Great primary sites and activities

The ‘Read On’ site of Beenleigh State School has links to numerous English activities  -  http://www.beenleigss.eq.edu.au/requested_sites/sounds/index.html

Healthy Sanger Day and Science Planning – the students have used Comic Life and podcasts on this site – http://beachlands.wordpress.com/

Web 2.0 Tools

This site has been set up for school library media specialists to learn about new web tools – http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/

Another site for Web 2.0 tools – http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listweb20s.html

Web 2.0

A great resource for Web 2.0 – what, where and how!!!  -  http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/

Podcasting and more

Another great site for podcasting with how to, examples per subject and examples of how schools use them.

http://www.bgfl.org/45.cfm 

The site has a wealth of resources with links to Learning Objects, activities and games that are suitable for an interactive whiteboard for all subject areas.

http://www.bgfl.org/ 

Podcasting : An Exciting Innovation

This discussion from the Apple Learning Interchange relates many great ideas for podcasting, movie editing etc  -  http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=9988

Web 2.0 for the Classroom

This site has been collated by Sue Summerford and includes Web 2.0 Tools for use K – 12

http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listweb20s.html 

Google and all that you can do with a Google account

Thanks to a post on Drape’s Takes from Darren Draper in the US – this list is a very comprehensive list of ‘free stuff’ from Google – http://drapestakes.blogspot.com/2007/06/why-every-teacher-should-have-google.html

Blogs, writing and learning

I have been reading some very interesting blogs from schools in New Zealand – http://meadowbankroom18.blogspot.com/

In this blog the children are retelling traditional stories and recording the results – http://meadowbankreporters.blogspot.com/

Movies in teaching and learning

A wonderful resource from an inspiring educator Marco Torres, Flickschool is a “sharing community, a creative learning space’ for podcasts, movies, multimedia – http://web.mac.com/cinedelagente/iWeb/Site/%5B%20FLICKSCHOOL%20%5D.html

Marco, with his students, has run a film festival for a number of years in San Fernando – http://www.sfett.com/

Marco the Teacher – http://homepage.mac.com/torresu/

Geography Podcasts

The following are some examples of podcasts used for Geography

Some revision podcasts – http://cgz.e2bn.net/e2bn/leas/c99/schools/cgz/accounts/staff/rchambers/GeoBytes/GCSE%20Revision/Podcasts/Coasts%20Podcast/Podcast_GCSE_revision_hmp.htm