Classification: (E – Teachers)

Primary Teaching Jobs

http://www.primaryteachingjobs.com.au

Primary Teaching Jobs is a free employment website in the field of Primary Education. Schools can open a free account and place as many ads as they want and search the database of candidates. If you would like to advertise a school based job anywhere in the world, just email info@primaryteachingjobs.com.au and you will be given a login and password. Job Seekers can create and post a CV, search for a job, and get tips on how best to secure a position.

Classification: (E – teachers) (E – lesson ideas)

Centre for Learning Innovation

http://www.tale.edu.au

The Teaching and Learning exchange is a portal or gateway to rich content. TaLe provides links to over 20,000 quality assured resources. One significant collection of resources linked to by the TaLe portal is the collection supplied by The Centre for Learning Innovation (CLI). The CLI publishes many of its quality assured resources into the Parents and Community section of TaLe. It should be noted that CLI resources have been created by leading NSW teachers and curriculum specialists and are firmly based on NSW syllabus outcomes and the Quality Teaching framework.

Classification: (T – websites) (E – teachers)

Edna

http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/resources/browse/browsemap

Sometimes we have to be reminded about the great resources we have available to us. Edna is one of those!

Classification: (E – teachers)

Teacher’s Toolkit

http://www.teachers.work.co.nz/toolkit.htm

The Teacher’s Toolkit forms part of the Teachers @ Work website, a NZ initiative. You will find a huge range of free websites, resources, ideas and webquests.

Classification: (E – teachers) (T – websites)

ABC Education Resources

http://www.abc.net.au/learn/

The ABC Education Resources website has a very broad range of activities searchable by age, subject or content. BtN (Behind the News) is a high-energy fun way for students to learn about current issues and events in their world. Count Us In is specially prepared material to help younger children understand numbers. You will also find an interactive music education project, a sing online database, the Megafauna of Australia and lots of very interesting projects.

Classification: (E – teachers)

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

http://www.aslansw.org.au/pubs/

ASLA (NSW) Inc. has recently published a poster originally developed by Andrew Churches on Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. Every school in NSW will receive this poster free of charge as a support to schools from ASLA NSW.

Classification: (E – teachers) (T – podcasting)

The Virtual Staffroom (Chris Betcher)

http://www.virtualstaffroom.net/

We thought we would showcase some of the great sites, blogs, resources that were showcased by some of the presenters at the Sixth National IWB Conference. The Virtual Staffroom by Chris Betcher was nominated for an Edublog award in the Best Use of Educational Audio Category.

Classification: (T – websites) (E – teachers)

Edugator (Kel Hathaway)

http://www.edugator.net.au/

Kel Hathaway is another teacher who regularly presents for IWBNet. He has gathered a truck load of lessons, resources and ideas on a website which he gives away to teachers wanting some inspiration.

Classification: (E – teacher) (T – websites)

Scootle

http://www.scootle.edu.au

Scootle is a catalogue facility providing a host of resources for using digital media in the classroom. You will find Learning objects, Audio, Video, Assessment resources, Teacher resources and Collections. You can browse by Topic or Search Term.

Classification: (E – evaluation) (E – teachers)

Information Literacy Site

http://www.open.ac.uk/safari/php_pages/s01t01p010000.php

This site will provide you skills in Accessing, Finding, Reviewing, Evaluation and Organising Information.

Classification: (T – interactive whiteboards) ( E – teachers)

So your IWBs are gathering dust?

Download: To download this resource click here (Box.net)

This presentation was presented by Pascale Warnant at the Sixth National IWB Conference in 2009.

Description: How much use are the IWBs at your school really getting? Unfortunately many schools have IWBs that are simply gathering dust as teachers struggle to find the time to learn how to use them properly. Pascale is an ICT integrator at the school where she teaches. She has spent many hours showing teachers how to use an IWB and she will share with you some successful approaches to get teachers and their students to interact with their board.

Classification: (S – geography) (E – teachers)

Teaching Spatial Patterns and Skills to Senior Geography Classes

Download: To download this resource click here (Box.net)

This presentation was presented by Michele Larnder at the First NZ and AUS International IWB Conference in 2009.

Description: An integral facet of Geography at level 1-3 NCEA is for students to have an understanding of spatial patterns. The ability to visually manipulate phenomena with the interactive board is a useful tool to communicate an understanding of location. This session will demonstrate ways to teach location of phenomena and how to develop an understanding of spatial variation.