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Are you understanding the tearing, stuttering, slow or choppy MP4 playback on a computer? Oh. it's really not a happy movie experience. Don't wait for the movie any more, here share the reasons and solutions with you.

A school trialling the use of iPads in the classroom. They are supplying the students with iPads and letting them download and sync their iPads on home computers which is pretty interesting... Victorian Government initiative. 

A knowledge based computing search engine. It can show how it solves maths problems and graph equations.

An excellent PDF explaining how to get the most out of Google Search. A good idea might be to print out a few copies of this and put it on the wall near your desktop computers? Similar posters relating to other google tools can be found here: http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html

This link to you to a list of weblinks aimed at developing basic computer skills particularly good for Kinder

This site could be recommended to parents as activities they could allow their child to engage in at home to develop some core computer/keyboard skills

This is a great applications for downloading multiple creative commons images from flickr at once. It is an Adobe Air application that you download and install on your computer, you then search for a tag, and it allows you to select up to 50 photos to download to your desktop. Would be really useful for primary and infants classes. It saves you time as you do not need to download each image individually. 

Great little application for your computers. You can use it to make stop-motion movies. Video tutorial on website. 

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.

A great way to enhance research skills for young students.

Nothing new but an interesting read.

Another wonderful source of Educational games, broken up into grade levels from K-5 and then into subject areas/topics - well worth a look.

"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. "

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

Awesome Nathan I didnt realise they worked so well together. Welcome to the group and thanks for your input.