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"Hara Estroff Marano is Editor-at-Large of Psychology Today in the US. She argues that modern attitudes to parenting mean anxious mums and dads are crowding out the unsupervised play that kids used to enjoy. As a result children don't get much opportunity to solve their own problems, to practise co-operation and to test their leadership skills."

Asks the provocative question, are we raising a nation of wimps?

This UK site is designed to promote critical evaluation of the use of film in the study of history and history teaching. It includes discussion of some of the issues related to film as evidence, activities that investigate different aspects of film, an archive of original and reconstructions as well as showcasing how film editors work via an online editing tool.

These are testing times for parents, students, principals and teachers. Share your experiences of schools and the education system with Anna Patty, the education editor for The Sydney Morning Herald

"This blog is maintained by the editors of Children's Book Insider, the Newsletter for Children's Writers, and was created to help demystify the process of becoming a published children's author. They provide tips, full-length articles, links to writing resources and industry news and more."

"A report about a professional learning conference held at Keysborough College, a dual campus secondary school located in the Melbourne South-Eastern suburbs. The event involved all the college staff, spanning two days from Monday 16 to Tuesday 17th April 2012."

On Onlinephototool.com you can edit and save your images, screenshots and photos online. If you want to save your images online you need to register. Resize, crop, add text, sharpen, rotate, flip, colour balance, saturation, levels, paint, add icons, sepia, black and white.

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Kyolo is the easiest way to create speech bubbles on photos. Upload photos, bubble'em and share with your friends !

Make a movie using photos from National geographic

Aviary offers an online suite of free image and sound editing services.

Imageoid is a free, simple service for adding a variety of effects to your images. To use Imageoid you just upload an image from your computer then choose the effect(s) you want to apply to it. You can combine effects if you like. If you don't like the way your image looks with a chosen effect, just click "reset" to start again. Imageoid can also be used to resize your image. Imageoid offers twenty-two effects that you can apply to your image. Below you can see the before and after of one of my images.