Virtual Dice for your Interctive Whiteboard

Whether you require 6, 8, 10 or 12 sided dice as individuals or multiples this great online dice simulator will greatly enhance your next maths session.  It works great on interactive white boards and are not plastered with advertising.  Take a look at it here.

Make your own Digital fashcards

Flashcards is a Silverlight web application where you can create, share, and study online flashcards.  Find a deck in the community, or create your own.  Decks can have up to 300 cards, and each card can have any combination of text, image, and sound on the front and the back.  Start with Review mode if you don't know the content at all.  Otherwise, skip ahead to Study or Type It In modes.  Study mode is based on the honor system, and Type It In checks the correct answer with what you typed in.  Want a challenge?  Try swapping fronts and backs then studying again.  Click here to access it.

Everthing you need to know about the 5 senses

As per usual the BBC have put together another excellent website about the human senses, what they do and how they work.  Below are some great activities from the site which can be accessed here.

Are your eyes being tricked by your brain? Do you know what a supertaster is? Or how to avoid travel sickness? Put your senses to the test in our Senses Challenge.

Discover why food tastes bland if you can't smell.

Are you a supertaster? Does everything on the menu sound unappealing or delicious? Take our test to find out if you're a supertaster. Supertaster | Science of Supertasters

Sniffing the decades See if we can predict which decade you were born in from the smells that remind you of your childhood. Sniffing the Decades | Nostalgic smells

Nervous system game Wire up the body parts to the correct nerves in our nervous system game. Nervous System Game

Brain map Use our brain map to navigate your way to the part of your brain you use to see. Brain Map

My Place Interactive Site for Teachers and Students

My Place by Nadia Wheatley is a very popular Australian children's book that follows the lives, technology and cultural events that changed the way Australians live for for 20,000 years.

there is now a brilliant interactive site specifically designed for teachers and students that really brings the book to life.  I contains interactive timelines, video from the television series and loads of teaching and learning resources to support the book and television series.

I cannot recommend this strongly enough for those that are exploring Australian history and really want some quality content to support it.

Access it here.

Is this the replacement for the Interactive Whiteboard?

Yesterday, Microsoft released the development kit for Kinect on Windows.  For the uninitiated Kinect is a bodily controlled gaming platform that has been around on the X-box for around a year now.  As a gaming tool Kinect is innovative but not entirely brilliant attempt to revolutionize gaming.

If you look at the video below you will see Kinect running on Windows and get an idea of the possibilities that lay ahead of us.  Surely this would supersede the potential of what current IWB's offer us.

I'd Love to hear what you think after you have had a look.

Let your students explore Hunkin's Experiments

Students of all ages will love Hunkin's Experiments. Cool cartoons that will have you experimenting with food, light, sound, clothes, and a whole lot more!! Hundreds of cartoon experiments from cartoonist, broadcaster and engineer Tim Hunkin.   Access Hunkin's Experiments here

BBC Magic Key Adventures - Great Junior Literacy Resource

The magic Key Adventures are a set of interactive stories aimed at junior readers.  There are a number of of spelling, reading and writing activities associated with the magic key series that your students will really enjoy.  Furthermore there are a number of resources for teachers to get you started in the right direction.

Access the magic Key here

The Ultimate Guide to the Royal Wedding for Teachers and Students

If you can't beat them you may as well join them and if you are not already fizzeld by royal news of late here are some useful resources that you might want to share with your students to enlighten and engage them a little further into Will and Kate's 'Special Day'.

Britain's Royal Family an Interactive Tour - Great little tool that explains where everyone fits in to the big picture of the Windsors

The Interactive Royal Seating plan for Will and Kate's Wedding - Which bums will be placed where and who will be stretching their neck to see a blurry outline at Westminster Abbey.

The Interactive Royal Wedding Timeline - Don't miss a second of that's happening and when. And what's been happening before the big day too of course.

The Royal Wedding Interactive Quiz - How well do you know your blue bloods?  Find out

The Royal Wedding Route - An Interactive map of the procession to Westminster

The Royal Wedding Colouring In Pages and Crafts - You have to see it to believe it

Love to hear of any more good and cheesy resources you have come across