Susan Mutt from Digital Divide and Conquer has created a great rubric to assist students in understanding and analyzing the apps they find. The Student App Review Rubric has five criteria that students can use when assessing an app. Each of the criteria can be given a numerical number from 0 to 4 with 4 as the top grade. The 5 criteria are: 1. Looks and sound,
2. Engagement and motivation. 3. User friendly directions and instructions. 4. Performance and ease of use. 5. Differentiation in learning.
From the Department Of Education in Victoria. There is a lot of information that you can use in your classroom - ie the suggested apps, the case studies and the 21 Steps To iPad Success which has everything you need to know if you are going to use these devices.
A post highlighting sources of (and linking to) free stock images. You mshould read the rules and regulations for the stock at hand, being they are free. You may have to dig through some of the sites to find the free stock photos.
A post tjhat offers information for you to check out different types of class blogs to get ideas for your own class blog. You could also use this list to make connections with classes in other countries.
A good site about Plagiarism. It offers facts about plagiarism as well as some definitions and tools for detecting it, with examples and finally tips for discouraging it
The interface is very simple to use and it offers several alternatives for saving and exporting your captions. Captions can be done in owned or third party videos, and if you are not the owner it offers alternatives for publishing your captions in someone else's creation.
dotSub is another site beyond YouTube that makes available a wealth of video resources. This one is unusual in that it offers the facility for those who upload their videos to create subtitles in any language.
is a beautiful browser based flash puzzle game. The animation, illustration. sound and character development is amazing. A stand out in the genre of online games and puzzles. The basic level is also FREE, loads fast and invites exploration! It is so visually rich that it can easily be used to create a digital story or narrative well outside the computer screen. The art is engaging and contemporary in young children's animation right now
This is a stunning example of what 'good design' can bring to the understanding of statistical information. Good use of colour, layout and typographic information helps create a more engaging (and potentially more easily understood) reality. There are numerous uses for this; not least in playful and enjpyable learning.
"A visual real-time simulation that displays the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, birth rates, and death rates of every country in the world."
An informative site about the solar system. It is a starting point for students and is supported by NASA . A multimedia, non-linear reading site, it has a reading feature on the level 1; and interactive games to quiz your knowledge about the solar system