Here’s one I made earlier …
 http://www.heromachine.co
m/
 This needs to be
supervised, but use it to
end a lesson where
students have been
creating their own
superhero stories
 Then ask them to create a
character on Heromachine
to illustrate their story

11.  http://piclits.com
 Drag and drop words on to photos to create
poems
 Sign in to free account if you want to save
 Can be use for starters or plenaries on IWB
 Can embed clickable preview, but whole thing
must be viewed on website

12.  Getting boys to read:
http://bookzone4boys.blogspot.com/
 Library Advocacy: http://heartoftheschool.edublogs.org
 Literature for Lads:
 http://www.literatureforlads.com/