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Some great sites for talking Children's storybooks!

A blog which has collated many Mary MacKillop resources into just one place. There are links to teacher websites, links to great clips and also some learning and teaching experiences. Well worth a look!

Another great resource. I like the way it is sorted according to stage of learning for resources Eg senior primary etc

Some great sources for creative commons media. Check the comments section for more!

This website looks like a great website if you are doing a unit on history/family history/family trees with your students. 

A fantastic collection of sites targeted at high school students studying maths. Most are US based.

Looks good, I like the place value clip

A Different Way to Read Great Literature! This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!

SUPERB! Place the numbers on the number line. Loads of levels. Negative numbers and decimals. Play against the clock for a score. Good warm up activity useful for year 3 to year 6.

This site allows you to type in a search title eg John Howard and it will locate and collate a 'tubeline' on all the movies associated with the search title and place it on a time line.

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

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.

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.

Over 7,000,000 educational videos. WatchKnow website for finding educational videos for the classroom. This is also a great place to locate videos that you may want to download and incorporate into a Notebook lesson file. This site is maintained by the users and organized in a way that can really help teachers find relevant videos for the classroom. I also like the rating system that is used to help teachers make a educated decision on what videos to review.

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.

The very easiest way to publish your students work. Email the work in (words documents, photos, movies, presentations almost anything) and posterous will add it to your blog.

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

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.