INOTE IT Survey (Software and Web Use)

The first post today recorded some statistics from our online survey of English teachers in Ireland for the INOTE conference. Now here are some responses given to the question: What web tools and/or software do you use regularly and find helpful in your teaching? Here's an entirely disordered list, with several quotes:-

• Overhead projector is very useful. I often use visuals for poetry, for example or you may find the poem on you tube set to music and visuals. I also put the poem on the overhead and then write over it showing them important imagery or techniques used etc. Great for sample answers also, showing them how to structure their answers and so forth.
• SLSS
• Scoilnet
• Random searched sites
• YouTube (the most-mentioned tool)
• Microsoft Word (several times)
• Video websites
• Google (many times...)
• Very simple use of computers which project sites and information on screen.
• Playing DVDs on projector, using YouTube for clips, Powerpoint
• Active Inspire whiteboard and software
• Online adverts
• Wikipedia (a few times)
• Examinations.ie
• I just started using YouTube this year as it's available for the first time in our school. We just got computers and projectors installed in the classrooms!
• I don’t have a laptop.
• I use microsoft, emails etc on a desktop. Need to modernise
• I have the use of an i-pad in the Classroom. An excellent tool! Hundreds of apps for the classroom. All TY's use i-pads in our school.
• Shakespeare in Bits
• Powerpoint (several times)
• MS Publisher
• E-portal
• Wordpress
• Google Blogger, Microsoft Office, Keynote.
• Webtools: I don't really.
• Tarsia (puzzlemaker)
• Various websites for supplementary notes
• Digitised versions of books
• Edmodo
• Google images
• Unsure regarding 'web tools'
• Prezi
• Google for research
• Teaching English sites
• Wordprocessing notes.  DVD in the laptop.
• Just for research sometimes.  I use web more for History.
• Mediaconverter
• Email
• Music (online)
• Wordpress, Audacity for recording podcasts, YouTube, Edmodo (VLE).
• Powerpoint
• Promethean
• Powerpoint
• VLC Media Player
• RealPlayer
• Dreamweaver
• Skoool.ie
• Examinations.ie
• I use Powerpoint quite often and take images from Google Images. 
• Teachit.co.uk
• Flickr.com
• TV/DVD
• Google for posters for the Shakespearan plays over time to see what aspects of main chararacter are presented to an audience before they see the production.
• [continued - click Read More below]
• Manybooks.net
• Moodle-Forums and online assignments
• Various Web-quests
• Puzzlemaker
• Podcasts
• Twitter
• Dropbox
• Microsoft Powerpoint, Excel, Word, Publisher.
• TES website, newspaper sites, bbc.co.uk
• For showing films
• Photo story 3
• Egg timer
• Who wants to be a millionaire?
• Showing adverts
• Showing YouTube clips eg poems & debates
• PowerPoint, video/audio clips, streaming of TV programmes, lesson ideas from various websites
• Basic sites and links to lyrics and other sites. Google search engine. Mimio hardware and am just learning how to use our brand new interactive whiteboards and projectors.  I would like to be able to access YouTube but it is banned and locked out of the school system. I found it a great help in preparatory classwork prior to beginning my novel with the class.
• Windows Media Player
• SRA Kit
• Google Docs
• Google Sites
• Gmail
• Sparknotes
• Film reviews
• I abstract information from various sources on the net, incorporate it with my own notes and then use either Publisher or PowerPoint to present the material. I'll have links to other sites, film clips, ebooks and sound files as needed.
• I use Powerpoint in most of my lessons for display of information and homework.
• I use recordings of poets reading their work and recordings of the single and comparative texts. I also use YouTube clips to supplement lessons.
• Picasa
• RTE Player
• I would use power points and podcasts mainly.
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Microsoft Word
• Puzzle maker online
• Very little as am technophobic
• Powerpoints?
• Online newspaper articles
• American sites with lessons and resources.
• Folensonline
• Times Educational Supplement
• Photostory, Audacity, Powerpoint, Word, Youtube, Google Images