Teachers, here you will find many of the links we talk about in staff meetings as well as others I find or am given by colleagues. Please let me know if there is anything you think should be included here.

LITERACY:

Wordle - Wordle is an online tool for generating word clouds from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

10 Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom - mostly work with a Literacy focus.

Wordle - 38 really interesting ways to use Wordle in the classroom.

MyRead - supports teachers of underperforming students in the middle years (Years 4-9).

Webspiration - Whether working individually or collaboratively, Webspiration is the new online visual thinking tool. With integrated diagram and outline views you can think visually, structure your work effectively and express your ideas in the ways that communicate best.

ScotchBib - Automatic Harvard Referencing Generator

Teaching Genres - Karalee State School have taken all the work out of a school based genre grid presented here on the Learning Federation site. Excellent across the school genre development guide with helpful classroom links. All the work is done for you.

Storybird - Collaborative storytelling for families and friends. A fabulous resource to help create online stories with students. Free registration.

NUMERACY:

12 Interactive Maths Games

Maths Playground - Maths Playground is an action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your maths skills, play a logic game and have some fun! Why not have your students create their own explanation video for inclusion on the site?

SIMULATION GAMES:

Online Geography Games  Online games and simulations for use in the Geography/SOSE classroom.

Mapping Our World Mapping our World is a whiteboard teaching product for 8 to 14 year olds. It explores the relationship between maps and globes, and how different projections influence our perception of the world. It challenges the idea that there is one 'correct' version of the world map

Adventure Games - Learn4good provides Free Online Adventure Games and hours of fun for Children, Teens & Big Kids. Just click on a category & play loads of free downloadable, online games, educational word games & jigsaw puzzles.

ORGANISATION AND TEACHING

CalendarFly- CalendarFly is the next generation free scheduling solution. CalendarFly is uniquely suited for school systems, sports teams, families, and any other organization because it automatically maintains and updates the schedules of teachers, administrators, coaches, parents, and students--making it easy for all of them to connect in real time and real places.

Project Natal for xBox -  Just imagine walking up to your TV and always having a virtual friend waiting to see and talk to you. You can play video games, communicate easily with friends and family, enjoy your movies and other media all without a remote or a controller. The facial recognition and voice recognition is also amazing. Just walking in front of your TV, your Xbox can log you in, and do the same with anybody else who’s face comes into the room.

Creative Commons Links - Useful items that are copyright free. Links on the right hand side of the main page to copyright free music, sound effects, gifs, clip art, animations and many more.

Nintendo DS - 23 Interesting Ways to Use Nintendo DS in the Classroom

Google Documents - you have to create an account and play with what is available here. Absolutely amazing resource for FREE! Create Word Searches, online documents and presentations. Heaps of ideas for a digital classroom.

Ideas to Inspire - Integrating ICT across the curriculum and across year levels.

Nintendo DS - 23 Interesting Ways to Use Nintendo DS in the Classroom

Online Teaching Videos - Kids learn best by seeing the real world. Here you will find the best selection of free online educational videos and lessons from all over the Internet. Great searchable database covering a multitude of topics.

ictopus - Ictopus (ICT online primary user support) is a free support service for primary education.

All teaching staff can create an account to enable them to use this great resource with students. There is the option of also setting up a pupil login so individual students can access the activities independently. Great stuff from the UK.

VISUAL ART - PHOTOS

Free Fonts - Fontspace is a community of font designers and font addicts. All 10095 free typefaces that you can download have been hand-categorized for insertion into your graphic design, scrapbooking or documents.

Free Clipart - a great free site designed for use in schools.

Photofunia - PhotoFunia is an online photo editing tool that gives you a fun filled experience. You upload any photo and just wait to see the magic. Our proprietary technology automatically identifies the face in the photo and let's you add cool photo effects and create funny face photo montages.

Smilebox - Smilebox is a photo service that lets you quickly turn life’s moments into digital creations you can share with others or save for yourself.

VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM

Kids Videos - links to hundreds of teacher tested and child safe videos.

Inspiring Videos - 66 Inspiring YouTube Videos to use in the classroom.

INQUIRY BASED LEARNING:

Inquiry Based Learning - http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/index.html

Using the Internet to Promote Inquiry Based Learning - http://www.biopoint.com/inquiry/ibr.html

Teaching and Learning Strategies for Inquiry Learning - http://www.ndtwt.org/Blackboard/P2SST2/inqu.htm

How to Develop an Inquiry Based Project - http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/activities/howto.asp

Guided Inquiry Units of Work.

Acknowledgment and thanks is given to the creators and owners of this work.

Santa Sabina College (Christina Higgins) - Earth and its Surroundings-The Solar System

The Ela Murray International School (Marlene Fillipi) - Level 1- Environment     Level 3 - Systems     Level 4 - Environment  

Marryatville High School (David Strempel) - Earth and Space Year 8     Puppet Theatre