So much more to TaLe than meets the eye.

Social media tools

Many teacher are already using social media technologies to enhance the teaching and learning process.This space provides background on some common social media tools and their uses in teaching and learning.

Google Documents for teachers

Google Docs Tutorial for Teachers: This tutorial will show you the basics of using Google Docs so you can save and edit documents online.

Image via Wikipedia

Latest Update Did You Know 4.0?

NSW DET teachers have access to helpful resources...

This web site offers:

online modules 

focusing on integration of ICT

supported by teaching and learning activities 

designed to meet syllabus outcomes K-12

This site offers you an opportunity to engage in a range of self paced tutorials. These are supported with teaching activities designed to meet syllabus outcomes through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Australian Government Quality Teacher Program

Image by Old Shoe Woman via Flickr

 Select Primary or Secondary to search for resources designed to illustrate the integration of ICT  into teaching and learning activities.




Access through My Portal------> My applications-------> Integrating ICT in Teaching and Learning

iPod Touch in action in the classroom of 8year olds!!

You Tube - A New Tool For Teaching Information Literacy

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

You Tube - A New Tool For Teaching Information Literacy

View more presentations from Dana Dukic.

The Outback visits Sydney Australia.-video created from Flickr images.

 Wonderful reflective piece-Well done to Stu Hasic .

September 23, 2009 - The Outback visits Sydney Australia. A massive dust storm - the largest in over 100 years blew millions of tonnes of dust from Central Australia across a front more than 600km wide, turning the Sydney sky red, then orange then yellow and coating everything with fine dust.



These images were all sourced from Flickr where over 2,500 such images were posted today. Of course, which other song could go with this than "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas.
Created by Stu Hasic

Another FREE application

Download the FREE TIME Mobile app for the iPhone or iPod touch to access TIME's depth of content around-the-clock.

Sections include:

News

• Top Stories
• Latest Headlines
• Politics
• U.S.
• World
• Biz & Tech
• Health & Science

• Entertainment
• Travel
• Swampland
• The Curious Capitalist
• Tuned In
• Nerd World
• Looking Around

Lists

Best and Worst Lists in every category from Entertainment to Politics

Quotes

TIME.com’s Quotes of the Day

Popular

The most popular articles that are being read on TIME.com

Media

Exciting photo essays and videos

Google Docs to Slideshare

Slideshare recently rolled out the ability to import and share documents from Google Docs on SlideShare. 

They support importing presentations, documents and pdf files at present. 

Follow the steps outlined in the SlideShare blog posting.

What is SlideShare?

SlideShare claims to be the best way to share your presentations with the world

adapted from Jane Knight

A movie make tool-Xtranormal

See what Room 10 RBS created:

Xtranormal

Random Number Generator

Choose your own min and max numbers(0-100)

Looking for safe copyright free clipart for students?-Try WPClipart

 "WPClipart is a fast, clean and safe site for children and others to find good-quality, printable images that have no copyright restrictions."

"PNG was chosen as the default format because it is lossless but compressed -- meaning it is of higher quality than JPG. "  Not all images are in colour and some images are of a poorer quality.

Back to School: Top 10 iPhone Apps for Students

Back to School: Top 10 iPhone Apps for Students

Must-have iPhone applications for students.

These apps will help you stay organised, take notes, and study better.

Seven are FREE!!

Image by powerbooktrance via Flickr

Are you stuck in an uncomfortable place?

 

http://imgur.com/gallery/14bGh

Imgur gallery  -image sharing site

bubbl.us-brainstorm on line for free

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online. You can:

* Create colourful mind maps online

* Share and work with friends

* Embed your mind map in your blog or website

* Email and print your mind map

* Save your mind map as an image

"bubbl.us is fantastic for collaborative work." Lisa Valentine

"a great flow charting tool that lets individuals and groups sketch out their conceptual map." Andrew Middleton

Image via Wikipedia

Try it and let me know what you think.

Create your own huge display posters

Block Posters enables users to upload their images and then enlarge them.



By printing each block of the image as an A4 size, users can print images with lots or just a few blocks to create small, large or enormous photos for display.

Generators are great.

A selection of various generators such as:

The Newspaper Clipping Generator

The Ninja Text Generator

The Wizard Text Generator

are available at http://www.fodey.com
Our kids really enjoyed them.

You Tube-now it's unblocked for teachers

If you would like a very brief, but most entertaining, history of the world watch this regional award winning video-Behold! The entire history of the world in under 7mins!

Twiddle This! A collaborative writing tool.

"Twiddla calls itself a web-based meeting playground. Not only is it a fun way to swap ideas about a website or image, it’s incredibly useful as well."

—webworkerdaily.com
Browse websites in a shared, real-time whiteboard, while marking them up, sharing files, and chatting along. It's called co-browsing; all the cool kids are doing it.