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Though this list is very American centric it is not a bad starting point if only to check out the different varieties of apps out there. Of the ones on the list, my faves are Evernote. Wordpress, Touchcalc, Google Earth and Starmap.

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This post from Teaching Degree.org Blog list 50 great ways that skype has been or could be used in the classroom. The annotated list has links out to examples of each of the activities that teachers have used Skype with.

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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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"Great teachers know that learning doesn’t stop as soon as you graduate from college. Teachers learn from their experience, from their colleagues, from their students, and any number of other resources. If you are a teacher looking for ways to expand your knowledge base, here are 100 free lectures you can watch to help facilitate some of that learning."

This great collection of some of the best recent lectures has been selected by Heidi Taylor. It contains sections on Creative Learning Environments, Technology, Information for New Teachers, Information for All Teachers, Teaching Specific Subjects, Special Needs, Arts, PE & Health and Lectures From Influential Professors. This is the perfect site for a rainy afternoon.

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This blog is styled as a site for history teachers and anyone who enjoys reading about history and history education. Though written by an elementary or primary school teacher, the blog has numerous posts and links to information that should be of interest to all teachers of history.

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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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The Kindersite Project for ALL preschool and Kindergarten age children and English learners has 1,000s of links to the best games, songs and stories for young children. It has 'Educational Games', Animated lullabies in 7 languages and a Photo Gallery amongst other things.

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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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From the University of Manitoba this wiki "Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities." Whilst the focus is on higher education there are some interesting pages on learning and skills that are applicable to all levels of edcuation.

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Exam markers have identified cartoon interpretation as an area of weakness in the teaching of History in Australian schools. Cartoon PD in a Package is a new resource from the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, developed with the support of a grant from the Public Education Endowment Trust. The package is designed to develop confidence and proficiency in teachers and students using cartoon resources. The value of this resource lies in its self-contained nature which allows it to deliver quality professional development without a presenter and at a time that suits the individual teacher. Teachers will find this package invaluable.

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Here are 100 YouTube videos that can provide supplementary information for the class, give inspiration, help you keep control of class and even provide a few laughs here and there.

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This site is a joint effort from NASA, JPL, California Institute of Technology and the ITEA. It is written specifically for kids and does not link out to other sites that are not written for kids. It has loads of infrmation and ideas for all things space.

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