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21.Jun.10 
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Tagxedo
Tagxedo is much like Wordle, where you create tag clouds with words except Tagxedo can make your word cloud into a shapes
www.tagxedo.com
Tags: Literacy, pictures, Poster, tag cloud, wordle
21.Jun.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)
Primary Connections is an Australian website created to link science with literacy. The site has a number of lesson plans on various subjects..(Change detective, Earthquake explorers, It’s electrifying, Light fantastic,
Marvellous micro-organisms, Material world, On the move, Package it better, Plants in action, Push-pull,
Schoolyard safari, Smooth moves, Sounds sensational, Spinning in space, Spot the difference, Staying alive
Water works, Weather in my world, What’s it made of?), with downloadable resources in PDF, including - unit outcomes, equipment list to assessment resources.
http://www.science.org.au/primaryconnections/curriculum-resources/
Tags: Literacy, Science, teaching resources
14.Jun.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)
Ictopus (ICT online primary user support) is a free web-based support service for primary education. Our key services, accessed from the tabs at the top of this page, are:
Sharing Good Practice (SGP)
– a fortnightly, six-page, printable magazine for teachers about using ICT effectively in primary education.
lessons2go
– lesson plans for the use of ICT across the primary key stages and curriculum – indexed for key stages, subjects or year groups.
newsblog
– a regular bulletin to keep you up-to-date with all developments in the educational use of ICT.
ictopus@home
– a fortnightly, four-page magazine for families offering advice to parents and carers on ways of using ICT effectively to support education.
Other services include:
Pictopus
– a collection of copyright free images for use in your teaching – the slideshow on the right shows a selection from the tools gallery in the artefacts collection
Activities – educational activities for children.
Can You Help? – a help and advice column.
Website of the Week/Top Tips – see this week’s new WOTW.
Big Books – on-screen books, for use in your teaching, in the form of pdf documents which can be run in the browser.
http://www.ictopus.org.uk/
Tags: lesson plans, Literacy, maths
24.Mar.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)
Signed Stories is a provider of free videos featuring children’s stories accompanied by subtitles and sign language. All of the stories feature someone signing the story (in British Sign Language). In addition to sign language many of the stories also offer subtitles.
The videos on Signed Stories are organized into seven themes. With the exception of the Baby and Toddler section the stories are not categorized by age.
http://www.signedstories.com/page/index.cfm
Tags: Digital Storytelling, Literacy, sign language, Stories online, video
24.Mar.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)
This ebook is a collection of projects for teachers written by teachers from all over the world, on how they use web 2.0 tools in their classroom. Covers all curriculum areas and ages.
- 87 projects.
- 10 further resources.
- 52 applications.
- 94 contributors.
- The benefits of using Web 2.0 applications.
- The challenges of using Web 2.0 applications.
- How the folk who ran these projects handled the issues…
- … And what they recommend you do if you run them.
- What were the learning outcomes?
- And did I mention that this is free?!
Tags: ebooks, Literacy, numeracy, teaching resources
18.Mar.10 Important to Note, Sites of Interest, Visits Comments (0)
This article by teacher Megan Palevich, shows how she used web 2.0 tools like facebook and twitter to bring characters from To Kill a Mockingbird to life.
The methods Megan used can be used in other curriculum areas and can be adjusted for year level.
This is an excellent example of integrating web 2 tools in student learning.
Megan’s blog has a link to a PDF with instructions on how she introduced this in her class.
http://middleschool101.edublogs.org/2010/01/19/tkamb21-to-kill-a-mockingbird-meets-the-21st-century/
Tags: History, Literacy, storytelling, Web2
17.Mar.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)
