Manitoba Education Department have just published a handbook for parents (but equally good for teachers) on literacy with ICT. The booklet covers critical and creative thinking, ethics and responsibility and literacy and ICT. An easy read that is worth sharing with your parents.
ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that is designed to let anyone easily create their own customized 3D pop-up books. Very easy to create a pop-up book from scratch.
Plenty of example books to get you going.
Etherpad is a real time collaborative online word processor ideal for the primary classroom. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone’s screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting sessions, education, team programming, and more.
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Powerful, Drag & Drop Website Editor
Add pictures, videos, music and audio, maps, and photo galleries. Sell products, accept online bookings, create a contact form, or arrange your pages in multiple columns. Drag on slideshows, files, forums, games, RSS feeds, or any other HTML embed code — all by simply dragging and dropping.
This is a really easy to use website – safe for pupils to use, enabling them to make professional looking websites in minutes
This was originally posted by a variety of people in Twitter – it comprises of many photographs categorised by people, decade, places, events and culture – it has its own search facility making it very easy to track down images to support any project you are running in the classroom – as a teacher i would find this a really useful resource to support any work i was doing in the area of visual literacy –
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
Robin Hood Associates 