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This is an interesting website which allows children to hear other children their age reading stories, some would be familiar, whilst others might be new. The stories are written by several authors who contribute to the site, and all the videos are screened before they are uploaded. Many of the videos include captions in other languages, so it may be a good tool for language learning, too. 

Some nice CyberSafety resources/websites for those of you who teach Cyber-Safety in your school

A great collection of keyboarding games for kids

Here is a list of 20 interactive whiteboard resources and activities guaranteed to stimulate learning:

This is a neat website that lets students track missions as they are happening with the satellites that are collecting information about the Earth from space.  Students can learn about the earth by choosing a mission to follow, zoom in and out of the globe, view satellite paths, view city and location labels on the map, replace the sun with an "artificial light" and see the view from Earth's surface.  As students click on the satellite, they will be able to view and discover more information about the mission.  Students can choose to view the 3D Earth in real-time or speed up/slow down the Earth with a time control.

Great website for learning about writing letters. Goes through requirements of both Personal letters, and Business letters. Lets you print/save the document as a final product. 

Great post on quality blog commenting from a Year 2 perspective. Worth a look!

Fantastic tool to use to orientate you to content before you begin researchingAlso useful for students with learning difficulties

A simple story about the beach by Kieran, age 5. Made in StoryBird with a 10 minute limit to learn how to use the application, write a book and read it. (Captured with a screen capture tool) Very nice tool. Currently you only able to publish it to storybird.

A useful pdf of web 2.0 tool and descriptions of each tool

micro blogging - a professional learning strategy.

An excellent collection of short presentations sharing ideas on how to use various ICLT tools in your classroom. Page is being updated regularly with additional presentations. Has presentations relating to many of the tools covered at the Term 4 Learning Technologies Network

eLearningFuture provides comprehensive information about the design, development, deployment and evaluation of eLearning using today's and tomorrow's innovative emerging technologies. The site is quite academic but has some great articles especially the current ones on Virtual World learning

learning technology integrators wikispace

Some useful resources here

I came across this guys blog/youtube channel just yesterday! Good one to follow....

"SMART Technologies, producers of the SMART board and the SMART Table, offer you user-generated and SMART-created videos of SMART's products in a variety of learning environments. " If you use smartboards this would be a great channel to subscribe to.

Great site for accessing free on-line video tutorials to learn some of the basic features of the smartboard

Great iPad apps for learning the alphabet

Great resources on the timely topic of Osama bin Laden