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Ajax Browser Helper Object is a plug-in for your web browser that allows you to view documents (PDFs, Word Docs, etc.) without downloading them to the computer. It is a great program that is a big time (and space) saver.
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Set up a free account, upload photos to create a 30 second short 'film' set to great music. Can be embedded in a blog or wiki or shared with a friend. Take a series of photos of growth of a plant. Place the photos in Animoto for a creative way to create
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This free download will search your machine and look for program updates for all of your software. This is a great tool that you may want to run once a month or so to make sure that your resources are current.
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Atmoshir is a very neat 3D adventure game and creation tool. This is a very cool tool to design your own worlds and game experiences. While it can be seen as a simple fun application, there are possibilities to make this part of most any curriculum. For i
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This site is a brilliant collection of videos, pics and information about various habitats around the globe.
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Build a ‘wild’ version of yourself with human and animal components! Send it to a friend via email.
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This completely free program is a simple but effective countdown timer that is extremely easy to use. An alarm sounds to indicate that a specified time period has ended. Any wav, mp3, or midi file can be used as the alarm. You can watch the countdown from
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Use this free social bookmarking service that allows you to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralised source. It is a great way to categorise, remember and share all those great sites.
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This is a wiki built on the Mediawiki platform, and it bills itself as "The Software Encyclopedia." A nice idea, and certainly a good place to find some open-source and freeware programs. Looking at the site recently, it appears that they are still grow
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Drop Mind is an excellent mind mapping program that is available both as a desktop installation and as a web-based application. The interface is well designed and offers teachers and students the ability to create simple or complex graphic maps with lots
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DVD Flick is an open source DVD authoring program that is free and simple to use. This is a great tool for students and teachers to use in order to back up or burn their in-class projects.
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This has some great Bloom's Links to ICT - Lot's to be found here.
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A fabulous free online library of thinking guides that you can change or customise, using images, text and shapes
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A 3-D environment for use with interactive whiteboards. This program, currently in beta, enables teachers and students to work with objects in space that are able to be manipulated in ways that a 2-D object in all other whiteboard software programs is lac
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When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting sessions, education, team pro
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A thought and Idea collection and sync Tool. Handy little app for all.
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Create an online mind map about the fours seasons. Save it to your free account. Send the link to friends who can also collaborate with you. Embed the final result in your blog, website or wiki!
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The Victorian Central focus point for ICT
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Gimp is an open source drawing and photo manipulation program that many consider to be "the free version of Photoshop." While it doesn't do everything that Photoshop does, it is an excellent program and its price can't be beat. Teachers can embrace it and
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Set up a blog! Your teacher will need to set up one first and become the administrator of your blog. Don’t use your real name or image … but share your thoughts with the world! What’s it like in your backyard?
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Set up a free account and create your own online animations to share with friends. View other examples on the site for inspiration.
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This program allows students to explore the Earth in a 3-D environment. Many people may be familiar with this interesting way to look at our planet, but there are constant developments that make the program even more useful for educators. A fairly new fea
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Want to collaborate on a single online document with your friends asynchronously? This is the site for you - you can redesign research projects to include text, video and picture and cite sources correctly.
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Google's architectural program is a great tool to use in the classroom. While it was not necessarily intended to be a student activity for class instruction, this program has many wonderful applications for major subject areas. There is a feature that ena
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Handbrake is a very useful program that allows you decode video DVDs or change the format of video files. You can decode the entire video or simply select portions (chapters) that you want. You can even change videos to work with iPhones or iPods. Simp
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A nice open-source vector based graphics editor as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw.
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Estimate is a great interactive site that allows students to estimate a number that an arrow is pointing to on a number line. This is great for students who are first learning about estimation. It is an easy to use site that is fairly robust and would als
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This is a powerful free graphics viewer and photo editor. In the words of Irfan Skiljan, the Bosnian author of this software, Irfanview is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. Numerous additional plugins are available that ena
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MonkeyJam is a digital pencil test program. It is designed to let you capture images from a webcam, camcorder, or scanner and assemble them as separate frames of an animation. You can also import images and sound files already on your computer. Great for
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A great site for all things Podcasting and Education - Especially the Podcasts by subjest are asection.
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Probably the best collection of E-learning Links on the web
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Read and write book reviews at the Victorian State Library site ‘Inside a Dog’.
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Make a movie, draw a picture or write a story. Save your work to the site!
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A great Literacy Site for all ages
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Watch the Food and Technology clips on basic cooking skills, healthy eating, wise food cooking and food safety and hygiene.
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Read, view and create a timeline showing the various stages of pregnancy.
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Turn your digital photos into virtual tours that include interactive maps, images, and comments.
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Want to go on an adventure? Visit the interactive museum that takes you on geography journeys. Here you’ll climb a mountain, hover over the Earth, speed across Europe, visit an archaeological dig, and even order sushi.
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Phun is an open source program that is great for teachers and students to learn how to demonstrate the properties of physics in a digital environment. It is a simple downloadable program that is effective at showing the principles of gravity, weight, mass
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Want to learn some basic techniques in Food and Technology? View the videos to get some ideas.
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Watch or view a NASA podcast or video.
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Essentially Photostory online. Add Music and text to your photo transitions and upload them to any webspace.
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This is a wonderful photo manipulation tool that serves many purposes. From this one application a teacher or student can grab a screen shot, batch edit a series of images, edit pictures, convert pictures, and even create slide-shows. A free resource for
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A free program from Microsoft that works as a simple slideshow creator that allows students and teachers to add titles, sound, and basic effects.
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Create a class poll on favourite sports using ‘poll daddy’ and include it in a blog or wiki.
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Use this free application to create a tutorial or demo of anything on your computer using voice and presentation software. It will upload to a remote server automatically.
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Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it as a video via Twitter or email. Use it to quickly share cool apps or software tips, report a bug, or just show stuff you like.
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This is a nice and very cool looking on-line note taking and calendar application. An interesting and exciting alternative from many other options out there.
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Connect to other students via audio or video conference to find out about global issues.
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Listen to and comment on an inspiring talk by ‘the world’s greatest thinkers and doers’!
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Doing poetry or story writing? Want to learn about alternatives words - go to this site and see what you come up with.
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Upload photos and sound bytes to voice thread ,use a microphone to add your voice and commentary. Your presentation can be shared with others through the internet!
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Create a Voki character and record your voice. You could share your learning goals or explain a task. You can use your Voki as an ‘avatar’ (picture of ‘yourself’) and also embed a Voki in a blog or wiki. Create two Voki characters that you can you as an
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It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus! Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts.
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An open source media player that plays almost any file out there. This is a very small and capable program that comes in handy when you are an educator or student dealing with the many specified types of files.
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An open source alternative to programs like Microsoft Office. It is an excellent program that is compatible with all major word processing software. This is one of the software suites that has been around for a long time and I recommend it to students who
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Snapter is a great site that allows a teacher or student to use their digital camera as a scanner. Simply snap a picture of anything and run it through the program to turn it into a PDF document. A great tool for easy document creation.
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Think Free is the next generation on-line office suite replacement. With a rich feature set, slick interface, and compatability with iPhones, Cell Phones, PDAs, Netbooks, and plain old PCs, this is a great set of free tools that can be wonderful for stude
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Search Engine for Scientific Geeks
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Create mindmaps and creative Word Graphs
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A free text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word. For people with reading and writing difficulties, having text reinforced by hearing it read aloud can be very useful. Very simple and useful for those that need it or could use a little extra support.
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Zac Browser is an all inclusive browsing program that was designed specifically for autistic children, although it is nice for all young children, those with disabilities or without. A portal that lives on a PC to various child-safe websites and activitie
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Watch the tutorial to learn how to create animations with Evan and Edgar. Create your own animations. Save to the site (keep settings private and use a nickname!)
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Downlaodble as PDF files loads of great organizers here.
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