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Whyville is a virtual world where boys and girls from all over the real world come to chat, play, learn, and have fun together. You design your face, earn clams by playing games, hang out at the beach, and go to town events at the Greek Theater. You can start your own business, buy a car and give your friends a ride, or write for the town newspaper.

BBC trailer - sad that for all of you outside the UK you cant get the full programme. "Are we empowered, connected and enlightened with the world's knowledge at our fingertips? Or distracted and addicted with shorter attention spans? Are our skittering brains bombarded and stupified by the 'yuck and wow' of the web? Is the web really changing us - the way we think, the way we behave, the way relate to each other? And is it for better or for worse?"

An online virtual musical keyboard that can be played with your computer keyboard or a mouse. So you're not going to be able to play much Chopin on this, but it's fun and the keyboard appears large on a whiteboard and is useful for showing some basics. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music,+Sound+&+Podcasts

Open the virtual door to get a teacher tip, resource or idea each day up to Christmas.

Open the virtual door to get a teacher tip, resource or idea each day up to Christmas.

"In a few years from now, students in schools all over the world will receive part of their education in virtual learning environments. Wearing VR-goggles the students will be able to enter 3-dimensional, simulated places and situations that they would normally not have access to because it would be too expensive, too dangerous or physically impossible. Teaching via VR-technology is spreading widely and international studies predict that this will revolutionise the way we learn."

"Google has pioneered virtual reality for the masses and has now developed an app to allow users to capture their own VR photo scenes. Transport your pupils to anywhere!"

"math, math manipulatives, math applets, virtual manipulatives, gizmos"

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY - VR virtual reality glasses work perfectly with most smartphone Android and iOs devices such as iPhone 6 Plus/6/5s/5c/5 Samsung Galaxy S5/S6/S7/Note4/Note5/Edge and other - Huawei, HTC, Sony, Nexus, LG to provide you an enjoyable visual 360-degree panoramic videos and photos, watching 3D IMAX movies in your home, boasting HD optimization, 3D VR gaming support and much more.

This site offers an easy way to create your own virtual flashcard to study anything. You can also use other users' cards or share your own to help students. It supports many non-European typing scripts, like simplified Chinese and Japanese to help learn languages. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

This is an amazing site which allow up to 4 people to collaboarate and play virtual instruments over the web in real time. Play a variety of guitars, drums and drum machines and keyboards. There is no sign up needed and you just invite other 'musicians' by sharing the link and begin jamming. Set to 'pro' mode to play using your computer keyboard. Requires Google Chrome. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

Keep your class motivated with this is behaviour management tool where teachers can award virtual badges for anything. Choose from a large collection of badge designs. The children can see their progress with their own personal login. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Management+%26+Rewards

Learn to play guitar with this beautifully designed site. Work through the lessons using your own guitar along with your computer's microphone so the site can interact with you as you play in real time. The site will even help you tune it. If you haven't got a guitar to hand, you can use the on-screen virtual guitar. The course is designed for beginners, but lessons progress quickly. The site seems to work best on Google Chrome. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

This musical site gives you a virtual synthesiser to create wonderful tunes and sound effects on. It's easy to use and versatile. You can play the middle octave with your computer keyboard or plot the music along a timeline for greater accuracy. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

Start your students on a roll with this fun multiplication game iPad app. Roll the virtual marble to the correct answers to complete the level. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

This is a virtual maths board game where you have to keep track on how much money you have to deposit at the end of the month. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A useful virtual maths geoboard to explore a range of shape and angle work. There is also an iPad version which can be found at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geoboard-by-math-learning/id519896952 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

This is an iPad app and site where you can create video tutorials on a virtual whiteboard on an iPad and share it on the web to view on any device. The site has a extensive bank of shared tutorials from other educators on a range of topics, including maths, science, English, languages and more. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/showme-interactive-whiteboard/id445066279 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

This site offers an interactive way to assess your class by connecting your students to your lessons and response to every question on a range of devices, including mobiles. Make a virtual room and set up assessment quizzes, share links instantly and even get students to draw a response to your questions in real time. The data is collated so you can see where your students need more input. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Planning+%26+Assessment