Purposeful Learning Technologies

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This is a clever initiative by  google aimed at improving students' search skills. They have a question each day which requires a couple of google answers to find the correct answer. 

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.

A very active primary blog, worth a look. 

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

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

A handy spreadsheet for people starting to look at ipod apps for education like me.

None yet. We are in the process of planning the spending of a large IT loan we are taking out at the moment. The ipods will be part of the mix which will include laptops, ipods and perhaps ipads as well.

spreadsheet of tried apps with detailed descriptions. May be of help for schools looking for a starting point

Great for Kinder to develops mouse / track pad skills

Stories from prominent authors. Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go,

Super Maths World is good resource offering differentiated math practice. The activities offered on Super Maths World are suitable for students in primary and high school. The progress tracker is a good way for self-directed learners to measure their progress. The progress tracker and scores could also be used by teachers as a means of measuring a student's development. Worth a look!

A capitonym is a word whose meaning changes based on whether or not it is capitalized.

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

Over 7,000,000 educational videos. WatchKnow website for finding educational videos for the classroom. This is also a great place to locate videos that you may want to download and incorporate into a Notebook lesson file. This site is maintained by the users and organized in a way that can really help teachers find relevant videos for the classroom. I also like the rating system that is used to help teachers make a educated decision on what videos to review.

Great little download to add some more nice effects to ichat and photobooth.

Awesome website for checking out the planets in the solar system. Very interactive and has some interesting information for each planet. http://www.solarsystemscope.com/

Seven great websites for math video tutorials...great for visual learners!

Directions for setting up your ipad out of the box

Great site for accessing free on-line video tutorials to learn some of the basic features of the smartboard