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Over at the EffectiveICT Forum, Andrew Field started a thread in which he asked for help in putting together a session around the idea of ‘50 ideas in 50 minutes’ about the use of ICT in education, based on a similar idea he’d seen done by a colleague. The responses he got from this were fantastic, so I’m going to take that ball and run with it a bit. Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce 20 Ideas! 
Here, in no particular order, are the 20 things I intend to cover:
- Using Powerpoint as an interactive teaching and learning tool
- Getting students to use their mobile phones as learning tools
- Using a word-processing application as a scaffold for essay-writing
- Creating massive custom-made posters for display in the classroom
- Setting up a teaching and learning wiki
- Creating a teacher/departmental/faculty website
- Timing portions of lessons
- Using Google Earth to develop spatial/locational awareness
- Using ICT for non-written assessment
- Podcasting your lessons/revision materials
- Getting your students blogging and using social networking tools
- Using sound effects in your lessons
- Using Skype to bring virtual experts/other parts of the world into your classroom
- Using an interactive whiteboard interactively
- Geotagging photos and sharing field trips with the world
- Encouraging students to present their work effectively
- Enabling students to contact you via email
- Improving essay-writing
- Using ICT-based games to make learning fun
- Creating a virtual field trip or visit
I’d encourage you to join and submit your ideas to the EffectiveICT Forum and get more teachers using educational technology! 
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