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A vast collection of maths videos aimed at students from 6 years old all the way up. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

An easy to use site aimed at young children and shows information and images of 15 different animals. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

Meet the extraordinary environmentalist and architect who is most famous for the "Earthship Biotecture", an architectural building design that aims to create sustainable and eco-friendly homes to reduce stress and make living more comfortable and at the same time benefiting the environment, Michael "Mike" Reynolds. "If you walk the talk, you don't have to talk that much." To read more about Mike Reynolds visit www.thextraordinary.org

A beautifully designed set of 20+ maths whiteboard resources aimed at primary aged students. There are resources about addition, multiplying fractions, number lines and more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

Meet the extraordinary philanthropist and animal activist who is most famous for being the founder of Orangutan Outreach, one of the largest animal conservation organizations in the world today,Richard Zimmerman. Aiming to not just protect and save the orangutans from extinction but also to get more people involved through the internet and other forms of media. "People have a strong voice via social media". To read more about Richard Zimmerman visit www.thextraordinary.org

Symphony of Science is an online video series created by John D. Boswell, aka melodysheep, which aims to bring scientific knowledge and philosophy to the public, in a novel way, through the medium of music.

The philosophy of Child Care is to provide easy learning for kids, developed self confidence, independence and help the child to adjust in a proper school without any difficulty.

The philosophy of Child Care is to provide easy learning for kids, developed self confidence, independence and help the child to adjust in a proper school without any difficulty.

"The JISC TechDis Service aims to be the leading educational advisory service, working across the UK, in the fields of accessibility and inclusion."

TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in private beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.

The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice. More information on many of our other activities can be found here.

Nrich is a vast maths site with great interactive games and resources for young children right up to college mathematicians. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

When reading your RSS feeds, do you prefer a local application versus one that is online-only? If so, look no further than ShareFire. Besides being platform-independent (courtesy of Adobe Air), it is also completely free and open-source. It was created with article sharing in mind, as its name implies. According to its creators, Christian Cantrell and Dan Koestler, this was a priority. ShareFire supports sharing stories to AIM, Twitter and email, and posting articles to many services including Delicious, Digg, MySpace and Windows Live Bookmarks (now called favorites).

Over the past 12 months Cisco ,Intel and Microsoft have worked together to develop a plan with the aim of creating new modes of assessment suitable for 21st century skills and are now hoping to enlist the support of political, education and business leaders.

New Smithsonian chief eyes ed tech Former Georgia Tech president aims to lead the museum complex into 'a new era' of outreach and education

This guide from the Australian Human Rights Commission aims to help young people participate in the Australian Government's national human rights consultation. The guide explains what the consultation is all about, and how children and young people can make a submission about the human rights issues they feel most strongly about.

The information provides opportunities not only for legitimate business purposes, but also for the nefarious aims of identity thieves and other predators, according to faculty at Wharton and elsewhere.

Personalisation in education has been discussed in research and policy papers for approximately ten years. Personalised learning, as a concept, first appeared in the United States and was subsequently expanded and deepened through work in the United Kingdom as it became embedded in a wider argument for the reform of all public services. This reform aimed to create services that responded more directly to the diverse needs of individuals rather than imposing uniform solutions on all people.

This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4010 journals in the directory. Currently 1437 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 268547 articles are included in the DOAJ service.