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A fantastiv interactve fractions game.  Refraction is an online puzzle game for teaching fractions. The game is not obviously a lesson in fractions, but requires knowledge of fractions to succeed. In Refraction, the player must partition lasers in order to power spaceships containing various animals who have gotten stuck in space, as shown in the picture. These animal spaceships all require different fractions of the lasers, and the player is given several pieces that split and bend the lasers to reach the animals and satisfy these requirements. These mechanics can be used to teach many important fraction concepts, such as equal partitioning, addition, multiplication, mixed numbers, improper fractions, and common denominators. The game itself is instrumented so that it records everything the player does, allowing teachers and researchers to analyze play data.

This is a class blog where the students create a weekly Street 'Talk' video. The street talk is all about things happening in their school. A great example of the possibilities of flipcams in schools. Would be great to get the community interested in what was happening in the school.

This wasn't a staff development day. It wasn't a workshop. It wasn't a conference or even a meeting. This was simply Thursday. A day in the life of an educator who happens to be connected to a virtual teachers lounge (credit to ArtGuy for the analogy). This is nothing more than daily conversation. And yet it's also miraculous in so many ways.

This website has information on how to unblobk youtube and any other website in DEECD!!! Instructions will be posted here in the next 2 weeks.

Quote .." There's a growing list of fantastic online musical "instruments" and games that are a great resource for teachers in the music classroom.  They can be effective when used with students on laptops and desktops, but they also work really well in a one-computer classroom with a large screen or better still, an interactive whiteboard."

A fantastic look at education in New Brunswick area. "Today's pen and paper have changed"

The creator of Wolfram Alpha talking about the need for a reform of how we teach Maths in schools. Wolfram believes we should utilize computer MUCH more in Maths classrooms and stop pointless calculations by had. A fascinating and thought provoking speech.

A great presentation on using Diigo in education.

An image showing the many ways in which we can connect in a web2.0 way.

Free presentations in Powerpoint format and free interactive activities for kids.

Sylvia Martinez presentation. Great ideas on using kids to teach technology to teachers

One of the hardest thing with using the iPad in the classroom is finding the time to go through all of the apps in the iTunes Store listed under the education banner. We have started to list some of the apps we've found under each of the Key Learning Areas.

A simple video showing the lives of students in the 21st century schools. What is the role of the student? What is the role of the teacher? What is the role of technology?

This is the Australian equivalent of the epotential/elearning plan for vic schools. Schools are either rated as developing, accomplished or leading in their use of ICT. provides useful focus areas for developing a whole school elearning plan.

TED goes educational. This site is amazing! It wlil become the one stop shop for educators using videos to help teach concepts in their subjects. The amazing thing is you can use any TED talk OR any Youtube clip. Fantastic!

A slideshow on a range of ipad apps to be used in education.