Some more great CyberSafety resources/websites

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

A great collection of Cybersafety resources as presented at the Wollongong Diocese Cybersafety Forum last week.

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 couple of useful tools for you to use with your class. Worth a read...

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. 

This is a google custom search that finds all the best notebook files from some of the best interactive websites around. 

Some good video tutorials for SMART Notebook. A great blog to follow for SMARTBoard Resources and tips.

This blog entry shares some neat virtual musical instruments for use on the SMARTBoard

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. 

Here is a great review of a new PBS website which allows you to create a habitat based on the needs to a fictional  character. Once the students have finished creating the habitat, they could download it as a JPEG. Has some great tips on ways it could be useful in the classroom, too!

A fantastic collection of web-based math resources. Has a mini review for each site. 

A great tool for creating photo collages online - lets you download/email them for printing! 

38 Free Printable graphic organisers. 

Clay yourself is another website you can use for creating virtual avatars, with a twist. Using this website, you not only can create your Avatars, but you can also record a 'script' which will prompt the students to enter vowels, adjectives, nouns etc to make a funny story which they can then record and share it in a gallery. 

This is a very cool website which compares various measures of quality of life and standard of living compared to Australia. You just select the countries at the bottom of the page, then it will display various facts compared to Australia eg. use of electricity/oil, life expectancy, birth rates etc. 

PuzzleFast is a great site for making different types of puzzles (word, crossword, etc) that you can then print for students - great resource. 

This is an interesting website which allows children to hear other children their age reading stories, some would be familiar, whilst others might be new. The stories are written by several authors who contribute to the site, and all the videos are screened before they are uploaded. Many of the videos include captions in other languages, so it may be a good tool for language learning, too. 

Here are some great sites for finding Clipart for your docuements/SMARTBoards etc...

Here are some great things you should consider trying with your classes next year! Some of them will sound familiar, others might be new to you. Take a look at some of the tools listed, and let me know if you would like a hand with any of them!