Glogster

A revolution in the Creative Expression of Knowledge and Skills!

Glogster EDU is your original educational resource for innovative and interactive learning. Glogster EDU was conceived to imaginatively, productively, and collaboratively respond to the dynamic educational landscape and exceed the needs of today’s educators and learners. We value the participation of educators and strive to assimilate their contributions to Glogster EDU, Glogster EDU is yours! Educators from all over the world are integrating Glogster EDU’s resourceful platform to make traditional learning more dynamic, more interactive and more in tune with learners today. Most importantly Glogster EDU is FUN for teachers and learners alike!

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Using Technology in Your Classroom

Lesson plans, how to videos,  how to use technology in your classroom.

http://www.nortellearnit.org/lessons/

Wallwisher

This is a great little website that allows students to add post it notes like a sticky wall.

Please ignore for now – it’s for my PD at the next staff meeting.

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/nolimits

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/nolimits2

Explore Documentary Videos

Documentaries to show your students – grouped by place or by topic – even lesson plans.

http://explore.org/videos/

Solvr

Solvr is a great collaborative tool where students can create a type of forum.  No email addresses needed – just share the url created when you enter the focus question.

http://www.a.freshbrain.com/solvr/

Free MIT Coursework

MIT offers free coursework for teachers and students on the following subjects.  More >

Biology

Chemistry

Computers and Electronics

Engineering

Foreign Languages

Math

Media, Music and The Arts

Physical Education

Physics

Social Sciences

Writing and Literature

Make your news stories look real

http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

My Place For Teachers

Welcome to My Place for Teachers

On this website you will find rich educational material to support primary and lower-secondary teachers using the My Place TV series in the classroom. Explore background information, aligned with the My Place stories, on events and people that are significant to Australia’s history. Download clips and stills from the TV series, as well as teaching activities and student activity sheets that relate to current themes. Go behind the scenes with production information and interviews, or chat with other teachers and share stories in the teacher’s forum.  More >>

Wolfram Alpha

Today’s Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing.

What is Wolfram Alpha and how does it work?

Go to Wolfram Alpha.

Using Wolfram Alpha in the Classroom (lesson plans)

Toolkit A-Z of online resources

A vast collection of online resources for education. More >>