Purposeful Learning Technologies

Great Australian resource for educating parents, students and teachers

Cybersmart provides activities, resources and practical advice to help young kids, kids, teens and parents safely enjoy the online world. Cybersmart also offers training and resources for schools and materials for library staff.

Easy Movie/cartoon making - Make 3d movies for free. Includes a range of languages, easy to use interface and a selection of backgrounds. Great for languages, story telling, role playing and different presentation

Edublogs now has a directory to make it easier to find/follow blogs of a particular category... 

video instructions on how to invite users to your PB Works wiki

This site could be recommended to parents as activities they could allow their child to engage in at home to develop some core computer/keyboard skills

Another site to develop typing skills- kinder

More links to some good activities aimed at developing mouse skills eg drag and drop etc

Link to some good activities aimed at developing mouse skills eg drag and drop etc

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

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version"

Directions for setting up your ipad out of the box

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/

A great collection of keyboarding games for kids

 A Variety of FREE handwriting sheets. http://cot.ag/dnduUE

If you want your students to use the internet for research, but find that sites such as Wikipedia can overwhelm students and contain too much information - then you might like to take a look at the Simple English Wikipedia. The Simple English Wikipedia uses simple English words and grammar to explain topics.  There are 70,000 articles on the site, a fraction of the 3 million articles that are on the main wikipedia page, but enough for most students. Check before you send kids towards the site that it contains the topics you want them to research. If it doesn't you could always create a page and add the information yourself - or make it a goal for the research project to write a page!

A great video to introduce K-2 to certain aspects of Internet Safety. The video makes some comparisons between the real world, and the online world, and at the end sets some rules to follow. Worth a look. 

These links/ideas are most useful for use with IWB's - interactive graphics help students explore the impacts and implications of the crisis in Japan