Online jigsaw creator – JigsawPlanet

~ davefoord

I am starting to do some work with a local nursery who have been given some money for IT kit and training, and they are hiring me to help with the training part of it. One thing that they have invested in is interactive whiteboards, and something that I think will be very good, is doing jigsaw puzzles, with images that they have taken (e.g. of toys, things around the nursery).

A website that will create these puzzles is www.jigsawplanet.com – you can choose different nubmers of pieces and different piece shapes, and something that I really like is that it gives you embed code, so it is very easy to embed them into a blog, wiki or other website, some examples are below. Obvioulsy when working with the nursery it wouldn’t be a good idea to take images of the kids and then put them on the website.

A 12 piece puzzle, using ‘square’ pieces

A 20 piece puzzle using curved pieces

Published by davefoord

Dave is an experienced FE and HE lecturer, who during his years of teaching (at Loughborough College), developed and perfected many techniques for providing high quality, innovative, and differentiated learning. Some of his best known work is in the area of ILT (e-learning) - using technology to enhance the learning experience. It is in this area that he has considerable experience and knowledge, and has received National recognition for his practical understanding and skills in this area of work. Dave has run over 1000 staff development sessions on over 100 different learning and teaching topics at Loughborough College, The University of Derby and since going free-lance. All of his sessions are very active, engaging sessions using a variety of different techniques.

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