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The Australian Government's Easy Guide to Socialising Online provides information on how internet users can protect themselves and their information when using social networking sites, search engines and online games.

This is a neat website that lets students track missions as they are happening with the satellites that are collecting information about the Earth from space.  Students can learn about the earth by choosing a mission to follow, zoom in and out of the globe, view satellite paths, view city and location labels on the map, replace the sun with an "artificial light" and see the view from Earth's surface.  As students click on the satellite, they will be able to view and discover more information about the mission.  Students can choose to view the 3D Earth in real-time or speed up/slow down the Earth with a time control.

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!

Information about copyright in simple to understand language.

A blog sharing the progress of the Diocese Of Paramatta's experience with iPads. Several contributors to the site with lots of useful information & app recommendations. 

A webpage with an estimated population of Australia. Includes information about population demographics and growth - interesting stuff :-) 

A slideshare presentation focussed on web research which is well worth viewing for any LT Coordinator . Has some great information and statistics on search, and how search-englines work. Also shares tools you can use for optimizing your search and saving your sources for later viewing. 

this is a pretty cool site made by google which has video tutorials for mac and PC on basic skills, world wide web, communication, media and finding information. Is designed for parents, but would be useful for students, too!

Google Squared takes a category and creates a starter 'square' of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web.

Some good art lessons and some basic information on famous artists, worth a look when planning art lessons

NetSmartzKids is a website set up to teach children and young adults about using the internet safely. Well worth a look when working on cyber safety with kids. US Focussed, but still has much relevant information.

The Active Science resource contains a variety of science activities and information. There is something for everyone - from age 5 years upwards, including parents and teachers.

Use this link to book school seminars. This is the third year that we have had ACMA run seminars for our Stage 3 students at St Michael's. Seminars are highly informative and have a great impact on students.

Internet Safety With Professor Garfield currently offers an animated lesson on cyberbullying and an animated lesson about online safety. As you might guess from the site's title, the lessons feature Garfield. Both lessons use the same model in which students watch a cartoon, take an informal quiz, then try to apply their new knowledge to a few different scenarios.

An interesting article about a small k12 school in Scotland who went from a 24 mac school, to a 1:1 iPad school. Shares some information about how they are managing the iPads, their approach to using them and some of the school's thoughts on their use. Worth a read. 

Welcome to the Victorian Government iPads for Learning website This website is for educators who want to learn about using iPads in education. Here you will find information about the Victorian school iPads for Learning trial including the specially selected apps, classroom ideas and technical tips.

"The Fast Food Explorer database contains the nutrition facts information of twelve of America's most popular fast food chains. "

eLearningFuture provides comprehensive information about the design, development, deployment and evaluation of eLearning using today's and tomorrow's innovative emerging technologies. The site is quite academic but has some great articles especially the current ones on Virtual World learning

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.