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"If you love history, or just want to learn more about it, YouTube has exactly what you need. Always up to the challege of providing thorough, accurate information, YouTube delivers channels from leading names in historical studies, from The Smithsonian to the Discovery Channel. You’re sure to find just the right information you need for your lecture, lesson plan, or perhaps just your personal viewing pleasure."

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This page from Guide To Arts School.com is a very concise summary of what they consider the 11 best free photo editing programs. The page has links to the downloads for each app as well as links to tutorials for each application. In addition to the 11 download apps here are briefer links to their top five online tools.

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"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.

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"The School 2.0 eToolkit is designed to help schools, districts and communities develop a common education vision for the future and to explore how that vision can be supported by technology."

The site contains a range of resources including the Learning Ecosystem Map that is accessible in both an interactive form as well as a poster. The map is a work in progress that you can create an account to add to. The site also has a range of other tool and toolkits that school administrators and technology and other co-ordinators can use to develop their own understanding of School 2.0.

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This is THE place to go for all things NASA in education.

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This fabulous pbworks wiki is a collection of links to a whole range of diverse tools and resources to manage and use in research. Though it is aimed more at higher education, many of the tools also have applicability to other sectors of education.

"Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for."

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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.

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E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory below and download anything you need.

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Tomaz Lasic presents this really interesting collection of advice, resources, opinions and instructional material in an overview of Twitter and ways of using it in education as aScribd for a group of educators attending Twizza (Twitter & pizza) gathering in Perth, Western Australian on April 8, 2009.

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Seven million images of American history and culture are now available on this Life.com site. The site contains the entire archives of Life magazine and Getty Images and all of them are available free. Users can view galleries curated by the site's editors or search the library by names, dates, subjects, and locations. The archive chronicles current events, too, with daily news galleries and the addition of 3,000 new Getty photos a day.

Photos on the site are organized into five channels: news, celebrity, travel, animals, and sports. Visitors can print individual images and share them through sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Delicious. New features of Life.com, due to roll out in the coming months, will allow users to create their own photo galleries. All the site's tools will be free.

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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

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Twitter for Teachers is a Wetpaint wiki that aims to teach teachers about Twitter. As a wiki it continues to grow and develop. It includes information adn links to What is Twitter, Getting Started with Twitter, aTwitter Dictionary, Reasons to use Twitter, Twitter language/conventions, Twitter Clients: Which Tool For Which Purpose, Other Micro-blogging Tools, Twitter Etiquette, Twitter & Your Personal Learning Network, Who you should follow, Twitter in the Classroom,Training Resources and Links amongst others.

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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.

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A collection of links for use on an IWB.

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AwesomeStories is geat site that brings together a range of primary sources of history including written, audio, video, slideshow, digital images and documents into a story format. As the folks at Awesome Stories say

"The stories exist as a way to place original materials in context and to hold those links together in an interesting, cohesive way (thereby encouraging people to look at them). It is a totally different kind of web site in that its purpose is to place primary sources at the forefront - not the opinions of a writer. Its objective is to take the site's users to places where those primary sources are located."

Whilst the original material in the site is largely American based the approach used serves as a great model in how historical record can be assembled as a narrative.

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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.

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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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Search millions of photographs from the LIFE magazine photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

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Picture Australia is an Internet based service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time. When you do a search on Picture Australia, thumbnail images are retrieved from participating institutions on the fly and inserted into the search results. For example, a search on 'St Kilda' will retrieve images from all the agencies that hold relevant material, including the Nolan Gallery, the National Library of New Zealand, the National Archives of Australia, the State Library of Victoria, etc. In your search results you will see sets of 'thumbnail' or preview images. When you click on one of these you will go to the web site of the relevant agency to view the full-size version and you can order a high-resolution copy if required. You can move between Picture Australia and the participating agencies' web sites using the BACK button in your web browser.

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Joyce Valenza's wiki containing all manner of Web 2.0 tools and apps. Most of the regulars are there plus a few more organised under headings.

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