An awesome chart explaining the difference between Blogs, Wikis & Collaborative Documents - well worth a look if tossing up between them. Has the good & bad points for each tool, and also has examples of each tool being used in the classroom. Great reference point
An awesome tool for creating story books for printing and sharing. Suitable for ES1-S1. Not embeddable at this stage, but very easy to share via email/link on blog...
Awesome website for checking out the planets in the solar system. Very interactive and has some interesting information for each planet. http://www.solarsystemscope.com/
"Welcome to Celestia
... The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. "
Celestia is great - and it works in tandem with Stellarium - some more freeware - we started our students off with an examination of the Earth (Stellarium) and how it relates to the Solar System and then you can move on to Celestia - a chance to explore further out into space
http://www.stellarium.org/ check this out - we have both Stellarium and Celestia on the student image - "Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go." both freeware
A brilliant, easy to use short film/animation site. Excellent for unit intros, transition activities etc. Make your own film in no more than 60 seconds - so easy.