Free video tutorials from video-tutes.com

Free video tutorials from video-tutes.com
Tutorials for a range of industry standard design software ( including Dreamweaver, Photoshop , Flash, Premiere Pro). Great resource for staying up to date with constantly updated software packages.

SMART - Software resources

SMART - Software resources

Essentials for Educators

Download curriculum-relevant templates and images for lessons created in Notebook software (part of SMART Board software).

• Administration and Evaluation
• Arts
• English and Language Arts
• Geography
• History
• Mathematics
• People and Culture
• Science and Technology
• Special Needs
• Sport and Recreation

Educational software

Download educational software and movies to use on your SMART Board interactive whiteboards.

• Finale Notepad
• Number Cruncher
• Speller

Lesson Activity Toolkit

Try the pilot version of SMART’s Lesson Activity Toolkit – the newest addition to our Notebook software

Google Sky Launches - 200 Million Galaxies on Your Desktop

Google Sky Launches - 200 Million Galaxies on Your Desktop

Post from Mashable(Social networking news), 22 August:

"No, it’s not April 1st: Google really has launched a service called Sky that lets you explore the heavens from within Google Earth. You get a 3D view of all the constellations viewable from earth, and you can explore them in 3D. 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies are included.

Amazingly, the imagery is stitched together from more than 1 million images, with contributions from the Hubble Space Telescope. That shouldn’t be surprising, since Google and NASA have already worked together on images that show the earth from space."

Software Sites

Software Sites

RSS Feed from EDNA with software - mainly free- of interest to educators and students.

Dust Echoes: Ancient Stories, New Voices

Dust Echoes: Ancient Stories, New Voices: "Dust Echoes is a series of twelve beautifully animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law. "(ABC Web site)

Education - australian screen

Education - australian screen: " Developed by Curriculum Corporation through The Le@rning Federation, the education collection is designed to help teachers and students make the most of the wide range of moving image resources on the site. The clips in this collection are accompanied by teachers’ notes created by specialist curriculum writers. Expert curators’ notes also provide useful background material."

Save videos from YOU TUBE to play at school.

http://vconvert.net/

RSA Lectures - Howard Gardner - Future Minds | Teachers TV

RSA Lectures - Howard Gardner - Future Minds Teachers TV: "Video Information Length:60 minutes Synopsis In this lecture series, filmed at the RSA in London, Harvard professor Howard Gardener examines the mental capacities needed for the future in a globalised world. The kinds of minds he suggests should be cultivated are three cognitive ones: the disciplined mind, the synthesizing mind and the creating mind, and two that deal with the human sphere: the respectful mind and the ethical mind. Gardener discusses how these can be best nurtured, and points out some of the inevitable tensions created between them. After the lecture a group of teachers discuss how these ideas are used in practice in the classroom today."

iEARN: Additional Resources

iEARN: Additional Resources

Project based learning resources collected for iEarn participants.

SMARTBoard Lessons Podcast

SMARTBoard Lessons Podcast

About

The purpose of this site is to accompany a free podcast that focuses on using SMART Boards in the classroom. Each episode will feature a lesson, a podcast, and user comments. The hosts, Joan Badger and Ben Hazzard, have been recognized as Canadian & International Innovative Teachers by Microsoft, SMART Exemplary Educators, Peer Educators, Tradeshow Teachers, and Conference Presenters on the use of SMARTBoards in the classroom. Joan teaches Grade 6 and provides professional development for teachers in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Ben has taught from Grades 4 through 7 in Brampton, Ontario, Canada and then Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.

The goal of this podcast to share lesson ideas that use technology to engage students in learning with a focus on SMARTBoard Interactive Whiteboards between educators. Teachers can listen on lunch breaks or recesses as they mark papers or on their way to school in the morning via their iPod. We are always looking for other educators who would like to share their lesson ideas with others. Email Ben (ben @ mrhazzard.com) or Joan (jbadger @ pembinatrails.ca) with your ideas!

Primary School Learning Technologies

Primary School Learning Technologies

List of IWB resources and links. Mainly primary.

Internet Public Library:

Internet Public Library:
The IPL was founded by a class at the University of Michigan's School of Information, and Michigan SI students almost exclusively generated its content and managed the Ask a Question reference service. As of January 1, 2007, the IPL has moved to Drexel University's College of Information Science and Technology. Now, a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science are maintaining the IPL!