Macquarie University School of Education

"A fun and easy way to explore any topic Sample group opinions and provoke group discussions - its easy and free with Power League Create your own online leagues or use our existing ones (below). Power League is a versatile resource that lets you ask tough questions, stimulates debate and creates a visual league table based on votes gathered across your group. Start your own league and get voting ..."

"Wiki Rubric Karen Franker's rubric includes criteria for assessing individual and group Wiki contributions. Blog Rubric This rubric by Karen Franker may be used for assessing individual blog entries, including comments on peers' blogs. Twitter Rubric Karen Franker's rubric may be used to assess learning with Twitter during social networking instructional assignments."

" iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of applications in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students. iRubric School-Edition empowers schools with an easy-to-use system for monitoring student learning outcomes and aligning with standards. "

Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input. Sources. Currently, 10x10 gathers its data from the following news sources: * ABC * BBC * CNN * The Guardian * MSNBC * Reuters Photography. All photographs within 10x10 come from the aforementioned news sources, and full copyright ownership is maintained by those sources. 10x10 uses the images purely for artistic and educational purposes, and does not profit in any way from their use.

Ability to ask 500 people a survey question and get responses from around the world - good for maths and statistics

"ordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. "

"Explore the world in 3D from anywhere. "

"Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast."

Creates graphs online

Creates random writing tasks - actually pretty cute

A video and quiz site for ESL learning

Scribblemaps allow users to make custom Google maps without an account

The E is for English website with a range of resources and community around improving students' English capabilities

Range of literacy resources brought to us by the International Reading Association

Enables input of mathematics, conversion to formatted mathematics, solving of problems

Using Google Earth in the Mathematics classroom to make mathematics real.

Mini videos that provide learners with situated examples of definitions.

Enables users to create sophisticated timelines

Type in a word and it will mash a range of videos, images, tweets etc on the topc

An amazing graphical search engine and knowledge base