Tools

__**Great website tools to use in developing understanding in a Unit of Work**__ - Thanks to TechTools newsletters for many of these ideas. make your own wordsearch: []

Selection of excellent activities: []

Creating stories: [] and photobooks/scrapbooking []

Games for early years [] MyStudiyo @http://bit.ly/studiyo MyStudiyo allows users to create interactive quiz content for your website, Moodle or blog quickly and easily.

Mouse skill development activities []

[] Tom Barrett is a UK classroom teacher who writes a [|blog]about technology in education. Tom has prepared an excellent series of open Google Doc presentations. It is called the Interesting Ways series. Each presentation has ideas from Tom and other educators about how to use a particular technology tool or how to teach a particular skill or area in your classroom. Just some of the presentations available include interesting ways to use Google Docs, iPod Touches, audio, Wallwisher, Wordle, Nintendo Wii, Twitter, Nintendo DS, VoiceThread and more.

[|**Memorize.com**] [|Memorize] is a tool that allows you to create a list of words related to your unit of study and a variety of memory games and quizzes. It is an extremely valuable study tool to further students’ understanding of a specific topic and allows you to share and create your lists with students and colleagues. [|Memorize] is a fast, collaborative, fun and easy way to memorise. It is a wonderful site for students and classes to use as a study tool.

=== http://www.topicbox.net/ Free directory of over 2,000 educational websites, categorised into subjects including English, Maths, Science, Art & Design, Design & Technology, Geography, History, Music, Religious Education. ===
 * **Educational online resources - subscribe to the newsletter for regular updates http://www.edna.edu.au**
 * **Great visual resources! [|http://www.twinkl.co.uk]**
 * **Site with amazing links to Web 2 tools** with ideas on how to use them http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/
 * **Links to great literacy and numeracy sites** []
 * **Wordle- creates word clusters from any chuck of text. Great for getting high frequency words out of a text http://www.wordle.net/**
 * **Create your own thinking tool: you will need to sign up to use the free site** []
 * **Pics4Learning** is a free copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. []
 * **Science resources & interactive activity**: []
 * **How to make a Pinwheel to show wind energy: [|http://www.janbrett.com/piggybacks/piggybacks_the_hat_pinact.htm] **
 * **So many ideas!! http://icttoolkit.wikispaces.com/**

Triptico is a site that has some fantastic resources for the IWB and classroom computers. http://www.triptico.co.uk/