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Great getting started and how to for edmodo: Edmodo is a 'walled garden' social networking tool designed by teachers for teachers and students. 

Educating for thinking is essential for fostering creative thoughts imagination is part of that. Metacognition is part of the minds eye

A great website for composing music. Good for maths too as you have to focus on using thirds, quarters, etc. 

Creativity is the act of thinking. Whether you are deliberately engaged in thought for the purpose of making novel connections or in a state of incubation where the creative process is happening somewhere in the deep unconscious it is thinking that you are doing. Making thinking visible is a must read and have for all schools who are wanting to promote thinking. The thinking  routines outlined in this book are easily implemented and have robust research from Harvard Graduate School Of Education that demonstrate their effectiveness.  

Food for thought esp . for those working in this area in Extend Your Talents

Has helpful lesson ideas and resources for reading, writing and thinking and great for persuasive writing

Some great ideas here for connecting Math to real world occurrences. It is heavily American but this site could be a source of great ideas for the student that needs extending

Wow some amazing resources here for English. This worth a look when planning for the week or term ahead

Great post for the new doc's user and some useful tips and tools for the experienced user. Bookmark on your tool bar if you are a regular google docs user. 

A great extension for Google Chrome. That allows you to take screen shots and then annotate them. This would be very useful for teachers and or students who create 'how to' instructional 

This looks like an interesting tool for some fun art activities. Might see if we can get this one put on the server for all to use. 

Great IWB site for math and other stuff. Simply drag the numbers and drop them on the example. Great for students to do on computers and teachers to model on IWB

You will probably need virtual box or parrallels installed for this one to be effective on a Mac. If you have a PC then you will need Word 07 to take advantage of all the features. Not a big fan of maths worksheets but a generator can be handy for that spontaneous diagnostic test.

Some cool useful widgets that might be useful for blogs. I know that Peter O has used poll daddy on his class blog

FANTASTIC interactive site with loads of free stuff in ALL curriculum areas. A must-use for all teachers

Interactive games for p-2

Great rubric for blogging. Could be useful for upper levels or at least generate a discussion with students as to what is a good blog post. 

Yeah Yeah Yeah! Another very valuable blog post from Tom Barret on Google forms for the classroom. What one would give to have a 1to1 laptop program when these tools are around. Great assessment tool. 

I am going to use this for maths games day! This is a wonderful repository of interactive maths related websites. For all grades 

Great site full of resources. Check out the creative commons page for images for blogs this could be very useful

For those that are thinking of jumping on the band wagon