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.

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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.

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.

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.

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/

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/

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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/

Fantastic Contraption

The JASON Project includes teacher and student resources and videos on 3 main subjects, Weather, Ecology and Energy from  cutting-edge research from NASA, NOAA, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Geographic Society and other leading organizations.

Other subjects included on the site are: Earth & Mars, and Disappearing Wetlands.

The site requires registration to access the site, although it is free to register.

http://www.jason.org

http://www.qlock.com/

http://www.24timezones.com/