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Mindmap - best online collaborative tools

"The Educator's PLN" Quite a good NING on personal learning networks if you would like to explore nings or PLN's more

Create a text based, comic style movie with simple animation. Its very simple, quick and effective. No easy download at this stage or character voices but very easy to use.

A cool idea for creating virtual flowers. The Black Eyed Peas have created/endorsed a site called Planting My Ideas. You can use music, images, and words to create your own flower, which is then be posted in the site's gallery. You can also post the link on a student or teacher's website/blog, and have students write about it as a language development activity.

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

Interactive reading ebooks. Studnt & teachers able to annotate text

Some great links to virtual excursions/e-tours that could be used across various subject areas - worth a look. A good blog to follow, too.

Some high schools in Denmark are beginning to allow students access to the internet during exams. Exciting stuff, and fantastic to see countries looking into more open forms of assessment. I will be interested to see how quickly other nations follow Denmark's lead in this regard. Tools like Diigo would be a fantastic method of preparation for student's sitting these exams.

An excellent presentation on wikis & writing and how they can be used to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom. Also shares some meaningful stats regarding language development, explains and gives examples on web 1.0 & 2.0 tools and social media.

This is a FREE conference open to ANYONE by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference (among several) is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape.

If you want to take part in a google wave about the K-12 Conference email me or Mark Woolley and we will setup an invite for you. You could also visit http://thebigquestion.edublogs.org/ for more info.

Great post on the benefits of using digital portfolios.

Huge list of 'elearning' conferences around the world in 2009 -2010

anything that leaps out at you guys?

A wonderful collection of websites designed to teach teachers technology skills with the use of video tutorials. Definitely worth a look!

An example of what a Year 2 Class in Victoria is doing in their daily literacy block. They're blogging, commenting, listening to reading on their iPod touches and working on the interactive whiteboard!

A great video to introduce K-2 to certain aspects of Internet Safety. The video makes some comparisons between the real world, and the online world, and at the end sets some rules to follow. Worth a look. 

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What it is: Boy's Life Magazine is a great place to reach those boys in your class that are reluctant readers or writers.  On the Boy's Life site, you will find a Comic Creator where students can create a comic strip.  The Comic Creator is easy to use, offering enough tools for boys to really customize their comics but not SO many that they get lost in the forever search of pictures.  A great balance! How to integrate Comic Creator into the classroom: The Boy's Life Comic Creator is a great little tool to help your boys connect with writing and story telling in a way that they enjoy and understand.  The tool is simple enough to use as a writing station/center on classroom computers.  The comic does need to be created in one sitting, there is no way to save and come back to a comic later.  Completed comics can be printed off and shared.

Great website for converting all kinds of files.