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"The "Top 25" Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover."

The "Top 25" Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.

"The Visual Thinking Mind Map breaks down how the use of images, clear design and creativity can greatly improve comprehension and convenience in the world around us. In addition the mind map explores how visual thinking can be utilised to provide simple instructions, create user-friendly products and services and share knowledge and ideas."

Ditto for Visual

Symbaloo goes mobile (our tiles are already ipad friendly so this is good!)

Enter the iPad 2 with the new iOS5 update and all of a sudden you have a low cost teaching tool that is teacher friendly and completely mobile throughout the classroom. With the new update, you can now send whatever is on your iPad screen wirelessly to your projector or large screen monitor. This is truly a game changer.

This could be useful, save webpages as a pdf to ibooks?

Student friendly search.

"You can say that kids are sufficiently net savvy these days. With a bit of parental help, they can easily grasp the basics of search. The commonplace search engines cater to kids as well as to adults. But even with the moderation search engines use, some content may not be suitable for impressionable minds."

Lots of kid friendly search engines.

Revision is a critical piece of the writing process-and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader's Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way. The sharing features of Google Docs enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. You'll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing. On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from Writing magazine filled with student-friendly tips and techniques for revision. You'll also find a teacher's guide that provides you with ideas for how to use these materials with Google Docs to create innovative lesson plans about revision for your classroom.

Kid friendly

WOW, a very user friendly view of climate change, visually stunning and would look great on a big screen

Another great site that is well worth your time is Kidopo. This educational site has an amazing collection of brain games that will keep your students engaged for hours. As with everything else on Kidopo, the games are specifically chosen because they are student friendly and appropriate for use at school. Again, all the games are very well produced, and the interest level they generate is always high. Try Fling, Zoo Escape, Mechanics, or Prizma Puzzle 2 with your students and you will quickly see how hard their brains can really work! Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/106947.aspx#ixzz1EGaMIU7l

Some kid friendly classroom activities.

integration website for ISM in Manila, some nice simple teacher friendly tech ideas!

DOH!!!! Kelli, this might have been good a few weeks ago! Still pretty cool

Matt, that is awesome! Was playing around with it and had to box out H and B so I could keep playing :D. Really great site, user friendly, easy to navigate and create on.

Dan and co this might be one way to make NISCweb more parent friendly. hmmm, i smell a restart. :(