Useful+Websites

Links to useful websites for the classroom. This area will grow as teachers add their 'best' websites.

Numeracy
[|Woodlands School UK]. This site has lots of interactive activities aimed at 7-11 year olds. [|BBC Schools Numeracy] [|http://tutpup.com] A global basic facts competition for kids. Teachers register to get a class account and code, then children use the class code to sign in and get a 'screen name' to compete against kids from other parts of the world. Looks fun! [|smartkiddies] A maths programme with resources, teaching videos and interactive activities.

Literacy
[|Into the Book] Fun, interactive reading comprehension activities which focus on learning strategies- such as using prior knowledge, visualisation, summarising, evaluating etc- that help build meaning.

[|Starfall] An interactive reading/phonics site great for juniors.

[|Readwritethink] Student interactive activities to support literacy learning in the 'Students Materials' section

Literacy Zone in the Woodlands Junior School (UK) site, http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/literacy/

Free Audiobooks, http://www.audioowl.com/genre/Children, http://thestoryhome.com/

Teaching Resources
Jacqui Sharp's Resources [|Teaching Online.] This is the website for Starters and Strategies. It has ICT projects in the lessons library plus many useful links to websites in the Educational Links section. [|ictopus.org.uk] A British%2Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 ite with lots of ideas for the use of ICT in primary school. Registration needed to access resources (free.) Online Collaborative Projects for New Zealand teachers to use in the classroom: http://rjensen.wordpress.com/ [|ideastoinspire.co.uk] A collection of eLearning examples including a section on 'inspiring You-tube' videos for use in the classroom. Rachel Boyd's wiki is full of practical ideas for the classroom [|www.spellingcity.com] A cool website with heaps of spelling games. The children can use their own spelling words to play the games. [|Webquest review] from Mark Treadwell's website, a useful list of webquests A resource list of free websites and tools useful for the classroom from http://www.classroom20.com [|List of free tools]

Learning about Web 2 (see Web2 Tools page also)
Teachers First [|Wiki Information] Learning about Wikis, Blogs, RSS and Google Apps from Suzie Vesper ( http://learningweb2.wikispaces.com/ ) [|Free Technology for Teachers] A blog with many useful 'How-to' tutorials and other technology resources

Photography and Digital Story Telling
Suzie Vesper's Educational software wiki lists many sites, see Free Image Libraries [|http://compfight.com] a search tool for Flickr photos- click the creative commons only [|http://matapihi.org.nz] an online database sourced from cultural institutions in NZ Mark Treadwell's resource page of [|Online Image Libraries]

Photo Editing and effects: [|http://picnik.com] [|http://befunky.com] [|http://fotoflexer.com] [|http://dumpr.net] and there are many more!

Digital Citizenship and Online Issues
ICTPD Modules: http://ictpd-digital-citizenship-and-cybersafety.wikispaces.com/ and http://ictpd-digital-citizenship-and-copyright.wikispaces.com/ Internet safety: http://learningweb2.wikispaces.com/Internet+Safety+and+Guidelines http://www.netsafe.org.nz/ (Guidance and support for schools, parents and students) http://www.mylgp.org.nz (developed by NetSafe, provides content to help schools educate students about Digital Citizenship)

Child friendly Search Engines

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Students' examples of ICT projects from other schools and Clusters
The Downs School in England:[|ICT examples] A directory of NZ classroom blogs : http://nzedublogs.wikispaces.com/NZ+classroom+student+blogs

Lead teacher websites:
leadingict.wikispaces.com Planning Guidelines for ICT PD in schools: [] [|Software for Learning] Facilitation Strategies

Links to Useful classroom websites grouped by level (click on the top arrow to get to the next age level)
http://zerototwo.wikispac