Purposeful Learning Technologies

This is a great applications for downloading multiple creative commons images from flickr at once. It is an Adobe Air application that you download and install on your computer, you then search for a tag, and it allows you to select up to 50 photos to download to your desktop. Would be really useful for primary and infants classes. It saves you time as you do not need to download each image individually. 

kmlfactbook.org allows you to create Google Earth KML visualizations from your own global data-sets

Interesting move. Wonder if it takes hold in Aus?

will keep an eye on it, but wouldn't count on it happening soon, what do you think?

Free e-books! Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published

Some excellent puzzle/quiz creation tools - all suitable for the SMARTBoard!

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.

An alternative to Wallwisher geared towards primary students - worth a look. 

The Benefits of Social Networking Services - important research out of UWS

Creating self grading quizzes in google docs

A great geography game which lets you piece together the globe.. http://reachtheworld.org/geogames/Play-GeoGames.html - Worth a look

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

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.

"The Fast Food Explorer database contains the nutrition facts information of twelve of America's most popular fast food chains. "

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.

Great website for learning about writing letters. Goes through requirements of both Personal letters, and Business letters. Lets you print/save the document as a final product. 

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

View YouTube videos without the surrounding clutter

Want a fun way to help students practice and enhance their web research skills while discovering answers to trivia questions? Then check out "A Google A Day!"

Great collection of free children's books available online. The books are available in a dozen different languages and available to download in PDF format. Well worth a look

Bloom's Taxonomy According to Pirates of the Caribbean