Technology

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Please add any useful websites, references to other useful resources or ideas to this page.

[|www.yammer.com] - Sign up using your department email address and join the thousands of teachers discussing interesting topics. A bit like Twitter only for teachers; and //**very easy**// to use.

[] An online FREE dictionary.

[] - great video lesson starters - use the videos to instigate great discussion and thinking. [] This US site has some useful links and free printables - aimed at K-3. [] A site with notebook lessons, PDF printables and various documents on a range of subjects. [|www.zoomerang.com] A great online resource which allows you to conduct surveys. Available free [|www.smartplaces.wikispaces.com] - designed for teachers who have varying degrees of experience with Interactive White Boards (Smartboards). This site is set up by one of the ladies who runs the BUGS (Board User Groups) and lots of the stuff she shows at those presentations can be found here. Easy to request membership - just create an acount and then request membership. You can then use the site and add information of your own (when you're up to it) [] - this is where you download the Toolkit 2.0 for Notebook 10. Lots of new gallery items and objects. [] - department wesite which allows teachers to share Smartboard lessons. You need to be on a department computer to access. If this link doesn't work try this process go to My Portal/My Websites/Learning Systems Implementation Team Resource Site/Resources [|www.teachertube.com] - a teacher and school friendly version of youtube with lots of videos fro use in the classroom on a huge range of topics. [|www.youtube.com] - just about everyone knows youtube but did you know that once you find a video you would like to download to have on your computer all you have to do is put **kick into the address between www. and youtube** and it will give you the option to save it straight into your video file for use later. If you want to use it in a Notebook10 save it as an FLV. file. [|www.neok12.com] - another site with lots of kid friendly videos and interactive activities. [|www.soungle.com] - an online search engine for sounds to put into presentations [|www.taggalaxy.com] - Fantastic - thousands of pictures on the topic of your choice presented in a fun and interesting way. Just type your topic into the search bar and watch the pictures fly in. [|www.rayslearning.com/report.htm] - Teacher's Report writing assistant. This little free download allows you to keep a bank of report comments and create complete subject comments to slip straight into your reports.