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Life as a teacher, especially one fresh off attending your own classes, can be hard. You have to wake up early, work late and manage a classroom full of kids, each with their own diverse needs and expectations. Luckily, there are numerous teachers out there who are willing to share their expertise and classroom experiments with teachers young and old. Here are some great blogs that offer insights into what classes of kids are doing around the world as well as providing some great advice on everything from dealing with parents to figuring out grades.

don't let the 100 make you go ARRRRRRRRRRRR Infowhelm! It is broken up into grade areas so hopefully you can find one nugget of gold to help make your classroom blog even better.

Web-based instructional activities have an enormous potential to enhance and entice learning. Unfortunately integrating the internet into your curriculum in a way that has a positive impact on students' learning is often a difficult process. Below are some questions to ask yourself to help you get started.

This wikispace is designed to show interested teachers. parents and students the ways I am integrating e-Learning practices in a junior setting. Follow the links to my current classroom blog at Sunnybrae Normal School and to my first ever classroom blog at Northcote Primary. A Kiwi webpage that might help ECC

Fun4TheBrain is a great interactive and educational site for children. It contains a variety of math, reading and science games. The reading games are perfect for reviewing parts of speech and learning sight words and vocabulary. Some of the reading games are also available in hard copy to help teach children to read by giving them a stress-free and fun approach to learning. Math games cover a range of topics such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow - Today (ACOT2) is a collaborative project to help high schools get closer to creating the kind of learning environment this generation of students needs, wants, and expects so they will stay in school.

If we go this route..... This online workshop helps you learn how to get the most out of the Flip HD camcorders -- the hottest pocket HD camcorders on the market today. We talk about the camcorders, editing software, and shooting technique.

Math help, games ideas for kids

Before you gasp and say "EEEK its from Microsoft!" Here is a set of pdfs to help you use Photostory, Movie Maker and generally use Microsoft digital story telling stuff with your class. This could be really useful accross the levels

I bring you two sites that allow you to download teaching resources like lesson plans, printable materials for your class and much much more. Maybe you need a helping hand in keeping your material fresh or you want some hints towards successful lessons. If so, then these sites are for you!

Another way of finding web-based tools that can help you and your students. From that wiki...what do you want to do? I want to...

Story writing onlin e, activities and help.

Simple Lessons in Saving and Borrowing Money Bank Jr. is an educational banking website designed for elementary school students. I discovered Bank Jr. through Donna Murray's excellent blog. Bank Jr. is an interactive website on which students can learn the in's and out's of banking. Bank Jr. has a glossary of terms, a help center, and savings wizards. Bank Jr. also provides students with a history of money and a look at how different countries use money. The teachers section of Bank Jr. provides an extensive glossary of terms and some lesson ideas. Bank Jr. does not provide full-length, detailed lesson plans, but it does provide PDF's of worksheets and handouts that teachers may find useful for teaching banking lessons.

Digital Literacy assessment links, 18 websites to help you with Digital Citizenship

Help for kids to learn about Acrostic poems

Graphic organizers are an illustration of your thoughts on paper. They can help you brainstorm, organize, and visualize your ideas.

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Moodle explained

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Interactive writing website (cheers Graham)

Mail Merge helps you send personalized letters or email messages to a large group of people with little effort. The basic content of all these messages is similar but each will have information that is specific to the recipient (like their first name and salutation).

Welcome to the New Plants Module! Help Farmer Jane plant your garden, and watch it grow!