Purposeful Learning Technologies

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.

An interesting article about a small k12 school in Scotland who went from a 24 mac school, to a 1:1 iPad school. Shares some information about how they are managing the iPads, their approach to using them and some of the school's thoughts on their use. Worth a read. 

This looks like an interesting application for collaboration on the iPad. You can collaborate with an unlimited amount of students/teachers/experts on the one pad and it is all in real-time, some fantastic potential uses for this app...

This American ESL Teacher has created a list of re best sites for learning about the Australian floods. The list will be updated as he finds new resources and articles, and may be useful for your class?

With so much of the Northeastern Australian floods dominating the news at present- this site would be great for you to share with students when you begin the school year- some fantastic images to generating discussions around such a hot topic,

I am experiencing the floods first hand - am trapped in Toowoomba at present and taking lots of pictures/video....scary stuff...

This is an interesting website which allows children to hear other children their age reading stories, some would be familiar, whilst others might be new. The stories are written by several authors who contribute to the site, and all the videos are screened before they are uploaded. Many of the videos include captions in other languages, so it may be a good tool for language learning, too. 

Some great science online resources for primary and high school classes

Here are some great things you should consider trying with your classes next year! Some of them will sound familiar, others might be new to you, they are all great tools which can improve teaching and learning

Cool Online tools presented by Darcy Moore

eAssessment for NSW Syllabus

this is a pretty cool site made by google which has video tutorials for mac and PC on basic skills, world wide web, communication, media and finding information. Is designed for parents, but would be useful for students, too!

Some great panoramic views from the seven wonders of the world! 

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

Interactive maps in 5 minutes

Hey LHS Kids is a science activities website for kids developed by the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley. Hey LHS Kids features some good activities for primary school students. 

This blog entry links to an article which promotes the use of webcams for improving children's reading fluency etc. Interesting stuff! Link to article here: http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/2010/11/webcam-research-helps-kids-improve.html

All you need is an iphone or ipad and some rather spectacular apps, and you can create a music creation> This is worth a look. Atomic Tom and Applegirl are great

A slideshare presentation focussed on web research which is well worth viewing for any LT Coordinator . Has some great information and statistics on search, and how search-englines work. Also shares tools you can use for optimizing your search and saving your sources for later viewing. 

Just came across this post which has some great web-based resources for teaching languages, and links to an article outlining some important reasons for teaching a child a second language in the 21st century. 

Some video tutorials on how to use Apple's operating system geared towards the education market. Worth a look for teachers + students.