Classification: (T – websites) (S – cross discipline)

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)

www.TED.com

TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. In addition to its conferences TED now includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program and the annual TED Prize.

Classification: (T – websites) (S – cross discipline)

Shutterstock

http://www.shutterstock.com/

Shutterstock is the largest subscription-based stock photo agency in the world. Every day thousands of photographs, illustrations, and vectors are added to the outstanding collection of premium, royalty-free images. You can choose a 25-A-Day Subscription for the greatest savings (get 25 downloads every day — that's 750 each month) or select an On Demand Subscription for the greatest flexibility (use downloads whenever you need them for up to a year). Select the plan that's best for you, or choose as many different plans as you need, and start downloading today.

Classification: (T – websites) (S – cross discipline)

Flickr

www.flickr.com/creativecommons

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favourite photos and videos to the world. Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.

Classification: (T – websites) (S – cross discipline)

Wolfram Alpha

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Computational knowledge engine that draws on multiple sources to answer user queries directly.

Today's Wolfram Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer.
Type in a question like: Estimated number of websites on the internet?
Receive the answer: 231.5 million as at April 2009

Classification: (T – websites) (S – cross discipline)

Wiki Answers

http://wiki.answers.com/

The world’s leading Q and A site. Try it!

Classification: (T – websites) (S – cross discipline)

Wordle

http://www.wordle.net/

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and colour schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Classification: (S – cross discipline) (T – interactive whiteboards)

Crickweb

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/

Have you heard about Crickweb yet? You will find a range of Free interactive resources and activities for Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 suitable for use on an IWB or your class PCs. Subjects include Maths, English, Science, History, Geography, RE, DT, ICT, French and Spanish.

Classification: (E – early childhood) (S – cross discipline)\

Tooth Tally Project

http://toothtally.com/

The Tooth Tally Project gives teachers a way to integrate an important event in the life of a child - losing a tooth - with reading, maths, writing, social studies and technology. Using "lost tooth" data collected in the classroom, students will practise counting skills and collecting data. They will learn to make and interpret graphs, develop map skills and communicate through email.

Classification: (T – interactive whiteboards) (S – cross discipline)

Interactive Whiteboards in the K-6 Classroom

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

This presentation was presented by Michelle Smith at the Fifth National IWB Conference in 2008.

Description: The interactive whiteboard is an amazing teaching tool, for both the teacher and collaborative student groups. We will discuss basics such as where to position an IWB and handy tips for its use. Cross curricula examples and video will be shown to demonstrate both teacher and student use of the board in a K - 6 context.