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This sounds like a great site for collaborative writing! Check it out!

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

A simple story about the beach by Kieran, age 5. Made in StoryBird with a 10 minute limit to learn how to use the application, write a book and read it. (Captured with a screen capture tool) Very nice tool. Currently you only able to publish it to storybird.

A cool idea for creating virtual flowers. The Black Eyed Peas have created/endorsed a site called Planting My Ideas. You can use music, images, and words to create your own flower, which is then be posted in the site's gallery. You can also post the link on a student or teacher's website/blog, and have students write about it as a language development activity.

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!

Did you know Spelling City offers more than just spelling practice? There's vocabulary and writing, too. Check us out http://bit.ly/c3xqWy

Studyladder has announced their free unlimited access to NAPLAN practice material. These cover years 3, 5 and 7.

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

Great teaching resources, sorted according to grade and subject area

Create your own online graphic novels

As the title suggests, this blog entry gives three registration-free tools for collaboration with some features and benefits for each tool. Has anyone used any of these before?

This site enables you to create 3D pop up books, I havent had a go yet, but it looks interesting!!

"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.

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.

tool for creating character profiles

These Wacky Web Tales are geared for grades 3 and above.

Some great suggestions on how to use Mind mapping tools such as Mind Node to scaffold stories. Great composition tool.

A great website for collecting ideas and strategies.

EtherPad is the web-based word processor that allows people to work together in real time