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An interest English resource where users can mix up fairytale stories and add their own text. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

We teachers like to shake things up a bit and how better to begin than by adding a little randomness into your lessons. This is a great site that creates custom cubes which you can use as dice in class. They are easy to create and great for children make for a range of subjects and activities. Give it a roll. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

A great science resource showing and explaining how weathering can change the landscape. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

Santa has eaten a few mince pies too many and needs to lose some weight to fit down the chimneys of the world. Take Santa for a run to save Christmas, avoiding the food by jumping, rolling and diving out of the way. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Winter+%26+Christmas

A good e-book search engine. Search for lots of formats including PDFs and Doc files. Preview books and embed some into your website. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

Food for future thought

Free ebook search engine.

Move over Khan Academy. Educreations is here with a super simple web or iPad app that lets you record lessons to share with your students, wherever they are. If they enable one thing like common core tagging (tag it with the standard) and enough contribute we will have an incredibly powerful tool.

The strength of Khan Academy's tutorials is content and clear presentation of this content. I didn't find either in Educreations' showcased examples: most could just be presented as a good old slideshow. Granted, a few do have an audio comment. But you can do that with slidecasts too (e.g. you can synch an audio file with your slides on Screencast.net or on MyPlick.com) Moreover, there is no way to caption such Educreations presentations including audio for the deaf, which means they can't be used in schools in US, Italy and other countries that have laws imposing accessibility for all for educational materials. And you can't subtitle them for people who don't know the original language, which severely curtails the potential use. Khan Academy, on the other hand has an international captioning/subtitling team - see http://gigaom.com/video/khan-academy-universal-subtitles/ . So OK, Educreations have an iPad app - the point is that Khan Academy's tutorials don't need one. The real difference is that Educreations' content is crowdsourced and the content of Khan Academy's tutorials isn't: not enough to outweigh the accessibility and internationalization issues above. Teachers can already produce their own online tutorials as slideshows, slidecasts or videos that can be captioned/subtitled in other languages with other platforms.

Make a customise sci-fi story with this great English resource. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A great interactive presentation and activity about flooding and what can cause it. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental

A good interactive presentation and set of activities for learning about minerals. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

A great interactive geography flash presentation explaining the terms and vocabulary of the water table. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental

Five minute science content videos

This app creates a form where the data goes to your dropbox. I know that there are a lot of form makers out there, but this one is a great one if Dropbox is your go to app or if you use it to assess.

Blog post about how more educators can share ideas and resources online and the tools with which to do it.

A nice graphic PDF with links for teachers who have just gotten ipads. From iCloud to the SAMR model of using ipads, this graphic is concise and helpful.

Dropbox - for sharing documents online

Video by Howard Rheingold on critical thinking and determining the validity of information on the Internet.

great service to convert web pages in pdf files before printing.

Website that creates printer-friendly copies of articles. (Hat tip Free Tech for Teachers)

Research on the impact of blogging.