A great site for downloading small animations for NoteBook files.

This article provides a good starting point with some guidelines and questions that students can ask themselves before they publish their blog/work online.

Free website for creating some pretty cool looking awards/certificates

SMARTBoard Activities on Weather for ES1 students.

An excellent website for creating graphic organisers online. Blog post has instructions on how to use the site.

A blog entry that each school should read before handing over iPod Touches to students/teachers. has the Do's & Don'ts of iPod touches in the classroom, very comprehensive list...

OLHC Rosemeadow's iPod Touch Blog. Shares resources/data about their 1:1 Journey with iPod touches in Kindergarten.

Some cool ways to use the Flip Camera in class

Some great resources from a new blog i have just come across. The post outlines online & application based art applications and comments on each of the different sites. Well worth a look if you are looking at art on an IWB.

Some fantastic tips on what to blog about, also touches on classroom management of student blogs (re: posting, comments etc) in the comments section...some schools starting as early as year 1 with services such as kidblog

Wacky Web Tales is designed for students in grades three and above. Wacky Web Tales asks students to fill-in a blank form using words to make parts of speech prompts. The words the students write into the blank form are the used in an automatically generated short story.

Shahi is a fantastic tool for ESL students, language and literacy learners. "Shahi is a visual dictionary that combines Wiktionary content with Flickr images, and more!" A number of definitions are provided and are categorised into nouns and verbs. Visuals from Flickr, Google Image and Yahoo assist users in grasping the meaning. Hover over a photo and the photo is enlarged. Click on a photo and that takes you to the photographer's site. Even words or phrases that are not recognised by the dictionary section are recognised by the photo section: Definitions also have links to other words in the dictionary, and once the link is clicked, it records a history of the words you have searched for - check it out

A cool tool to create quick acrostic poems. Asks the user to put their name in and then takes them through how to create the poem, and even gives suggestions if they are stuck for words.