by heatherblakey | May 22, 2009 | Arts, Online Resources
Most teachers are familiar with YouTube and Teacher Tube. Vimeo is another piece of freeware which enables you and your students to showcase your video work. Vimeo promotes itself as being a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the...
by Lois Smethurst | May 20, 2009 | Online Resources
Tux Paint, Tux Typing and Tux Math are three of the ongoing projects belonging to Tux4Kids. Tux Paint, Tux Typing and Tux Math are free software applications that you can download and run on your home or school computers. If you would like to know more, you can read...
by Lois Smethurst | May 20, 2009 | Arts, Literacy, Online Resources, Web 2.0
“Tux Paint is free, Open Source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is developed by volunteers around the world.” Tux Paint is an attractive drawing package for students and it runs on a variety of platforms. It is...
by Marie Coppolaro | Mar 28, 2009 | Online Resources
Connect is an awesome site for early childhood, primary and secondary students implemented by the Victorian Department of Education and Early Education. Links to each of the age groups contain an Aladdin’s cave of wonderful resources. The primary students...
by slav | Mar 6, 2009 | Online Resources
Kerry Rowett, the Client Liaison Officer for Connect (formerly the Education Channel) has kindly agreed to be interviewed by the School Library Association of Victoria’s Bright Ideas blog. Who is behind the fantastic new Connect websites? The Connect sites are...
by kerry | Mar 5, 2009 | Online Resources, Web 2.0
Have you seen PicLits yet? It’s a lovely site for ‘inspired picture writing’. Choose an image and then drag and drop words (categorised as nouns, verbs, adjectives etc) into the space. The object is to ‘put the right words in the right place...
