St Joseph's Bulli Staff

Some nice punctuation games for the SMARTBoard

Heaps of useful information of grammar, definitions

A pretty cool site for creative writing. Puts a word on the screen and allows you to write for one minute. You can email the results. 

Some good information on blogging guidelines

Some good interactive games that would work well on the SMARTBoard for K/1 

This is a pretty cool spelling activity, as the student clicks on the letters, different pictures appear on the page that begin with that letter (all kid-friendly!). As the student inserts more letters, the relevant images get larger if they are being spelt correctly. 

a nice set of grammar activities for the SMARTBoard. 

good videos of lessons

I quite like this article on assessing learning without tests - gives some good alternatives. 

Fun site to use to teach basic grammar!

online drawing  and writing site. A little like storyjumper!

Good for teaching idioms

Great site.... online dictionary and thesaurus.... very similar to visuwords

Create music on the smtbd

Fun music activity for smtbd

Great on smtbd for music lesson - focus is on how music impacts on an individuals mood

Here is a review of the software which transcribes audio recordings in to text that we can use with the iPod Touches - sounds like it works quite well with a few quirks. 

Work Sheet Works is a wonderful site for creating handouts for any number of subjects such as: math, english, geography, etc.

Some great sources for creative commons media. Check the comments section for more!

This blog entry includes links to sixteen of the best  websites pertaining to internet safety for kids. Some are US-based, however, it provides a great starting point for those schools who are starting to tread cybersafety as a priority.