Site+of+the+week

Site of the week  Site of the week has been closed this year (2011) For great classroom ideas visit http://www.etime.co.nz/WebSpace/11/


 * 14th December (last one for the year) http://howbigreally.com/** Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are. Find out how big the great wall of China would be starting in Christchurch etc very cool site.


 * 10th December http://www.jigzone.com**/ Make jigsaw puzzles from your own photos and embed them in your wiki/blog. Simple 6 piece puzzles (new entrants) right up to 247 piece versions


 * 27th November http://www.storybee.org/** Would you like to hear a story? Then you’re in the right place! Welcome to the StoryBee, where you can listen to professional storytellers from across the country as they spin their wonderful tales.


 * 20th November http://tiny.cc/bge8b** Here are all the quick, compelling one-session activities you need to incorporate interactive learning and technology into your curriculum. Each activity requires no prep and can be completed in 15-30 minutes.


 * 8th November http://www.creaza.com/frontpage** offers an engaging suite of online tools where kids can use their imagination by creating, publishing and sharing digital stories. Great digital literacy site!


 * 29th October http://www.admongo.gov/** An amazing online interactive resource that educates students about advertising. Well worth checking out.


 * 22nd October http://draw.to/new** A very simple drawing tool. Make a quick simple drawing and share it with whoever you like.


 * 15th October http://www.wordslide.net/** a great text twist type game that students love. Alone or in a group. Again same as geosense best to play in visit/ alone mode.


 * 8th October http://www.geosense.net/** A geography game. The game names places and you click on the map as to where you think it is. I advise playing in solo or alone mode as against other people contains a chat function that is not moderated.


 * 1st October http://html-pdf-converter.com/** Paste a web page address into this site and it will save it as a pdf document. Very handy for research.


 * 21st September http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SimpleSearchCategory?ilang=English** Hundreds of digital books/stories for kids to read. A real mixture of cultures and languages.


 * 14th September http://www.thelostlunchbox.com/index.html** This game combines problem solving with gaming adventure. Object is to find a lunchbox in an enchanted school. Players have to answer maths, science and history challenges. Students can save and go back to the game.


 * 7th September http://www.primarygames.com/puzzles/sudoku/shapesudoku/start.htm** Sudoku with a difference. It uses basic shapes rather than numbers. Hints are available.


 * 30th August http://www.glassgiant.com**/ - Make cool pictures starring //you//! Create custom images that are great for literacy starters or for student avatars.


 * 23rd August http://www.dabbleboard.com/** An online whiteboard that a class of students can contribute to. No sign up required for instant use. Could be a great way for small groups of students to collaborate.


 * 16th August http://www.capzles.com/** - Another great way to share media with the world. Your class can share art, music, videos and embed into your class Wiki/Blog. An example http://www.capzles.com/#/B0F2B631-880A-4F04-A18E-1B7FD08ACA01/ Great for creating multimedia timelines.


 * A time of general slacking has ended time for new links.**


 * 23rd June http://www.onlinevideoclock.com/timer -** A great countdown timer for the classroom that sets off a youtube music video as the alarm e.g. the Beatles

A huge list of resources that are well organised with age levels and learning areas.
 * 16th June http://www.tpet.co.uk/#/home -** Teachers Pet, free downloadable resources for teachers, including interactive whiteboard resources.


 * 9th June http://www.lookah.tv/ -** A wide variety of tutorial videos on different pieces of software/ Also a great place to investigate new software.


 * 2nd June http://www.smartkiddies.co.nz/** A New Zealand site that has been providing schools and families with quality education since 2001.
 * Smartkiddies makes mathematics fun and challenging
 * Improve your child's speed and accuracy
 * Improve your child's results at school.
 * Developed by experienced teachers
 * //**All New Zealand curriculum based**//


 * 26th May http://www.kerpoof.com/# -** Kerpoof allows children to draw, tell stories and create cartoons and animations. Very popular website, now part of the Disney family of companies.

Domo is a school friendly version of Go!Animate in which all inappropriate content is filtered out. Domo allows you and your students to create animations that can be embedded onto blogs, wikis, etc.
 * 19th May http://domo.goanimate.com/ -**


 * 12th May http://www.customsigngenerator.com/ -** A massive list of sites that let you generate cool images or buttons or text. Great for making your blog or Wiki look really cool and original. Warning, make sure you have some sparetime available.


 * 5th May http://www.cartoonster.com/ -** A great place for kids to learn about animation and learn some of the skills involved. Very kid friendly layout.


 * 28th April http://www.prezi.com** The new revolutuion in presentations. PowerPoint was so last year. These look stunning and can really hold and wow an audience. Check out an example here. So cool...


 * 21st April http://urbanext.illinois.edu/earth/85.cfm** A Natural Disasters site that explains earthquakes and volcanos. Very topical with whats happening in Europe right now. Interactive and in Kid speak.


 * 14th April http://philologus.co.uk/** provides resources for teachers and students to create online games. Students can create their own versions of Who wants to be a Millionaire etc


 * 7th April http://www.globalclassroom.org/rulergame200/index.html** The ruler game. For those kids who need practice learning to read a ruler. Can be quite advanced as it goes into sixteenths.


 * 30th March http://crocodoc.com/** Upload any PDF, Word document, PowerPoint Presentation, image or web page and Crocodoc will let you view and annotate over the top through your browser. Great Collaboration tool.


 * 23rd March http://www.audiencesounds.com/index.html** Sound effects for using in Movies or PowerPoints or even on your web site. I'm not sure i would share this one with the kids but you can download the sounds for your own use.


 * 16th March http://www.kisstunes.com/play.aspx?file=kt-2417** Use your keyboard as a piano and make music. If you register you can also save and share your songs.


 * 9th March [|**http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/**]** The front page of most newspapers in the world

**5th March http://www.visuwords.com/?word=literacy** Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

**28th February http://www.search-cube.com/#** Search the web in a visual way. Very cool but also useful for those visual learners or young children whos reading level is not up to full Google search standards

**21st February** **http://www.fablevision.com/place/library/index.html** A great site full of made up fables for the kids to read, it also has an activity centre where students can make up their own fables. Great Literacy site.

**14th February**
 * http://www.fodey.com/generators/movie/clapper_board.asp** Generate your own image of a movie clapboard, this image can be saved and used in your own movies or just used online in a wiki or blog.

**7th February http://www.cameroid.com/snap.php** Have a PC but wish you had PhotoBooth (Mac software) This site will let you take pictures with your webcam and do really cool things to them. Great fun but also great for oral and written language activities.

**20th January (First site of the Year) http://www.teachingheart.net/classroombehaviormanage.html** A good site to start the year especially for those nervous beginning teachers. This site has a massive amount of hints and tips to help with behaviour management.

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**15th December (Last site of the Year) http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk** What a way to finish of site of the week for 2009. Great ideas for using software, hardware and awesome curriculum ideas. My personal favourite under uses for a Nintendo Wii in the classroom Use 5 "Use Wii Sports Bowling with younger children to practice number bonds to 10. Write down the number of pins knocked down and those left standing to create a number sentence. Some children could be extended by writing down a three part sum with the second ball."

**8th December http://www.telescopictext.com/** This site has to be visited to be understood. Trying to get your students to write better stories or be more descriptive? TRY THIS OUT!

**1st December http://www.watchknow.org/** A video site that helps educators search other video sites like YouTube. You can search by age range and school subjects. Its in its early development at the moment but will be well worth book marking.

**26th November http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/index.cfm** Excellent cybersafety resources for kids of all ages, including the adventures of the CyberSafety Pigs. These resources would work well as full class activities and they relate well to Web 2.0 where students must learn about safety when posting online.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **19th November http://www.novlet.com/** A literacy site for older students you can read stories written by other users or create your own stories, and choose the plot you like most from several alternatives. Users can continue stories or add alternative storylines by creating their passages after existing ones.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**12th November** http://www.beastblender.com/ A site that lets you combine parts of different animals to create your own new animal. A great oral language activity and an awesome way to create characters for imaginative writing.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**5th November** http://www.internet4classrooms.com/brain_teasers.htm Daily brain teasers, a place to extend those kids who think they know everything.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**25th October** http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/maths/dice/ An online tool that lets you customize some on screen dice. Use it to put the 5 W's and an H onto the dice. Put the Scamper letters onto and 8 sided dice. Students love the complete randomness of an onine dice tool.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**18th October** http://storynory.com/ Free audio stories for kids. You can download the audio and copy and paste the text.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**11th October** [|**http://www.crickweb.co.uk/**] This site has a huge range of interactive resources for students of all ages. It contains flipchart resources for those with Promethean boards as well as those without.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**4th October** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**http://www.k-3teacherresources.com/free_stuff_for_teachers.html** Here it is everyone, a great site for Junior teachers! Great printable resoures. Check it out you won't regret it.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**28th September** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**http://litemind.com/scamper-tool/** This is a random question generator for the SCAMPER thinking tool. See the scamper guide at http://litemind.com/scamper/ for more information on how to integrate scamper as a thinking tool.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**21st September** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**http://www.topmarks.co.uk/** This site has some amazing resources including some downloadable numearcy games that beats the problem of having the kids on the internet unsupervised. These learning resources can be downloaded and run off any computer. They work great on a touch screen e.g. interactive boards or tablet computers.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Sorry i've been a bit slack of late, i'll use the excuse of my first born child on the 1st September. Check out her blog at **http://www.ellabedingfield.blogspot.com**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**28th August** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**http://www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/tools/okapi/okapi.php** Create a reading Probe online with any text you like. Copy and paste text into the form and make a printable probe running record. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> An instructional video can be found here http://freewebtools.wikispaces.com/Okapi

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**21st August** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**http://www.halton.gov.uk/schools/weblinks/freepowerpoint_presentations.htm** A list of sites that offer free PowerPoint Presentations for using in the classroom. Includes PowerPoints for interactive board use and lots of numeracy related presentations.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**14th August** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[] Stories read to the kids by famous actors. It's the actors giving a little back to society :)

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**7th August** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://www.physicsgames.net/ To see is to believe. A large range of physics games that require students to puzzle solve and trust in gravity. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Fantatstic when played on a touch screen e.g. interactive board.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 31st July ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://www.inventnow.org/ A site dedicated to helping our kids invent. Includes advice about how to Patent a really great idea.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 24th July ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://www.ps4k.com/homepage.html A great site made by a teacher with a lot of great poetry examples. It also contains a link to his Blog. Well worth a look.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 17th July ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://www.certificates4teachers.com/ A much more cost effective way of rewarding your students. Why should we wait till assembly to praise our students for amazing attitudes or work?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 10th July ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://www.fablevision.com/place/library/index.html A great site for kids to read fables online.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 3rd July ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://etherpad.com/ Wow this is real time collaboration, no signing up required, click "create new pad" invite someone else and away you go... try it out.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 30th June ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://www.20q.net/ A good old fashioned game of twenty questions, but the computer has to guess your object. Can really help students with developing their own questioning skills as it asks a lot of questions.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 23rd June ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://golemgame.com/index.html Golems is a 3D Physics and Artificial Intelligence simulator. Golems lets you construct a machine - any type of machine - and then bring that machine to life.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 16th June ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://www.squirrelnet.com/search/Google_SafeSearch.asp A Google safe search for kids, great for the home.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 9th June ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/manuscript/alphabets/index.htm A site with demonstrations of how to foorm letters, pick a letter and the students can watch over and over again how it should be written. This site includes downloadable worksheets for handwriting and maths as well. Well worth expolring.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2nd June ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://mywebspiration.com/ Just like the software Inspiration only FREE! They have opened up free registration again, but for how long, i'm not sure.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 26th May ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://www.asterix.co.nz/ The official NZ site for the Asterix comics. I notice a lot of these around our classrooms, my favourite comics from when i was a child making a come back :) Great for reluctant readers.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 19th May ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://www.incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/ A site where you can download royality free music. Has some great music for silent films, as you can search by feel e.g. intense

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 12 May ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://www.moshimonsters.com/ A great site where kids create a monster and solve puzzles to receive items to enhance their pet monsters. The pets can interact with other students pets from around the world. It is all monitored by adults and their is a special parents area. Great for learning about cyber resposibility and safety.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">**5th May** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> http://www.freetypinggame.net/free-typing-lesson.asp A fantastic typing tutorial site. It has lessons, tests, interactive games and can even print certificates for the kids.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> **28th April** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> http://www.cape.k12.mo.us/blanchard/hicks/teacher%20pages/inspiration.htm Great inspiration links and templates <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> It is also where i found http://www.seussville.com // well worth checking out.

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/music/piano/index.htm An interactive keybard, great wet lunch time fun
 * 21st April**

http://www.ictgames.com/ Can't go wrong with this site
 * 14th April**

http://puzzle-maker.com/ (Make wordfinds and crossword puzzles online)
 * 6th April**

http://www.spellingcity.com/ A great site for students to test themselves on their spelling words and do tasks to learn their words
 * 30 March**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">http://www.gamegecko.com/millionaire.php (Play who wants to be a millionaire, American questions but great fun) [] (chop up youtube videos to get what you really want also embed your chopped version into your site).
 * 23rd March**
 * 16th March**

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