Purposeful Learning Technologies

Veezzle is a free stock photo search engine, searching around the largest free stock photos sites, saving your time and your money

"The simplest way to search and find sounds" - Great website to use in digital storytelling projects

I was just wondering which google apps people are making use of in their classrooms or for professional/personal use. A couple of questions I am thinking about at the moment are: 1. Should we be giving students experience with public access tools such as these so that they can take the skills they learn with them rather than the skills they learn specific to Myclasses/myinternet? 2. With myclasses etc perhaps being phased out/modified/replaced at some stage is this a viable alternative that could be used instead?

some good examples of how to use Twitter in the classroom

Upload any image and it can be turned into a jig saw! Very useful for all KLA's, all levels.

Some great Apple video tutorials

Blog of the Lighthouse Learning Technologies Course

Free icons... useful for docs or presentations.

A great blog post from a Year 3 Class explaining the importance of using creative commons and attributing your work to the original owner!

Very very cool. Make great videos very easily. ES1-S1 teachers get your photos from picasa.

"The Physics Front provides high quality resources for the teaching of physics and physical sciences courses. The Physics Front is a free service provided by the American Association of Physics Teachers in partnership with the NSF/NSDL. " Excellent physics resources for teachers - including primary and middle school!

Ideas for wiki use

A site to download the NSW Foundation Font for free

An awesome tool for creating story books for printing and sharing. Suitable for ES1-S1. Not embeddable at this stage, but very easy to share via email/link on blog...

Another great blog entry on a new art site. Also includes some ideas on how to use the tool in the classroom. Creates some pretty cool abstract art, and very easy to save/download. Would work well on a SMARTBoard

"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.

Some great royalty-free music - broken up in  early primary, primary. and secondary appropriate sounds!

I really like this- it talks about a progressions or stages of working with the IWB- from supported didactic-interactive-Enhanced interactive. Worth exploring

Michael Carr Gregg's 5 Reasons why Cyberbullying Policies are Ineffective.