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An unmissable site for all things SEN. Find resources, ideas and help to push your students forward. I love the certificate maker. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Special+Educational+Needs

"PhotoDirector 4 provides a friendly interface intended to help make photos look professional, with easy-to-use photo management and sharing options."

Great lesson plans and interactive animations/activities on many different science subjects

An amazing site that lets you create fonts by shading in a grid. Your class will love it. The tool allows you to make any pattern for a key stoke, so you can even create pictures or codes that only they can read. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

This has got to be the funkiest instant poll, quiz, response site around. Create questions, quizzes and polls with optional uploaded images for participants to complete in real time from a computer or mobile device. The users access the quiz by using a pin code. The 'question master' gets the data back instantly and it is stored on the site or can be downloaded. This is superb for checking the knowledge of children in your class or that your audience is still awake. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

A fun online interactive, gamebased way to give quizzes. You can also do discussions and survey. Here is a short youtube video on how to use it, www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfoyDG8HG6A&list=UUaW4ssrzSaQeAZbA3mo73DQ

An easy and fun way to give quizzes. You can also do discussions and surveys. Here is a short youtube video on how to use it, www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfoyDG8HG6A&list=UUaW4ssrzSaQeAZbA3mo73DQ

Convert Online FLV Youtube Videos direct to PC, iPod, PSP, iPhone, mp3, mp4 and Mobile.

Is this legal? I thought most YouTube videos were copyrighted and only offered via streaming?

from Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse

Listen to books.

Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.

An oldie but a goodie. Plenty of graphic organisers here - and modifiable.

Exploratree is a free graphic organizer creation tool. Exloratree users can use pre-made graphic organizer templates which Exploratree refers to as "thinking guides" or create their own templates. The Exploratree thinking guides can be used online or downloaded and printed for offline use.

This is a superb site and download where you can make 3D animated cartoons by selecting your props, characters and locations and then use blocks to programme how things move and interact in a similar way to MIT's Scratch. You can upload your creations to the website to share. There are a set of challenges to try and you can even remix animations designed by other users. Discovered via @mberry http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams

Create short animated films with audio, text, backgrounds and a 3D avatar on an Apple device, then share the video online. Ideal for sharing ideas, tasks or homework. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gami/id572737805?ls=1&mt=8 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams

Great app for instruction and student projects. Here is a short tutorial on how easy it is to use, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgpLpOy5V9A

Create an ebook from a group of webpages. Send to Kindle, iPad/iPod, or download as an epub (for Nooks and other readers).

This site lets you bundle web pages for mobile devices

Take any bunch of web pages and turn them into an e-book. gone are the days when you photocopy readers. Now, e-publish! Weightless, instant, and free!

Claims for this font are unsubstantiated, but it would make sense that some fonts are easier to read than others. I taught for several years before learning the trick that if you added a space between every four lines in a list children could get through the list much more quickly.

modifiers to refine Google searches