Tools & Tutorials

This section covers a range of useful online tutorials and tools that will help you get the best of the software you are using to produce creative and interesting pieces of work.

Tutorials

Are you having trouble doing tables in Word? Drawing pictures in Paintbrush or making snazzy presentations in PowerPoint? Then fear not, check out the online tutorials for the following pieces of software:

Tools

Discovery School's PuzzleMaker
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.

http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

Quizzes and Puzzles
A site to help you to create your own interactive quizes, jumbled sentences, short answer questions, gap-fill exercises and crosswords.

http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/

The Internet Picture Dictionary: French
The Internet Picture Dictionary is a completely free, online multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESL students and beginning English, French, German, Spanish and Italian language learners of all ages.

http://www.pdictionary.com/french/