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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 great tip by Tammy on creating bibliographies using Bibme! An excellent blog to follow, too.

A little gimmicky but this could be a really interesting way for teachers to gather a series of resources together for students. Alternatively students could create binders of resources. Check the examples.

Great post on the benefits of using digital portfolios.

"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.

If you want your students to use the internet for research, but find that sites such as Wikipedia can overwhelm students and contain too much information - then you might like to take a look at the Simple English Wikipedia. The Simple English Wikipedia uses simple English words and grammar to explain topics.  There are 70,000 articles on the site, a fraction of the 3 million articles that are on the main wikipedia page, but enough for most students. Check before you send kids towards the site that it contains the topics you want them to research. If it doesn't you could always create a page and add the information yourself - or make it a goal for the research project to write a page!

Great website for creating online interactive timelines. You can embed Youtube/Vimeo videos, too! Free and paid accounts. 

My favourite QR Code generator- simple to use!

Mac-based interactive eBook reader creator for iBooks/iPad - looks great!

An article exploring the amount of professional development teachers receive and the effect is has on the hardware  that is purchased for use in their classroom. Some scary statistics are also included in the article

Great concept, very quick to put together,  however bit tricky to get working within a blog environment

Visual stimulus for sentence or paragraph writing

Interactive educational flash games

Make web based screen casts that can be used everywhere

PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. Fantastic for secondary English

This American ESL Teacher has created a list of re best sites for learning about the Australian floods. The list will be updated as he finds new resources and articles, and may be useful for your class?

With so much of the Northeastern Australian floods dominating the news at present- this site would be great for you to share with students when you begin the school year- some fantastic images to generating discussions around such a hot topic,

I am experiencing the floods first hand - am trapped in Toowoomba at present and taking lots of pictures/video....scary stuff...

Poplet is a great tool for creating collaborating mindmapping. It is similar to wallwisher/stixy, but with more of an emphasis on linked ideas. There is also a great app for the iPad which allows collaboration. 

Online mind mapping and note taking. Great for revision and summary activities.

A great resource using Google Docs to mark for us! Yes!