Bell Primary School

In honor of World Autism Awareness Day, some app developers are offering special discounts and in some cases even their apps for free, and iAutism compiled a list of all these apps (about 200!).

Great slideshow demonstrating how Google apps can be used to support teaching and learning with project based learning. 

An explanation of what Diigo is and does. 

Scootle has some great things on Indigenous studies if you are interested.

Great info graphic highlighting some of the amazing goings on with the Internet. Imagine what will happen when the NBN gets going and wearable technology becomes common place.

Can a decent education turn young criminals around? Tony Wilson goes inside Victoria's toughest youth prison to see a remarkable new school in action. The first minute of the first day at Parkville College began with a teacher, Jess Appeldorff, shaking the hands of eight teenage boys and thanking them for coming to class. The school's other four teachers were there, as was their principal, 40-year-old Brendan Murray. The school was Murray's brainchild and it was an auspicious moment: Victoria's highest security youth justice centre - comprising a cluster of buildings collectively known as The Precinct - was about to undertake a bold educational experiment, and these boys from the college's North Remand had just received what Murray called "the three-quarter-time speech of my life".

Kids don't hate math. Not even fractions. Ask them to divide a bag of candy among themselves and watch them tackle the problem. What they hate is repeat computation, void of context. Add a timer and they really hate it.

A great interactive challenge for grade 5/6 middle group students for exploring some order of operations equations. Headphones and computer required. 

This could be a good whole class launch or independent launch activity for BODMAS/ order of operations

Low to middle independent explore activity

Breaking down BODMAS this could be a good launch whole class share discussion.

An online pinboard with some great craft and early years activities. Some good holiday crafts particularly for Easter and Christmas.

Another good video/animation to use at the start of a writing session - this time looking at the use of dialogue! 

Cool video/animation to help students create tension and drama in their writing! 

Suggested by Angela. A great resource with units and all sorts of fantastic stuff linking science with literacy

A GREAT resource suggested by Lauren. Her synopsis: "Little, quick science experiments (eg. baking soda and vinegar) make awesome writing prompts. Science poetry, a totally unappreciated genre!"

Kalinda Primary School 1:1 ipad agreement form

Online animation tool could come in handy for the creative literacy lesson. 

Some great ideas here for getting students to estimate. This person does it daily. These could come in handy for the 5 min warm up.