Eath Hour: Lets make a difference, Turn off your lights for an hour. Earth hour can be used as a springboard for powerful action in…
Category: Humanities/ Topics
Sunsmart resources and ideas for first term
Posted in Classroom, General, Humanities Topics, and Humanities/ Topics
In Australia the students will be returning to school and it is always hot, hot, hot. The world health organistaion has recommended that sun safety…
21st Century Global Education: Part 2 Children’s Rights
Posted in Classroom, General Classroom Apps, Global Education, Humanities/ Topics, and Teacher Resources
Hi everyone, Last week I featured some of the tools which classrooms can use to connect to the global community. This connection enables students to…
21st Century Global Education: Part 1
Posted in Classroom, Global Education, Literacy, Speaking and Listening, Teacher Resources, and Web 2.0 tools
Our world is changing, it is becoming flatter and appears to be metaphorically shrinking. Technology has allowed us to communicate across borders and countries with…
Kahoot: create your own quiz games.
Posted in Classroom, Consuming, Creating, General, Humanities/ Topics, and Literacy
So we all know Socrative, which is an excellent tool for the classroom. For those of you who have not seen the new quiz tool Kahoot.…
Australian Virtual Census
Posted in Classroom, Geography, History, Humanities Topics, and Humanities/ Topics
The Australian Bureau of statistics has created this virtual resource on Australia using the data gained from the census. This tool personalises the Australian population…
Turn your quiz into a arcade game: Mitchell
Posted in Classroom, Creating, General, History, Humanities/ Topics, and Teacher Resources
Previously I have posted about class tools which can turn any quiz into games. Progressing on form last weeks scratch game, Mitchell created this game…
Wideo: Make online animated videos
Posted in Classroom, General, History, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Maths, Teacher Resources, and Web 2.0 tools
Hi everyone, I was looking this morning and found this web based animated video creation site. I have been playing with the tool and created…
Watch Learn Know: Database of educational videos.
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It is interesting where the internet can lead you. Today I was searching for and reading the latest early childhood journal articles which looked at…
Unfortunately there are not may apps for the winter games, and a few off them have too many adds to navigate (I have only looked…
Hi everyone this is my first post for the year. I hope that you all had a great Christmas and New Year. On Friday 7th…
Online Timeline: Soft Schools
Posted in Classroom, Geography, History, History, Humanities/ Topics, and Literacy
Following on from yesterdays post, Soft Schools also have an online timeline generator which you can access here. This would be more suited to the…
Create online interactive time lines with Tiki-Toki
Posted in Classroom, Geography, History, History, Humanities/ Topics, and Literacy
Tiki Toki is an online timeline tool you can access the site here. This is a great FREE site which have great possibilities for the…
Stixy colloboration board
Posted in Classroom, General, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, and Web 2.0 tools
I posted previously about a website called Wall Wisher where you can add videos, text and pictures onto a virtual pinboard This tool stixty is similar…
Scribble maps
Posted in Classroom, Geography, History, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, and Maths
The website scribblemaps is fantastic. It allows you to access any Google map and then add icons, lines, shapes, information onto the map. These maps can…