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A few years ago, when I was studying English, I thought to myself: "Wouldn't it be great if there was a website focused solely on the English tenses?". The subject of English Tenses is a vast and difficult one, so surely it deserves its own special place on the Internet! This is how this website was born.

Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share and (soon) print.

Ideas for using Moodstream.

A neat idea to use for tuning in/changeover times/writing language prompts.

Linking words to images from Flickr.

Free teacher guides to lots of books All Sorts of Things (Grades K-2) Here Alone in the Desert (Grades 6-8) Here Animal Clues (Grades K-2) Here Body Maps (Grades 3-5) Here The Cat on the Chimney (Grades 3-5) Here Crazy Weather (Grades 3-5) Here Cut and Join (Grades K-2) Here Fins and Feathers (Grades K-2) Here Habitats (Grades K-2) Here How Many Eyes? (Grades K-2) Here The Paper Skyscraper (Grades K-5) Here Sharks (Grades 3-5) Here Skeleton (Grades K-2) Here Small Worlds (Grades 3-5) Here What Did You Eat Today? (Grades K-2) Here What Do They Eat? (Grades K-2) Here You Are Here (Grades K-2) Here

Wow, very cool graphic map of the world broken down by stats! Could be of real use in grade 4/5 uoi

Kelli for you

Thanks Matt

Another WOW site, lets you overlay significant events onto Google Maps. Kids can see the size of something against a known, eg Gulf oil spill over Cambodia or Flooding in pakistan Amazing.

Now with places for notation! Using the Rhythm Band * To draw music on the screen, click on the pencil, choose an instrument and draw on any of the 6 lines of the percussion score. * To edit your music, click on the "selection" tool (the dashed square) to activate the "edit" mode. On the score, drag a rectangle around the area you want to edit. You may use the tools below the "selection" tool to duplicate, erase and reverse the selected area. * To adjust the tempo of your music, select the turtle or rabbit to make it play slow or fast.

cool Using the Musical Sketch Pad * To draw music on the screen, click on the pencil to activate the "sketch" mode. Choose an instrument below and draw on the sketch pad. * To edit your sketch, click on the "selection" tool (the dashed square) to activate the "edit" mode. In the sketch pad, drag a rectangle around the area you want to edit. You may use the tools below the "selection" tool to duplicate, erase, reverse, and invert the selected area. * To adjust the tempo of your musical sketch, select the turtle or rabbit to make it play slow or fast.

Hard to explain To be clear, Qwiki isn't a piece of hardware. Instead, it's a piece of software meant to run on the web and as an app on mobile devices. What it does is present to you data about millions of topics in an extremely interesting and visual way. Imagine if someone created a movie highlight reel of Wikipedia pages - that's sort of what Qwiki is like. You search for something - a topic, a person, etc - and Qwiki talks to you, telling you all you need to know about what you searched for, while also showing you key things about the subject or person. You can also click on sub-topics or related topics to access more Qwikis with vast amounts of other information. It's a fairly incredible way to consume information. And the data isn't just from Wikipedia. Say you do a search for a person, Qwiki can look at their social connections and tell you about their LinkedIn profile, for example. It is very, very impressive.

Free documentaries come in a number of different styles and are made for a variety of reasons. Most of them aim to educate the viewer on a particular topic: war; environment; health. Documentaries can also be used to enlighten viewers and give them a new point of view. Mostly they serve to highlight our previous mistakes so they don't happen again - which is why it's important to watch them. Many documentaries these days also try to incorporate stunning visuals and sound to keep the viewer's attention as they're watching.

A Visual Representation of Bloom's Taxonomic Hierarchy with a 21st Century Skills Frame. Very neat way of looking at Blooms from a 21st C viewpoint.

A great starter idea for Geography/mapping earth units