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Listen Web site has online activities for learning about sound as well as information about sound.

One tools approach to supporting online marking of assignments.

A popular, quick assessment technique that could be combined with online surveys/clickers.

Comic strip creator.  Take pictures, upload images, draw.  Could be used to mix hand-drawn comics with online creations.

An online/virtual conference about virtual worlds in education. Held March 16-17 i.e. starting Friday.

List of winners from a competition to create videos about staying save and secure online.

Great collection of approaches to grow your PLN.

A global online class project around the 2012 Olympics.

Fun and free online multi-player educational math games and language arts games for students and teachers!

"How can students incorporate technology to contribute to the digital world?" A tutorial on the topic

"Digital Citizenship is a timely and much-needed response to California and federal mandates. The California School Library Association (CSLA) sponsors this online course for educators and their K-12 students. Lead developer is Dr. Lesley Farmer."

An iOS based behaviour management app linked to an online service.

This article is a part of a recent increase in interest in the difference between trolling and abuse in online forums. A potential good opportunity to explore some questions of digital citizenship.

The Practicum Resources Wiki is a collection or database of online information resources you can use while you are on practicum in the school environment. Generally, all these resources are freely available. Material is selected from world-wide resources with an emphasis on Australian resources where available.

iEARN is a non-profit organization made up of over 30,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 130 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 2,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide.

Flipchart for a Promethean IWB looking at probability. Uses the built in dice function to compare experiment with theoretical values. Good sequence will help scaffold learning. Good use of the inbuilt dice tool to produce data. Links to some good resources including an online tool that helps generate lots of data quickly. Apparently intended for age ranges from 11 through 18. Some of the exercises/examples may be seen as a little "young" for older students.

Interesting new tool out of Google. Provides an apparently simple and full featured way to create computer-based learning/tutoring paths. Might be fun to play with at some stage. Questions remain about long term support and the effort required to implement in a classroom setting (accounts for students etc).

Another website I haven't heard of before. Looks a bit like "pintrest" for blogs/online articles. Jamie has some great stuff on her page.

this sight has topics of geographic inquiry organised into age groups from 5-12. Easy to navigate and well laid out. Good source of information fro online student inquiry

As demonstrated in yesterday's tutorial. You can use this to help you find and store your favourite online resources and create pages for your students to use - particularly useful for Early Years students who have difficulty working with URL's.