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"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.

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!

An example of what a Year 2 Class in Victoria is doing in their daily literacy block. They're blogging, commenting, listening to reading on their iPod touches and working on the interactive whiteboard!

Love this site- so many great ideas on ways to integrate tools/applications/software into the classroom. One of my favourite sites

Good tool for on-line bookings

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

This video shares a method on how to most effectively sort student's voice recordings from iPod Touches, iPhones or iPads..

Strategies to harness the educational viability of many of the videos on You Tube

"Research shows that a project to use the devices as teaching tools in some N.C. districts has had a measurable impact on student achievement in math."

Love this!!!!! sim­ple. you'll see one word at the top of the fol­low­ing screen. you have sixty sec­onds to write about it. click 'go

Highlights the negative impact the new social networking tool "Formspring" can have on children. It is the online version of the bathroom wall in school, the place to scrawl raw, anonymous gossip.

In T4L the other day we talked about the guidelines for creating ePubs for through pages. This link has these and more! Great resource on ePubs. See highlighted section

Where to find iTunes cards on sale

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.

iPad has made such a radical change in education with more and more school districts  adopting it as a learning tool inside the classroom. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning  has been helping teachers all along the way with reviews and tutorials on how to get started using iPad in education. We have reviewed more than 500 apps and we are planning to do more reviews this year.

This online game is a favorite! It works great on your interactive whiteboard, too!

Great article on relationship of reading and spelling

Apps in Education One of the hardest things with using the iPad in the classroom is finding the time to go through all of the apps in the iTunes Store listed under the education banner. We have started to list some of the apps we've found under each of the Key Learning Areas.  Very Good!

A great livebinder with info on Document Cameras

Some great ideas on raising awareness of Digital Citizenship among students.