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THis is really interesting. Children will learn about Supreme Court through this website. 

More for actual teachers as need to sign up, but you can have a free trial. Teachers at my work use this a lot for letter recognition and literacy practice. Something to keep for future - great for early childhood and special ed.

readingeggs is great Michelle!! I use it with the children I work with, and is especially beneficial for learning difficulties.

This site has great interactive and print resources for learning all sorts of things. I used some of these this term for lessons on seasons in a special ed setting and the students were very engaged and learnt well.

I like that this site goes from kindy to adults with math mah-jong and solitaire. A very busy site when you first open it but once you read a bot it is clear to navigate around.

This Pinterest page was contributed by a fellow tweeter, Matt, and has his pinboard of resources for students with special needs. It's UK based, but has some info re how to make literacy accessible to students with dyslexia/reading difficulties. You will need to sign up for TES Connect but it's free.

Here is a great online resource where you can buy printable online resources, that will be sent to you via email that you can then print and utilise within the classroom. There are valuable resources, covering all KLA's.

Pity they aren't free.

Tell a story. Share your photos. Narrate in your own voice. Students would love this. Looks fun and is free.

Amazing! During a year 1 class today, I was amazed to see that the children had time for 'free choice learning'. After a spellling activity, the children used their words to continue practiceing by choosing activitiy of their choice.

Cathy Davidson's blog about a Coursera Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) which is starting soon for 6 weeks, and what she hopes to teach in her higher education course. This was posted on the ETMOOC diigo site.

Hi Everyone, I have attached a link to my blog where I write about a great resource to use to integrate ICT in HPE. Feel free to check it out

Hi Everyone. I have blogged about a resource to incorporate ICTs in Assessment. Feel free to check it out at the link above.

Post that includes a video showing how to add voice comments to a Google doc - e.g. feedback on a student assignment.

The Internet archive is attempting to provide "universal access to all knowledge". i.e it is storing as much information as it possibly can. You can find movies, audio, books, even websites via the Internet archive.

An online site where teachers share a range of different resources including multimedia resources, lesson plans and up to entire courses. These are increasingly called Open Education Resources (OERs).

A short description of a script that helps you manage multiple folders on Google drive. Google drive is one of many cloud/Internet-based shared drive features. It's a great way to share files with groups of people (e.g. the students in your class, parents, fellow teachers etc.)   It can also be useful for simply storing work for yourself independently of a particular computer.  DropBox is the name of a similar service. There are quite a few.

An online "calculator" that will tell you how many pages a given number of words will take up. You can select the font style, size and spacing.