ARKive has thousands of wildlife videos, images and fact files can be used in a wide range of science, ICT and literacy projects. Use the ARKive multimedia materials to engage your class in key biology topics, such as variation and adaptation, habitats or life cycles, or use them as creative inspiration for art & design projects. All photos, video clips and authenticated fact files are free and easy to use in your classroom activities and presentations.
Each topic has it’s own classroom resources and handouts all available for free download.
Tags: animals, biodiversity, biology, earth, geography, Google earth, Images, Science, video, wildlife
23.Aug.10 
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Print What You Like, is an online tool that allows you to remove ads or other clutter from a webpage before printing. Simply enter the webpage you’re wanting to print in “Print What You Like”, and you’re presented with a set of tools that allows you to remove ads, or islolate parts of a webpage that you want to print. The press the print button and choose your printer and whether to print to paper or in PDF etc.
http://www.printwhatyoulike.com
Tags: online tools, print, webpage, website
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Microsoft have released a series of teacher guides covering a range of web 2.0 topics
Watch videos, and download guides and e-books to inspire your class and to help you make the best use of tools and technology in your lessons. Topics include…
Bing
Learn how you can use the decision engine to find what you need-fast-in a visually dynamic and organized way.
Critical thinking
Applying critical thinking skills through web research will help students improve search skills and evaluate what they find.
Digital storytelling
Creating digital stories ignites a love of learning and is a powerful student-centered learning activity.
Free tools
Engage your students, energize a lesson plan, and save time using free tools you can download today.
Office
Improve collaboration and increase productivity with Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Office Word, and Office OneNote.
Office Web Apps
View, edit, and share Microsoft Office documents from virtually anywhere with an Internet connection.
Windows 7
Make everyday tasks easier, and take less time to complete them. You’ll quickly discover shortcuts to the things you use the most.
Windows Live Movie Maker
Enhance your lessons with movies you make in Windows Live Movie Maker. It’s fun and easy.
Tags: Digital Storytelling, Free, guides, teaching resources, Tools, Web Searching, Web2
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This is a useful tool if you want to keep a copy of a webpage as a simople document. Simply enter the URL of the webpage and it will convert this to a PDF document. Much cleaner than using the print page option.
Tags: pdf, Tools
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Learn it in 5 is a collection of how-to instructional video’s for teachers using technology in the classroom, covering most Web 2.0 applications used in the classroom. New videos are uploaded monthly.
http://www.learnitin5.com/
Tags: classroom, How-to, teaching resources, video, Web2
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ViewPure
ViewPure a great tool for the classroom. It’s a website that eliminates everything else you see on a youtube video page.. from ads, comments to thumbnails of other videos.
You can enter the youtube URL from the ViewPure webpage or add the “Purify” button to your web browser toolbar.
Normal Youtube Webpage
Same Webpage viewed from ViewPure
http://viewpure.com/
Tags: purify, video, Youtube
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Digizen.org has a great section regarding Cyberbullying. The video section has some great videos that can be used in class to generate dicsussion about cyberbullying and how students should deal with it, either as a victim or if they know of friends who are bullied, as well as lessons plans and teacher guides.
http://www.digizen.org/cyberbullying/
NZ’s Netsafe- Cyberbullying website has information and advice for youth, parents and teachers on how to deal with cyberbulling including information on how to report cyberbullying via mobile phones to phone providers.
http://www.cyberbullying.org.nz/
Tags: cyberbullying, cybersafety
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