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A good maths whiteboard flash resource for learning rotational symetry. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

Content curation is a great way to find, organize and share useful knowledge efficiently. There are many free digital tools available to help manage web content in flexible ways allowing us to quickly share resources that are accessible online. Use of curation tools is social and will connect us to the ideas of others and help build our professional learning networks.

As most of you are undoubtedly aware, next week, 5-10 March, is the First Annual Open Education Week - a time set aside each year to celebrate and raise awareness about open education and open educational resources (OER).

Ive joined Steve Hardegon's new venture after listening to the intro,I love the idea of focussing my networking (with other educators) and co creating resources. It's a mix of the best of Facebook,Myspace,Ning,Conferencing,own webinars,leveraging all the best platforms to network and it's free. Yes its Elluminate-its beta so evolutionary at this moment. Steve will train you to host your own webinars in this early bird time. Plus I can easily locate the people who share similar resource/interests to myself.

The top five search tools for finding Flickr images are designed to help teachers and students locate just the right image for use in any subject area and project. Without these tools finding the right image on this image hosting site is often an impossible, or at least a tedious, task. The value of this site is its ability to provide digital pictures which are often impossible for a teacher to obtain any other way. Like everything else on the internet, trying to find something is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. This where the top five search tools become valuable resources for teachers and students trying to find images comes into play. These search engines are specifically designed to search the more than three billion pictures on the Flickr hosting site.

Thousands of articles, videos, slide shows, expert interviews, blog entries, and other resources highlight success stories in K-12 education. Core concepts include integrated studies, project learning,technology integration, teacher development, social and emotional learning, and assessment." /> text/html; charset=utf-8

Seemile.com seems to have just begun, but it could become an interesting resource. Seems to be mostly Korean at the moment.

Free online guide maps digital-age skills to social studies projects and tasks

Free k-12 Curriculum featuring Information Fluency/literacy issues. Professinally prepared, available by grade level in pdf format.

The Purdue Online Writing Lab has MLA & APA formatting & style guides, writing and teaching writing, research, grammar & mechanics, ESL and more resources. There are speciific resources for grades 7 - 12 teachers and students.