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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.

The twelve units of work in Global Words have been produced by World Vision Australia and the Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA) to integrate the teaching and learning of English and global citizenship education.

Welcome to TEACH WEB 2.0 We are a group of curious teachers who explore and brainstorm ways to integrate Web 2.0 technologies into our teaching. Some of us meet face-to-face at an independent school in St. Petersburg, Florida. The rest of us are from all over the world.

A social market place for online learning and teaching

100 Free Tools to Make Your Teaching More Entertaining

Fantastic resource for all things literacy related.  Includes book discussions and assistance for teaching all things literacy related in schools.

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.

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!

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.

A huge mindmap of ideas for using ICT in loads of different learning areas. Great links and ideas.

A website with links to a range of online resources for interactive whiteboards, literacy and maths teaching.

A great resource for teaching students all about Chinese New Year

This is a self paced project to assist educators to explore and begin to embed some digital literacies into their teaching toolkits. It's also Victorian and uses the ePotential survey.

A search engine for lids to teach them about how search engines work

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