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September: IS 339 integrates Gmail and Google Apps into standard practice. Every staff member starts the new school year with their own Gmail account, and many begin using Google Docs and spreadsheets in their lessons.

Create your own superhero with Marvel's Superhero Avatar Creator! Name your superhero, mix and match costumes of all your favorite Marvel characters, including Spider-Man, Iron Man and Wolverine, customize face, hair, and other features, and then post ...

Superheroes were the topic earlier in the year, for a number of schools we support. This would have been a great site for children to create their own superheroes. I'll bookmark for next time :)

I agree this is a great tool for the beginner. I am using it for the MOOC being run by the Smithsonian about Superheroes and Comics. really great

A simple online tool for creating book covers. My grade Prep and 1 (Australia) students use this with few difficulties. The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.

Case study on the use of the game Lure of the Labyrinth with students in primary school. Provides assessment data and discusses the challenges and successes of this Department of Education Trial.

Plickers is an app whereby just the teacher needs an iPad. It is great tool for teachers who are not so confident using ICT devices to become familiar and confident to use them with the children in their class. It is also a great tool for pre/post assessment.

A game-based classroom response system. You can create and play quizzes, discussions or even surveys (which we call Kahoots) using any device with a web browser… including a laptop, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android, Chromebook, Windows Phone or PC and more.

I find this pdf extremely useful, especially to those of you who, like me, would like to share available resources with your school staff.

I really like some of the pages that you share in that website, thank you so much. I'm Johana from Ecuador

This seems to be a very useful list of resources.....thanks for sharing.

Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.

Evernote is mainly a note-taking app. It is an amazing tool to write down your thoughts and ideas, organize them by using tags and sync them across various mobile devices. But thanks to a very friendly API, Evernote can do more. If you don't wanna mess with Tumblr, Blogger or WordPress, but you are a major Evernote fan,...

We cannot take for granted that teachers are confident with technology. This reality is present in Maltese schools. Teachers need help and support and they prefer to ask their peers for help instead of the authorities.

Repositorio Educativo de la Comunidad Educativa Española Agrega 2 is an initiative developed by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Red.es and Spain's regional governments. The federation of educational digital object repositories Agrega is a platform with nodes in all regional government education departments. The educational content which can be found therein is organised around the curriculum covering pre-university education and is prepared for downloading and direct use by the teaching staff and the students.

Webs: Create a free website with professionally designed website templates, free web hosting, and easy to use free website builder. No coding skills needed! This is a great user friendly way for our students to create websites to achieve the content learning goal without spending time having to learn webs.com. Better than WIX for students using this type of technology for the 1st time.

This link sends you directly to an easy and friendly software to develop visual novels (what we would call virtual novel game where you make decisions and by this changing the story). You can create tons of novels with this freeware and use it in classroom for any topic you introduce in the game.

Exploration of Planets, Solar System and Stars with online 3D Simulator

Thank you - this is a very useful resource. I have often found it difficult to find a similar resource which shows the planets, orbit etc. I will definitely use this in the future.

An exuberant crowd of ed tech investors, entrepreneurs and their publicity staffs are converging at the ASU/GSV summit in Arizona this week, with claims that tech tools can transform education and solve the achievement gap. Venture capitalists will be out in force at the innovation summit also known as "Davos in the Desert," and they'll ...

A interesting site with fichas de trabajo (work sheets) about topics in the mexican curriculum for primary.

Explore the fun side of math with thinking games, number puzzles, and more.

Eyes on the Solar System is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA's Voyager spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It's up to you. You control space and time.