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The movement for more hands-on, student-driven learning is going mainstream, migrating from museums and garages into the highly regulated world of K-12 education.

Making, Maker Centred Learning and STEAM fit neatly alongside Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) for many schools. Commonly this approach includes a constructivist view of knowledge and teachers seek to establish conditions which allow students to explore questions and ideas with greater independence than may occur in the traditional classroom.  Learning becomes a collaborative partnership between teachers and students with a clear focus on a learner centric approach.

Great new thinking routines tied to Maker skills

An interesting music maker. Adjust the strings and change the notes and choose between three instrument sounds. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

An amazing collaborative music maker. Choose your instrument and change the pitch by moving your line up and down. Must be viewed on Google Chrome. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

animated GIF maker

The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited page.

edWeb.net is a highly-acclaimed professional social and learning network that has become a vibrant online community for exceptional educators, decision-makers, and influencers who are on the leading edge of innovation in education. edWeb won the 2012 Edublog Award for Best Free and Open Professional Development for Educators and was ranked the #1 professional social network specifically for educators by the SIMBA PreK-12 Professional Development Market Forecast 2012-2013, CoSN's K-12 IT Leadership Survey 2013, and the 2012 Survey of K-12 Educators on Social Networking, Online Communities, and Web 2.0 Tools.

edWeb.net is a highly-acclaimed professional social and learning network that has become a vibrant online community for exceptional educators, decision-makers, and influencers who are on the leading edge of innovation in education. edWeb won the 2012 Edublog Award for Best Free and Open Professional Development for Educators and was ranked the #1 professional social network specifically for educators by the SIMBA PreK-12 Professional Development Market Forecast 2012-2013, CoSN's K-12 IT Leadership Survey 2013, and the 2012 Survey of K-12 Educators on Social Networking, Online Communities, and Web 2.0 Tools.

Go to: http://home.edweb.net/ Excellent resource for online learning, many communities

Team Maker by Chirag Mehta and Tamara Swedberg - create random teams and groups easily

transformation of a school library to a learning commons with maker space, coding, inventing, green screen video creation, creativity spaces

transformation of a school library to a learning commons with maker space, coding, inventing, green screen video creation, creativity spaces

Maker Ed - Genius Hour - Thinkering Studio Scaffolding for: - 3D Printing - Animation & Stop Motion - Digital Photography - Digital Video - Electronics - Game Making - Guitar - Podcasting - Programming - and more

Zunal WebQuest Maker is a web-based software for creating WebQuests in a short time without writing any HTML codes.

A beautifully made site for making photo collages online. Really easy and no sign in is required. Select a template, upload your photos and drag them to the place you want. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+&+Images

A great (and free with no download) website to create photo collages.

Photovisi is a free and easy to use online photo collage maker. Select one of the many designs, add your photos and then customize by dragging items around. After the collage is finished, it's available for download and print! 

An easy to use icon maker. Choose from six different shapes and design them with graduated colours and text. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

Acrostic poetry writing activity

A great interactive acrostic poem maker. It explains what acrostic poems are when gives helpful hints as children write their own. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A beautifully made comic strip maker which is designed for younger children. Easy to use and a good collection of clip art images. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

Nice little quiz maker