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The revised and final version of the Literacy Learning Progressions: Meeting the Reading and Writing Demands of the Curriculum was launched on 9 February 2010 and the documents are being sent to all schools during the weeks 15 - 26 February 2010.

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

This page serves as an index of the renewable energy fact sheets available on this website.. All are available in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format,

Lots of science websites for kids

Despite its name, not all the content on CoolMath.com is directly related to Math. In fact, their tag line is 'Math and Thinking games'. The Cool Math games site, (www.coolmath-games.com), has many great online games for gifted children. Take, for example, the ever popular Bloxorz, the Lemonade Stand Game, or Bloons Tower Defense. Each are maddeningly fun and addictive, but each are also designed to engage the thinking skills of gifted learners. Many teachers quickly turn to Cool Math when they are looking for extension activities for their fast finishers, and now you can too. Everything on the site is free to use. Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/video-games/family/articles/70813.aspx#ixzz0nVoYSMoo

The ProProfs website has lots of free online games for gifted children, but the best place to start is with the logic games. Leapfroggies, Chess, Sliding Block Puzzles, Mazes, Nonograms, and SHOT are all great games to get started with, as each involves some kind of higher level thinking in order to be successful. There are many more online games that would also be suitable for gifted children in the Brain Teasers or Brain Training sections. Just click the links at the top of the page and explore. Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/video-games/family/articles/70813.aspx#ixzz0nVoWEgOF

There are countless websites offering images, video and audio files for use in education, but it's not always easy to know which sites are most useful or appropriate. This advice document discusses general tools and strategies for finding digital resources and looks at many of the sites you can use as reliable sources.

UK school website

A search engine that lets you see how hard/easy the website is to read

Like Picnik this is quite a good website for editing photos.

Interactive writing website (cheers Graham)

In contrast to the technology teachers' use in a classroom for their professional use, what is the technology (digital) footprint students' use in your classroom? When effectively integrated into teaching and student learning, technology has the power to transform a classroom into an influential learning community. Within this digital community students use technology tools to create collaborative and personal learning networks to support their learning. So what is the technology footprint? This is the digital toolbox containing offline and online technology tools and programs students select from as they complete assignments or projects. These digital tools may include and not limited to computers, iPod Touches, cell phones, online problem solving situations, blogs, podcasts, interactive websites, and other Web 2.0 tools. Read more at Suite101: What is the Technology Footprint in Your Classroom? http://www.suite101.com/content/what-is-the-technology-footprint-in-your-classroom-a339675#ixzz1CgBybnX5

One of my favorite brain training game sites right now is BrainGames360.com. They have a great collection of high quality games that are all designed to test the different facets that are associated with brain games. Each one is tagged with the cognitive skills it tests, so it is easy for the teacher to track down the type of skill they are looking to practice with their students. All the games have HTML codes that let you put your favorite games on your own classroom blog or website, and they are all organized into categories like Logic, Strategy, Reflex and more. Try Mini Train, or Get Groovy, to get a taste for what the games on this site are like. Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/106947.aspx#ixzz1EGaIrAFx

Early Learning website.

Bloomin amazing MHM prezi on the Role of ICT in PYP