I am a gamer! I have always been and being a teacher didn’t change this too. On this post, you will read my favourite games on my mobile devices.  TempleRun is one of the games that I have been playing for the last two months whenever I get bored. The game’s logic is very simple. You are continuously running in a temple where there are some traps. You can’t slow down, you only run and jump, and hope and slide. The challenge is to tilt your device wherever the road is getting narrower. Be careful not to fall down as the monkeys are following to catch you. Don’t forget to collect the coin to upgrade your avatar! If you like this, you will like TempleRun2 as it is 3D and it offers more variety. You may also like to play Jetpack Joyride where you run away on railways and you jump up and down on the trains and collect the coins. Just like the TempleRun, you run and run …  TapTheFrog is one of the cutest apps on the market! You have a cute frog character with whom you play a variety of mini games. As the name suggests, you tap on the frog to beat the challenges. Such as, you need to touch all the frogs in a certain time, or you need to wait to touch until a frog turns to pink. You are competing against time with your fingers. There are many levels that you can play without getting bored and you get a little bit sad when you finish all the mini games and have to wait until they release the newer version. As they say, once you hop, you can’t stop. The Creeps is another addictive game that is both on my phone and ipad. It is like a tower defence game where you have to kill all the creatures before they scare the little kid on the bed. There are many levels that you can play without getting bored though the very last episodes are far way difficult. If this game cannot make you scare enough, you can try Plants and Zombies where you have to protect your house from Zombies by planting flowers. I am also a big fan of Hidden Object games where you need to click on the picture to find the objects to complete the level. Most of these games come with a story which makes these games more fun to play with. There are many games of this kind, but favourites will always be Nick Chase, all episodes of Treasure Seekers, Mushroom Age and Weird Park.  Geveze Sınıf is another favourite of mine. Though the name of the app is Turkish, you don’t need to know any. You make two students in a class talk to each other by tapping on them without being caught by the teacher. It is fun to play with and takes you to your old school days. If you are a fan of Machinarium, you will love to have it on your iPhone or iPad. This is an adventure game which has a hand drawn style.You control your small robot in different levels and solve the puzzles. It also comes with many language options. Sneezies are super cute and furry head who are trapped in floating bubbles. You only need to touch their bubbles and make them sneeze. As you touch one of them, it spreads a burst of sneezing powder and this causes a chain reaction. Though it gets more difficult in upper levels, this is still an old favourite of mine.  The hero of Where is My Water game is a cute swampy crocodile. It wants to take a shower and you need to get the water into his shower by placing a pool, pipe or a tap. It’s addictive at the beginning but then it gets very difficult and bore you a little bit. Still, it’s on my favourite list! Tetris was a phenomenon when I was a child. Spell Tower is a similar game that you string letters together by drawing lines until you form a complete word at least three letters long. You can draw it to any direction, even backwards. It is challenging and fun! I like racing games as long as you have missions to complete. Here is an old favourite of mine, Crazy Taxi which I used to play on Sega. Your goal is to drive your taxi, pick up passengers and drop them off at their destination. You need to drive very very fast and it is legal to exceed the speed limit. Fun to have an old favourite of mine on my phone.  I used to play Monkey Island on my computer; it is good to have it on my phone too. The character is Guybrush who wishes to be a pirate. Your goal is to solve the puzzles by clicking, answering the right question in the dialogues and completing your objectives.  The last but certainly not least will be Sally’s Spa on my list. This is kind a time management based beauty spa game. You guide your customers to different station throughout their spa. Every level, you upgrade your spa and your staff.  This is a game that I do not want it to finish. That’s all for now and more to come later …

While technology is helping us to improve the four skills of our students, there are many other tools that help us to improve our vocabulary. Here are some of the tools that can help us and our learner to boost the level of their vocabulary knowledge. Lingro is a web tool where you can turn any website into a clickable dictionary. Just copy and paste your link and go to the page, read your text and click on the words that you think you don’t know and Lingro will give the definition for you.  Lexipedia lets you with the definitions of words in a webbed diagram with related words and their definition. You can also listen to the audio pronunciations. Shai is a visual dictionary that gives you the definition of the word that you enter and the related pictures from Flickr, Google or Yahoo. VocabGrabber is another tool that analyses any text you have provided, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. WordHippo is a multitasker tool for finding the opposite or similar words, translate it to another language, find a sentence with your word or to find words that rhymes. SnappyWords is an online interactive English dictionary and thesaurus that helps you find the meanings of words and draw connections to associated words. Just place your cursor over the words to see the meaning. JustTheWord is tool to find the combinations or the alternatives for a word. EasyDefine is my favourite tool on this list. Write a list of words and you can get the definitions and print it out, or find the synonyms, generate flashcards/worksheets or quiz yourself. The tool does everything for you, you only list the words. More to come soon …

Internet is a great source for teacher to boost four skills of our students as well promoting their active word learning. Here are some tools to help us: Free Rice is a world food programme that donates 10 grains of rice to help end hunger for every answer that you give correctly. This is a very meaningful way of practicing vocabulary with kids. Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to our students. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused. Word Spy is an online dictionary where you can find the new words that are added to English. GraphWords  is an online thesaurus that helps you find the meanings of words and show connections among associated words. You can easily see the meaning of each by simply placing the mouse cursor over it. Knoword is an online game that tests your vocabulary by matching the definitions with the right words. Vocabulary is an online dictionary and a web tool that lets you improve your vocabulary. VocabGenii is an online vocabulary game where you create a word that matches the definition provided from the unscramble letters. Rhymer helps you to find words that will rhyme with the word that you have provided. Quizlet is a flashcard learning websites where you can create flashcards y sets for a wide-range of subjects.  PhotoMunchrs is an online game where you need to "munch" the pictures that correctly illustrate the word. Enjoy! More to read: Build Your Vocabulary With Web Tools  

"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. " Creative writing activities has always been my favourites in English classes. They are great and meaningful ways to stimulate creative thinking  and motive our students to write!  Today, I would like to introduce you a blog which is a great way to promote writing activities in the classroom. It is PhotoPrompts where you can find creative writing starters  with a picture and a prompt for you to think about to write. What a lovely way to make kids write on different topics!! Here are some ideas to use this in education: Decide with your students on the picture prompt that you would like to write. Choose one of the prompts and turn it into a project. When students finish writing their story, vote for the best one! If you think the prompts are a little bit difficult for your students, try writing yours! or even ask your students to create their own prompts. How fun is that! It’s amazing how people can inspire you with their ideas! Thanks to them as they are certainly making the world a better place for me and for you!

Story Sharing Web conference is starting tomorrow! If you are interested in learning more about storytelling, this will be the right event for you! It is completely free, and you can register here: http://storysharing.eventbrite.co.uk/ There are many friends and great educators that will be presenting there. You can check the conference program here. I will also be doing a talk called "Once Upon a Tool" where I will be talking about easy web tools that you can use as story starters with your learners. My session will be at 12:00-12:30 (GMT) and 14:00-14:30 with Turkey time. You can check your time zone here. Looking forward to meeting you all there online! Stay inspired!

Internet has been a great source for storytelling activities. Here are some of the web tools that you can use as story starters with your learners. Piclits is web tool that presents you with a random picture and a long list of words such as nouns, adjectives, verbs and universals. You simply drag and drop the words onto the picture that describes it. When you finish, you can email, blog or share your story via different social networks. You can also choose freestyle which lets you write your own words on the picture. In the classroom, decide on the words that describe the picture and use it as a story starter. PhotoPrompt is not a web tool but a blog where you can find creative writing prompts to motivate your students in writing! Simply, vote for a creative writing idea and let the creative ideas sparkle in your class. StoryBird is a web tool where you can create your own collaborative story book using professional artists’ illustrations. You can give the first page of a Storybird story that contains a picture and the beginning of the story and ask your learners work in collaboratively to complete the story.  WordTamer is an interactive virtual carnival where you can develop characters, setting or a plot for your story. In each step, you can print out your story or watch videos to help you as you develop your story. In the class, develop your stories together with your students. OneWord is tool which gives you one word, as the name suggests, as a story starter. You try to write a story using the given word in 60 seconds. When you finish, you can publish your story and get a link to share it. Use this web tool as a story starter in the classroom. BuildYourWildSelf lets you create your own wild self by attaching animal parts to a human body. When you finish, you can send the picture as an email. Use the wild safe you have created as a story starter. Ask questions to build your wild self’s character and let the story begin. TheStoryStarter is a simple but an effective tool that generates story starters. Just click on the button and get the first line of the story. It can be "The grandma was walking in the bank.". Write the rest in the the classroom. Wordle is a famous web tool that generates "word clouds" from text that you provide. Copy and paste a story and ask learners to guess the story by asking them some guiding questions. Let them write the story, when they finish, give them the real text and compare their stories. Find the similarities and vote for the best version. Voxopop is tool to create collaborative and threaded audio discussions that enable users to record their speaking for others to listen and respond to. Simply, record your voice with the first line of your story and ask your learners to leave their audio messages by building on each other’s sentences. Scholastic Story Starters is an online machine that randomly generates a story starter for you. Choose your theme , grade and then spin the wheel. Your story starter can be "Write three wishes of a giant milkmaid whose tears turn things to stone." The tool, then, lead you to start writing your story. You can download or print your story when you are done. Spin the wheel in class and get your story starter. Your learners are sure to come up with many creative stories using these prompts. FiveCardFlickr is a website that shuffles Flickr photos and lets you build a story choosing 5 pictures and write a short story. When you are done, you can save it or share it with other. Use this website to choose your 5 pictures. The rest is in your students’ fingers. Let them come up with their own stories. Tell a Tale is an iPad app provides you the first and the last sentence of a story with three pictures that you need to use as you tell your story. Get your iPad in class, touch the app and get your story starter and set your imagination free.  Enjoy the stories!

If you are living in Istanbul and interested in learning how to integrate technology into your lessons, British Side in Istanbul is offering  a technology course for teachers! The course will take 6 weeks, 18 hours total.  It will start on Monday, the 25th of February. Please check this link for further information. Please mail me to get 10% off the price. Seats are limited so the first six people will get the discount. Enjoy your day and stay techie!

If you are looking for a way to practice vocabulary with your students, here comes a very effective web tool  that will help you to save your time. It is EasyDefine.  It helps you to create your own word list to share it with your students or create different activities with a few clicks. After writing a list of words that you would like to work with your students, EasyDefine generates their meanings. If you like, you can print them out and share it with your students or you can send it as an email to your students to be more eco-friendly.  This is not the only thing that we can do with this web tool. There are many extras that you can try with your students. For example, you can generate the synonyms of the words that you have chosen. You can create an online quiz for the students so that they can try their vocabulary knowledge. The quizzes can be true/false, multiple choice, synonyms matching, definition matching etc. Easy Define also lets you generate flashcards which you can print out to play many different games with your students. The tool also gives us the chance to create different types of vocabulary worksheets with the words that we have written. They can be definition matching, true/false or multiple choice activities. It really saves a lot of time as EasyDefine does everything for us. How to use it in education: Just let the parents learn about that web tool so that they can create activities to practice English with their children at home. They don’t even have to know a word of English to be able to use that web tool. If you want to create some extra work for your students, generate different lists and activities, take them to class with you. Give them to the early finishers to complete. This tool is completely free and easy to use. It’s sure to be a favourite on my list! 

If you like storytelling and doing it a lot in the classroom, Tell a Tale is an app that can bring joy to your lessons. The best part is that, even you have only one ipad, you can still play it. This app is for two or more students, so it is perfect for a class. You simply take turns in telling your own unique tales. The app gives the first line of the story, three pictures to weave into the tale and the last line to end the story. If you do not like the idea, you can start a new story.   How to integrate it to your lessons: Start telling the story with your students and record their voices as they build up the story. Share it on your blog if you have one. Build up your story. When you finish, ask your students to write it down. Put the students in groups and ask each group to create a story with the same prompts. Each group shares their stories with the rest. It is a simple idea but it’s a powerful tool to use in the classroom. It’s completely free and compatible with iPad.

If you are looking for an app to create your own stories, or to use it with your students, here comes StoryKit which is an easy-to use app that will boost the creativity in the classroom.  StoryKit lets you create your own book, adding your own pictures or drawing, writing the text and even recording your voice that goes along with the story. You can also add text boxes, sounds or images. You can edit , order or reorder the pages. When you are done, it is automatically saved on your device, but if you like, you can send it to StoryKit and they will get you a link to share the stories with others. You can also choose to use one of the stories that are on Storykit such as Three Little Pigs, Three Little Bears … and you can recreate these stories with your own additional characters.  How to use StoryKit in class: Ask your students to recreate one of the stories that you have read this year with additional characters from different stories. Students can create a book of their holidays, families, likes/ dislikes. They can create a book of their school year. Students can create a picture dictionary using this app.  Students create an app version of the stories that you read in class. Students can create an alternative ending for the story using this app. Students read each other’s stories and leave comments. This app is free and is a must on your digital storytelling lists!

Here comes another way to tell our stories using an app: Scribz. This is a fun and a creative way to share our stories with easy steps. Take three pictures or get your pictures from your gallery and add captions to these three pictures with maximum 80 words. Then, use the "film noir" template and share your stories with others on different social networks or post it on your blog immediately. You can mail it as well. How to use it in education: Ask your students to introduce themselves in three pictures and post it on your class blog. Students can create a 3 picture story about different topics such as families, pets, likes, favourites. They show it to each other in class and talk about it. You can vote for the best ones. Students walk in the school, take pictures and create their 3 pictures stories. You vote for the best one that tells about the school. Ask students to find pictures of a pet, family, birthday etc., ask them to create a  Scribz with these pictures and post them on your blog. Then, go to your blog and use these posts as story starters.  By the way, this app is free and good to have it!  

In A to Z web tools series, we are coming to the end. The letter is:T TheStoryStarter is a simple but an effective tool that generates story starters. TodaysMeet is a back-channel room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions and share ideas. Textivate allows you to automatically generate multiple different exercises using the text that you have provided, ranging from fill in the blanks, missing words to scrambled sentences. Take Me Back.to is a time machine tool that will take you to the past and tell you what happened on that day. ThankUz is a tool to write online "Thank you" card and send it to others. Tricider is a brainstorming tool where children can answer the questions and also vote for each other’s statements or where they can go against them writing why. Twurdy lets you find texts that suit your students’ readability level. Tinypic is a free image hosting site where you can upload your pictures and get a link for that to share it with others. Toondoo lets you create your own comic strips. TinyLists is a tool to create a sign up list or a to do list. TextLayOut is a tool to create a heart or a maze that are shaped with the words that you have written. Text2Speech is another free online text to speech converter. Tikatok is an online platform to write, illustrate and publish online stories. Twiddla allows you to mark websites, graphics and photos or you can use a blank canvas to brainstorm. Tgether allows you to communicate in small groups by emails. Timetoast is another site to create time lines and share them on the web with others. TimeGlider lets you create your web-based timeline software to create and share history and project plans. Stay tuned.  

Here is a very cool web tool for creating interactive quizzes using YouTube videos. Meet Blubbr today. After signing up, choose to create your own quiz which they call "Trivs". Give it a name and search for YouTube videos writing tags. When you find your video, drag and drop it on the middle screen, crop your video by moving the sliders on the bottom. This is a little bit tricky, the sliders should show only 20 seconds of a video, be careful about that! After you have trimmed your video, write your question and your answer on the right hand bar. The green line should include your correct answer. You can work on the same video to add more questions or you can choose another video by searching the tags. Blubbr lets us write 5 different questions. When you finish, share your video with others! You also get immediate feedback as you do the quiz. How to use Blubbr in education: Create your own quizzes after teaching a certain topic. Ask students to create quizzes on the topics that you have taught at school for each other. This tool is great for checking understanding on different topics. By making the kids watch fun and related videos about your topic, your quizzes can include vocabulary or grammar checking. Hope you enjoy this tool as much as I do!  

There are many web tools available that we can practice vocabulary with our students. Today, I would like to introduce you WordHippo which is a great tool to use in and out of the classroom with our students.  There are many different ways to look up for words in WordHippo. You can find another word, the opposites, the meaning of it, sentences with your word, rhyming words, translations from English to many different languages. You can also find the plural of the word that you have written or you can have a list of words that starts with the letter that you have chosen. Also, WordHippo pronounces the word that you have submitted. This web tool is like a combination of all the dictionaries and a tool that every English teacher should have in the kit! How to use it in class: Just let your kids know about this tool so that they can use it whenever they need! Check the answers before you go into the class and make the kids find the synonyms, opposites or the rhyming words. Don’t forget the check the other tools for practising vocabulary! Web Tools for Expanding Your Vocabulary Build Your Vocabulary With Web Tools  

Here comes a cool and a fake tool! FakeConvos lets us create some fake Facebook dialogues and share them with others! To be able to create one, you need to log in using your own Facebook account. When you click on create, choose a character that you would like post a comment. Write the name and the comment on the left hand corner. Don’t forget to upload a picture as well! You can choose the pictures that already exists or simply google and choose your picture. When you are happy, click "Add to the Stream" and now complete the same places with another character that answers your main character on the Facebook stream. You can add as many comments as you like. When you are done, give your conversation a title, save and share it on Facebook or other places. Here is also a video for you to see how it is done in action. How can we use this tool in education? Students can make different characters talk to each other. The characters can be historical people, politicians or popular people. Ask students to write dialogues for the characters that they have read recently. The characters can be the fairy tale characters or they can come from the books that everyone knows in class. You can ask them to comment for each other. Students can discuss a topic or try to solve a problem using this tool.  Create a fakeconvos dialogue and use them on your assignments. Students can create stories or write their own responses on the homework. This is another fun tool that we can try!

Leo’s Adventures With Colors is an interactive app that aims at teaching young learners to teach and practice colors  with a fun story and three different interactive games. It’s available on Appstore and it will be online on Play Store soon.

Hi all, I am putting together lists of great websites for teachers to use in workshops and wanted some input from the blogosphere on what are your favourite primary school level links. Add a comment to this post with some of your top picks. I am putting together pages for each year group band in the cluster. The Yr 0 to two age group teachers have already met and this is the list of links I prepared for them. http://zerototwo.wikispaces.com/Great+links+for+Juniors I’d love more throughout the age groups. Let me know your picks! Thanks a lot Authored by suzievesper. Hosted by Edublogs.

Well, I’ve been rather quiet recently as the Year Group meetings take quite a long time to put together. Stil, I have been finding some very interesting bits and pieces as I prepare for them and I have also been making some handouts for workshops that others might be interested in. OK - here is a list of things that may or may not be useful to you. List of links for different year groups.http://zerototwo.wikispaces.com/Great+links+for+Juniorshttp://threetofour.wikispaces.com/Yr+3and4+Linkshttp://fivetosix.wikispaces.com/Yr+5and6+Links (still being worked on)http://seventoeight.wikispaces.com/Yr+7and8+Links When you on each year group space, you will notice in the left hand navigation menu that there are also pages for great use of ICT under different currciulum headings. I have started to add to these but this will be an ongoing project. Here are the links to some of my latest software wiki resources A huge bank of sites to find film resources and short films that you could use in the classroom. A restructuring of my large wikis page into smaller pages with two new downloadable tutorials added to the Wikispaces page. Two new downloadable tutorials on my Powerpoint page about adding audio and about customising backgrounds of slides. Much prettier and easier to use index pages such as this one for online tools. I have also found a really great resource on the Google Educators page with this unit on using Google Docs for revision of writing. There are a number of downloadable worksheets to support the unit. There are a number of other resources on the Google Educators page so it is worth checking out. Authored by suzievesper. Hosted by Edublogs.

Yes - this is a kid friendly site despite the name sounding as if it might not be! It is great fun and would be a great way to encourage writing for children. You can make pictures and cards by choosing a background and dragging on characters which you can resize, rotate and add speech bubbles to.You can also put backgrounds with scenes on them together in a sequence and make a storybook in this way. When making a movie, each character you add has a number of actions that you can programme them to do. You take one of the available actions and drag it up into the timeline. You can continue building up a sequence of these actions with a range of characters. You can also add special effects. This is great fun and takes perseverance as well. It could be considered a kids way to program (it reminds me of Alice but at a lower level). Like the storybook option, you can add more scenes to your movie to create a longer story. To get the content off the site, you can print but you can only view the video online. This is a great tool. You could use it to create the beginning of a story and print it and then children write the middle and ending. This is just one idea - I’m sure you could think of many other uses. Authored by suzievesper. Hosted by Edublogs.

Through chatting to a new Twitter friend, she gave me some links to some of her wiki pages. One of the most useful things I found looking through them was a set of ICT skill level descriptors that are used in her school. While I believe that skills need to be taught in context and that descriptors shouldn’t limit teachers, I also believe that a base line of what MUST be covered by the end of a stage can be helpful to aid the development of an ICT programme across a school. Someone else has done the thinking for you on this wiki and these descriptors could easily be tailored to suit the context of your individual school. This link will lead you to the kindergarton descriptors with other levels linked to on the left. Authored by suzievesper. Hosted by Edublogs.

From the same design company that created Samorost 1 and 2 (with 2 being more appropriate educationally) comes another Flash based game designed specifically as an educational game for children. This game has been commissioned by the BBC and is available on their Bitesize Revision website. Thanks to Allanah King for bringing this to my attention through her blog. You move through eight levels with each level having a set theme for the questions and graphics such as genres and writing, numeracy, and the sciences. You have to first click items or characters within the level to cause a chain of events that will get one of the characters within the level to start asking you questions. This is often a big puzzle in itself - one level that seemed particularly difficult to get started with was one that had a cat in it and my clue to you is that the cat is the key. With each correct answer, you get more hot air in your balloon which, when full, takes you up to the next level. With each incorrect answer, you loose some of the hot air. This would be really motivating for kids (my husband played it right through all eight levels after he saw it sitting open on the screen and he is a big kid!) Authored by suzievesper. Hosted by Edublogs.

In many schools, YouTube is blocked by filters due to concerns with inappropriate content being on the site that kids could access. However, there are a lot of fabulous video resources that could be used in an educational context that are also being blocked. Still, if you have access to YouTube at home, there are ways to download the videos to your laptop to be played in class. This also solves problems with slow streaming speed (videos stopping and starting as they load). Step One - DownloadingDownloading the video using a Firefox ExtensionIf you have Firefox (or Flock) as your web browser, there is a very handy Add-on that you can install for free into Firefox that will allow you to download videos from YouTube and other similar sites. It is called Download Helper. When it is installed and you are on a page with a specific video, you will see a group of coloured balls rotating next to the URL address. Click on the down arrow next to the balls and you will see the flv file for that video that you can then click on to download. Downloading the Video Using Online ServicesThis site asks you to paste in the web address of your video and then it will download it. It also offers a free FLV player to download to view videos. Zamzar is another site for getting videos but it has the added advantage of letting you choose what format you would like the video. It converts the video and then sends you an email with a link to download it. Downloading the video using Mac software Tube TVIf you have a Mac, you have another option if you download a free application called TubeTV. You open up the application and then use the search within the program to locate a video that you want. Then you can click on the black download arrow. This program also has additional features such as automatically converting the video to other formats from flv which makes it easy to play back. Step Two - Playing Back MovieIf you don’t use TubeTV to convert the file, you will have an flv file which won’t play in either Quicktime or Windows Media Player. I will quickly cover options for fixing this for both Mac and PC users. Perian Plugin for Quicktime on a MacFirst, go to the Perian website and download this plugin and follow installation instructions. Perian will now be added to the bottom section of your System Preferences window. Open your downloaded video in Quicktime and the flv file will now play. VLC player can also be downloaded for Macs but Perian means that you can still stay within Quicktime rather than have to use a different player. VLC Player on a PCThis is freeware software that you can download and install. If you open up your downloaded video file in VLC, it will play without any problems. If you still want to play your video within a popular player such as Windows Media Player, there are other applications and plugins that you can install. Check out this website to get instructions. Authored by suzievesper. Hosted by Edublogs.

I love the internet - it is such a leveler! Getting in touch with people who work with different tools has now become very easy and effective. I have posted a number of times in the past about a favourite photo editing tool of mine called FotoFlexor. It has to be one of the easiest way to manipulate photos and work in layers and it’s FREE online. However, recently I have been concerned about the advertising at the top of the site for ‘Girls Gone Wild’ where woman were topless with only their hands for cover. I decided to try and get in touch with someone from the site about this issue and the email exchange below shows the results: Hi there, I wanted to bring your attention to the banner advertising on your site (particularly the Girls Gone Wild ads) that means that we can’t use Fotoflexor for education. I have a number of teachers ask me in my role as an ICT advisor what site will allow them to edit photos and work in layers and FotoFlexor is the obvious choice but the advertising of topless women holding their breasts means that we can’t use it in education. I’d really appreciate it if you could drop me a line just to let me know if that type of advertising will stay on the site so that I know to advise teachers that they won’t be able to use the application. I am a HUGE fan of Fotoflexor and voted for it in the web awards and was very excited about using it with students. I do understand that you have to make money as well. Hi Suzie, Thanks for your interest in FotoFlexer. I completely understand your concerns and I’m 100% sure we can find a solution. Let me talk it over with some people internally and see what filtering we can do with the ads (to be honest, I didn’t know we had ads like that!). I’ll be in touch with a solution for you shortly. Hi Suzie, I tracked down the issue with GGW wild ads, they were running on an Australian regional campaign, which is why I had never seen them. We have instituted exclusions for all "sin" ads in the future (sex, alcohol, cigarettes, anything not appropriate for all ages). We serve a young audience generally and these should never be served on FotoFlexer at all, at any time. The ad company that sells our ad inventory has said that the exclusions should be in place with very little delay and so the issue should be resolved. I really appreciate you brining this to my attention! -Neil Warren FotoFlexer.com And so a great result! Now I can feel free to recommend FotoFlexor without any further problems. It just shows that it is definitely worth sending a quick email to the people behind the tools if there is something that you think could be improved. Authored by suzievesper. Hosted by Edublogs.

I know that most people already know about Big Huge Labs but I thought I’d remind people about it again. I had fun this morning making a motivational poster out of one of my photos from Vietnam. I really must get to using this with kids! Authored by suzievesper. Hosted by Edublogs.