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Cool Online tools presented by Darcy Moore

Help make spelling time a fun time! SpellingCity.com can be an invaluable part of every child's spelling and vocabulary education with over 42,000 spelling words and customizable sentences.

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

Thought this might be of interest?

Great blog post about using moodle in Primary Schools

This article has a roundup of some of the best music websites for primary school students. 

What it is: Me On the Web is a new tool from Google.  Announced just today, Me On the Web is part of the Google Dashboard that allows you to set up custom Google Alerts for your name in news articles.  This was always possible with Google Alerts but now those alerts are coupled with tips and resources for helping students manage their online identities.  Now everything can be tracked from one central location instead of scattered around in different places.  Me On the Web is easy to set up, just visit your Google Dashboard to get started. How to integrate Me on the Web into the classroom: There was a day when you could get away with not knowing and following your digital identity, that day is no more.  We all carry digital footprints, and now more than ever it is vital for us (and our students) to know how to manage those digital footprints.  Teaching students about their digital identity is the first step, Google's Me on the Web takes that a step further by helping students manage their online identities through Google Alerts and helpful tips.  Students must have an account with Google to fully utilize the Me on the Web features.  After students have their account set up, they can create a set of Google Alerts related to them.  This could be their name, email address, a sports team that they play on, the name of the school they attend, etc.  Students will quickly see just how big a memory the Internet has and get a first hand look at their digital footprint and learn some strategies to take care of it.

Some good resources to teach students how to prepare for emergencies/natural disasters

Some great info on iPad deployment and classroom use - worth a look!

EtherPad is the web-based word processor that allows people to work together in real time

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

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...

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

Tikatok is an online creative community whose mission is to turn kids into published authors. Students can use their own illustrations and publish their book, even order real paperback and hardcover books.

An email received from Tikatok regarding postage to Australia. Not bad makes book about $20-$25 dollars Hi Kristy, Thanks for the email. Postage should be about $16-25 I believe. Thanks, Katie __________________ Katie Cowan Porro Senior Account Manager, Education Market Tikatok, LLC (p) 774-218-8472 (f) 774-961-3539 katie@tikatok.com www.tikatok.com

Some ideas on how to use comic life in the classroom. A collaborative document, feel free to add your own suggestions and experiences as new slides!

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.

learning technology integrators wikispace

Some useful resources here

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

A blog post describing various options available for publishing students writing online...Goes into the pros and cons of each service...worth a read...