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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.

RayRay is a fantastic little problem solving games that gets students communicating and collaboration to develop strategies to solve problems. Belly buttons! (To see what I mean give the game a go!)

Our story last week about the connection between ADHD, movement and thinking struck a nerve with readers. We reported on a small study in which students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder performed better on memory tasks when they were allowed to spin and move around in a swiveling chair.

I have seen a few of these ideas work with preschoolers. Love the swivel chair idea. Great was to allow movement while attention to table work is needed.

30 million children out of school in Sub-Saharan Africa! "How can ICT help to address the problem?" is a very relevant question ...

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.

This tool is amazing if you use google drive to send and receive files from your students Doctopus gives teachers the ability to mass-copy (from a starter template), share, and manage grading and feedback for student projects in Google Drive. Its tentacles copy and "hand out" Drive files to a roster of students, giving teachers full control over starter template, sharing configuration, folder organization and file naming, as well as visibility over all work in progress -- including the ability to bulk revoke and revert student editing rights around submission deadlines.

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.

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.

Tablets are Good, Content is Better, and Teachers are the Best Educational ICT Investment " Educational Technology Debate

You'll probably love it :) Join the worldwide community of educators who are passionate about ensuring learners are prepared to thrive in the global economy.

Yeah indeed it is among the great resources an educator can find.

Graphite is a free service from Common Sense Media that makes it easy to discover the best apps, games, and websites for classroom use. Tools like Edmodo, Educreations, ClassDojo, and Socrative have been thoroughly reviewed by our expert educators and received numerous teacher reviews we call Field Notes.

Helps mirror your device on a big screen without wires or complicated setups!

Great tool...that allows wireless streaming of your screen to a computer. Everything you do on your iPad, iPod or iPhone is shown on the screen.

Climate Kids is produced by the Earth Science Communications Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology

This is a great site to get pre-school and first graders to enjoy a host of activities that can be integrated into the concept being taught in class. For instance, mini beasts to insect activities, numbers to join the dots etc

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.

2simple is a winner of the best leadership and management solutions. full of applications that meet the needs of the pupils of this generation.