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Blog by a year 5/6 teacher who shares ICT resource

I have been following this teachers blog for the last week and a half as part of my PLN. Her most recent post, which contains a presentation she will be conducting includes a HUGE amount of apps for every imaginable topic- behaviour management, English, creativity etc etc

Sorry for my ignorance but how do you follow her blog? I am interested in the apps, good find.

A step beyond Khan academy videos. Students making their own.

This is a concept that my Year 7 child is engaging with at the moment using a different ICT approach. I find it a very valuable experience to demonstrate their understanding to themselves, their teacher and ... the world. A great idea!

The learning area/year level that could use this resource wout be from prep to year 6. What I like about the flipchart is that it is very interactive and provides resources for a wide range of maths concepts from birthdays, weather to hundreds charts, place value to number lines. Any problems it might have would be that for some things you need to enter or edit you have to switch back and forth between design mode.

A collection of sites/software used in middle school music

Website (blog) containing a range of tips (example applications) of iPads and other ICT related tools into learning and teaching

This is a helpful little page that gives the reader ideas and links to different activities for a range of topics.

One of the examples from the 101 questions website. All of the examples are based on the use of ICTs to pose a mathematical question to students that will perplex them, that will get them to ask questions. Uses a three act model for the lesson where Act 1 is the "perplexor".

Twitter saying that 4.2 million tweets a day are related to education. Includes links to examples of how Twitter is being used by teachers.

A good example of some CK related to history, but also an example of an online service that aims to generate good content by using the "wisdom of crowds". A little like wikipedia. Quora allows people to ask questions that are answered by large numbers of people, the best answers rising to the top.

AN interactive Periodic table produced be a TED project. Click on the element in the table and access a video. Dig a little deeper and there's a "lesson" for each element

Kelly Jordan is a primary school teacher who is passionate about literacy and integrating technology into the classroom. You may have seen her twitter account shared on here already.

Contains 5 activity areas with literacy games and print-offs for 5 to 6 year olds. This is a great site for online lesson plans using interactive whiteboards for prep/1 classrooms

A Year 9/10 teacher describes how he's created a "Monopoly board" on a Wiki to help teach research skills and critical thinking.

This is an excellent resource for anyone who is also doing a Secondary English unit plan. It provides so many great ideas on how to use ICTs in English.

Using google forms to create self grading quizzes