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What is the Learning to Teach Online Project? From the UNSW The Learning to Teach Online project is a free professional development resource designed to help teachers from any discipline, whether experienced in online teaching or not, to gain a working understanding of successful online teaching pedagogies that they can apply in their own unique teaching situations.

All of the United Nations education projects and initiatives. Games, quizzes, resources and projects, this could be a core site in engaging students our global society

Any stage 3 teachers interested in a gaming  approach to learning. This would be very interesting.  The project aimed to trial the efficacy of student-developed games in stage 3 classrooms. This wiki features the results and impact of the project on learning from the perspective of students and teachers from the two primary schools involved.

TPACK iPad Project In Schools (TIPS) Dr Jenny Lane - Edith Cowan University Some good resources, very current and active 

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.

Digital citizenship project - worth a look

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Mobile Learning Good Practice Guide These tips may help you to benefit from the experiences of teachers and schools who have worked their way through many issues to establish and implement successful mobile learning projects.

Some good sources of royalty-free music for presentations/iMovies etc.

Art projects based on many famous artists. Also has great class murals for $5.

"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."

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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.

Simple iphone friendly story telling, location, images and text, quite good for a procedural text or excursion report. Students can collaborate on projects. Really good with mobile technology.

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!

The Zooniverse is home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects. Piggyback on others science knowledge! 

I was surprised. I learned things from this article. It can be projected in class to teach students also.

"Cyberbullying 2010: What the Research Tells Us " Some good statistics and presentation.

A page hosting the latest Horizon Reports. Look for the Horizon Report Australia/New Zealand Edition and the K12 Horizon Report

"The simplest way to search and find sounds" - Great website to use in digital storytelling projects