Ed Tech Crew

"DownThemAll (or just dTa) is a powerful yet easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension that adds new advanced download capabilities to your browser. DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want."

"Technology, as an instructional tool, can be especially powerful when used to conduct formative assessments because technology has the ability to provide feedback in a very timely manner"

The perils of the status update?

"Sit back and take a ride from the Sun to Jupiter, at the speed of light. Animator Alphonse Swinehart made this video to illustrate the sheer mind-boggling scale of the solar system."

Many ways teachers could use mMinecraft in learning/teaching situations

"Here is a virtual way for New Zealand educators to reflect on, record and share their own learning." Repository for Hangouts, presentations and links from the online Teachmeets in New Zealand.

"Connect the apps you use, automate tasks, get more out of your data." Make triggers that perform actions for you. (Looking for yahoo pipes replacement?)

Free on-line verb conjugator. "This site contains verb conjugations for hundred languages, ranging from national and international languages to regional and even extinct languages."

"Web Data Platform & Free Web Scraping Tool Instantly Turn Web Pages into Data"

An article about coding in the Australian curriculum. Bec Spink lists here yhe content descriptions taken directly from the Australian 'Digital Technologies' curriculum that demonstrate the progression of SOME of the process and production skills students are expected to learn from their first year of school until Year 10.

"Game-based learning is more than just picking the right game for your classroom. It's about designing a meaningful learning experience for your students. "

Interactive magazine for The Venus Project. (Useful to promote discussions on politics, science, sustainability, poverty etc?)

"Published on YouTube on 17 Feb 2015. 'Crafting the Past' is a Minecraft education project bringing archaeology to life through digital digs. In this opening episode to the series we see the time-lapse of an archaeological dig in the UK, uncovering an ancient Roman amphitheatre."

DIY is a safe place for kids to learn new skills online and share what they make and do with other creative kids.

"One middle-school teacher describes how he has mined the blockbuster game for equally popular classroom lessons."

You can use this to create some unique shows with animation and audio in real time. Iti s easy to pick out actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Movements and audio are recorded in real time for later playback. The free version is limited but the add-ons aren't too expensive if you are careful about your choices. I like the idea of being able to use people and things from my own photos.

"An all-in-one tool to manage registrations to a lot of events. Especially useful if you are organising trainings and want to let people register to the session they want."