Rambling Reflections

ABCya! The Leader in Kids Educational Computer Games and Activities
A selection of interactive activities sorted into grade levels (up to fifth grade).

ScrnShots
Upload, tag & share your screenshots. ScrnShots is the best way to share your screenshots of web and screen based design. Upload as many screenshots as you want, embed them in your blog, discuss them with your contacts and become a better designer!

Spectra Visual Newsreader
Read, play and interact with the news. Allows you to select the news channel you want to see.

BT Better World:Molly on Board
Aimed at children in KS2, the resource helps develop good communication skills and team work, as Molly encourages her crew to be good at listening, describing, and checking understanding.
Originally a comic book, ‘Molly and the Pirate’ has been expanded into a series of flipcharts. Each flipchart’s menu includes teacher’s notes detailing how to use the materials, suggested links to the curriculum, and pictures from the story in a Word document enabling teachers and
students to create their own comics or work materials.

Unofficial Tips and Tricks for Wikispaces
How to best use wikispaces, how to add or use other services together with WS for the best result.

Flash Banner Now
This service will help you to build a free Flash banner for your personal web page, such as MySpace profile or blog.

180 Technology Tips
Tips based on Windows, Internet, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and Word. Also has links to other sites that offer technology tips.

Comic Creator
Easy to use online comic creator

National Gallery of Art NGAkids Art Zone
Interactive art that you can make online

Apture
With just one line of code, publishers and bloggers can quickly and easily turn flat pages of text into a compelling multimedia experience. Apture gives content creators the power to find and incorporate relevant multimedia items directly into their pages.

You Tube Downloader
It’s software that allows you to download videos from YouTube and many others and convert them to other video formats. The program is easy to use, just specify the URL for the video you want to download and click the Ok button!

Adobe Air

Showcase, tutorials and resources for Adobe Air.

Real World Math
Using Google Earth in the Math Curriculum

Using Google Docs in the Classroom

Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers A UK website

Slideboom

Share Live PowerPoint Presentations Online

SlideRocket

SlideRocket is a new application that will transform the way people create, manage, and share presentations on the web and we’d love your help in getting it ready for launch.

Another site, Learning Activities, to help keep you up to date with what is happening on the web. Although there are some sites listed here which I have known about for quite a while, it looks to be an easy to navigate site for those teachers who are beginning to venture into using new tools in their classroom.

You can browse by last added, web widgets (publishing, learning activities, interactive maps, polls or surveys)) or by Web Services (create graphics, presentations, mindmaps, games, artythings; share media, content; find software, websites, content ..)

On further investugation I found many interesting links through investigating the links at the top of the page.

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

BTW The author of the site, Marielle, has recently emigrated from Scotland to take up a position as a programmer/developer at CWA New Media here in Wellington, NZ.

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I have read about this from several people but this post is via Derek Wenmoth

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

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