ICT+Justification

__ICT TOOLS-  Photo story__- Photo story allows for students to find their best digital photos and create a few pages on them. They are able to put captions as a description to the pictures and add effects. The photo story application is free and allows students to visualise in a fun and simple way the photos they may like to share. It acts as a show and tell creation. After a creation is made it can be burnt to a CD for keepsake. __Power point __- powerpoint consists of slides where students may like to create text, graphics and aninmation. There is a person who can act as a slide master. The powerpoint tool is effective ina llowing for students to incorporate all of their research visually and it is exciting for students to find pictures and animate the presentation with various effects. __Interactive White board- __the interactive whiteboard is relatively new application that is being introduced into schools. The interactive white board, once connected with a computer allows for the students to integrate a streamlined approach to organising information and actively engaging students in the learning. I feel they are more efficient than ordinary whiteboards as they make sure students are being active in the learning as they come up to the board and click and drag correct answers in a quiz for example. They are good motivating tools as children can hear sound and even watch education movies or clips on t hem. __Word- __word is standard Microsoft application that is basically for typing information and reporting it. Students may find this application beneficial for students who are slow at handwriting or are not good spellers. Students with disabilities may be more productive also in using word instead of using exercise books to handwrite everything.

__Webspiration-__ webspiration is a tool that is accessed through the internet. It is a collaborative tool for mapping information and organising information so that it is clearly set out. The information is shown in bubbles and the links from each bubble display information that is also relevant to tha main topic. Webspiration is clever in that you can take notes and expand the information so that it is easy to see.