De Bono’s Thinking Hats allow us to examine a concept or problem through a variety of lenses or ‘Hats’.

De Bono’s Thinking Hats allow us to examine a concept or problem through a variety of lenses or ‘Hats’.

Each ‘Hat’ in turn helps us think about the problems, benefits, ideas, emotions, suggestions and negative.
Using an rmap will allow you to share your thinking with your peers through the ‘Hats’. Get it from the community.

Why have we chosen the realsmart cloud over a traditional VLE?

These are the three main reasons…

There are loads of web apps that you can use to show teachers what you know.

Use realsmart to record and show what you know through:

• blogs and podcasts
• simple websites
• mind maps / concept maps / graphical organiser
• learning passports
• self assessed portfolios

Remember, all of the above can be collaborative (you can create and / or add to them together as a group if you want)

Go to www.rlsmart.net/help to find out how to use it. It’s really easy.

Or try these below (remember to log in or register using your smartpass):

• Aviary – photo editing, vector drawings, multi track audio recording! (SSO)
• LinoIt – PostIt notes with media (smartpass)
• SpicyNodes – interactive presentations (smartpass)
• Voki – make an avatar and give them a voice!
• Prezi – present ideas as the big picture, then zoom in to the detail!
• WallWisher – collect all your ideas together on your wall
• Comix – make a comic from what you know
• MuseumBox – collect items together to put forward ideas, or to represent times/places/people
• Wordle – represent ideas as a word cloud
• GoAnimate – create animations!
• VoiceThread – collaborative conversations around media (SSO coming soon!)
• Glogster – highly visual, interactive posters

remember, if you create something in the above apps, most will let you embed the results in realsmart. This makes it easy for your teachers to see them.

If you find something else that you think is great, add a comment to this post and share it with us!

Google have very kindly create a bank of lesson plans and resources to help your students get started with google apps.  You can find them here;

Google Apps Lesson Plans using Docs, Sites, and Calendar.

Google have an excellent training site that will provide you with everything you need to know about getting started and the more advanced features of google apps.

http://edutraining.googleapps.com/

Use this to help explain Google Apps and the cloud to your staff.

Google Apps Commercial from realsmart on Vimeo.

There are loads of applications for using Google forms to collect information. I would like to use this example to help organise our next INSET day.

Using Forms in Google Docs from realsmart on Vimeo.

A really good animation to explain what Google Docs are in “Plain English”

Google Docs in Plain English from realsmart on Vimeo.