Weally Wonderful Websites V5.4



Weally Wonderful Websites – V5.4Author: Gerry Kennedy ? September 2011-10795741045Numerous web sites that accommodate students who have different learning styles and needs exist and are used daily in classrooms throughout Australia. It is often difficult to locate and remember the links for useful education based sites, as well as for access, communication, use with Interactive Whiteboards, switches and other devices. Remembering and storing favourites and keeping track of them are also difficult if educators move from one classroom to another or from one location (e.g. home) to school. Programs such as Delicious () provide opportunities for users to store and keep favourite and important web URLs (an abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator). Delicious uses a non-hierarchical classification system in which users can tag each of their bookmarks with freely chosen index terms. A combined view of everyone's bookmarks with a given tag is available; for instance, the URL "" displays all of the most recent links tagged "maths". Its collective nature makes it possible to view bookmarks added by other users. Delicious has a "hotlist" on its home page and "popular" and "recent" pages, which help to make the website a barometer of Internet trends. Users can access it on any internet connected PC or Notebook so that users can reference their own links, and that of thousands of others who have stored and tagged similar content. It is a free service and is protected by password access.Design Principles Employed in this DocumentTo make it easier and faster to locate sites, especially when working with students for greater autonomy and independence, I have chosen to record URLs in an MS Word Document, with the data arranged in a table format. The document can then be stored on school servers or classroom computers or saved to external hard or USB thumb drives for quick and easy access at school or at home. No need to remember a specific web address!The MS Word file format can also be converted to a PDF, or to Large Print, or it can be converted into MP3 format (using free TTS and text-to-audio software such as Balabolka () or Wordtalk (see below). Reversioning into alternate formats, as well as to hard copy, caters to different learning/access needs.Each web site has a thumbnail representation to CRTL-Left click on (i.e. hyperlinked to the corresponding web home page or relevant start page of a site). This provides a visual cue for students who are very young and also caters to non-readers, the print handicapped or those with dyslexia or other learning difficulties or people who are ‘visual learners’.To navigate to the site required, simply CTRL-Left click onto the graphic representation of the site in the left hand column.The sites are grouped according to KLA (Key Learning Areas) and a brief description and blurb is provided so that teachers, support staff, parents and students can quickly identify sites that might cater to their needs more quickly before randomly navigating to them. It saves efforts to try to type the correct URL, some of which are quite challenging.To assist students who require Text-to-Speech technology so that they can listen to the text being voiced as they read, download and install a free copy of Wordtalk V4.2 (). It will appear as an ‘add-in’ in MS Word 2007/2010 or as a new toolbar in MS Word 2003. Another handy free program is Orato (). It will voice any text that is copied to the clipboard (i.e. the user highlights or selects text in any application, website or CD and then presses Ctrl-C keys).Sections are separated with corresponding page numbers and the headings are coloured for easier referencing.Categories are all listed for easy location and navigation throughout the document. To navigate quickly to a page, press Ctrl-G and type in the desired page number and then press Enter or click on the Go To button.A NEW feature: Sites added from a previous version are now marked in a yellow highlight with NEW added to suitability.Please email or contact me and share other sites that you have discovered or use in your classrooms with students so that this document can become an ongoing resource, to be updated every month or so and then republished and shared. This is Version 5.4 and I hope to expand it to many more pages in 2011. Please also report lost, missing or dead links to me at: specmelb@.au. Please feel free to distribute/republish this document and post this document to other sites “as is”.Note: Up-to-date copies of Weally Wonderful Websites, and other articles are available at: and at . These are resources are all available as downloads in MS Word format and on other sites in PDF format.CategoryPagesResearch and Data Collection3Dictionary and Thesaurus4eBooks & Free Books Online - Updated5-7Talking Books8-10Literacy Activities & Games - Updated11-13Spelling and Phonics14-15Brainstorming & Mind Mapping16Organisation & Planning - Updated17-18Mathematics - Updated19-24Science - Updated25-27Cause and Effect and Switch Activities (many activities also suitable for Touch Window and IWB)28-30Music - Updated31-34Problem Solving - Updated35Teaching Resources for Educators - Updated36-42Disability Related Resources - Updated43-44Freeware & Open Source - Updated45-46Web Browsers - Updated47-48Geography and History - Updated49Art & Design - Updated50-53iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch Resources - Updated54-56Typing and Keyboarding - New57Blogging and Online Communities - New58Remember: Press CTRL-G and then the page number (e.g. 23) to move directly to that page.To decrease and enlarge the document view, hold down the CTRL key and roll the mouse wheel forwards (to increase) and backwards (to decrease) the page magnification.Some advice to parents and educators about using online resources:Websites content sometimes changes in design, appearance and location and even functionality over time. Some sites update daily (e.g. news services) whilst others may look slightly or completely different over time.The URL (or web address) or web links can sometimes change, be redirected or fail (as there may be some short or long term maintenance on the site).Some sites are closed, shut down or taken over by other companies or individuals and redirection notices posted.Add favourite or useful sites to the Bookmark’s or Favourites in logical sections/folders on a school or home computerUse online sites such as , and to store web links (with annotations and tags) so that they can be located and referenced on any computer/location that has internet accessIf you discover sites that are appropriate and meet your needs, use a text highlight colour and ‘paint’ or highlight the section(s) in this document for easy referral for yourself, students or other colleagues. Blue highlights mean that they are newly added.Be aware that some sites download large amounts of data (especially video, music and rich multimedia content) so be sure not to over extend your internet usage allowance, particularly at home.Some programs require certain privileges to download and/or to install them. If in doubt, ask for IT support or advice.Some programs are very large in size so be sure to check available disk space or download usage/time so that the file can be safely and securely acquired.In addition:Always have up-to-date firewall and virus protection software installed and active.Make sure security, content and privacy settings are active and set to appropriate levels.Research & Data CollectionDescription and Suitability : A picture based interface encyclopedia for students in primary of for students who have different learning needs. Navigation is easy and the topics cater to younger students. An ideal resource to be used online in classrooms as content is relevant and safe.Suitable for: Very young children and those with different abilities. : is an online library and research Web site. puts millions of articles from some of the world’s most authoritative and highly respected publications at a student’s fingertips. It is a free online encyclopedia and features premier titles like The Columbia Encyclopedia, Oxford’s World Encyclopedia, and the Encyclopedia of World Biography.Suitable for: Upper primary and secondary students. : Britannica Online For Kids is an essential online homework helper for children aged 6-14 years. It covers core subjects - Mathematics, English and Science as well as History, Geography, the Arts and many more subject areas. Britannica Online For Kids provides access to curriculum relevant encyclopedia articles, learning activities, games and videos for Years 3 through 10 in Australia and New Zealand.Suitable for: Lower and upper primary and junior secondary students's_Encyclop%C3%A6dia: The Children's Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia originated by Arthur Mee and published by the Educational Book Company, a subsidiary of Amalgamated Press of London. It was published from 1908 to 1964. Walter M. Jackson's company Grolier acquired the rights to publish it in the U.S. under the name ‘The Book of Knowledge’ (1910). Each search will also generate appropriate images, photographs, drawings, maps and other pertinent illustrations.Suitable for: Lower and upper primary and junior secondary students : The Fact Monster provides students with an Encyclopedia Search that has access to more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. It offers an inviting uncluttered interface and the information is appropriate for most students in primary and secondary schools.Suitable for: Lower and upper primary and junior secondary students : An interesting concept, with the rudimentary topics of an encyclopedia represented in cartoon descriptors. This will appeal to students who enjoy cartoons and require simplified content for research in an amendable format.Suitable for: Lower and upper primary and junior secondary students The New World Encyclopedia organizes human knowledge in a way that allows a reader to learn information, not just for its own sake, but for its value to the world as a whole. The underlying goal of the encyclopedia is to promote knowledge that leads to happiness, well-being and world peace. The New World Encyclopedia is an ever-expanding body of knowledge that currently contains thousands of carefully selected articles.Suitable for: Lower and upper primary and junior secondary students : Freepedia is a series of free encyclopaedias. They currently specialise in the historical research of writers and period properties but they also intend to branch out into other areas. Entries usually include a narrative, illustrations and primary sources. The text within each entry is linked to other relevant pages in the encyclopaedia and on the web. Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary studentsDictionary and ThesaurusDescription and Suitability : This is a very clear and uncluttered web site. The word definitions appear quickly and in a large clear font. All dictionary words and definitions are sourced from Encarta ? World English Dictionary and 2009 Microsoft Corporation. The site content was developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.Suitable for: Lower and upper primary and junior secondary students. : Provides meaning and definitions for millions of words. It also has a Flash Card game across word puzzles and links to other sites for thesaurus and word game activities. A free app for iPhones, iPads, Androids and other mobile devices is freely downloadable for portable access to this very flexible dictionary.Suitable for: Upper primary, secondary and tertiary students. : Babylon online dictionary provides meanings for words in numerous categories. More than 1400 dictionaries and 75 languages are available. Users can search myriads of terms, expressions and phrases and it covers a wide range of fields such as Law, Science, Medicine, Music, Business and many more.Suitable for: Upper primary, secondary and tertiary students. : An extremely comprehensive and powerful online resource. It is ‘busy’ and quite cluttered in design but it offers a great deal of flexibility with many options. It provides some online activities such as a Spelling Bee, Hangman game and word of the day. Multiple language support caters to LOTE students and those who wish to work in languages other than English. Note: A free toolbar add-in is available for Mozilla Firefox browsers and has a great deal to offer more capable students.Suitable for: Upper primary, secondary and tertiary students. : is an extensive free Dictionary Project. It represents an extremely comprehensive resource site that lists every conceivable resource to do with meanings, derivations and contexts of words as well as free downloadable dictionaries, portable apps and other related resources.Suitable for: Upper primary, secondary and tertiary students. : Lingoes is an easy and intuitive dictionary and text translation software, It offers lookup dictionaries, full text translation, capture word on screen, translate selected text and pronunciation of words in over 80 languages. These languages are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Greek, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Arabic, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Thai and more...Suitable: Upper Primary and Secondary through Tertiary and ESL students : The Sage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a professional software package that integrates a complete dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single and powerful language reference system. The Sage can look up words directly from almost any program (Internet Explorer, MS Word, Mozilla Firefox, MS Outlook) and is also 100% portable. Due to popular demand, The Sage's dictionary is online. Note: Only the definition database is consulted.Suitable for: More capable Upper Primary and all Secondary and Tertiary studentseBooks & Free Books OnlineDescription and Suitability : Bartleby is an internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and curious readers with unlimited access to books and information on the web at no cost.Suitable for: Upper primary and junior secondary students. : is one of the most useful web sites for locating and obtaining free eBooks that are out of copyright (i.e. published over 50 years). Texts can be acquired in a number of text, HTML and PDF formats as well as in popular eBook formats including ePub and Plucker. Students can download over 33,000 free eBooks to read on a PC, iPad, Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android or other mobile phone. They provide high quality books. Their free books were previously published by bona fide publishers and digitized with the help of thousands of volunteers.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary and Tertiary students as well as all educators.: : ‘All Books Should Be Free’ is a source of free audio books. Books Should Be Free hosts hundreds of free audio books in a wide range of categories and offers titles for readers of all ages. The audio books can be downloaded from Books Should Be Free website and or via iTunes software. All of the audio books in the collection are either public domain or Creative Commons works. Books are illustrated with a cover page for easier identification. Suitable: Readers of all ages. : The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet and aims to encourage the development of online books, for the benefit and edification of all. Major parts of the site include: An index of hundreds of thousands of online books freely readable on the Internet ; Pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts ; Special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books ; Information on how readers can help support their growth Suitable: Readers of all ages: A listing of sites that provide access to eBooks in the public domain that may be freely accessed, as well as some other books under specified conditions. This website lists links to free digital libraries in Australia and New Zealand as well as free eBook websites.Suitable: For readers of all ages : Bookshare offers accessible books to people all over the world with qualifying print disabilities. Thousands of accessible books are available for download to International Members, based on copyright permissions granted by publishers and authors. Currently Bookshare has over 90,000 books available to their members in over 30 countries.Suitable: For readers of all ages: Gizmo’s Free Listings: This is a listing of 260 sites that legally offer free books (eBooks) for download or for online viewing. The author discovered these sites, all or most of which should offer free eBooks as a reference. They should be authentic but some have not been thoroughly checked.Suitable for: Readers of all ages: World Public Library is a subscriber service. The World Public Library Association Collection boasts more than 500,000 eBooks all published in the PDF format and are available in over 90 languages. Suitable for: Upper Primary through to adults. Subscription required. - UDL Book Reader Share publish and read books online or offlineStudents can use Book Builder site to create, share, publish, and read digital books that engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.Suitable for: Readers of all ages. - University of Adelaide - The purpose of this site is to provide access to the “classic” works of civilisation and to promote reading of the same. There are many sites offering classic works in one form or another. Putting them into a format which readers might actually enjoy using them is their aim. Suitable for: Readers of all ages.eBooks & Free Books OnlineDescription and Suitability : These are not talking books but a treasure trove of stories from all genres, catering to younger children and those that require illustrated texts. The books can be read online. This site is very suitable for children using Interactive Whiteboards in classrooms and equally at home with mouse or trackball or touch window/screen.Suitable for: Junior Primary to Junior Secondary. : NAACE Primary - Big books. These do not have speech but are designed to be used online (or offline) as Big Books. Thirteen books are listed. Each book has text on the left hand side and photographs on the right.Suitable for: P – Year 3 and children with different abilities.: ‘GenieBooks in PowerPoint’ are decodable books for beginning readers Books in PowerPoint format. All are listed with brief descriptions next to them. They do not have speech but are colourful and well designed. (Note: Some are in HTML format).Suitable for: P – Year 3 and children with different abilities. : Planet eBook is the home of free classic literature. All of their novels and books are entirely free for readers to download and share with their friends, classmates or educator’s students. There are about a hundred of titles including most of the classics. They are in PDF format and can be downloaded as 1 page or as 2-page eBooks.Suitable for: P – Year 12 Free poetry. The Poetry Foundation offers news, articles, media links, poetry events, videos, audio casts, podcasts and more! A very comprehensive site.Suitable for: Years 2 – Year 12 Inkless Tales. Collections of stories, poems and colouring-in activities, as well as a download section and games. Downloads are available as PDF files. The DOLCH collection is wonderful.Suitable for: K-Year 2 : This site offers a number of different resources – all to do with reading. There are eBooks, ePoetry, learning activities and blackline masters, with a very useful download section. “Literactive was devised and developed by a professional team of educators and technical developers. The program is designed to help early learners develop their reading and comprehension skills through a carefully balanced and progressive reading program.” There are a good range of Flash formatted activities to download and use, once users are registered (this is all free).Suitable for: K-Year 8 : Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. They focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Online interactive activities, with engaging 15-minute video programs. ‘Behind the Lesson’ provides information and teaching resources for each strategy.Suitable for: Years P- 4eBooks & Free Books OnlineDescription and Suitability JacketFlap - This is another site targeted at younger students. It is a very comprehensive site for Children's Literature. They have a database of over 900,000 children's books, blogs, publishers as well as member bookshelves. JacketFlap connects students to the work of more than 200,000 authors, illustrators, publishers and other creators of books for Children and Young Adults. The site is updated daily with information about every book, author, illustrator, and publisher in the children's / young adult book industry.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary NEW SparkNotes - One of the handy resources that students can use is SparkNotes, which is a modern version of the old Cliff's Notes, with many new features. So, if you are a student or know any who need homework help for English or Literature classes, be sure to check this site out.Suitable for: Secondary and Tertiary students and adults NEW Flashlight Worth Books - A curated list of book recommendations. The site currently features 427 lists of books ranging from "Tween Romances to Love" to "10 Great Books for Mother-Daughter Book Clubs" to "Malcolm Gladwell's Favourite Books" helpfully categorized into areas like Award Winners, Health & Medicine, and Sea Stories.Suitable for: Secondary and Tertiary students and adults NEW E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable eBooks, documents and lecture notes found on the internet. Users can elect to submit and promote their own eBooks, add comments on posted books or just browse through the directory below and download anything that they need.Suitable for: Secondary and Tertiary students and adults NEW We want to promote the use of audio and video educational material for personal and professional development. What does this mean? It means that we want to help you to see how you can turn 'dead time' (time spent commuting, exercising, doing chores, etc.) into 'learning time.' Most of us have at least a couple of hours each day where we could be learning a foreign language, deepening our spiritual or philosophical interests or learning about any of hundreds of different subjects. We want to help you find material that is both entertaining and educational. Suitable for: Secondary and Tertiary students and adults NEW - These books are not free but cater to disengaged readers (predominantly boys) and are at an appropriate reading level. All eight titles in the HIP Edge series, ideal for students in secondary school who are reading at a grade 3-4 level but with topics and stories that are of interest to teenagers. All eight novels are set at Edgemont High, with some characters appearing in three or four different books. Special price for the set: US $79.95Suitable for: Secondary and Tertiary students and adults NEW Marvel Comics will appeal to those students who may be reluctant readers but who would enjoy reading and researching the vast array of Marvel Comics. It offers news, games, videos, links, discussion boards and has downloads and extras for students to explore. A comprehensive site with some great resources and with high interest content that may appeal to boys who struggle with other genres.Suitable for: Secondary students NEW Shelfari is a community-powered encyclopaedia for book lovers. Students can create a virtual bookshelf, discover new books, connect with friends and learn more about their favourite books – all for free. An excellent resource for teachers and students alike.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students NEWTalking BooksDescription and Suitability These are the very popular talking books from Priory Woods in the UK. Simple talking storybooks can be created with commonly available presentation software such as MS PowerPoint enabling and motivating children with poor literacy skills to produce meaningful, high quality work. All of the stories featured on this site were created together with pupils from as young as Year 1. They give educators and students some ideas for talking story books and what can be achieved.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students with special learning and/or reading needs. : Speakaboos provides a range of stories online for retelling of a wide range of books including fairy tales, fables, folk tales, nursery rhymes and songs. Most of the content is free. The high quality production provides animation, music and books retold using actor’s voices.Suitable: Junior Primary to Junior Secondary and especially children with different abilities. : Online collection of Aesop’s Fables includes a total of 638 Fables, indexed in table format, with the associated morals listed. Many of the books are narrated using children's voices. It is a very austere site with few tricks and graphics. It caters to students who are familiar and comfortable with reading text, or listening to text.Suitable for: All students who are studying or enjoy Fables.: Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audio book) format. You can -Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go; listen to the Mp3 files on your computer or view the text on a webpage and read along as you listen or print out the stories and poems to make your own book.Suitable for: Primary through Secondary : Illustrated children's stories for children of all ages. The titles are categorized for very young, young and older students. Each title has an associated graphic representing the story. There are also links to games, colouring-in books and other relevant activities.Suitable for: Readers of all ages who require illustrated books. : Tar Heel Reader is a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress (i.e. Open Office Org – ) or in Flash format. Each book can be speech enabled (online) and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches. Books can be read in PowerPoint on a PC using PowerTalk freeware (). PowerTalk will voice any MS Windows PowerPoint file.Suitable: Junior Primary through Secondary, especially reluctant readers. : LibriVox provides free audio books all taken from the public domain. There are several options for listening. The first step is to get the MP3 or Ogg Vorbis (i.e. a sound/music format) files into your own computer. There are over 4000 projects available.Suitable for: Upper Primary and Secondary students: This website was created to allow beginning readers to read books on their web browser. Readers can click on the triangle in the lower right-hand corner of each page to turn the pages. If they are unsure of a word, they can click on it to hear a child's voice read the word to them. The books have been sorted by level and by subject according to the curriculum. Suitable for: Upper Primary and junior Secondary students This website features Junie B. Jones, the character from the chapter book series. It is a creative resource for further reading about this popular character and has activities and games. There are a variety of spelling games to learn new words.Suitable For: Year 2 through 4Talking BooksDescription and Suitability - ESL Storybooks: Appropriate storybooks for beginner students, interest level 6 to 12 years. Storybooks and ESL Textbooks for English as a Second Language. This website is for ESL Teachers who need ESL Instructional material for ESL Kids. Their storybooks feature exciting adventure stories to encourage children reading and comprehension of English as a second language.Suitable for: Year 6 - 12 - Make a Story - from Edmark. Use of simple yet effective animation with words closed out. Children click on objects to complete simple questions. Engaging graphics and clear use of a child actor’s voice.Suitable for: P – 2 and children with different abilities. - Storyline Online provides children with a number of books that are read aloud by actors. Well known actors’ voices are used. The animation and colour is very engaging and there are a number of stories from which to choose. There are follow-up activities online as well as downloadable activities for each story. All of the stories are captioned.Suitable for: Junior Primary to Junior Secondary. : Children can type their own sentence or short story and an online avatar (or character) will voice it back immediately. It lists a very large range of text-to-speech voices and is ideal for ‘testing’ TTS voices with children, before buying other programs. In addition, it’s just fun.Suitable for: P – Year 2 and children with different abilities.: A free 14 day trial is available to Reading Eggs, an ABC site. “ABC Reading Eggs makes learning to read interesting and engaging for kids, with great online reading games and activities. Children love the games, songs, golden eggs and other rewards which, along with feeling proud of their reading, really motivate children to keep exploring and learning.” There are plans for schools, classes and parents at home.Suitable for: P – Year 2 and children with different abilities. Signed Stories is a wonderful web site with animated storybooks and stories with narration, music and sound effects, most particularly with signed English (UK sign language). There are many stories in different genres – adventure, fairy tales and folk tales, ones for toddlers, families and fun ones! A great resource for both students and people wishing to use/learn/model sign language and practise skills.Suitable for: P – Year 9 and children with different abilities, especially Deaf or staff dealing with signing (UK based) : Online Audio Stories – is a collection of children’s stories. Online Audio Stories is the sister site of Tales of Time. The talesoftime.co.uk site produces great quality audio stories and each story is layered in hundreds of sound effects and accompanying music for a better and more enhanced audio experience. Both sites were created by Abigail Rice and Dalibor Kozak in 2007.Suitable for: P – Year 6 students and those who require audio : Another site with story books targeted at children. Tales of Timeare high quality Audio Stories for Children with sound effects and music. There are some that are free to download and use, with the text sent to the user. Others are at cost in UK pounds. A wide range of titles are available.Suitable for: P – Year 6 students and those who require audioTalking BooksDescription and Suitability: Grandpa’s Farm has pages of a story spoken in a female human sounding voice. There is also a movie as well from which to choose. At the end of the story, young children can move the animals onto the farm page using a mouse, touch window or IWB.Suitable For: Prep – Year 1 : Simply Audio Books allows users to download free digital audio books and listen on a favorite MP3 player, computer, or simply burn the audio books to a CD. There are over 6,000 audio books, lectures, radio shows. There is a 15 day free trial then paid subscription.Suitable for : All ages : There are several types of children's books. The main categories are picture books, fairy tales and folktales, traditional literature, fiction, non-fiction, biographies, and poetry. Some?in?audio?format is available as well. ‘All books written specifically for children would be considered a children's story. Children's books are specifically for children up to the age of twelve. Most of these books are illustrated, but as the reader gets older, the illustrations are less and less. Suitable for: Junior Primary to Year 4Literacy Activities/GamesDescription and Suitability : opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to motivate children to read with phonics. Their systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first year, second year, special education, home school, and English language development (i.e. ESL). Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.Suitable for: Junior Primary and especially children with different abilities : This website has many different games for children to develop literacy skills. There are multiple games under each category to keep children interested. Each game is challenging in multiple ways. A number of different sites are provided to cater to different needs.Suitable for: For Junior Primary through to Junior Secondary : The Scholastic Language and Literacy site has some wonderful activities. This website focuses on rhyming, naming, and letters. Three different animals encourage students to work with them to build vocabulary, identify letters, and match rhyming words.Suitable for: Junior Primary through Year 1 and children with different abilities. : Mrs. Clarke’s Welcome to Year 1: A comprehensive list of online interactive websites. Students can practice correct sentence structure using keyboard and mouse with this vast assortment of sites. Many are ideal for use with an Interactive Whiteboard in the classroom with one or more students in pairs or in small groups.Suitable for: Junior Primary to Year 2 or students with different abilities. : A useful website, full of view-read-do activities that connect to children and their imagination with clever use of video, online books and other learning activities. It is based on the PBS show ‘Between the Lions’. There are games, stories and video clips to watch.Suitable for: Junior Primary to Year 4. : This website features the Junie B. Jones, the character from the Chapter Book series. It is a creative resource for further reading about this popular character and has activities and games. There are a variety of spelling games to learn new words.Suitable for: Year 2 to Year 5 : This website offers games from different subject areas. These games will help strengthen writing, reading skills and acquisition of vocabulary. The website has multiple activities to encourage students to read and includes web books, word games, grammar and spelling activities and word confusion. Navigate by selecting a year level or by using the "reading" link.Note: Incorporates some sign language. Suitable for: Junior Primary to Year 7 : This is an interactive website that allows students to play online learning games. It lists categories by Year level. The website extends activities up to Year 8. It also offers other curriculum content (including Maths activities).Suitable for: Junior Primary to past Year 8 Literacy Activities/GamesDescription and Suitability : Tooter4Kids - This website offers numerous links that take the user to other websites. Each link is for a different interactive activity. Each activity focuses on improving literacy skills.Suitable for: Junior Primary to Year 3 : Literacy - This is an interactive website for student use. It has activities to assist children in learning the alphabet, write letters and words, as well as learn colors, shapes and numbers. It also provides activities for keyboard practice and developing skills. Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 1 : PBS Kids: PBS Kids is a website where children can play interactive games online. They concentrate on some of the popular shows that they watch on television, such as "Arthur." It is bright and colorful and very interactive. A great deal of content is offered. There are video channels as well.Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 3 : Nick Junior: Noggin is part of Nick Jr. The website allows children to play a variety of games featuring characters from television shows. Children learn literacy skills as they play. There are printable pages of suitable activities for the children to complete after they have finished the online games.Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 2 : Read Write Think: This website has many games that have multiple difficulty levels. It allows students to progress in their literacy development through the interactive games. It guides students in the learning of the alphabet, rhyming, singular and plural words, phonemes and capital letters.Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 8 : PBS SuperWhy: This is an exciting website for children with wonderful use of colour and animation. In Story Book Village, you can play games, read, complete activities and explore the environment. Words pop up as the content in the site talks to the students. This site offers Letter Bingo and the Super Readers' Challenge.Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 2 : PBS WonderWorld: This site offers many educational games as well as activities to do. All of the animals and objects on this site are made up of their written letters. For example, the Bear visual has the letters: b e a r. This reinforces the print component of reading, as well as the sounds that are heard in the words. Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 2 : This website has many ABC and letter games, rhyming and bilingual games, videos and activities that enhance children's literacy development. Children learn with their favorite Sesame Street characters (Rhyme with Grover, Abby's Adventure, Rosita's Fiesta, and Cookie Monster's Alphabet Soup). Learning with the Sesame Street Muppets is engaging and motivating for younger students.Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 2Literacy Activities/GamesDescription and Suitability : Giggle?Poetry provides?100’s?of?funny?poems?for students of all ages to to?read?and?explore.??It has poetry to appeal to all tastes and ages. It also provides poetry workshops – how to write poems, limericks, fill-in-the-blanks activities and locate different styles of poetry writing. It lists author and comments by famous poets. Extremely comprehensive and makes poetry come alive!Suitable for: Primary to Junior Secondarytongue_twisters.htm : This Indian Child site offers a number of great tongue twisters for kids. ‘A Tongue Twister is a phrase or sentence which is hard to speak quickly, usually because of alliteration or a sequence of nearly similar sounds. It helps develop speech skills & helps in speech therapy. To get the full effect of a tongue twister you should try to repeat it several times, as quickly as possible, without stumbling or mispronouncing.’Suitable for: Primary aged students : The interactive reading games are ideal for developing the reading skills of students of all abilities. Educators can use the reading games on their interactive whiteboard, or computer, at school or the activities can be used at home. Users register if they intend to use these games. The games are listed by word level and sentence level activities. To find a game quickly simply use the 'quick game finder'.Suitable for: Primary aged students : The Magic School Bus: This website has a wide variety of things to do. There are learning games (I SPY, bingo and puzzles). There are games, various activities, stories, printables and videos. There are science connections in many of the stories.Suitable for: Junior Primary to Year 4 Learn English online with the help of this free website from the British Council with games, stories, listening activities and grammar exercises. Students can search for their favourites, or have a look at the site map to find out where everything is. Students will find many new listening activities and video content in Listen & Watch. They also have a new Grammar section and new IELTS exam practice materials. There are new sections about the upcoming Olympic Games in Britain as well. Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students NEW Guides to about 200 classic school novels . Includes an Intro Summary (Why Should I Care section), Themes, , Characters, Analysis, Quotes, Questions, Photos, Quizzes, Best of the Web, Write Essay and a very useful and practical Teaching section for educators. Also offers a wonderful step-by-step essay writing tool. Includes ads, as the only downside.Suitable for: Upper Primary and Secondary students NEW This site has ads but is worth investigating. It has some really practical tips on reading and writing. ‘60second Recap? wants to make the great works of literature accessible, relevant and irresistible to today’s teenagers. Through their video albums, they seek to help teens engage with the best books, not only to help them get better grades, but to help them build better lives.’Suitable for: Upper Primary and Secondary students NEWSpelling and PhonicsDescription and Suitability : Kid’s Spell is an interactive website that teaches young children spelling words. There are games to play that help them learn new words to increase their vocabulary as well as spelling. There are different games such as letter drop and ‘spelloons’. Over 6,600 words are provided in an assortment of activities.Suitable for Junior Primary to Year 3 : This is a good website for learning phonics, especially blending sounds. It is interactive. The ‘blender’ provides the word and asks the child for the beginning sound, and then the ending sound. It offers phonics, CVC words, consonant clusters, long vowel sounds and high frequency words.Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 1 : This website offers many different things to learn about phonics and reading. There are different levels from beginner to advanced level. In each level there are many different types of books to read and things to learn. It is easy to navigate and find what students need. It is appropriate great for children to use alone, or with a teacher, parent, or tutor.Suitable for: Junior Primary to Year 4 : The Literacy Zone; Interactive The English Games and Activities site is a vast collection of spelling activities and exercises. It is extremely comprehensive and offers hundreds of games and activities, all represented graphically.Suitable for: Junior Primary to Junior Secondary : This website is a course that provides participants with an overview of phonological awareness. There are handy and useful tips for helping children to participate in their own learning. It is very austere but has some good advice and activities.Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 3 and a great resource for parents : This Woodland’s School site offers a great range of literacy activities for students, including Word Work (26 activities), Sentence Work (8) and Text Work (12). It is a colourful and engaging site that is comprehensive in its approach.Suitable for: Junior Primary to Grade 4 : BBC Bitesize: Offers Reading, Writing Spelling and grammar with games and activities and an area for teachers. Another comprehensive site that offers numerous activities across different genres.Suitable for: Junior Primary to Junior Secondary : This site requires Flash software. It is a thoroughly engaging online resource that will motivate students to practice their spelling skills.Suitable for: Junior Primary to Junior SecondarySpelling and PhonicsDescription and Suitability : Some excellent activities to support the teaching and learning of phonics. A dozen games are available. TESiboard resources are primarily open-ended tools that enable teachers to engage their pupils in a learning dialogue around the resource. The resources are designed for use by the teacher on an interactive whiteboard but many are also suitable for student use, usually responding to a task or challenge set by the teacher.Suitable for: Junior Primary to Junior Secondary : Vocabulary and has:Over 42,000 spelling words with customizable sentences and definitionsA real person’s voice that says each word and sentenceFree home pages for teachers and parents to save listsTeacher training videos to show teachers/parents how to use Vocabulary and the siteCustomizable sentences and definitions for words with multiple meanings (e.g., a scale for weighing, to scale a mountain, the scale on a map)Free printable handwriting worksheets for handwriting practice with your saved listsSuitable for: Junior Primary to Junior Secondary : ‘ABC Fast Phonics is a free tutorial that uses cartoons and sounds with audio narration and clickable words to teach phonics. This method teaches just basic phonics concepts without struggle or frustration and includes rules for vowels, consonants, and blends along with practice pages.’Suitable for: Junior Primary to Junior SecondaryBrainstorming/Mind MappingDescription and Suitability : A very simple yet powerful online mind-mapping tool. Users can work online, print their work and/or save the image as a JPG or PNG file as an HTML outline. Easy to master and learn and has useful online Help files.Suitable for: Years 2 to Secondary : MAPMYself is a free Web-based online mind mapping tool. MAPMYself is unique web based software that allows users to create completely organic looking mind maps. Use your own ideas to accelerate learning, improve memory, increase productivity and save time. The intuitive interface is easy to learn and use.Suitable for: Years 2 to Secondary : Users can sign up freely (with limited numbers of maps). It will also import other mind mapping files from Freemind and Mindjet Mindmanager software.Suitable for: Years 4 to Secondary to adults : Freemind is a free app that can be downloaded onto a Windows computer or downloaded as a portable App. It is predominantly a text based mind mapping program and less ‘visual’ than Inspiration or Xmind. It appeals to people using it with text-to-speech support and especially screen reading software.Suitable for: Years 4 to Secondary to adults : A free download for EDraw mind mapping software. Users can create mind maps (graphical representations of thought processes) for brain-storming, problem solving, rational analysis, and decision making. EDraw Mind Map is a freeware vector-based application with rich examples and templates. Mind Map makes it easy to create basic flow charts, mind maps, brain-storming diagrams and sketch maps.Suitable for: Years 4 to Secondary : Xmind is an intuitive and powerful mind mapping program that can be downloaded freely and installed onto a computer. It has numerous functions and features and is very visual. It offers versions for MS Windows. MAC OS, Ubuntu and has a free portable version.Suitable for: Years 4 to Secondary to adults - ThinkGraph is a program for drawing 2D, oriented towards the production of Concept Maps. A mind map is a diagram intended to represent ideas (each idea being represented by a basic shape such as rectangle, ellipse or image) This diagram becomes a concept map when relations are established between these ideas and as Hypertext Links associated with these ideas in order to navigate to other ideas (i.e. a definition, a diagram or another concept map).Suitable for: Years 7 to Secondary to adults KeepNote is a note taking application that works on MS Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Users can store their class notes, To-Do lists, research notes, journal entries, and paper outline in a simple notebook hierarchy with rich-text formatting, images. Using full-text search, they can retrieve any note for later reference. It has a notebook hierarchy with rich-text formatting, images, and more. Using full-text search, users can retrieve any note for later reference.Suitable for: Years 9 to Secondary to adultsOrganisation/PlanningDescription and Suitability : Capture, store, save and retrieve any facts and data from any source and access them anywhere at any time on a computer, iPhone or PDA. Data is kept safe and secure. Users can search by keyword, tag or even printed and handwritten text inside images.Download and install and it is free. Students are able to save their ideas, things they like, things they hear, and things they see.Suitable: Year 6-12 and adults : Dropbox is an online storage service that’s free to use. Users can save files on their computers and retrieve it from any other computer, once logged in. It saves using USB devices and is safe and secure. Data can also be made ‘public’ and shared between users, colleagues and friends. It’s a great way to keep your favourite or important files stored for flexible access.Suitable: Year 8-12 and adults : Google calendar is a free online calendar. Students and educators can organize their schedules quickly and easily and access them anywhere online, at home, work or school. With Google Calendar, it's easy to keep track of important events as they are all stored and accessible from all one place.Suitable: Year 7-12 and adults : InstapaperSimilar to Delicious, but with a focus on articles. Using a’ bookmarklet’, Instapaper allows you to build up a queue of documents to read when you have the time to do so. It is an ideal method for saving web pages, data and material. Educators and students might wish to investigate, ready, study or extract information from this data at a later time, when more convenient. Users need to set up an account, which is free.Suitable: Year 7-12 and adults Posterous: Possibly the next big thing for collaborative projects. Posterous is a blogging system that aims to eliminate the middle man. Instead of forcing students to log into a back-end admin, Posterous works off 'post by email' and 'post by bookmark' systems. Different Posterous blogs can have different users, allowing for unique collaboration and group research. Useful for people who travel and then at a workplace or classroom. It is a useful collaboration blog. Diigo is similar to Delicious but has more features and is more flexible and powerful. Users can collect and annotate anything, including web notes, highlights, documents, audio, bookmarks, photos, graphics and any required text. Students’ data can be accessed on a PC or MAC, in any browser and on iPads, Android devices and iPhones.Suitable: Year 7-12 and adults Delicious It allows users to bookmark their favourite websites and then access them anywhere. It is a free service, engineered by Yahoo. Each user can opt to share their bookmarks with anyone else. Each reference can be annotated and tagged for quick and easy referencing. It boasts that it offers the largest number of bookmarks in the Universe!Suitable: Year 7-12 and adults Livebinders: A very flexible web online resource that allows users to achieve many different things. It is a series of tagged binders that can contain PDF, graphics, images and video. The 3-ring type binder provides easy and elegant access to all manner of electronic data. It is free to join and there are many existing binders available for students to explore (many involving iPads and new digital technologies).Suitable: Year 7-12 and adultsOrganisation/PlanningDescription and Suitability MyAlltop: A RSS Feed aggregator that presents the five most recent articles from various blogs. Students can curate their own content (check for an example) so that they can keep up to date with topics/blogs that interest them. RescueTime: Caters to a very specific area of need, where students or workers who need to concentrate, or be encouraged to remain on task whilst working at a PC. A free version is available where the software tracks performance and provides diagnostic feedback as to usage of sites. RescueTime is a web-based time management and analytics tool for knowledge workers who want to be more efficient and productive. Ideal for ADD/ADHD senior students who need to be more self-disciplined when online.Suitable: Year 9, Tertiary and for adults Doodle: Designed for easily scheduling meetings and appointments between multiple users. Ideal for organising small groups – e.g. students in study groups or co-workers across one or more sites or campuses.Suitable: Year 9, Tertiary and for adults SpiderOak provides an easy, secure and consolidated free online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage solution for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux)Configurable multi-platform synchronization; Preserve all historical versions & deleted filesShare folders instantly in web ShareRooms ; Retrieve files from any internet-connected deviceComprehensive 'zero-knowledge' data encryption; 2 GBs Free Suitable: Secondary, Tertiary and for adultsMathematicsDescription and Suitability : BBS Skill wise – Numbers: Whole Numbers. Sections include the Time Tables, addition and subtraction, multiplication, division, negative numbers, and comparing numbers as well as multiples and factors, learning about place value (10s, 100s and 1000s), writing big numbers, rounding and estimating, ratio and proportion and a video guide.Suitable for: Pre-school to Secondary : BBC Skill wise: Numbers – Measures, shape and space. Sections include 2D shapes, money (in pounds and pence, though), reading times and dates, calculation of time, temperature, volume, perimeter, area of rectangles, distances, timetables, length, weight and capacity and a video guide discussing weighing ingredients in metric.Suitable for: Pre-school to Secondary An extremely comprehensive site for maths activities including lessons, games, puzzles, word games, jigsaw puzzles and quizzes. The games section includes: Strategy, skill, numbers, shape/colours, pictures, logic, memory, and board games. If offers arithmetic, pre-algebra, algebra, pre-calculus and other math lessons for older students.Suitable for: Pre-school to Secondary : Funbrain was created for students aged preschool through to Year 8. It offers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy. Teachers and librarians can confidently encourage students to use Funbrain during their free time in class, assured that students will enjoy an educational, safe online learning experience. Funbrain's games help students build on what they have learned in class and acquire new skills in reading, math, and problem solving. This is the maths section.Suitable for: Pre-school to Year 8 : ‘The primary goals of Math Playground are to help students feel more confident about their math skills and to help them form more positive attitudes toward the subject of math. I try to accomplish these goals by providing engaging games and activities that students find meaningful and fun.’ Colleen King created Math Playground in 2002 for students in her class who needed a fun way to practice math facts. Since then, Math Playground has grown to include a wide variety of math topics, from problem solving and mathematical art to real world math. Suitable for: Pre-school to Upper Primary levels. : Aimed at teaching maths from K-3. Online activities and games include high quality spoken instructions and directions and engaging graphics. The differentiated learning content caters to all ability levels and the activities are clearly labeled and described.Suitable for: K to Year 3 : Maths Dictionary for Kids. A useful resource for students to investigate the terms used in mathematics. A Maths Dictionary for Kids is an animated, interactive online math dictionary for students, which explains over 600 common mathematical terms and math words in simple language with animated and interactive definitions, examples, activities, practice and calculators.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to older students. Easy Maths. The aim of Easymaths is to reveal the secrets of maths in a way that is easy to understand and to make maths a challenge rather than a chore. It offers tutorials, an exam bank, a list of useful books and resources, a practise room and a section devoted to curious maths games and puzzles. It caters to students up to 16 years of age and includes areas of number, shape, space and measures, algebra and handling data.Suitable for: Primary and especially secondary students to age 16.MathematicsDescription and Suitability : This site started in 2000. It was originally aimed at assisting students (and their parents) with their maths homework. The idea behind the site was to offer mathematics as well as some fun bits, and to combine the two wherever possible. is developed and maintained by Rod Pierce, who loves mathematics and fun. The main content of the site is aimed at Kinder to Year 12. However you will find some more complex activities. Sections range from data to geometry, measure, algebra, numbers, money and offers games and puzzles.Suitable for: K through to Year 12 : An extremely comprehensive, award winning site with ‘cats’ as the theme. The site map shows the breadth and depth of this wonderful maths site. It offers a great deal of content. The author, Wendy Petti, wants to help students to thrive on the joys of math. She is a parent of three children and a teacher for over 20 years. She created Math Cats for children to promote open-ended and playful explorations of important math concepts.Suitable for: Primary through to Secondary (ideal for problem solving and extension activities) : The Ambleside School - Numeracy Hour provides many online activities for maths. Very comprehensive support with a wide range of topics and activities covered.Suitable for: K through to Year 6 : Subscription based site (per student). It is very popular in many schools and comprehensively covers the maths curriculum. It is used in all states and territories in Australia and is popular overseas as well. The cost is approximately $2 per week per student. It covers maths topics from Kindergarten through to Year 12 maths.Suitable for: K through to Year 12 : The Rainforest Maths activities are available as part of a Mathletics subscription. Using Rainforest Maths is a way to begin integrating ICT into your Maths curriculum. To explore all the possibilities, you can organise a free trial of Mathletics in your school by contacting customerservice@. Suitable for: K through to Year 6 : Study Ladder (formerly known as Smart Kiddies) his is a subscription based site with user access via an $88 yearly subscription. There are different membership types and associated costs. It boasts over 4000 activities.Suitable for: K through to Year 12 : A series of online maths games. The site also offers worksheets and printable lesson plans. If offers flash card games, the four operations, speed math challenges and other maths activities.Suitable for: K through to Year 8 : Links to hundreds of other websites, all dealing with numeracy and maths.Suitable for: K through to Year 8MathematicsDescription and Suitabilityindex.shtml : A vast array of activities with up to 800 maths puzzles and games exploring maths logic, fractals, chaos, fallacies, visual illusions, calculus and other varied maths topics.Suitable for: Upper primary to secondary and ideal for extension work. : Early years to VCE maths resources featuring 106 online activities as well as 600 lessons for maths educators ranging from K-Year 12. There are web links to hundreds of exemplary online resources.Suitable for: K through to Year 12alejandre : A series of NCTM lessons and examples for secondary aged students. The site is dated but the maths principles are still useful and pertinent. Covers a range of topics for secondary maths. Topics covered include: measure, number and operations, algebra, data analysis and probability, geometry and links to other related maths resources.Suitable for: Years 6-12interactive : This site caters to middle year students and offers maths and science lesson plans, activities, tools, a dictionary and a useful teachers’ forum.Suitable for: Middle Years students: MathWorld? is the web's most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world's mathematics and internet communities as part of a commitment to education and educational outreach by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica. Since its contents first appeared online in 1995, MathWorld has emerged as a nexus of mathematical information in both the mathematics and educational communities. Its entries are extensively referenced in journals and books spanning all educational levels, including those read by researchers, elementary school students and teachers, engineers, and hobbyists.Suitable: Secondary to Tertiary : Conceptua? Fractions helps math teachers and students work together to master fractions. By combining interactive tools with scaffolded activities, students use visual models to build conceptual understanding and procedural fluency.Suitable for: Years 3 - 8maths/index.php: This site offers quite a number of different activities, games and resources. It has teacher resources and links and maths investigations. The graphics are a bit dated as the site was created about 4 years ago in 2007.Suitable for: Years 1 - Year 3 Dositey – Online activities and printable worksheets for years K-8. Some products are available for purchase with a number of activities freely available to explore and play.Suitable for: K - Year 8MathematicsDescription and Suitability : This site was created by Susan Shuey Beasley. Prior to working for full time, she was a Technology Support Specialist at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. She graduated from Virginia Tech in 1995 with a B.S. in Family and Child Development and in 1997 with an M.A.Ed in Curriculum and Instruction. She originally designed the educational games in this site for her own students. However, once she saw their growing popularity among children around the world, she decided to expand this site and create games for students everywhere. Suitable for: K through to Year 7bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths : Topics include algebra, data handling, number, shape, space and measure, and printable ‘mock’ exams. There are also links to other maths sites as well as to KS3 Maths: . Suitable for: P-Year 6 : The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) is an NSF supported project that began in 1999 at Utah State University to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis). The project includes dissemination and extensive internal and external evaluation. Suitable for : K- Year 12.au/countusin : A site to help students with basic number concepts. It is graphically appealing and easy to navigate. It is an Australian ABC resource site. The activities and games can be played online or all 14 games can be downloaded freely for Windows or MAC OS computers - . Suitable for: K through to Year 2 or students with different abilitiesbbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/gameswheel.html : This site caters to younger students to Year 3. It includes a series of links to activities, Number Time (P-Year 2), Little Animals Activity Centre (P-Year 3 with magic letters and number game), Learning Zone Broadband - Maths, School Radio – Maths, KS1 Bitesize Mathematics, Starship (Year 2 activities), Dynamo Numeracy (designed for home use with parents), Digger and The Gang – Numeracy (number work for Years 1-2), Ks2 Bitesize Maths (number, shape, space, measure and data handling Years 2-3)Suitable for: Early Years P-Year 3mathgames.htm : Play Kids is a site designed by parents of young kids. It is their intention is to provide a web site that parents and students can use to learn basic skills while having fun. It is their goal to provide a safe place to learn computer skills, math skills, reading skills and problem solving skills in a context that is fun to use. A variety of different activities and games are available.Suitable for: P-Year 3 : Online large, talking calculator. Great for working with four operations. Caters to younger students or to those who just need a simplified, large print calculator.Suitable for: P-Year 3MathematicsDescription and Suitability Math- is a free resource for teachers, parents, students, and homeschoolers. Users can make an unlimited number of printable math worksheets for children, the classroom or homework practice. The flexibility and text book quality of the math worksheets makes Math- a unique resource for educators wanting to create and use math worksheets.Suitable for: Year 1-9 Birmingham Grid for Learning – excellent maths activities designed for use with IWBs. Links for Primary and Secondary maths. Hundreds of links to a vast range of maths activities on external websites as well as its own. Easy to access and navigate.Suitable for: Years 1 - 10 Number Gym – 14 day free trial of all activities with 2 free activities in each section. Covers P-10 curriculum (UK). “NumberGym Software has been creating specialist maths software since 2004. Many of the ideas for activities have been provided by Ian Sugarman, teacher, maths advisor and Primary maths lecturer. These ideas are often based around physical resources which Ian designed and used successfully throughout his career.”Suitable for: Years 1 – 10 learning/microsites/M/mathszone: Maths Zone is an interactive role-play adventure game. Ben and Mai have been kidnapped by two bank robbers and taken to a castle on an island while the robbers plan the final stage of their getaway. Students can help Ben and Mai to escape and reach the local police station in time to stop the robbers. It will take about 10 minutes to complete all four challenges. It's not easy but there are clues as the story unfolds.Suitable for: Years 3 – 6: Numbers 1-100. A game that involves counting up to 100, problem solving and competing against a clock. A fun activity exploring a 10x10 grid and locating ‘bones’ within the grid. Use of mouse or especially touch window/IWB.Suitable for: Years 1 – 3 GameQuarium -Hundreds of links to a wide variety of maths activities. Very comprehensive site and has a great deal to offer.Suitable for: Years 1 – 10 Numeracy activities from Early Years up to Year 6 with hundreds of activities all linked via graphical icons. Easy to use and navigate with a great deal to offer students and educators. Ideal for home use, too.Suitable for: P - Year 6 Another resource from this wonderful school. It involves Key Stage 1 learning support for maths involving space and measurement. There are over a hundred activities and valuable links to other maths web resources. Extremely comprehensive!Suitable for: Year 1-2 and students with different learning stylesMathematicsDescription and Suitability ‘Maths Online is a high quality, independent online maths tutoring program based on Australian state curricula for Years 7 - 12. Maths Online was developed by experienced Australian teachers. The program features hundreds of fully animated and narrated maths lessons with over 15,000 exam-style questions to test a student’s mastery of maths. Free to every secondary student, sponsored by McDonalds.Suitable for: Junior Secondary to Year 12 The program is a support to in-class instruction by providing * Video/Audio lesson demonstrationsof a large number of concepts, with examples of each. Every lesson is accompanied by a bank of questions for students to practice their newly learned skill. Students submit their answers online, and the work is immediately marked and their score given, as well as their result being recorded for both theirs and the teachers access. A wealth of information with detailed reports showing the student's grade for every lesson; summary reports showing the student's progress by topic. Registration is required and a cost. A trial is available.Suitable for: All ages NEW Thirty day trials of different maths and sciences packs and software programs for generating and drawing maths problems. These onscreen programs might support students with physical disabilities as they can use a mouse, keyboard or preferred pointing device to generate graphs and maths/science tools and editing functions.Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary students. NEW IXL's maths skills are aligned to the 2010 Australian Curriculum, providing comprehensive coverage of maths concepts and applications. With IXL's national curriculum alignments, you can easily find unlimited practice problems specifically tailored to each learning objective.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary aged students NEW Sumdog's maths games are always free to play, either at home or at school. They cover 100 numeracy topics, split into 10 levels. Most are multiplayer, so you can play against thousands of students worldwide. Because the games are so engaging, students can finally enjoy developing their numeracy skills.Suitable for: Upper Primary and Secondary students NEW Math trainer is similar in some respects to Mathletics.It offers some serious multiplication table training. It responds to students’ answers - so it will help support their weaknesses. They suggest using three sessions of 5 minutes each, per day for the best results. Students can train themselves to remember and not just to calculate.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students for multiplication skills NEW An extremely comprehensive list of maths related web sites for Primary aged students or those with special needs who require differentiated content in secondary classrooms. Hundreds of links are available all sorted into maths related categories. An excellent resource.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students with special learning needs NEW A handy site for Years 9-12 maths students and educators as it provides areas of number, statistics, measurement, algebra, probability and geometry at each level. A very handy resource for students who need online or electronic drills and content rather than paper based or printed subject matter.Suitable for: Years 9-12 Secondary students NEWScienceDescription and Suitability : The Woodlands School in the UK has teaching and learning resources to help primary aged children. The links on the left are interactive science games and activities. The links lead to pages with information and facts on to help with homework topics.Suitable for: Years 1 - Year 6 - Greta's Game Station: Hundreds of useful PowerPoint files based on game formats and activities. All science topics are covered. The resources would be particularly useful in early and middle years.Suitable for: Early primary and junior secondary students. : ScienceZine is a concise Illustrated Encyclopedia dealing with science terms, themes and topics. It has high quality photos and illustrations with brief but interesting facts and figures.Suitable for: Upper primary and junior secondary students. : A New Zealand site for science activities for children. Science Kids is the home of science & technology on the Internet for children around the world. Students can learn more about the world of science by enjoying their fun science experiments, cool facts, online games, free activities, ideas, lesson plans, photos, quizzes, videos & science fair projects.Suitable for: Primary and junior secondary students. : The science section of the Victorian Government web site for kids. Contains many activities and links to other sites relating to science education.Suitable for: Primary and junior secondary students. Google Body – The detail would satisfy any senior student studying human anatomy. It peels back the layers of the body to help visualise muscle structure, organs, nervous system and skeleton. Fly-throughs, zoom in/out/3D rotation are all provided. It is a great educational tool and caters to primary levels as well as to more senior students and will generate interest, fascination and excitement. Note: GOOGLE Chrome browser will be required as it uses Web GL technology.Suitable for: Primary and junior secondary students. : “This site aims to make high quality PowerPoint slideshows, presentations and other resources available for the teaching of Physics, Chemistry and Biology according to the new GCSE courses. It also contains animations and other resources. All of these resources can be used on interactive whiteboards.”Suitable for: Secondary students.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/index_flash.shtml: BBC Science Clips. These flash movies cater to younger students. There are numerous links for appropriate science topics for children aged 5-6 and up to 10-11 years old. Topics such as growing plants, light and dark, pushes and pulls and sight and hearing are provided.Suitable for: Year 1- Year 6 and students with different learning needs.ScienceDescription and Suitability : The home page of NASA. Information about NASA’s missions with high quality photographs and videos, dealing with space exploration, the planets, the moon and surviving and living in outer space. Also offers the history of NASA, the technology developed and how it impacts on daily life.Suitable for: Years 1 -8 : NASA’s kid’s club. Online activities and games relating to space travel, exploration, living in outer space and more. Students can link to images and photographs and view current space travel footage and images of expeditions. There are also four online animated games to play, with five levels of difficulty.Suitable for: Years 1 -4ACS Science for Kids: Activities are offered for Chemical and Physical Change; Characteristics of Materials; Solids, Liquids and Gas; Motion and Energy; Planet Earth; Your Body; Art and Toys and What Chemists Do.Suitable for: Years 4 -9 : Australia’s National Science and Technology Centre – this site provides information about science in general with links to events, resources, research and national science initiatives.Suitable for: Years 4 -12 TES iBoard - A wonderful website with numerous activities for all curriculum areas – most especially the science page. Another wonderful section in the TES iBoard site for science, accommodating Year 1 and Year 2 students with topics including All About Ourselves, Animals, Health and Growth, Variation, Forces and Movement as well as Electricity. Simply to use and navigate and ideal for students with ID.Suitable for: Years 1 and 2 Get Smart - Science - Stage 1 : These pages contain a collection of links to suitable activities to support and enhance classroom teaching and learning. They are kindly provided by teachers and authors who freely share their classroom practice, ideas and strategies from the school.Suitable for: Years 1 and 2 : Two foods is a site where you enter the name of one food and then compare it with another food (e.g. bread – eggs). Then press Compare. It provides the calories, carbs, protein and fat content in each food.Suitable for: All ages The Exploratorium isn’t just a museum, it’s an ongoing exploration of science, art, and human perception—a vast collection of online interactives, web features, activities, programs and events that feed your curiosity.Suitable for: All ages NEWScienceDescription and Suitability An expansive and comprehensive resource with audio and video content on all aspects of science. It lists archival footage, provides podcasts and delivers on a range of science topics, themes and current projects. An excellent resource.Suitable for: Students of all ages NEWbbc.co.uk/schools/podsmission Aimed at younger students in Primary, this BBC resource offers content on solids, liquids, bones and electricity. Suitable for students with different learning styles and needs as well.Suitable for: Primary Students NEWvssec.vic.edu.au The Victorian Space Science Education Centre (VSSEC) is one of three Specialist Science Centres established by the Victorian State Government. It was officially opened in 2006 and joined Ecolinc and GTAC in offering high quality science programs. VSSEC uses the context of space to engage teachers and students in the teaching and learning of science and is situated in the grounds of Strathmore Secondary College and offers a stimulating environment for hands-on learning. All areas within the Centre are supported by an integrated technology system which supports a rich learning environment.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary Students NEWre-.au Re-.au is an initiative of the National Science Week Victorian Coordinating Committee, an Australian Government program supported through the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research at Questacon. It has detailed lists of science resources and related events. Archival media and information about previous science events are also available. Suitable for: Primary and Secondary Students pare4kids.co.uk/science.php An extremely comprehensive resource with links to numerous science based web resources. It is ideal for Primary schools and caters from P-Year 6. One of the better science web resources as it offers so much in a condensed and easily accessible table of contentsSuitable for: Primary (and Junior Secondary Students with special needs) NEW Another wonderful resource on the Woodlands junior school site for science revision content. Every topic is included in a table with easy to locate and access links. Very comprehensive.Suitable: Primary students NEWCause and EffectDescription and Suitabilityshinylearning.co.uk : A selection of online switch games to play with switch, mouse, spacebar, return key, touch window or other pointing devices. Each game has a menu with choice of foreground and background colour, speeds and response times. The games are presented clearly and are uncluttered. Ideal for introducing a switch device or for practice. They can also be downloaded freely. There are numerous other playable demos of different games as well.Suitable for: Pre-School to older students who use a switch/touch window : Inspirational games and multimedia for different abilities education ■ Designed for those with complex combinations of disabilities - physical, visual and learning■ A wide age range of skills are covered■ Includes both single switch access and two switch accessA number of free games can be downloadedNote: Online games require Java software on your computer.Suitable for: Pre-School to older students who use a switch/touch window: SENSwitcher is a suite of programs designed to help teach early ICT skills to people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, those who need to develop skills with assistive input devices and very young children new to computers. Offers cause and effect, switch building, timed activation, targeting and row scanning. Very elementary graphics are used. The program can be run directly from this web site or downloaded for use on stand-alone PC or Macintosh computers. Programmed by Inclusive Technology, it uses the latest Macromedia Flash technology to deliver 132 high quality animated activities which can be operated by a wide range of input devices.Suitable for: Pre-School to older students who use a switch/touch window : Switch accessible video and music clips, arranged in a 6 x 6 matrix. Users can independently access and listen to popular groups and artists and navigate forward and back using one or two switches.Note: Uses links to YouTube. If YouTube is blocked, try alternate site – Suitable for: Primary and particularly older students and adults who use a switch/touch window : It has some very elementary but engaging activities for students - this page caters to early years but there are other activities for older/more capable students on other links to stories, puzzles and games as well as creative tasks including jigsaws. The activities are very well designed and vary in topic and theme. Games are accessed by mouse, keyboard, touch window, IWB or switch. This free site was created by Inclusive Technologies in the UK.Suitable for: Pre-School to older students who use a switch/touch window.uk/2/switch-downloads.htm : A resource site in the UK with fun ideas and 'assistive technology' aimed at moderate to severely learning/physically disabled people. The OneSwitch games include games and activities that have been modified for people with limited access. Genres include Arcade; Shoot ‘Em Up; Race Games; Adventure; Puzzle & Skill Games; Platformers and Sport. All are free to download. Approximately 100 games are available.Suitable for: Primary and particularly older students and adults who use a switch/touch window Priory Woods has developed a range of motivating programs to help students develop the skills needed to use these devices in a meaningful way. Switch 'videos' are simple slideshows animations set to music which can be operated by switch or touch-screen. They feature sounds and images from popular music and TV shows and can be used with pupils of all ages. These resources have been modified by Lynne Ryan (Tasmania) and are wonderful activities for many students.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to older students.Cause and EffectDescription and Suitability : Switch music from Redbackdesign includes video clips from YouTube that feature Australian artists. It is fully switch accessible via scanning (users can also press the Space Bar) to select a scanned selection choice.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to most particularly senior students who use a switch. : CurriculumSET is a collection of resources that facilitate the sharing of customized technology-based content among educators working with students who use assistive technology. This searchable database enables educators to find, download, and customize activities, templates and public domain accessible books based on the ten areas of the curriculum as set out by the Ministry of Education. curriculumSET resources are created and updated by dedicated professionals working with students in British Columbia.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to senior students and a useful site for all educators. : A range of switch activities from this very comprehensive Welsh site in the UK. The activities are simple in design yet effective with some students. Ideal for cause and effect.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to senior students and a useful site for all educators. : Better Living through technology site provides a useful selection of Switch Activities & Accessible Software. Also lists information about Switches and their use at . Has a comprehensive overview of Assistive Technologies and represents a practical, easy to read about students with various disabilities, including dyslexia and LD strategies.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to senior students and a useful site for all educators. : For students with Autism?- Fun animated online exercises to help kids with autism. It is also very suitable for other learners. MouseTrial is easy to use. If students click on the correct item when asked to, they get rewarded with a short, funny animation about the chosen object. If they click on the wrong item then MouseTrial flashes the correct image to give them a hint. It's easy to change the number of objects shown, and students can control which objects are available to make up the random array.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to students who need practise with a mouse. A selection of games that provide switch options as well as keyboard controls or access via an IntelliSwitch, Don Johnston or Crick USB interface or using IntelliKeys from Online BBC . Five engaging games, suitable for more capable or older students who use a switch. Games can also be accessed via keyboard, touch window or IWB.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and especially catering to senior students. : CBeebie Shows - some of these are ideal for use with students in the early years and also with older students who require this genre of software. There are 16 activities from which to choose. The bright engaging graphics, music and sound appeal to many students.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to students who need practise with a mouse. : MAC OS titles - Most of these programs were originally developed to meet the needs of specific students and classes and were never meant to be commercial applications. Certainly for these programs (by author Jon Adams), many short cuts were taken in order to reduce development time. Still, they have found all of these programs to be very useful and they are making them available in the hopes that others will as well. Suitable for: Junior Primary to Year 4Cause and EffectDescription and Suitability : Simple arcade games that contain control panels for adjusting the parameters of the game to match the ability of the players. Can be accessed via switch, keyboard, Touch Window or IWB.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to most particularly senior students who use a switch. : A very large collection of PowerPoint files that contain delightful colour photos and animated gifs, with music, sound effects and narration by Sara, a mother who designed and created these wonderful files for her two boys. They cover many different topics and themes from everyday experiences. Ideal for children with autism/ASD.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to most particularly senior students who use a switch or keyboard: On?this?site?you?will?find?various?links,?many?directly?linked?to?switch?activities. Some are duplicated in this document but the hyperlinks are handy and located on one site in a grid layout.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to most particularly senior students who use a switch. A collection of videos, games and activities from the popular TV show - Sesame Street. There are muppets to interact with and a channel for young children. My Street is a free logon area where favourites can be stored and accessed easily.Suitable for: Pre-Primary : A colourful engaging and expansive website for children from Toronto Canada, and caters to children under age 11, predominantly aged 2-5 years. Many activities are offered. There are games, a video channel, and covers early learning and concept development. There are free songs and wallpapers to download.Suitable: K-Year 4 and students with difference : Papunet game pages. Games and exercises for adults, children and everybody in between for learning, rehabilitation and fun. The SpecialEffect Charity, which runs the GameBase, began as a result of an award winning Ace Centre Project. SpecialEffect is dedicated to helping ALL young people with disabilities to enjoy computer games. They proved that games have an effect on motivation, inclusion and quality of life. They wanted a place where they could use the knowledge and experience they have gained, to reach a wider audience. Games for switch users, cause and effect, ones for IWB and more!Suitable for: All ages SwitchClimber is an interactive website that teaches switch users to access the computer through small sequential steps and data-based feedback. There is a free trial version to try before educators or parents commit to this software. is full of activities to teach switch users skills like cause-effect, using two switches together, and two switch step scanning. The activities are set up hierarchically, starting with cause-effect and working up to two switch step scanning. Data is taken automatically and switch users are advanced to subsequent levels based on criteria set by their teams. Switch users can access their accounts from multiple locations, working on the same goals across settings e.g., home, school, or therapy. Suitable for: All students who use a switch – particularly younger students NEWMusicDescription and Suitability : SFS Kids – San Francisco Symphony Kids’ Site. A rich and diverse site of all things musical, with information and activities about the orchestra, musical instruments and a wonderfully exciting Music Lab.Suitable for: Primary and to Junior Secondary - Fred Flare’s Jukebox/Boombox. MP3 tracks will play at no cost with an option to purchase. It has a simple yet effective interface.Suitable for : All ages – Priory Woods flash movies ‘revamped’ in Tasmania. All the popular music and theme based videos are available from this terrific website. Some new ones with Australian themes and artists are also available (over and above ones created by the inimitable Ian Bean).Suitable for : All ages A search engine and database where users can locate music across all genres. 7208 tracks are available and the search criteria includes by CD Volume, key word search, style or feel.Suitable for : All ages : A wonderful, simply yet extremely functional resource for locating YouTube video or music clips. The clean intuitive interface provides opportunities for students with physical or cognitive disabilities to easily access YouTube favourites and search with an uncluttered screen.Suitable for: All ages : ‘Music & Social Discovery Great music. Sharing stuff with friends. Talking about whatever is happening in your life right now. Some things should never be more than a click away.’ A site devoted to people haring their music. Users elect to create an account and conform to Policies set by this Dallas based site.Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary students MyDoodleSongs is a free to use website that features a virtual guitar visitors can play. The guitar can be played either by strumming the strings through your mouse or by pressing the keyboard keys. Site visitors can also create their tunes and share them with the world by typing the keyboard key combination of their tune. Visitors to the site can then view your tunes, play it through the key combinations, and rate it out of 5 stars.Suitable for: All ages : TubeMyStaff is an application that enables users to listen, using their iPhone or iPod, to all of their music wherever they go by putting them on the Cincopa cloud – no need to upload music in advance. Users need to create an account and login.Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary students : SongSprite lets you to listen to YouTube videos as if they were just songs. Add as many tracks as you like, or invite friends to join you in building up a legendary playlist. Locate and copy the required YouTube URL and paste it into this window.Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary studentsMusicDescription and Suitability All the music available on Jamendo is released under the Creative Commons license. This means that it can be freely listened to and used and redistributed under the same license. The artists then get rewarded via user donations and revenues from the Jamendo’s commercial programs and partnerships. Users can browse through over 150,000 tracks by artist, album and genre, or they can use the tags for quick navigation.Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary students NEW Amie Street is an online marketplace for music by independent artists. Only the ‘yet to be’ undiscovered ones are free, though. Initially, about all of the music that appears on Amie Street gets released without a price. Users can then download it without paying anything. However, as the popularity of the piece increases, the price goes up. The trick is to browse the new releases, and find the musical pearls between them. Note that signing up is required to download an album. Another great feature is that users can earn credits by recommending songs to friends – up to 98 cents per song – which users can use to buy some of the premium songs. The retail price of these premium songs never goes over 98 cents apiece.Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary students NEWlast.fm Last.fm is a streaming media service that also has a built-in social network. As people use the service, it learns what they like and fine-tunes its recommendations. Users can create their own radio station, make and share playlists and build a free media library. Last.fm serves as a portal to purchase music tracks from the iTunes Store and 7digital music services. As a music discovery tool, Last.fm is an excellent service that provides a wealth of content. Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary students NEW This handy site lists a number of useful websites where users can obtain free MP3 and music tracks. It has logos and links ready for quick and easy access.Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary students ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where students and educators can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way they wish. If students are into sampling, remixing and mash-ups, they can grab the sample packs and A Capellas for download and they can also upload their finished version back into ccMixter, for others to enjoy and re-sample.Suitable for: Secondary students NEW Just like flash games and movies, lots of royalty-free songs are released daily on Newgrounds by aspiring musicians. The author must be credited upon redistribution, and the music can only be used for non-commercial purposes. If students just want to play it on their computer though, there’s even less they need to worry about. The major part of the songs consist of house and trance music, but pop, rock and even classical music is represented. Though a lot of the songs are only good to use in flash games and movies, there are also many songs that would be on rotation on radio stations.Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary students NEW The MTV Music Meter ranks over a million artists and allows students and educators to discover what is hot in the music scene. The ranking is not only based on album sales, but also on how many times they are mentioned on the social networks, in blog posts, news articles, and streams. Users need only to click on the little pull-down button to expand more information for the respective artist. An excellent resource.Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary students NEW TuneCrank finds, ranks and streams the best independent music out there for the whole world to hear. Touring bands, buskers and basement dreamers alike can simply upload a tune and scale the CrankRank side by side. It is very democratic and allows unsigned artists to share their work and creative exploits. Some students might wish to vote on their favourites, too?Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary students NEWMusicDescription and Suitability ArtsAlive.ca is a performing arts educational website produced by the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The goals of ArtsAlive.ca are to engage younger generations of Canadians in information, multimedia resources and activities pertaining to the performing arts, and to provide free performing arts-related primary and secondary resources to students, parents and teachers to aid them in learning about and teaching the topics presented. ArtsAlive.ca is managed by the National Arts Centre New Media department. The site has a great deal to offer with games, quizzes and activities.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students NEW The Pure Drop is an exploration and celebration of traditional and World Music. This website gathers together musical performances from all over the global village, and explores the stories behind the music of multicultural Australia. The stories are presented in eleven episodes that combine short video documentary with interactivity. Each episode focuses on one artist and one aspect of the music such as the vocal style and technique, instrumentation, lyrics, the tune or the passing down of musical traditions. The Pure Drop also explores the cultural context of the music, and issues arising from globalisation and the impact of digital technology.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students NEW A site for enjoyment of listening to songs in English. Singing songs is an ideal way to improving skills in speaking English. They offer numerous great songs for students of all abilities to enjoy. The site also offers games, listen and watch activities, read and write activities and making songs with lyrics. It has Nursery Rhymes and Songs playlists on YouTube for videos of their most popular songs for younger students. Suitable for: Primary students NEW A comprehensive list of Web 2.0 tools for music in schools and classrooms. It includes tools and programs for searching for songs by lyrics, composer and song title. It also lists exercises and useful music tools. An excellent resource.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students NEW The creators of this proud Australian site believe more Australians should be making music: in schools, communities, in fact - everywhere. Being musically-active is good for individuals and for our society. As Australia’s only grassroots music advocacy program, they provide information, inspiration and advice to help students start or continue their musical journey. If they're already musically-active, they can provide appropriate support to help them convert others to the cause. A positive way of providing opportunities for Australians to enjoy and make music.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students NEW Composer, musician and sound designer W. Brent Latta knows something about sound design, currently working professionally on sound for games. As an enthusiast of what it takes to craft sound, he’s put together a list of where to go to learn more and hone students' abilities, from fundamentals to the specifics required by film/video and games. Sound design is a fundamental aspect of nearly every form of digital media, from music production to games to commercial radio. Sometimes seen as a ‘dark art’, sound design can also be viewed as difficult and mysterious, often deterring would-be creators. There are 15 sound design resources to help rookies and veterans listed. Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students NEW This offers a virtual music mixing desk. Students can create music by choosing from different pre recorded chord progressions, and can alter the tempo and loop sequences. Users of all abilities can easily and intuitively mix different instruments (including drums, piano, guitars, bass). The music tracks composed can be saved or even emailed to other students or to home for sharing and further collaboration. An excellent online music resource.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students NEWMusicDescription and Suitability This site is inspired by, but not affiliated with Wikipedia. They are building a searchable, editable and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes. Every entry can be edited by anybody. An entry can contain a bit of sheet music, a MIDI file, textual information about the work and the composer, and last but not least the Parsons Code, a rough description of the melodic contour. Searching for music includes: Name that Tune; Music Search; Melody Search and Rhythm-based Search. Users can elect to use the SOAP interface, which makes it possible to search based on melody, contour, or rhythm.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students NEW Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC’s microphone and Songsmith will create backing music. Then share the songs with friends and family, post students' songs online, or create their own music videos. The video on the Home page demonstrates Songsmith at work in the classroom; Songsmith is free for teachers to use in their classrooms. Songsmith is great for anyone who wants to create music at home. Samples are included and users can adjust tempo, styles and mood.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students NEW An interesting and quite diverse and eclectic mix of resources, all offered by Shane McDonald on his own Blog. It includes chords and tabs, keyboard and chord shapes, guitar chords and information pertaining to music. Students can learn about manipulating music, how to read notation and has a useful music reference section.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students NEW This is an online virtual keyboard. It takes a while to load - so patience is required. The fully functional keyboard is an excellent resource and ideal with the use of a touch screen or IWB/Smart TV. It has drum tracks, chord arrangements and all manner of buttons to press! It can play back music as a piano, flute, organ, saxophone, pan pipes, strings, guitar or even steel drums!Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students NEW This is a very useful and comprehensive site with numerous guitar tabs resources. Users will discover everything from guitar tabs, chords and song lyrics to lessons, music gear reviews and the latest music news.Users can elect to register a free TTW account and upload their own guitar tabs, song lyrics, lessons and reviews for others to read and comment.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students NEWProblem SolvingDescription and Suitability This is an ever-growing collection of free online jigsaw puzzles. It offers albums on the left side of the home page (all graphically illustrated) and has hundreds of free jigsaw puzzles that students can explore and play. There are numerous categories from which to choose. They also provide a Puzzle of the Day.Suitable for: Year 1- Year 3 and students with different abilities : Free online jigsaw puzzles. JigZone is an online Jigsaw Puzzle where users choose the level of difficulty from a simple 6-piece cut to a challenging 247-piece cut.Daily entertainment with a new puzzle-of-the-day every day is offered. Users can use their own photos as puzzles by uploading photos and making them into jigsaw puzzles that can be shared with others. Students can put a puzzle in their blog or embed jigsaw puzzles into their own web pages.Suitable for: Year 1- Year 4 and students with different abilities: Hundreds of jigsaw puzzles all arranged by theme, with sub-categories. A very comprehensive list of puzzles with links to other websites suitable for young children. Colouring activities and downloaded puzzles are also available.Suitable for: Year 1- Year 4 and students with different abilities: Another site with a good selection of current and archived jigsaw puzzles. Jigsaws range from 6 to 247 pieces. This site also offers colouring-in activities. There are eight online games to play with some free games to download.Suitable for: Year 1- Year 4 and students with different abilities The goal of Mission: Critical is to create a "virtual lab," capable of familiarizing users with the basic concepts of critical thinking in a self-paced, interactive environment. Critical thinking is part of the transfer core curriculum recognized at all state-supported institutions of higher education in California. Approaches to teaching critical thinking are as varied as the disciplines in which qualifying courses are taught. An interesting site and one to challenge students who are at the other end of the 'special needs spectrum'. Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary students NEWTeaching ResourcesDescription and Suitability : Useful educational programs that are free to download. All have been designed and created by Inclusive Technologies. Includes free resources, communication board overlays for ‘Let’s talk On The Farm’ and software. Upgrades to some popular Inclusive Technology programs and are also available. A very useful program worth downloading is the “Interactive Visual Timetable.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to older students. : A good selection of suitable software for students with special learning and/or access needs. All of these programs are free to download and use. There are a number of categories and include favourites such as TuxMath. TuxPaint, TuxType, Photo Story 3, Childsplay, Zac Browser and the GCompris Suite. The site also provides resources for maths, literacy and classroom practise.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to older students. : A wide range of teaching and learning materials can be accessed from this very useful teaching resources area of NGfL Cymru. By selecting a Key Stage (age range) and then a subject you will be able to browse through the available resources and select those that are of interest. It is a Welsh site and ranges right up to Post 16 and Vocational student needs. Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to older students. : The includes topics such as animals, art, dinosaurs, history, math, music, science and space. In 'Fun Stuff', there are activities, colouring-in sections, comics, craft, TV, and video games. A section for parents and teachers is also included. This section includes links to other sites for lesson plans and teaching notes and resources for educators.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to older students. : This site has been created by Lynne Ryan to share activities, tutorials and useful web sites. It includes a wide range of resources, articles, links to sites, links to free software and other teaching tools and resources for students with ASD and special learning/access needs. Lynne has also ‘revamped’ some popular Priory Woods flash videos as well has made her own and modified others.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to older students. : curriculumSET is a collection of resources that facilitate the sharing of customized technology-based content among educators working with students who use assistive technology. This searchable database enables educators to find, download, and customize activities, templates and public domain accessible books based on the ten areas of the curriculum as set out by the BC Ministry of Education. curriculumSET resources are created and updated by dedicated professionals working with students in British Columbia.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to senior students with special learning/access needs. : A very comprehensive and resource rich site in the UK with regard to the use of symbols and graphics in communication systems, AAC and in teaching and acquiring language skills.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to senior students with special learning/access needs. : BoardmakerShare is an extremely useful community for finding thousands of Boardmaker activities on hundreds of topics. The use of PCS symbols is targeted at a range of student needs and is a fantastic resource for educators and speech pathologists.Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to senior students with special learning/access needs.Teaching ResourcesDescription and Suitability : An alternative to YouTube and has more relevant videos and teaching materials for educators. Also safer for students to access and use at home.Suitable for: P - Year 12 : TeacherVision content is organized by subject, grade and theme. Theme pages feature cross-curricular lessons for every area of focus, making it simple for teachers to create a study unit that is inclusive and varied. Printable books are compilations of the best materials within every topic studied in today's classrooms. The content is drawn from trusted educational associations and the world's best children's publishers, including the Council for Exceptional Children, Educators for Social Responsibility, Houghton Mifflin Company, the National Association for Music Education, Penguin Group, Simon & Schuster, Inc.Suitable for: P- Year 12 : A list of useful educational programs is also available from this site. Some are mentioned elsewhere in this document but a few are especially useful at school and at home. All are free to download and install on MS Windows computers.Suitable for: P - Year 8 : Over a hundred games to use with children of all abilities. It is part of the magnificent Woodlands school web resource at . Suitable for: P - Year 8index.html : Tinsnips is a special education resource that strives to share a variety of specialized teaching tools, techniques, worksheets, and activities with teachers of students who have autistic spectrum disorders and related developmental disabilities. Many of these activities may be appropriate for Pre-K and Kindergarten children.Suitable for: Pre-K and Early Years studentswelcome.aspx : This site was designed for Speech Pathologists, educators, parents, therapists and others who work to support the learning of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders and related learning needs. Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders and many other students with behavior or communication challenges tend to be visual learners. They understand what they see more effectively than what they hear. Therefore, they benefit significantly from the use of Visual Strategies.Suitable for: P- Year 12 - Wordle is a resource for generating “word clouds” from text. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Users can tweak their clouds with different fonts, layouts, and colour schemes. The images that are created with Wordle can be used in many different and innovative ways. They can be printed out or saved to the Wordle gallery to share with other students, users and friends.Suitable for: Year 3 - Year 12 - Copacabana Public School: This school shares a really useful collection of web links for key learning areas – these are the ‘Quick Smart Writing’ links.Suitable for: Year 1 – Year 8Teaching ResourcesDescription and Suitability TECHmatrix – From the National Centre for Technology Innovation. This is a very useful resource for locating & researching ICT technologies, particularly Inclusive Technologies. Offers links to all major areas of the curriculum with support ideas, strategies and documentation.Suitable for: P-12 support for students with different abilities. Voki Avatars - Select a character from one of our many styles: Classic, Animals, Oddballs and more! Change the look, clothing and accessories. Add your own voice via phone, microphone, and text to speech or upload a file.Suitable for: P-12 support for students with different abilities. - Pete's PowerPoint Station:Offers numerous free MS PowerPoint presentations and resources for students of all ages and abilities and thousands are available. The topics, themes and curriculum are extensively covered. Some useful presentations for teachers are available from other countries on every conceivable topic. Free activities and links to other resources.Suitable for: P- Year 12 : Lee’s PowerPoint ResourcesThis is a very comprehensive site with a great deal of information, Professional Learning, templates and activities for PowerPoint use in education. Includes links to other sites for maths, biology and language sites. Also offers links to templates, backgrounds and other examples. Excellent resource for educators.Suitable for: Year 6 - Year 12 Click Special Ed –- a wonderful New Zealand website with many useful links. The Click SpecialEDnz online learning community is a dynamic space for professionals in education to work collaboratively to improve the teaching and learning opportunities for all students with special educational needs. It has links to many resources, some being in New Zealand. Others are generic and appeal n design and nature. An excellent resource.Suitable for: P- Year 12 - Tizmos: quick links to early years and special education sites. Great for teachers to have displayed on IWB for students to independently navigate to their favourite sites and activities. Suitable for cause and effect, IWB and single switch activities.Suitable for: P- Year 3 and students with different abilities. : Animoto - Turn photos, video clips, and music into masterpieces to share with everyone. Fast, free, and very easy. A free option gives you 30 seconds of video, with extra costs for more extensive productions and membership on a subscription per month/year basis (and with extra effects and sound clips). Similar to Photo Story 3, but online. All you need are some good photos.Suitable for: P- Year 12: GameQuarium: Links to other sites for hints on how to use PowerPoint, create resources, plan and design multimedia presentations and also links to templates and online resources and tutorials. Suitable for: Y6- Year 12Teaching ResourcesDescription and Suitability : A range of portable open source software and freeware programs are available for download. EduApps (AccessApps, LearnApps and TeachApps that all run on USB drives), MyStudyBar V3, MyVisBar, MyAccess and Convert&Create resources are all free for educators and students. The site offers support with FAQs, videos, forums and case studies. Resources were developed at the RSC Scotland, N&E by Craig Mill and his innovative team.Suitable for: P- Year 12 Mnemosyne (Windows or Linux) - A 'build your own' flash card program for learning just about anything. It is based on a system of repetition, similar to the Pimsleur method. From the site: "The Mnemosyne software resembles a traditional flash-card program to help you memorise question/answer pairs, but with an important twist: it uses a sophisticated algorithm to schedule the best time for a card to come up for review. Difficult cards that you tend to forget quickly will be scheduled more often, while Mnemosyne won't waste your time on things you remember well."Suitable for: Years 4 - 12 - Intrepica is a great early learning literacy tool with plenty of visual feedback. Many schools in Tasmania have been using this at minimal expense, but any State Library of Tasmania, a card holder can use the full program for free. It can be used at school or at home with the same log in details. Parents can sign up the whole family at no cost. (Thanks to Steven Jurgeit, Tasmania)Suitable for: Early and Middle Levels or students with additional needs. CureTogether - This website is extremely interesting. It covers topics from inadequate sleep to memory, hacking, reading to improving knowledge formulating, to illness and disability awareness. The author, Piotr A. Wozniak, is unique. Cure Together is crowd-sourced information regarding symptoms, treatments and causes of different disabilities and diseases. (Thanks to Rob Hanly, NSW)Suitable for: Years 11- Educators trainers : e-Chalk Subscription - A site where educators or parents can elect to subscribe to online educational activities, games, quizzes, simulations and puzzles. Some samples are available on the Home page.Suitable for: Year 1 - Year 10 : A collection of videos that cater to educators and students, showing videos appropriate to classroom practise.Suitable for: Year 1 - Year 10learningalive.co.uk/primary.aspx : Learning Alive is especially designed for primary & secondary school pupils and teachers. It is here for educators to have fun and assist in providing useful and interesting information. Three sections make up Learning Alive: Primary, Secondary and Teachers'. These sections help users find the information that is most relevant to them. By selecting the top right hand corner button, users can choose to automatically go back to that section whenever they visit the website. Suitable for: Year 1 - Year 8 : Learning Tube: Educational videos aimed at teachers. Caters predominantly to Secondary aged students and topics.Suitable for: Year 6 - Year 10 This site offers displays, games, activities, resources and hard copy printables. It is an engaging and colourful site with a great deal to offer. It was only recently launched in April 2010 and users may need to install Flash for it to be accessed.Suitable for: Year 1 - Year 7Teaching ResourcesDescription and Suitability An extremely useful site that offers advice and support for parents and educators in understanding dyslexia with students of all ages. This website has been created by Liz and Andrew Dunoon with the sole intention of providing information, resources and services to teachers and parents of children and adults who are struggling at school and may have dyslexia.Suitable: Students with learning disabilities, most particularly dyslexiadyslexia. Dyslexia Tutor: News, resources, an array of web links to do with phonics, reading, writing, spelling, autism, and other matters all relating to dyslexia.Suitable: Students with learning disabilities A site advertising a program called “Reading from Scratch”. It does have some very useful information about dyslexia and some worthwhile links to other resources and sites. Suitable: Students with learning disabilities, most particularly dyslexia Teach Effectively is a source for current news and opinion about effective teaching. Teach Effectively emphasizes evidence-based instruction and educational practice. Although the majority of the content on Teach Effectively focuses on instruction for students in special education (especially those with Learning Disabilities or Emotional and Behavioural Disorders), the entries also address other disabilities (e.g., autism, ADHD) and are applicable to students at risk for school problems.Suitable: Students with learning disabilities : One of the most comprehensive and resource-rich blogs on the net for valuable resources and ideas for teachers of learners with severe, profound, intensive, significant, complex or multiple special needs. The author is Kate Ahern. She is a teacher of learners with multiple or significant special needs. She has been working with youngsters who have developmental disabilities since she had her first job when she was 14 years old. Throughout high school she volunteered and then worked in special needs classrooms and summer programs. Tens of terrific links to useful sites.Suitable: Students with mild to complex physical and intellectual disabilities : TESiboard resources are primarily open-ended tools that enable teachers to engage their pupils in a learning dialogue around the resource. The resources are designed for use by the teacher on their interactive whiteboard but many are also suitable for pupil use, usually responding to a task or challenge set by the teacher. The TESiboard materials were acquired by TSL Education Limited at the end of November 2009 and as a result of TSL's current and planned future investment, all these popular resources are available for free. “Dyslexikit is a complete system of literacy materials for teachers and parents who want to transform the progress of children who do not acquire the skills of reading, spelling and handwriting in the same way, or at the same rate that most other children seem to. Through Dyslexikit, adults will discover how to teach dozens of literacy skills and strategies in a logical, step-by-step way using lively activities and games that readily engage the interest of struggling learners.” Note: Packages are from the UK and are in PoundsSuitable: Students with Learning Disabilities Rob Hanly works with individuals in NSW with clients who have ADHD. “Finding out about all the facets of ADHD can be difficult, especially without the basic foundations of understanding. To make the search for information on ADHD easier, I’ve put together the following articles on ADHD. Before writing each article was researched using both online and offline resources to ensure accuracy, and was then written in simple and easy to understand terms. There are five videos as well that cater to the ‘YouTube’ generation.Suitable: Students with ADHDTeaching ResourcesDescription and Suitability A site devoted to meditation and breathing and feeling calm. A wonderful site for children who need to learn to relax and calm themselves. It has a number of 'rooms' - including Breathing, Laughter, Om and Full Spectrum Breathing. The site is devoted to meditation and techniques to relax and soothe. Ideal for students with challenging behaviours. Suitable for: All students A resource site for schools using the EasiTeach suite of programs. RM Easilearn is an online space that teachers can regularly visit to download resources, get latest product updates, chat and share ideas with other users, and feedback on the functionality and features within their software products.Suitable: All students – with classrooms using IWBs with EasiTeach software A very useful website that will help locate useful websites for literacy, maths and free software programs. Each website has a thumbnail image (similar to this document). A very useful resource for educators and particularly for parents. Hundreds of useful and relevant websites are listed. An excellent resource to share with parents and publish in your school newsletter or on your school web site.Suitable for: Primary aged students This is one of the most expansive and resource rich Australian school-focussed web sites. It has numerous pages and links. This page is concerned with Web 2.0 tools. It is not exhaustive but is indicative of useful Web 2.0 tools for Primary schools.Suitable for: Primary aged students : Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in a world of media and technology. They exist because children spend more time with media and digital activities than they do with their families or in school, which profoundly impacts their social, emotional, and physical development. As a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization, they provide information and tools, as well as an independent forum, so that families can have a choice and a voice about the media they consume. Suitable: Students of all ages.: The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells. Suitable: Students of all ages.gosh.camden.sch.uk/page/?title=Games&pid=129 : Children's Hospital School at Great Ormond Street. Activities for Early Years, Primary and Secondary aged students. Hundreds of activities, games and animated sequences are available. An excellent site with numerous links to other resources and web sites for students of all ages.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary A selection of Primary School related teaching resources – all in PDF format.Suitable for: Primary students NEW A series of entertaining games for younger students. They all involve animated effects with music and there a few from which to choose.Suitable for: Primary students NEWTeaching ResourcesDescription and Suitability A wonderful collection of games and activities on many curriculum based topics.Suitable for: Primary students NEW This site publishes information on a wide range of topics dealing with ICT. This page has links to over 50 free articles and booklets, all in PDF format, and also cover a range of important and interesting ICT areas of interest and need in education. The ‘Best of” series is very handy as a guide to some of the leading programs and Apps on iPads, MS Windows and MAC OS computers. Suitable for: All students NEW A very comprehensive list of useful LOTE resources for education, with Bayswater Primary School as the host. The sites have been chosen as ones that work well with Interactive Whiteboards.Suitable for: All students NEW A very diverse and comprehensive list of resources from RM in the UK. It covers practically all curriculum topics and has numerous areas of interest for both educators and students. A wonderful online resource with practical and useful content. It caters predominantly to primary aged students but resources could be easily adapted to suit older students who require differentiated content.Suitable for: All students NEW Fantastic visual search engine for locating graphics, Wikipedia articles and especially for YouTube content. Visually exciting and easy to use. Ideal for IWB and easy access for students. Caters directly to students with ID or who prefer visual information.An exciting and engaging interface where links are launched in new tabs.Suitable for: All students NEW On this site you will find a variety of resources including cool websites and tip sheets that support 21st century teaching strategies. Also check out Nicole's blog, an ongoing resource of new ideas and applications for the classroom, as well as conversation about current events in education. It has links to all number of resources, most particularly some great Web 2.0 tools.Suitable for: All students NEW C4LPT stands for 'Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies'. This is their 5th annual survey of learning tools that they have built based on the contributions of learning professionals worldwide. An excellent resource as it reflects what educators consider to be the most useful tools for classroom practise. There are 229 favourites listed before the top 100 are selected for 2011.Suitable for: All students NEWDisability Related SitesDescription and Suitability Disabilityfilms.co.uk is providing films and information about disabled. They make it easy for users to understand and take part of their films. UK based but has global appeal and application. This is a new site so hopefully it will be populated by content soon (as at April 2011)Suitable for: All ages This is the Centre for Disability Information and Referral (CeDIR). Users can browse through their library of over 8,000 disability-related books, videos and kits. The links at left of the home page will help users navigate through the site. Users may not be able to borrow the resources but can at least identify them and source locally in Australia.Suitable for: All ages ‘Have you ever wondered what it's like to have a disability? How does a person who can't see read? Can a person with a physical disability play sports? If you couldn't hear, how would you talk with your friends? Do people with disabilities get frustrated, or have friends or like ice cream?’ This web site can help users begin to answer their questions about disabilities.Suitable for: All ages Human Rights Advocacy – ‘One tenth of the world's population live with some kind of disability. Human rights violations against disabled people are widespread, and often acutely dehumanising. Across the globe, disabled people are routinely subjected to horrifying denials of their basic human rights, suffering inhumane and degrading treatment, discrimination and violations of rights to life, education, privacy, family life, education. In addition to being disabled by institutions, social policies and attitudes, often the very laws intended to protect and uphold our human dignity, undermine the enjoyment of disabled people's rights. Critically, people with disabilities seldom enjoy equal access to justice and the ability to assert their most basic rights through legal processes.’ - The University of Newcastle has an excellent reputation for promoting issues relating to empowering students (and people in general) with disabilities. It is well worth investigating the many aspects and links on this very comprehensive site. Also refer to: for a list of links to relevant peak bodies.Suitable for: All ages most particularly University and higher learning ‘The Centre for AAC & Autism believes that every child has the desire and the ability to communicate despite physical and neurological challenges. By providing specialized clinical training to health care professionals, teachers, and parents... empowering clients and families with education, resources, and information... and supporting clinical research, our aim is to give all children the ability to speak their mind and heart and become engaged in their world.’Suitable for: All ages most particularly students with ASD. - Yooralla Early Intervention services. ‘The first few years of life for a family with a child who has developmental delay or disability can be challenging. It is a time when parents and care-givers discover new strengths and abilities to make a lasting, positive impact on their family and child's lifelong development.’Suitable for: Pre School and Kindergarten – SCOPE: Links to disability services and many different areas of need, catering predominantly to people with physical disabilities.Suitable for: All ages ‘Vision Australia produces a range of materials and resources that will benefit a variety of people such as those working with people who are blind or have low vision, architects, school students, and business and government wanting information about accessibility.’Suitable for: All agesDisability Related SitesDescription and Suitability An excellent and very useful resource from the Statewide Vision Resource Centre in Victoria. Suppliers and sources of equipment and other resources for students with vision impairments are listed alphabetically. The necessary and relevant contact details and a brief description of products and services are included. Where available, suppliers and sites in Victoria, Australia are provided.Suitable for: All ages and adults with vision loss/impairment/needs NEW Listed in clearly defined categories are an extensive list of freeware and shareware programs along with a few of the more modestly priced ones. These programs are designed to make interacting with a computer easier. They include mice, keyboards, cursors, magnification and other navigation tools. The site creators do not support, recommend, or sponsor any of these products or sites as they are provided only as a courtesy. An extremely useful resource!Suitable for: All ages and abilities/disabilities NEW This site provides a training course for school teachers who are developing their ICT skills. "ICT Accessibility" focuses on the use of the PC for children with disabilities, and describes how an MS Windows computer, Notebook or Netbook can work for them and support their disabilities. Extremely engaging with high quality graphics, animation and voiced instructions and feedback.Suitable for: All ages and abilities/disabilities NEW A news item and video of how the iPhone can accommodate those users who are vision impaired or blind. It demonstrated the power of using the inbuilt camera with the use of ‘Voiceover’ to identify and denote the value of American money. Hopefully the start of a trend for all currencies?Suitable for: All ages and abilities/disabilities NEWFreeware & Open SourceDescription and Suitability This site lists 100 freeware and Open Source programs that cater to students and people who have disabilities.Note: This list was published in 2008 so some software has finished, some links are no longer active and others have listed programs that have been made commercially and are no longer available. It is still a useful list, nonetheless.Suitable for: All ages OATSoft is dedicated to improving Assistive Technology and computer accessibility through the power of Open Source development techniques. OATSoft makes the best Open Source Assistive Technology Software (OATS) easy to find. Users and developers meet at OATSoft to create better software. An excellent resource.Suitable for: All ages This is a Victorian based website accommodating students 16+ with information about post school options. It is hosted by the Inner Melbourne Vet Cluster with NDCO support. It is a list of software programs that I compiled in 2009 and is frequently checked and updated. If you link to ‘Home’ it will provide users with an overview of the site. It is an excellent resource for educators and for parents and students themselves to locate services for students after they leave school.Suitable for: All Ages (Software) and particularly suited to Secondary (especially 16+ students) ‘The software links have been compiled as an information resource and inclusion does not indicate endorsement by e-bility’. Another useful list of software including about 40 programs explicitly for disability.Note: Some programs may not be available any more.Suitable for: All ages This site lists some of my favourite programs including PowerTalk (for PowerPoint users), Touch CD and ClipTalk. ‘Full Measure helps users get the most from computers and IT with free open source accessibility and assistive technology software.’ It is part of the OATS initiative and has some useful links to other sites and resources.Suitable for: All ages Kate Ahern’s web site/Blog caters to ‘Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs’. It has numerous links to many useful resources and ideas for teachers of learners with severe, profound, intensive, significant, complex or multiple special needs. It is one of THE best sites for disability. It is very comprehensive and has practical ideas, videos and articles as well as hundreds of links to other resources. Suitable for: All ages Tux4Kids develops high-quality software with the goal of combining fun and learning into an irresistible package. Their software is free: uses can download it for use at home or onto hundreds of computers in a school. They support all major platforms, including Windows, MAC OS and Linux/Unix. The programs have been translated into dozens of different languages. As open-source software, the programs can be freely extended or customized, and they are supported by active communities of volunteer developers (Tux Paint/Maths/Typing)Suitable for: Primary to Junior Secondary and to students with ID Open Disk (from Open Schools project) promotes freeware, more particularly Open Source software aimed and targeted at schools. The latest Open Disk Project V10.12 was released in 2010 on 7th December and is still current. It offers a range of some of the most popular programs and utilities.Suitable for: All ages and TUCOWS has always been one of the more comprehensive sites for locating and acquiring Shareware (try before you buy) and Freeware (completely free or free to trial or demos) programsSuitable for: All agesFreeware & Open SourceDescription and Suitability : This site offers a complete range of MAC OS freeware and open source software. There are over 100 programs included in the Education and Science section. The software is all arranged by icon and descriptor. The links navigate to sites where the MAC software can be downloaded and then installed. Be sure to check the Operating System that caters to your MAC computer. One of the better freeware sites.Suitable for: All Ages : This is a list of freeware that is either Unix or Open Source based that will operate on a MAC computer. By clicking on the ‘Home and Learning Tab’ users will discover a range of free programs that are available for download. Widgets are also available from this site. Programs for maths, science, productivity, imaging and 3D, art and design as well as calendars, icons and screensavers are listed.Suitable for: All ages : FreeMacWare lists Apple MAC OS and iPod/iPhone and iPad apps. It highlights a program every day. It offers a worthwhile list of education focussed programs as well as all other genres. There are 110 programs listed as educational software, each with a descriptor. Users can request RRS feeds or email contact to locate software automatically. ‘We only review freeware for Mac OS X, and we aren’t trying to find all the freeware out — just the best. We review freeware that both we and our readers have found, and we post everyday’.Suitable for: All Ages : A list of suitable free software that accommodates students with varying degrees of difference. The software is either Freeware or Open Source. Most of it will install and work on Windows XP-Windows Vista versions. Note: Some may not work with Windows 7 or 64-bit versions of MS Windows.Suitable: Students of all ages. Some specific to disability groups/needs. : A free drawing program, DrawPlus design is easy to use, is ideal for designing web graphics and creative print projects where students can draw, paint & sketch. They can design professional-quality logos and graphics. The software has web support with ‘How To’ guides and a comprehensive help system. The software is free to download, install and use.Suitable for: Upper primary and Secondary. This site lists the free screen magnifiers that are available for download and use on computers. Media Access Australia’s web accessibility team has reviewed several free and low cost screen magnifiers and their common featuresSuitable for: Upper primary and Secondary students and for adults NEW There are free, captivating, digital tools from Microsoft including AutoCollage - create an artful photo poster using this fun collage-making tool; Microsoft Photosynth - explore famous places with cinematic quality using these virtual, visual 3-D tours; Windows Live Movie Maker - the fast, easy way to turn photos and video clips into great-looking movies and slideshows to share in class or on the Web. Educators/parents can download the Teacher's Guide and learn about 12 free tools.Suitable for: Upper primary and Secondary students and for adults NEW / The MakeUseOf team lists the most tagged (or labelled) royalty free resources that can be accessed on the web at no cost to educators and students. It features resources such as music, photos, sound effects and graphics. Links are live and the most popular 'viewed' are rated according to popularity.Suitable for: All students NEWFreeware & Open SourceDescription and Suitability This site lists 40 useful applications for free download and use for education. It has links to many other applications as well. Every entry is rated and has a well written review and also mentions comparable applications.Suitable for: All students NEWWeb BrowsersDescription and Suitability Tween Online: For students 7-12, a series of browsers that are safe to use and link to Key Learning Areas. Predominantly graphical in design, they are intuitive, safe and easy to navigate. Download the free program, install and use straight away. No advertising, pop ups or security issues and it’s safe to use at home or at school. Only educational and leisure based sites are listed, all catering to student needs.Suitable for: 3- Year 7 and students with different abilities - Club Penguin is free to access and use club online for junior students. Theme based, it provides many activities that are suitable for early years and students with different abilities. Ideal for home access. It is free but there is a cost for advanced and extra features.Suitable for: 1- Year 3 and students with different abilities : Zac Browser is a totally free software package. It is the first Internet browser developed specifically for children living with variants of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), Asperger syndrome, Rett syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, PDD not otherwise specified and PDD-NOS, also called atypical autism. Zac Browser was designed to offer a pleasant, rewarding and secure experience. Children sing, play and discover the best that the Internet has to offer with only a few clicks of the mouse - Kid-safe Internet browser made just for kids! Designed to be simple for parents to install and to use. It is actually ready for children to use right after the installation finishes! Protects children from pornography and Internet predators. There are NEVER any subscription fees! Uses a white-list technology so parents can decide what is suitable for their children and what isn't. There is a cost involved.Suitable for: 1- Year 3 and students with different abilities : WebbIE is a web browser for blind and visually-impaired people, especially those using screen readers, used since 2001 all over the world. It comes with the Accessible programs, letting people of all ages access news and audio on the Internet in a simple and accessible way, also allowing them to use podcasts, listen to the radio and read RSS and news with a screen reader program or other access solution. Together they provide a way to access websites and other great things online - and they are all free.Suitable for: P-Adults : Firefox has hundreds of add-ons and plug-ins that are free. It supports students with different needs and is more flexible than Internet Explorer. It is safe to use and less likely to be compromised as well. There is also a portable version (that is included on EduApps USB menus in AccessApps.Suitable for: P-Adults : WebAnywhere is a non-visual interface to the web that requires no new software to be downloaded or installed. It works right in the browser, which means students with vision impairments or reading disabilities can access it from any computer, even locked-down public computer terminals. WebAnywhere enables anyone to interact with the web in a similar way to how they may have used other screen readers, such as JAWS or Window-Eyes, at no cost or set up for the user.Suitable for: P-Adults : Read on Web - CleanPage? strips all advertisements and other junk from a webpage, and extracts the main text-based content: This main body text is then fit on the screen, spoken aloud, imported for speed reading or editing, emailed, printed, zoomed in, and zoomed out All the features can be easily accessed by one click on the toolbar or through a keyboard shortcut.Suitable for: All students who require uncluttered web pages.** Links to multiple browsers for children - MyDisplay is a new tool from the BBC which allows people to get BBC Online in a way which better suits their needs and preferences. This trial release allows users to change the way the whole BBC Online site looks by choosing a theme for how the site should look on a user’s computer.Web BrowsersDescription and Suitability - Kidzui is a free web browser for children. It has links to suitable YouTube content and is curated by hundreds of teachers and parents. It is a free download. KidZui gives kids the freedom to explore the Internet safely with millions of kid-friendly YouTube videos, online games, and websites. These are all pre-screened and approved by editorial staff, teachers, and parents. Weekly activity reports keep educators and parents in touch with children’s' evolving interests.Suitable for: Primary, middle years and students with special access or learning needs NEW This browser caters to parents, educators and students and is available for MS Windows and MAC OS computers. Children can safely explore the web, chat with friends, play games and access appropriate YouTube content all in the one safe interface.Suitable for: Primary, middle years and students with special access or learning needs NEWGeography and HistoryDescription and Suitability Elementary activities for Years 1 (15 activities including Around Our School and Where is Barnaby Bear?) and Year 2 (9 activities) dealing with geography. It is UK based. Content is quite generic in content though.Suitable for: Years 1 and 2 Elementary activities for Years 1 (7 activities – Toys from the Past) and Year 2 – (9 activities dealing with Transport), all dealing with history. It is UK based. Content is quite generic in content though.Suitable for: Years 1 and 2 : A very interesting, if a tad disorganised website that lists hundreds of links pertaining to history – in all of its aspects. Not easy to navigate easily as the main page is many screens long with lists of links, interspersed with ads. Useful, nonetheless and will appeal to anyone researching articles, books, authors, Wars and major world events.Suitable for: Secondary to Tertiary students One of the most highly regarded and useful resources. The National Geographic Society has been inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888. It is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical conservation.Suitable for: Primary through Secondary and to Tertiary students NEWArt & DesignDescription and Suitability : This is a comprehensive web site with lists of art and design web site resources. Created by an author of numerous books, John Simkin has created a very comprehensive body of work that allows students to locate artists and their works.Suitable for: Secondary and Tertiary students Users of all abilities can quickly create logos, buttons, signs and printed text for banners, MS Word and MS PowerPoint files. Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else students need an impressive logo without a great deal of time or complex design work. Users simply choose what kind of image they would like. Then they fill out a screen with colour, size and dimensions with their desired text and they’ll have their own custom image created on the fly.’ Users can download the new image, obtain the HTML code or email it. Suitable for: Junior Primary to Secondaryoffice.en-us/clipart/default.aspx Useful and appropriate clipart that provides all genres and types of graphics, photos, animations and sounds that will be downloaded right into a user’s clipart library. A great web site resource that is often forgotten. Suitable for: Junior Primary to Secondary You can subscribe to this online stock photo service and/or download high quality images at no cost. Dreamstime is a distinguished leader in stock photography and a major supplier of high quality digital images. All stock images available are provided by Dreamstime community's photographers, shot on film or digitally captured. Structured on categories and subcategories, the database is renewed with thousands of fresh images and titles on a daily basis. As of December 2007, Dreamstime numbers 500,000 registered members, more than 26,000 contributing photographers and over 2,000,000 images online. Suitable for: All ages NEW Public Domain is a repository for free public domain images. Users can download high quality photos or upload their own pictures. If schools or students intend to use an image they find on this site for commercial use (i.e. selling a product outside of school), be aware that some photos do require a model or property release. Pictures featuring products should be used with care. The pictures are free for schools to use and people should feel good about doing so. Suitable for: All ages NEW Wikimedia Commons is a database of 10,634,831 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute. If people are browsing Commons for the first time, they may want to start with 'Featured' pictures, Quality images or Valued images. Students can also see some work created by some highly skilled contributors in 'Meet ' photographers' and 'Meet ' illustrators'. Suitable for: All ages NEW Image After is a large online free photo collection. Students and educators can download and use any image or texture from their site and use it in their own work, either personal or commercial. It offers thousands of resources and also has website templates and a large range of stock photography.Suitable for: Secondary students NEW VintageJS is where students can add some interesting retro-look to their images. VintageJS is a tool where users can upload their images and apply a custom retro, vintage look to them for free. Teachers and students can simply upload their photo, apply the vintage effect and share the retro image it with their classmates or friends via social media tools such as MySpace, Flickr, Facebook or Twitter.Suitable for: Secondary students NEWArt & DesignDescription and Suitability Users can browse through the categories of this huge gallery containing over 350,000 quality stock photos by more than 30,000 photographers. It has wallpapers for desktop or illustrations for users' blogs and pictures and photos for Nings or website design. Users can your photos with fellow designers. SXC is a friendly community of photography addicts who generously offer their works to those who need them free of charge. Not only it feels great to share, users will also get a huge exposure for their work.Suitable for: Secondary students NEW The 5,000 photos and 8,000 free clip arts on this page can be used for any purpose, including commercial. The photos are typically provided in a single high resolution. They are tagged and sorted into categories, offering educators and students two ways to easily locate and find them. Suitable for: Secondary students NEW - Flickr is an obvious resource, yet it is often neglected. Using the advanced search feature, users can search only photos with a Creative Commons license that allows them to use the content commercially and/or modify, adapt, or build upon the content. These two licenses in combination essentially make the image ‘public domain’ in that students can use it for anything. However, the license restriction is that students have to credit the original creator.Suitable for: Secondary students NEW Users can gainfully employ Raven to create fully scalable vector art appropriate for logos, art work and design creation or tee shirt designs. There’s no real comparable site or similar tool on the web.Suitable for: Secondary students NEW Picnik is an American based company that allows users to edit and manipulate their photos online, for free. Students can elect to upload photos from their hard drive and edit them using a multitude of powerful photo editing tools. It is also possible to draw photos directly from an account at other online photo sites, such as Google Picasa or Flickr. This allows users to edit their photos without the need for expensive computer-based graphic manipulation software. Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary students NEW Splashup is an online image editor that looks and feels like working directly in Photoshop. Splashup (formerly Fauxto) is used to both modify and create images on the fly. With a similar setup to Photoshop or Gimp, Splashup provides an interface that makes it quick and simple to modify any image from a computer or the web. In addition to simply uploading images, Splashup allows free-transformation of the image, layer effects with multiple brushes. With the ability to share and download images when complete, it could replace a desktop image editing program very quickly.Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary students NEW Sumo Paint serves as a full-fledged online image creating and editing gear that has all the ingredients to lure budding imaging buffs. The website incorporates proficient support that guides users to utilize its full range of features. After creating images, Sumo Paint lets its users assemble them in attention-grabbing Cool Iris 3D gallery. In addition to creating and editing images, users can also enjoy viewing stunning images featured in the category of top-rated images.Suitable for: Upper Primary, Secondary and tertiary students NEW Pixlr is a user-friendly online image editing application that is essentially designed for non-professional users. It allows students to effortlessly edit images. Pixlr comes across as an effective application for editing images if one needs to use them in their blogs, image galleries, and social networking sites. However it not suitable for editing large images. Pixlr also offers its users with a good collection of filters and adjustment options that may bring more polished results at their end and enables them to create appealing effects with minimum effort. Pixlr is a Flash based imaged editing tool and users must have installed a Flash plug-in to use this service. Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary students NEWArt & DesignDescription and Suitability Students can search on 1.5 million records and choose from over 250,000 assets all freely from the Yale Digital Commons. Collections include art, natural history, books and maps as well as photos, audio and video content. An excellent and very comprehensive resource.Suitable for: Secondary and tertiary students NEW A site for converting a photo to a cartoon image. Students can elect to take a photo using a digital camera, select an image from the web or scan a photo and use it to create some fascinating and interesting new images. These can be the catalyst for a piece of writing, a mind mapping web or PowerPoint/Photo story file. A fun and engaging online resource. Students can also add effects to images as well.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students NEW Photo collages celebrate important events and themes in our lives. Pick a folder, press a button, and in a few minutes AutoCollage presents you with a unique memento to print or email to your family and friends. Note: Already installed on MS Windows 7 computers and embedded in the EduStar image in Vic Government schools.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students NEWiPad ResourcesDescription and Suitability : A PDF file that is available from this link. It was written as a resource for people with ASD to access suitable apps on iPhones, iPods and iPads.Suitable: Students with Autism – and many others : ‘Although the vast majority of iPod Touch & iPhone apps will scale up to fit the iPad, or can be used in their original format, I am mainly focusing on educational apps which have been written to take advantage of the larger screen size and processing power of the iPad.’. This is a well organised and comprehensive site with a great deal of useful information about iPads and their place in Education.Suitable: Students of all ages and abilities An excellent resource. ‘a4cwsn is committed to helping the families and carers of children with special needs and the wider community of educators and therapists who support them, by producing videos that demonstrate how products designed to educate children and build their life skills really work from a user perspective. Our aim is that these videos, along with relevant information and advice from an independent source you can trust, provides valuable insight into whether a product is suitable for its intended purpose or not, enabling sensible buying decisions to be made.’Suitable for: Junior Primary to Year 4 Hillary Brumer lists Apps for students with ASD and communication needs. She constantly reviews Apps and writes about them so it’s worth revisiting from time to time.Suitable for: All ages: Reviews and lists of iApps from various writers and contributors. General in nature but some reviews are centred on students with different abilities. A handy source of new ideas and perspectives of emerging/new Apps.Suitable for: All ages : Best Apps for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Aspergers. It is written by a mother in the USA. The site offers a range of book reviews and other resources as well.Suitable for: All ages : this links directly to an PDF file, written by Eric Sailors. It contains 24 pages and is a useful resource for educators and parents. Clearly presented with brief descriptors, icons of each App and direct links to the Apps.Suitable for: All ages – especially students with different abilities/needs : An excellent review of the accessibility and functions of an iPhone. There are many interesting links and topics to review and read. Excellent resource to cater to people with different vision, access and cognitive needs.Suitable for: All ages : Some interesting Apps are reviewed in some detail. A whole range of Apps for education – particularly science.Suitable for: Secondary aged students.iPad ResourcesDescription and Suitability is a very recent and up-to-date article published on Jane Farrell’s Blog on the Spectronic’s website. It is a useful and practical resource for students of all ages and abilities as it lists the significant resources that are now promoting iPad use in schools.Suitable for: All ages : ‘Using Blooms Taxonomy in education is a highly effective way to scaffold learning for the students. With the recent popularity and pervasive nature of iOS devices in school regions it is essential for educators to understand how to implement Blooms in the classroom using the Apps that are available. It will assist educators in getting started when implementing iOS devices in the classroom. This site will change almost daily as it will be updated with new and exciting apps.’Suitable for: All ages A very useful and dynamic site that has reviews, comments and discussions about the efficacy and use of iPads in Education. The aim of the iPad Pilot Program is to evaluate the role of the iPad in supporting learning and teaching in today's world. The pilot program is being coordinated by Learning Exchange, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta. It has some great resources and trial history, comments and useful feedback.Suitable for: All ages NEW Lists 5 iPad books for children with handy and useful reviews on each with video support. A good resource and worth reading/watching if teachers are interested in using iPads for literacy and reading.Suitable for: Primary aged students and those with different abilities NEW A wonderful PDF file that can be downloaded freely. It lists some fantastic multisensory Apps for students with special access, communication, sensory and learning needs. It is comprehensive with graphics of each app and a short concise synopsis and description. A must have resource for special educators and parents! Worth downloading and sharing.Suitable for: Primary aged students and those with different abilities NEW A very useful publication, downloaded as a free PDF resource from the DEECD site in Victoria. The PDF was published in January 2011 and contains 41 x A4 pages. It is still a useful resource although out of date as there have been so many other Apps created since early 2011.Suitable for: All ages NEW On this page, educators and student alike will find the best 102 iPad apps for general iPad use. They’ve taken the effort to categorize the apps and choose only those they believe to be the best ones and which will most likely be useful to the majority of users.Suitable for: All ages NEW This is an individual App but has huge potential for educators and students to create their own eBook. The reasonable cost of $4.49 is ideal as the capabilities and features and expansive. An excellent App and one that is strongly recommended. Suitable for: All ages, particularly upper and primary and middle years NEW The Appshopper lists the most popular Apps that have been downloaded with prices and ratings. Useful for quick reference to see what others are purchasing.Suitable for: All ages, particularly upper and primary and middle years NEWiPad ResourcesDescription and Suitability A list of free iPad apps. In an iPad's browser, tap a program title on this site to go the App Store, tap the "free" button and then the "Install App" button. Or in a PC's browser, click a program title to go to the iTunes Preview and click "View in iTunes", and then download the program within iTunes and sync to a classroom or student's iPad.Suitable for: All ages, particularly upper and primary and middle years NEW One of the MANY useful and interesting YouTube videos that discuss the efficacy and use of the iPad and iPad2 in classroom practise. Recently at Critical Agenda’s “Boys and Technology” conference conducted in Melbourne in late August 2011, a great deal of information and a focus on portable learning tools was discussed and presented by a range of speakers. for: All ages, particularly upper and primary and middle years NEW A list of Apps to use for taking movies on the go. A useful link as it details how to make video content and provides some practical and useful video content with children creating and making movies.Suitable for: All ages, particularly upper and primary and middle years NEWTyping & KeyboardingDescription and Suitability TypingWeb is designed to assist typists of all skill levels. Users can learn how to type from the very basics using the site’s free comprehensive keyboarding lessons. Learning games are also available to help users improve their skills while having fun. Experienced typists can prove their abilities by taking speed and accuracy tests to earn printable typing certificates offered by the site. Educators can use TypingWeb to enhance their student’s experience. Teachers can grade, manage and report student’s abilities.Suitable for: All students of all ages NEW PowerTyping is an online free typing tutor for Qwerty - US standard 101 keyboard and Dvorak keyboard - the US alternative ANSI standard keyboard. Learn to type with PowerTyping - online free typing tutor includes:? How to learn typing? Learn to type Qwerty - US standard 101 keyboard? Free educational games? Typing testSuitable for: All students of all ages NEW Another online typing tutor is Good Typing. Students or users of any age can learn how to type correctly in just a few hours using all of their correct fingers.Users will soon be typing faster than they ever imagined using 27 guided lessons to learn step-by-step from the beginning. Students can choose between 20 different keyboard layouts and all content is in a Web-based course.Suitable for: All students of all ages NEW Dance Mat Typing is an introduction to touch typing for children aged 7 - 11 years. Each of the 4 levels is divided into 3 stages. Begin at Level 1 and build up students' skills gradually through to Level 4.Suitable for: Students up to 11 years NEW Typing Test & Typing tutor at Learn 2 Type for Kids – a useful free Web site that helps kids master the skills of touch typing. The interactive exercises in this Kids Typing Tutor automatically adjust to a child's skill level. The more skilled and proficient they become, the more challenging the Typing exercises become. Students can come and go as they please and pick up the Typing lesson where they left off.Suitable for: All students of all ages NEW is the premiere site to play free typing games, lessons and tests. Our Typing Tutor is the best way to learn to type. No downloads, installations or registration required. It offers free games, lessons, drills and is very motivating and entertaining. Ideal for younger or 'less enthusiastic' students!Suitable for: All students of all ages NEWBlogging & Online SitesDescription and Suitability is a private online social platform for teachers and students to share ideas, files, events and assignments. Built on a micro-blogging model, the site allows teachers the ability to handle their class activity online. Teachers can send out assignments, receive completed assignments and assign grades using the online platform. They can maintain a class calendar, store and share files, have a public (RSS) stream, and conduct polls and send text (SMS) alerts to students. Users have a home page where they can see a summary of recent activity for their class. The home page allows the teacher to make new assignments, assign an event to the calendar, send out an alert, and write a note to an individual or a group of students, and share links or files with students. An excellent resource.Suitable for: Upper Primary and Secondary students/classes NEW is an online community for learning languages in a social networking setting. Users can learn English, Spanish, German or French using the site. It uses social networking to enhance the learning experience. Courses are organized into units that contain more than 100 different topics. Each topic has a section for vocabulary, dialogue (i.e. reading exercises), writing exercises, ‘Busuu talk’ (allows users to video chat with native speakers of the language they are studying) and review. The Busuu talk feature provides an experience similar to visiting a foreign country to learn the language. Most importantly, all of the course material is audiovisual. Suitable for: Secondary students/classes NEW Sclipo is designed to help educators improve upon their work flow. The site provides valuable resources that provide information and tips on teaching online and offline. Educators can publish, manage and teach online courses in a face to face environment. They can store and share vital educational content in their own online resource library. Sclipo groups are available to allow users to connect and obtain information and suggestions from one another. Users can also lead live classes, meetings and webinars intended for an audience of one hundred or more. Sclipo provides educators with ways to improve their abilities, reach out to more students, and make helpful learning resources more accessible through the internet.Suitable for: Secondary students/classes NEW is a social learning application that allows users to share their knowledge and expertise while expanding their minds with information provided by other users. To keep the data manageable, organized each item into a learning packet. A learning packet is a small tutorial that covers a specific objective. A packet consists of a question and answer conversation that allows users to learn from both content and supplementary discussions. The site also utilizes a five star rating system. Each learning packet can be rated by users to help others decide which are worthwhile. Self-declared “subject matter experts” are also found within the community and spend some of their time rating packets. An interesting and useful resource.Suitable for: Secondary students/classes NEW If a classroom wiki is intended to e used exclusively for primary and secondary education, then educators can apply for the K-12 plan. These wikis are free and ad-free, and teachers can make them private for extra security for their students. K-12 wikis also come with a User Creator tool that lets teachers and their students open student accounts in bulk — without the need for student email addresses. One of my all time favourites is Jim Sprialis’ Clicker 5 and resources Wiki at .Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students/classes NEW Thousands of users found Wikidot a great tool to:?discuss research topics and collaborate with co-workers,?publish lesson / lecture notes and materials, including any PDF files or PowerPoint slides,?inform students about upcoming topics and events, also using RSS feeds inform them?publish homework tasks,?create forums to discuss topics,?organize whole classes and create separate wikis for groups or for each student.Suitable for: Primary and Secondary students/classes NEW ................
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