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Found this and thought it was an amazing list. Has helped a lot with prac. What are the best apps for teachers? We asked TED-Ed Innovative Educators and the TED-Ed community. Below, 25 awesome apps recommended for teachers, by teachers. TED-Ed More than 250,000 teachers use TED education tools to spark student curiosity and explore presentation literacy skills. "TED-Ed is an outstanding resource in my classroom," says TED-Ed Innovative Educator Jennifer Hesseltine.

This is aimed at kids with dyslexia but I don't think it would matter either way. There are some creative and fun ways to learn sight words.

This is an awesome and fun way for children to learn sight words. It's always great when we can make school fun!

Brilliant! I was just doing an observation in prep yesterday, will be sure to pass this on!

Video of young learners giving instructions to a bee-bot to play snakes and ladders while practicing their numeracy skills.

Hi David, This looks like something new and fun but is it? Is this technology replacing, enhancing or transforming learning? Also there are only 8 children in the video in a real prep class there would be 20 plus and they would not be as calm and well mannered when taking turns. Seems like fun for a small group all the same.

The three sets of activity types (conceptual knowledge building, procedural knowledge building, and knowledge expression) are presented in the tables that follow, including compatible technologies that may be used to support each type of learning activity. The technologies listed in the tables are meant to be illustrative. The taxonomy authors do not necessarily endorse the specific software titles and/or Web sites listed

I think this resource would be valuable for any grade between 1-4, learning place values. I like that it isn't overly complicated, and it is simplified enough for students to be able to work it themselves. There may be some issues with some of the students remembering the place values when the different columns are not marked properly.

This is a great website to use with students who struggle to read long passages of text.

this is a male teacher who has much diversity in his classroom and low education background using blogs

Paper talking about rich assessment tasks. Some nice examples of problems with assessment and some examples of rich assessment tasks.

A great way to begin implementing ICT in a whole school approach, if only all schools had the funding and ability to make this happen.

Interesting blog post by Chris about Twitter being used a personal development tool.

Searched Web 2.0 and found this comprehensive article including creating and sharing sites for use with in education contexts.

here is an article on iPads in early childhood, study carried out in an Early Childhood Education service catering for children from 3 months to 5 years.

Thanks for sharing! My professional experience will be in a Preschool setting so it is wonderful to see how other Preschool educators have been integrating ICTs and a rationale behind their use. I've read a few articles now regarding ICT in Preschool settings an it is interesting to note that most have been from NZ! The importance their country places on ECE is amazing and obvious from these articles! Very high quality practice and passionate educators it seems. Emma

These Know-Wonder-Learn charts are an excellent resource for accessing students prior knowledge on a particular subject and brainstorming new understanding. These charts could be used for students learning in all subjects and years.

FYI there is an app series called Tools 4 Students that has a range of graphic organisers including KWL charts that students can complete and share through the app.

Thought this may be of help

Thanks so much for sharing all these programs for graphing and creating charts! I will be using this for sure!