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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.

A fantastic article worth reading that explores teacher vs student expertise in ICLT and it's implications with teaching an learning. The interview at the bottom is also worth a listen, it is an interview with Edith, a student in England speaking about ICLT in her learning. She recently spoke at a TeachMeet, and in the interview, explores many aspects of ICLT in the classroom, including wether ICLT should be treated as an integrated, or separate subject.

Student Blogging Guidelines - What guidelines does your school have for students blogging and publishing work online? This article provides a good starting point with some guidelines and questions that students can ask themselves before they publish their blog/work online.

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.

Bio-Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person whose biography or autobiography they have just read. It can also be used as a prewriting activity for student autobiographies. Best for primary students.

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!

This is a great series that students will love which breaks history down into nice little bitse sized chunks you can flesh out in the classroom.  I really hope you enjoy going through this with your students.  A word of warning is that some of the language and content may not be totally appropriate to younger students.

A great blog post on the rewards of teaching young students to blog. Well worth a read...

Some fantastic tips on what to blog about, also touches on classroom management of student blogs (re: posting, comments etc) in the comments section...some schools starting as early as year 1 with services such as kidblog

Its a nice post with some good ideas about blogging with kids. Nice find Sam.

There are some great ideas on this to give meaning to blogging for students. They could be transferred to wikis too.

Some fantastic examples of students using technology to create math tutorials. Great way to empower and engage students.

Another vehicle for students to present with ...... I like it!!! Great for those students who are into scrapbooking. Can be embedded into a blog.

This is a pretty cool spelling activity, as the student clicks on the letters, different pictures appear on the page that begin with that letter (all kid-friendly!). As the student inserts more letters, the relevant images get larger if they are being spelt correctly. 

Searchcube is a graphical search engine that presents search results in a compact, visual format in three dimensions. A very interesting visual search, could be good to expand student thinking or for use with younger students

is a good visual vocabulary site that offers students illustrations that help students understand vocabulary. One drawback is that it has limited vocabulary, however could be used to introduce the word of the day / week etc Approp for Stage 3 and up

The second biggest search engine in the world and a massive collection of movies. Create a channel for your school or class and use it to publish student movies and keep parents involved in whats happening at school. Use the playlist function to direct students to the movies that you want them to watch.

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.

"For students and teachers, the Google Docs collection provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive. Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs."

This is an Xtranormal movie created by a primary TL at SJV - this is a fantastic example of how to motivate and involve students in support the implementation of leaning technologies. This type of approach also builds teacher's confidence offering teachers support within classrooms as they introduce new tools to their students. This is also a great move towards generating enthusiasm and creating momentum within your school.