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Here is my collection of educational resources and, most importantly, my online 'to do' list. Now I'm hooked in to so many networks I get too many suggestions of great websites to keep up with. I need to put all the links and suggestions in one place so, one day when I have something mythical called 'time', I can follow up on them. Or at least have peace of mind to know that I have all the ideas in one place and can find them again. I hope some of these suggestions, ideas and resources are useful to others too.

[] draw or add pics and write then publish
 * Little Bird Tales**

A number of sites are referenced on this post: []
 * Digital Storytelling websites**


 * Check this out properly: [] Keeping in touch home/school via ICT**
 * TALKING PHOTOS**
 * [|Photobabble] looks like it might be a good presentation option some time... **


 * MICROSOFT TEACHER TOOLS**
 * Looks like some great resources and ideas [|here], including tutorials and lessons using MS Office, Windows 7. **


 * DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP**
 * This wiki** is a resource for grade level teachers to prepare students to use technology appropriately and being mindful of the citizenship skills they already possess.


 * STORYLINE ONLINE**
 * Celebrities read stories online. With teachers' notes and activities **
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a free graphic organizer creation tool. Exloratree users can use pre-made graphic organizer templates which Exploratreerefers to as "thinking guides" or create their own templates. The Exploratree thinking guides can be used online or downloaded and printed for offline use. Thinking guides can be created collaboratively on Exploratree which makes Exploratree a good tool for students working in groups to design projects together.
 * EXPLORATREE**

HISTORICAL SCENES INVESTIGATIONS
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 * [|i] [|s a fun way for students to investigate history through primary documents and images.] Historical Scene Investigation presents students with historical cases to "crack." Each of these thirteen cases present students with clues to analyze in order to form a conclusion to each investigation. The clues for each investigation come in the forms of primary documents and images as well as secondary sources. HSI provides students with "case files" on which they record the evidence they find in the documents and images. At the conclusion of their investigation students need to answer questions and decide if the case should be closed or if more investigation is necessary.**

Only you set the limitations for how you want to use Stixy. **Create** Be creative! We have no fixed grid that you need to follow. Can you see the widgets in the widget tray below? Just drag a widget out on the board and place it anywhere you want. Resize it, move it around, and select from a number of options to design your reminders, photos, notes, and files. **Share** To share a Stixyboard with Students, friends, family, or your colleagues at work, is as easy as it gets. Sometimes it’s nice or in fact necessary to have an online space for common photos, reminders, files, and so forth. Each Stixyboard has a unique set of members. No one else can see or use your board unless you choose to open your board for public view. WEBSITE WITH RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS & PARENTS []
 * ONLINE NOTICEBOARD**
 * [|www.stixy.com] also [|Wallwisher]**
 * Your classroom schedule
 * Projects at work
 * An upcoming holiday with your friends
 * Your photos from your last excursion
 * Or share a file or two with a friend

Number Gossip is an outstanding math tool that I learned about from the excellent blogZarcoEnglish-Tool of the Day. Number Gossip is a search engine for numbers only. Type in any number and you will learn “everything you wanted to know about it but were afraid to ask”. For example, when I search for the number 2 I learn: 2 is the smallest prime number, 2 is the only even prime number, the smallest field has 2 elements, for any polyhedron, 2 is the number of vertices plus the number of faces minus the number of edges. I can also learn the rare properties of two, and the common properties of two. Now that is pretty cool!
 * NUMBER SEARCH ENGINE**

**How to integrate Number Gossip into the classroom:** Number Gossip makes an excellent introduction to math class. Call on a student to choose a new number each day and learn all about the number. New math vocabulary and concepts will be introduced every day. Number Gossip helps students understand numbers, their properties, and their relationship to one another. When students are studying new properties, they can search numbers that fulfill those properties and find out why.

KERPOOF Kerpoof is one of my favorite creation tools for elementary students, it allows them to draw, create pictures, cards, books, and even movies. My original post about Kerpoof can be found here. Kerpoof has added some new features that make it worthy of another post. Students can now save their pictures, cards, stories and drawings locally (on their computers). On each canvas is a JPEG icon that will allow any picture to be saved to the computer locally. They are working on making it possible to download the movies locally soon. Kerpoof also introduced info bubbles. In the Make a Picture object library, students can drag out a picture onto the canvas. Now there is a new question mark button that shows up on an object. When students click on the question mark, a little bubble of information pops up. Students will gain all kinds of information from these little fact bubbles. They can learn everything from: who wrote Treasure Island, to learning the national animal of Austrailia. I'll start straight off by saying that Zoodles is aimed at parents more so than schools however I will definitely be installing this on all of our school computers due to it's depth of features and content: Essentially Zoodles is an Age appropriate web browser that is linked to a massive database of educational games and web sites. You can either let children surf Zoodles in the freedom of knowledge that they are both safe and gaining a learning experience or you can tailor zoodles as a parent or teacher to have a specific focus on say mathematics or reading. [|**http://www.education.vic.gov.au/researchinnovation/events/jan2010.htm**]**CREATE PICTURE**
 * KIDS' WEB BROWSER 4 LEARNING**
 * Kids will find this pretty one cool as they now have their own browser, which they also have an element of control over and parents will love it will keep all the nasty content on the web out of site and feel confident that their kids are not aimlessly wasting their time on the web.**
 * Zoodles offers both a free and subscription based package.**
 * ELLUMINATE PD SESSIONS JAN 2010 RECORDINGS**

Bookr Is a tool to create picture story books using images from Flickr. Simply find images from Flickr through their search engine located on the same screen as the book editor. It is extremely simple to use and would be a better option for junior school students as you can not add large amounts of text to each page. No sign up required. Very Simple to use. []
 * BOOKS**
 * The finished books are presented as animated flash Files that look gret on an interactive whiteboard.**
 * __How can I use this in the classroom?__ Show your your students the layout of bookr and how to search for images. read them a picture story book and explain to them that the pictures tell a large amount of the actual story and emphasise that words should be used with a minimalist approach.****RESTORATIVE PRACTICES**

**Breaking the Cycle:** wiki: http://breakingthecycleafrica.wikispaces.com/Why+Should+I+Care+About+Poverty %3F Ning: []

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 * EDMODO**

TEACHING STUDENTS HOW TO SEARCH THE WEB []

EARTHQUAKES RESOURCES - re Haiti [] GOOGLE EARTH ACROSS THE CURRICULUM []

'WIZARD OFF APPS' "this presentation will change my practice for years to come." SLAV blog. 90 min video presentation about keeping safe in online environment and web 2.0 tools. [] Dropbox allows you to have a 24 / 7 memory stick floating around in Cyberspace installed on every computer you use both locally and / or in the cloud. If you haven't given it a look here are my top 5 reasons why you should. You'll never go back.
 * DROPBOX**
 * 1: It's free** - Well you get 2 Gb for free which is more than enough for me to save my teaching documents. No restrictions on file size nut If you want to get serious about things 50gb will set you back $9.99 per month.
 * 2: Seamless Synchronisation.** Right you've just finished typing up your lesson plan for tomorrow on your home PC. Save it to your Dropbox Folder and it will appear locally on every PC you have installed it on at work or at home in seconds. Don't stress if you get on a computer that does not have it installed you simply login to www.dropbox.com and you can upload and download all your files.
 * 3: Public folders:** Got a homework sheet, video or photo that you wish to share with work mates or students simply save them to your public folder and everyone can access them via a URL.
 * 4: Never lose anything - Total Security:** If your laptop gets stolen, have a hard disk failure or have a technical disaster of some sort all of your documents will be sitting up safe and sound in the cloud ready for you to download at your leisure. Photo's are a must. Password Security on all private folders too.
 * 5: Say goodbye to disks and Memory Sticks forever:** Remember when you install Dropbox on a PC or Mac the computer views it as a physical drive like a memory stick. Click and save. Rename Files, whatever, no messy uploading and downloading or multiple files appearing. And best of all you won't need a memory stick or disk anymore. Last week I saved a 700 mb movie on my drop box account in less than 2 minutes. I doubt my memory stick could even match that speed. I bought an 8gb memory stick before christmas and it has about 3 files on it, I used to fill these things ( and lose them) regularly.

Jing for screen capture (download 4 free, runs in background), screentoaster for screen video capture
 * SCREEN CAPTURE**