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Online Interactive ELearning Teaching Resource Library. View teaching resources online for free.
"Established in 2006, Curriculumbits.com offer free online access to a growing range of interactive multimedia elearning resources. The online resource library contains games, quizzes, animations and videos in a variety of subjects. Resources have been produced according to key stage 3 and 4 of the UK National Curriculum for students aged 11 to 16."
Though the learning objects are not downloadable they are eminently suited to using on an interactive whiteboard.
Phun - 2D physics sandbox - Home
Phun is a free game like 2D physics sandbox where you can play with physics like never before. The playful synergy of science and art is novel, and makes Phun as educational as it is entertaining.
Primary Teachers Network
Primary Teachers Network is for primary school teachers worldwide to come together as professionals and individuals to share, learn & enjoy! The Ning has a strong focus on IWB's as well as a numerous groups around a range of topics specific to Australian Primary teachers.
Maureen Tumenas's videos on Vimeo
Maureen Tumenas is assembling an ever expanding collection of movies of er class and others working especially with science. These are great examples of how video can be used on a number of levels. The videos are a great reminder for the students in Maureen's class, they enable parents to be involved in what is happening in the classroom, they can be used as a stimulus for other students and teachers can review them as a means of professional learning.
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
Worldmapper is a collection of some 600 world maps, that uses cartograms to offer comparative data around themes such Age of Death, Income etc. Each of the the countries are re-sized on each map according to the particular variable that is being mapped. Though some of the maps are quite tricky to work with at first after you get used to it, the cartograms are a great visualization. Each of the maps also has an associated pdf file.
Top News - Study: Ed tech leads to significant gains
This article from eschoolnews looks at the Robert Marzanno "Evaluation Study of the Effects of Promethean ActivClassroom on Student Achievement,"report. It begins
"Integrating Promethean's ActivClassroom--a suite of educational technologies that includes an interactive whiteboard, teaching software, and student response systems--into instruction can raise student achievement by an average of 17 percentile points, according to new research that also confirms the experience, comfort, and skill level of teachers in using the technology has a huge impact on how effective they'll be."
The Whiteboard Blog » Smart Lesson Toolkit 2.0
Smart have just made available version 2.0 of their excellent Lesson Activity Tookit for Notebook 10. The Lesson Activity Toolkit contains templates for several activities that you can use to keep your students involved and make learning fun. There are over a dozen types of customizable activities including: anagram, category sort, image match, keyword match, multiple choice, pairs, tiles and word guess.
The National Archives Learning Curve | Focus on Film
This UK site is designed to promote critical evaluation of the use of film in the study of history and history teaching. It includes discussion of some of the issues related to film as evidence, activities that investigate different aspects of film, an archive of original and reconstructions as well as showcasing how film editors work via an online editing tool.
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials
The ReadWriteThink site maintained by the International Reading Association in conjunction with the US National Council for the Teachers of English offers,
"a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills."
They include organisers, games, writing frameworks, creation tools amongst many others. Many are perfect for use on IWB's and laptops, netbooks and the like
CO2 emissions, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time
Breathing Earth is a real-time simulation that purports to display the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, alongside birth and death data. The simulation tracks on a map where in the world these vents are likley to be taking place. Really interesting stuff.
"Please remember that this real time simulation is just that: a simulation. Although the CO2 emission, birth rate and death rate data used in Breathing Earth comes from reputable sources, data that measures things on such a massive scale can never be 100% accurate. Please note however that the CO2 emission levels shown here are much more likely to be too low than they are to be too high. "
Interact | physics.org
Part of the larger Physics.org site this selection of interactive websites and games show a whole different side of physics. Here you can find a cartoon street where you can explore the physics of life or take a look at a selection fo videos demonstrating physics principles in real life or even perform your own colonoscopy, (teacher guidance required).
Essay Map
One of a range of great tools from the US National Council for the Teaching of English, this flash interactive helps students plan a story.
Learning - E2BN
From The East of England Broadband Network (E2BN) one of 10 Regional Broadband Consortia (RBCs) set up by the UK Government to help raise standards in teaching and learning by the use of broadband technology, comes this selection of learning activities. The activities are arranged under the UK Keystages and divided into subject areas, (note some activities feature in more than one category). Included are links to interactives, movies and a range of activities many of which are suited to use on an IWB.
Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government
These fascinating Flash based maps trace the history of events and trends such as the march of democracy, and the Imperial History of the Middle East. The maps play in a flash player that can also be embedded in a blog or wiki. Another great tool for use with an IWB.
VIRTUAL KEYBOARD - PIANO
This virtual keyboard can be played solo or as chords very much like a traditional eectronic keyboard. It also has some drum presets and just like other keyboards there are a range of instruments to choose from. Great for an IWB.
NLA Australian Newspapers beta
"The National Library of Australia, in collaboration the Australian State and Territory libraries, has commenced a program to digitise out of copyright newspapers. They are creating a free online service that will enable full-text searching of newspaper articles. This will include newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s, when copyright applies. The first Australian newspaper, published in Sydney in 1803, is included in the Program."
Within the browser you can search on detail, dates, newspaper title and State. Whilst the article is originally in a smaller "browser" you can zoom and move around the page, you can also view the page in a separate window from where you can download a pdf version.
Talking SMARTBoards & Much More!
An interesting blog that contisn links and discussion of resources that can be used on an IWB.
PageKeeper
A collection of links for use on an IWB.
InteractiveWhiteboard.net.au
InteractiveWhiteboards.net.au is maintained by Electroboard, the Australina distributors of SMARTBoards in Australia. This site is set up to provide educators with information on interactive whiteboard training activities in your local area, upcoming conferences and events that will showcase the technology and several unique programs that support its adoption and use in Australia and New Zealand. It also has links to some Australian Notebook lessons.
Museum Box Homepage
If you could put a number of items into a box that described your life, what would you include? What do you think would be included if you were a Victorian Servant or Queen Elizabeth I. If you lived during the English Civil War, what items would you include to make a case for, or against, the parliamentarians? And what if you were an abolitionist and wanted to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary, how would you create your evidence.
So what does museumbox do?
museum box provides the tools for you to do just this. It allows you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view the museum boxes submitted by other people and comment on the contents.
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