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**Interface Magazine**
Allan employed us all to subscribe to this magazine, you can also access it online. It has some great articles as well as lesson plans. @http://www.interfacemagazine.co.nz/ **Digistore** This been developed to launch an increasing range of resources. Digistore is a storehouse of digital content to support learning across the curriculum, from early childhood through to senior secondary. **All teachers should know about this**. @http://digistore.tki.org.nz/ec/p/home

New Zealand Digital Collections
Digistore includes content selected and made available specifically for education purposes. [|This list provides access] to further sources of digital content relevant to teaching and learning programmes in New Zealand

ICT Community News
@http://www.tki.org.nz/e/community/ict/

ICT Ideas Bank
** @http://www.tki.org.nz/r/ict/ideas/index_e.php **

Software for Learning
[|Website] Wiki

Planning
A site where teachers can upload and share resources and planning. Although it is a UK site there are some resources from NZ teachers []

Assessment
A concerned look at the effects of USA No Child Left Behind literacy and numeracy focus on a child's whole education. Worth exploring! []

ICT ideas and plans
This list has been developed in the UK in 2008. How many of these ICT tools and applications are you using to enhance learning? This link gives you lots of inspiration and ideas... The possibilities of ICT appear to be endless. http://www.teachertube.com/index.ph p [] [] [|Top 100 tools for learning...]
 * Teacher Tube:**

WonderHowTo
This site hand-selects and curates the best instructional videos from over 1,700 websites. Explore the largest collection of free how-to videos []

Instructables
This is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others.[]

ExpertVillage
This offers the largest choice of professionally produced and researched videos, to answer your everyday questions with answers you can trust []

EDtalks
This is a growing collection of videos featuring New Zealand and International educators talking about learning. EDtalks is CORE's contribution to your professional learning; a free database of short video interviews with leading educators and thinkers. There is some really thought provoking stuff here. []

Wordle
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. []

Bubbl.us
Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online. []

Building stories
You can develop your own online passages [|using this link]. At this stage you can't save your work however if you use it and like it send an email to the author j.davis.mac.com and tell him how much you are looking forward to being able to author and save your stories.

Triptico e-learning design
Useful site for online widgets such a spinning wheel & countdown timer. Great to use with a data projector for a numeracy or literacy lesson. []

Dorothy Burt - GoogleFest
Dorothy's notes from the GoogleFest Breakout. This discusses the use of Google Documents and other tools in your learning programmes. Well worth exploring! []

Better Mind Mapping
 ** "XMind is the world's coolest brainstorming and mind mapping software and the best way to share your ideas." ** [] = =

Drawing..
= = [|Check out this nifty site] that enables sketching using a variety of styles. Quite fascinating!

Primary Pad
[|Primary Pad] is a web-based word processor designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time.

50+ Ways to Create Digital Stories with Students
[|Creating stories using web tools] is fun and engaging for student while also teaching them new skills. Best of all you can embed them in blog posts to grab readers; including something a bit different makes reading posts more interesting.

Glogster
Simply put, Glog is a kind of poster - fully designed by the user! Glog is a fancy creation from text, images, music and video. [|Glogster] is great for students who...
 * are known to struggle with written words because its format encourages short and sweet distillations of content.
 * are visual learners because it focuses on visual literacy (not just the written word).
 * are musical because it allows students to embed music and play with the music in language.
 * are hands-on learners because it requires the creation of unique content that is not limited to pen and paper or word-processing.
 * are social because it encourages networking and collaboration.

VoiceThread
A [|VoiceThread] is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. **Weboword** Sometimes learning vocabulary can be tough for students who are more of a visual learner. [|Weboword] is a great tool for those students who prefer learning through images.

PhotoPeach
[|PhotoPeach] is a great way of putting a sequence of images together and then uploading them to your online environment.

Rock You
Yet another [|photo sharing website!] =Animation=

A number of sites with lessons and ideas for stop motion animation.
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Stopmotion Animator
[|Stopmotion Animator] is a freeware download that allows users of PC computers to use a webcam to easily and quickly create stop-motion movies. **Web 2.0 : Wikis and Blogs**

Wikis
A great youtube clip explaining the advantages and basics of a wiki. [] Sign up here for a FREE wiki, [|http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers] Getting Tricky With Wikis! http://gettingtrickywithwikis.wikispaces.com/ **
 * Wikispaces For Teachers

Site developed by Teachers First, that covers the basics of a wiki.
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** This site aims to answer one question: **How can I use wikis in education?
http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/

**Software for Learning**
http://softwareforlearning.wikispaces.com/

Edublogs
Blog site set up for teachers and students that can allows for blogs to be run and monitored easily. []

Suzie Vesper's blog
[|http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org/]

Dorothy Burt's Blog (Pt England School)
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Alannah King's Blogs:
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Lenva Shearing from Bucklands Beach Intermediate has collated a number of FREE tools for schools to use. http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

Web 2.0 Tools and Applications
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Web 2.0 Guru
The Best WEB 2.0 Resources for Relevant Educational Technology Integration. http://web20guru.wikispaces.com/ = =

QuietTube
Video without the distractions. [|http://quietube.com/]

Amazing Web 2.0 [|Project Book (PDF file)]
=e-portfolios... Resources that will inspire and inform!= ** This video is a true NZ example of how e-portfolios are being used at Russell Street School as a formative assessment tool. ** [|e-portfolios @ Russell Street - Video about the purpose and potential...] This video footage is supported by Nick's research report carried out in 2008 [|Nicks Research - A lot of reading, but very informative]Nick's slide show about eportfolios media type="custom" key="5494971" Ian Fox is a NZ principal. He has used traditional portfolios in his teaching and he has now implemented and reported on the development of e-portfolios at an Intermediate level. His 'Learning to Learn' portfolio model is of high relevance as the 'process' and learning journey aspect of e-portfolios is established in any classroom / school. This model is also very timely with the introduction of the revised curriculum and resulting philosophy of developing life long learners. [|More NZ research and suggestions based on life long learning...]
 * 87 projects, 10 further resources, 52 applications.
 * The benefits of using Web 2.0 applications.
 * The challenges of using Web 2.0 applications.
 * How the folk who ran these projects handled the issues...
 * And what they recommend you do if you run them.
 * What were the learning outcomes?

Dr. Helen Barretts - e-Portfolios Guru
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Jing
[|Jing] allows you to record what is happening on your screen, so you can this with others. Very useful for creating "How To..." instructions (Mac and PC versions available).