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"Did you know that you can pin websites to the Taskbar in Windows 7? How about performing tasks and accessing specific links without opening the browser window. Internet Explorer 9 brings users a feature which combines Jump Lists and Pinning in Windows 7 with web applications like Live Mail, Twitter, and sites like Amazon, to make the web more useful and easy to use."

"Little Bird Tales is a nice site intended for younger students to use to create digital stories. Little Bird Tales walks users through each step of creating a multimedia story. Users can upload images, draw images, or record from their webcams. Stories can be written with text or narrated by students using microphones connected to their computers."

Online version of the Notebook software.

Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other, to deepen content learning. By thinking dispositions, we mean curiosity, concern for truth and understanding, a creative mindset, not just being skilled but also alert to thinking and learning opportunities and eager to take them

Visible Thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the content areas and fostering students' intellectual development at the same time

Create, explore and evaluate math concepts with SMART Notebook™ Math Tools. This add-on to SMART Notebook collaborative learning software combines all the tools you need to teach math concepts and solve equations in a single application. It keeps everything at your fingertips, so you can easily incorporate shapes, measurement tools, graphs and tables into lesson activities.

Pecha-Kucha presentation style is 20slides x 20seconds. Slides move on automatically. this video explains where developed and why and looks at ways to use it in the classroom

Google Earth for educators community - classroom resources, tutorials & tips, etc

For the music teachers out there, the BBC has a fantastic online resource for introducing students to world music (specifically from India, Ireland, Brazil, Turkey, and Nigeria). The Street willgive students a glimpse at another countries instruments and key musicians. You will be able to listen to their music, and find out about the religion and food.

Maths video by one of my old students. demonstration of how students can use their laptops to explain concepts etc

Tom Barrett has created Maths Maps using Google Maps. The maps show the location, and the placemarks explain the math activities (placemarks are colour-coded according to year level, from year 1 to year 6). Each location deals with one topic

This list of website is used in Session 1 - Differentiating the Curriculum Using Technology

"Making History: Research, Create and Share - is a resource that has been developed by Museaum Victoria. The site provides teachers and students with the resources they need to research, plan, create and share community digital histories. This is a fantastic resource for a local history project or a family history assignment. As part of the resources and tools, you are given access to videos offering advice from experts such as historians and curators, and you have access to the forum. If you are not sure what to base an assignment on, there are a list of themes, which allow you to explore resources by topic, such as 'Living with natural disasters', 'World events, local impacts', and 'Migration and cultural identity'."

A few easy tips can help teachers create engaging lessons for interactive whiteboards

Superstruct was a massively multiplayer forecasting game, created by the Institute for the Future, and played by more than 8000 citizen future-forecasters from September - November 2008. Although the game is no longer live, you can still learn about it and explore some of our archived game content

Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.

The 3 games she refers to at the end are amazing and look at gamers developing skills that are transferable to the real world.

Get free faculty resources to help you engage your students e.g. microsoft education labs, creative commons add-in, scientist add-in

Communication has changed, and students and educators are increasingly using video technologies in all aspects of education. Knowing how to produce, edit, and distribute video gives high school and college graduates a valuable and much-in-demand skill. School systems also are increasingly using video on their web sites to keep parents informed about school events-and many educators are using video to bring lessons alive for their students.

This is a quick overview of how to use Photo Story 3. It is made for those consumers who learn fast and don't need a lot of detail.

this 8 page PDF is very detailed in how to use photostory. a good resource to use if a student has a problem you can't answer