Purposeful Learning Technologies

A charming short film about a parking validator come photographer...has won a heap of awards. Well worth a watch.

Effective animations that children would enjoy, which teach science concepts

Another Cybersafety resource by MTV et al. Includes a Quiz, stories, and fact sheets - worth a look

Name selector- create your own class name selector. Great tool to capture students attention Im going to ask....?

Develops the comprehension strategy of predicting

google maps in maths

Nice one Mark!!

Nothing new but an interesting read.

Some innovative ideas on how to use the various diigo features in different situations. Well worth a read.

interesting post on plagiarism

Great graphical search engine, even has capability for note taking.

My new favourite teaching idea that support the development of comprehension strategies through visualising and summarising

Some excellent apps for accessibility on the iPod Touch.

Scoopler is a real-time search engine. It aggregates and organizes content being shared on the Internet as it happens

Good tag cloud like searching for images leading to a sphere of images. Nice introduction to a unit or concept.

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

Google Squared takes a category and creates a starter 'square' of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web.

Looks like Youtube have brought in a new feature, Safety mode. Might be a good idea to turn it on if you're using YouTube in class