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An awesome website that allows you to complete a full essay plan online

cap that! resources are developed by teachers for teachers and are in keeping with the new Australian Curriculum. 

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.

February is Black History Month. Here's a word list to add to your lesson plans! This list can be used to play all of the games and activities on our site. http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=2851114

"5 Step Plan for Increasing Teacher Technology Integration" Worth a read

A website with relevant resources for Australian schools using SMARTBoards. Includes Notebook lessons and gallery items eg. Currency, Animals etc. Also has many lesson plans broken up into stages.

Great for Kinder and Year 1 classrooms. Read the magazine online and use the lesson plans provided. Great for Science and / or HSIE

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

Poses some questions to think about when planning all technology purchases for your school. Especially relevant to IWBs. The linked articles are also worth a look. One presents a very anti-IWB viewpoint however it does present some interesting ideas that may be worth considering when trying to ensure the success of you technology program.

"Sync.in is a web based word processor for people to collaborate in real-time. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate with text documents, useful for meeting notes, brainstorming, project planning, training, and mor"

Hi Steve, it looks like its based on the old etherpad code, a great tool until you hit 15 users.

Mark, Even the interface is very similar. PiratePad (http://piratepad.net/) is another alternative Google have now included the EtherPad feature in its new version of google docs (It' still in preview and you need to tick a box in the document editing settngs). I'm yet to try it out with a class. Found that EtherPad also had issues with the 15 users. In a class I would often make more than one pad.

The Art Project powered by Google features interior tours of seventeen world famous art museums. Select a museum from the list on the homepage and you can virtually tour it using the same interface style you experience in Google Maps Streetview. Inside the museum just double click to zoom to a location. You can also open a floor plan overview and click on a room to navigate to that part of the museum.

Ali Carr-Chellman spells out three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys be boys, and video games that teach as well as entertain.

A network of teachers committed the purposeful use of learning technologies to enhance learning and teaching. We plan to build a rich community of learners who will work to develop their professional currency and relevance.

Downloadable lessons and notebooks for the SMART board

Great ideas to help students with reading novels or writing book reviews or getting interested in reading

Scootle Australian Curriculum Tool This tool for exploring the year 5 and year 9 maths and english curricula. They are also looking for feedback via an online survey so it is worth checking out.

Some fantastic thoughts/suggestions on using/integrating/promoting the use of ICLT in the classroom - well worth a read.

A comprehensive list of web-based tools that can be used for organisation - well worth a read, especially for seconary teachers...

Site enables you to create search stories, very quick to use. I made one on Antarctica for my class in approx 4 mins

love this! Just fell across this tool this afternoon also - appropriate for all grades 3-12. Could also be modified for K-2

It looks good. Once people have seen it a couple of times it would take some careful planning to make something of value or real impact.