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This is great. A huge #stopmotionanimation made using a 8Mp smartphone camera mounted on a cherry picker and a bank of Apple Macs. The making http://vimeo.com/27019750 and the finished product http://vimeo.com/26877221

Google Docs is such an incredible tool for college students, offering collaboration, portability, ease of use, and widespread acceptance. But there are so many options, both hidden and obvious, that there's a good chance you're not using Google Docs to its fullest capability. We've discovered 52 great tips for getting the most out of Google Docs as a student, with awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive.

A great list of less known tips re GarageBand for the iPad

Great interactive website for kids to learn about history

Worth having a look if anything to inform students that they exist. They may want to use them perhaps for a literacy lesson.

Nettlesworth Primary School, Front Street, Nettlesworth, Co. Durham , DH2 3PF . E-mail our head teacher, Mrs. Lee Roberts on: l.roberts100@durhamlearning.net If you are looking for our previous site click here to access it.

This looks great and it's free. Could be useful for students and or teachers who are curious about design

Teaching time and want some time fillers ;-) Its all here

Every Australian student will study the arts from their first year of school under the new national arts curriculum, which was released today for public consultation.

Great article that critiques the Khan Academy and flipped classroom worth a read.

This could be fun for the more advanced maths students looking to play with a bit of Algebra. 

On June 21 2012, the Government released a discussion paper which states its vision for the improvement of the teaching profession. The 'New Directions for School Leadership and the Teaching Profession,' aims to stimulate and inform discussion on the future of the teaching profession and school leadership.  As a collective of grass roots teachers, who are not currently being asked to participate in educational debates and discussion, we see this as an opportunity to enable teachers' voice.   Teachers: A great, yet untapped, source for policy makers.

Pisa Sample Questions for those interested in some of the finer details of what makes up a PISA test. 

It disturbs me to read this and how familiar it is to what the LNP have been spruiking. Is this the future of Australian Ed?

Now, American copyright and patent laws run counter to this notion that we build on the work of others. Instead, these laws and laws around the world use the rather awkward analogy of property. Now, creative works may indeed be kind of like property, but it's property that we're all building on, and creations can only take root and grow once that ground has been prepared.

Everyone loves paper planes. These are ace! Says my 3 year old. It was a great morning of paper plane making and testing. 

A+ Click is a free site full of online mathematics games for students at all grade levels. You can find games on A+ Click by selecting a grade level then selecting a topic. Alternatively, you select just a topic or just a grade level and browse through all of the games. Students do not need to register in order to play the games.

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

I was even more intrigued when he made reference to the work of Bernard Suits that claims there are three constituent parts that make up games: To play a game is to attempt to achieve a specific state of affairs [prelusory goal], using only means permitted by rules [lusory means], where the rules prohibit use of more efficient in favour of less efficient means [constitutive rules], and where the rules are accepted just because they make possible such activity [lusory attitude].

Another amazing Google Project. From the archaeological areas of Pompeii to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Google's World Wonders Project aims to bring to life the wonders of the modern and ancient world. By using our Street View technology, Google has a unique opportunity to make world heritage sites available to users across the globe. Street View is a hugely popular feature of Google Maps which is already available in dozens of countries. It allows users to virtually explore and navigate a neighborhood through panoramic street-level images. With advancements in our camera technologies we can now go off the beaten track to photograph some of the most significant places in the world so that anyone, anywhere can explore them.