Magnetic Poetry has found its way into the classroom. This is a fun "manipulative," allowing students to play with language and improve their writing skills in the process. Choose "play" to choose a kit and play online. Choose "poetry" to ready poetry created by kids around the world!
Storybird is a service that uses collaborative storytelling to connect kids and families. Two (or more) people create a Storybird in a round robin fashion by writing their own text and inserting pictures. They then have the option of sharing their Storybird privately or publicly on the network. The final product can be printed (soon), watched on screen, played with like a toy, or shared through a worldwide library.
Storybird is also a simple publishing platform for writers and artists that allows them to experiment, publish their stories, and connect with their fans.
Science Pirates: The Curse of Brownbeard is a 3D educational computer game that communicates scientific processes and food safety knowledge in an environment of scientific exploration. Download required. Mac and Windows compatible.
Our aim is to provide simple, fun, competitive games that help children learn and gain confidence with Maths, English and other key skills and knowledge.
Youth Voices is a meeting place where students and their teachers share, distribute, and discuss their inquiries and digital work online. It's a space where teachers nurture student-to-student conversations, collaborations, and civic actions that result from publishing and commenting on each others texts, images, audio and video.
"Free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. On Wiggio, you can share and edit files, manage a group calendar, poll your group, post links, set up conference calls, chat online and send mass text, voice and email messages to your group members. Each group member can define how they want to keep informed of group activity."
"Aardvark is a new kind of tool that lets you tap into the knowledge and experience of friends and friends-of-friends.
Send Aardvark a question (from the web, IM, email, Twitter, or iPhone) and you’ll get a quick, helpful response from someone with…
* The right knowledge
* Similar tastes
* Friends in common"
"The latest #1 selling hit from CandyCane, Fling! features 10,000s of unique puzzles split into 19 levels of increasing difficulty, guaranteeing many hours of puzzling fun!
Each puzzle has a single, unique solution, and is solved by simply flinging (pushing) the furballs, and watching them bump each other off the edge of the screen, until only one is left."