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This site will benefit any busy teacher within the classroom as it has tried and tested strategies and suggestions as to how to control your students in your classroom. It has different behaviour management publications, articles and recommendations which would be useful in any classroom to make the day more enjoyable.

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The Hippo Helper is a great site for any teacher wanting to incorporate ICT into the classrooms. This site has lots of great ideas for units, activities, resources and tutorials which will help increase the teachers knowledge and understanding of ICT's.

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Google image is a great resource which allows you to download only images. It is a bank of millions of different images for all different topics all on the one site.

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Microsoft Word is a basic and popular word-processing program that can be used for creating documents such as brochures, invitations, letters, quizzes, tests, activities, assignments, presentations and much more. This program can be used effectively and easily to assist students in creatively designing and writing up their DDE cycles, rationales and much for their design challenges with ease. This is a very effective resource that should be used in the classroom.

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Prezi is rather like Microsoft Powerpoint or a big slideshow - it allows you to be creative an encourages students to explore the different tools and features that are available on Prezi. Students that use this program will find that it is fun and gives a whole new dimension to their presentations. This program would require teacher guidance and assistance when first using the program.

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24 Hour Dominos is a great activity which can be done in group rotations. Dominos can be adapted for different learning abilities and students really enjoy hands-on, student centered activities.

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Zamzar is a free file conversion program that allows you to convert your music, photos, files, videos into different formats to suit most programs. This is a very useful tool for when having to a presentation.

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This is a free download which enables you to convert your videos into whichever format you need to put into your presentations. It is especially useful for Prezi as it allows you to convert your videos to FLV files.

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You Tube can be used as a useful website and resource within the classroom setting. There are many educational videos and instructional videos that can be useful across all key learning areas. Teacher supervision would be required when accessing U-tube in the classroom setting.

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Microsoft Excel is an easy spreadsheet program that can assist students if they want to display things such as calculations, graphing and tables. This is a useful program to showcase students information they have collected whilst also be very user friendly.

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Microsoft Movie Maker is a useful tool to assist students in making movie masterpieces to show to their friends and family. This program is a great tool to use in the classroom to assist in showcasing students presentations whilst also be very easy and fun to use.

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This site provides a comprehensive guide to the states and their regions and includes travel tips, routes, accommodation and attractions. This is useful for students when they are building itineraries for local, state and Australian tours.

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Xtranormal is a great FREE online text to movie making tool that is heaps of fun to use for students and teachers alike. It allows students to add voices, words, movements, backgrounds and noises to characters to create their own movies and presentations - it adds a whole new dimension to students presentations that all would enjoy. This program is very user friendly and fun to use in the classroom.

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Education Queensland have incorporated onto their website (in pdf format) some interesting and fun design challenges that can easily be incorporated into the classroom. There is all the information online to start and complete the design challenges or students can choose their own from the many that are on the site. Teachers can print this out or view it online and is a very helpful resource when investigating design challenges.

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Google is a powerful tool that is very effective when not only doing design challenges but when wanting to find out any information lightning fast at the tip of your fingers. This is a very useful and necessary tool within classrooms today.

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This site is very informative as it gives you some great ideas that allows you to integrate the internet into your teaching and learning across all key learning areas. It is a very good resources for student and teachers especially when still discovering how to use the internet.

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This is a very good site that provides useful lesson plans for teachers. These lesson plans can be used across all key learning areas but must be adapted to Queenslands Essential Learnings.

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This site is a useful site when teachers and students alike are thinking about a design challenge. It gives new and creative ideas that can be used for a design challenge that allows students and teachers to think outside the square. This is a very easy site to use and navigate around and very helpful for design challenges.

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Teacher tube is a valuable website as it is rather like U-tube - but for teachers. Teachertube is a video-sharing site that provides an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos on various topics and across all key learning areas. You can also look at and upload instructional lesson plans. Very useful resource for teachers.

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Outstanding online lesson plans as well as links to other valuable resources and websites. These lesson plans go across all KLA's and are a great way to enhance students learning through technology - although bear in mind, these lesson plans will have to be adapted using Queenslands Essential Learnings. This is a great resource for teachers and very easy to use.

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