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Free Online Resources for Teachers

May 31st, 2011 by · No Comments · Uncategorized

Wow! What a find. This Libguide from the University of Melbourne. The Link is http://unimelb.libguides.com/content.php?pid=156617&sid=1326776 

These resources are catagorised undere the following headings:

Free Databases
Free Journals
Free eBooks
Free Media
Lesson Resources
Websites
Statistics
Referencing
Lots of links to sift through. I can’t wait. It truly is a librarians paradise.

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Teachers’ Professional Reading Collection

May 20th, 2011 by · No Comments · Uncategorized

We are developing a new Teacher’s Professional Library Collection.  This collection is housed in the  downstairs stairwell of the Library.  Use this link to access a list of some of the new books in this collection.

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Maths Video Site – TeacherZone

May 19th, 2011 by · No Comments · Uncategorized

Posted by  Ian Quartermaine to ISQ E-Learning Forum

 http://teacher.tenmarks.com/

Over 1000 videos for grades 3-10 (US)

Resources are embeddable YouTube Videos.

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Digital Story Telling

May 19th, 2011 by · No Comments · Uncategorized

Posted by  Ian Quartermaine to ISQ E-Learning Forum

Digital_Storytelling

Taken from: 

  http://cybraryman.com/digitalstory.html

Additional (Trish Read)

What a gem of a resource. Love it. Would be good for English Dept.

Introduction to Mahara

May 19th, 2011 by · No Comments · Uncategorized

Posted by  Ian Quartermaine to ISQ E-Learning Forum

Mahara

Additional added by T Read

Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system. It also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities.

Visit Mahara: http://mahara.org/

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Solving the diagram dilemma

May 19th, 2011 by · No Comments · Uncategorized

Posted by Peter to the ISQ Learning Forum

http://pwict.blogspot.com/2011/05/solving-diagram-dilemma.html

A quick way to create online tutorials which can include diagrams.

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Podcasting in Science

May 19th, 2011 by · No Comments · Uncategorized

Posted by Peter on ISQ Learning Forum

Using a podcast assignment with Yr 10 Science

http://pwict.blogspot.com/2011/05/podcasting-for-real-audience.html

Looks good to me (Trish Read) Uses audacity.

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Eyewitness to History

May 19th, 2011 by · No Comments · Uncategorized

Posted by JA Angell to ISQ E-Learning Forum
EyeWitness to History  is an archive of  Historical events retold and explaind by the people who lived through it.

This site includes an Index of events from Ancient World to 20th Century, Photo of the Week, photographic snapshots of events, sounds from the past and film clips of some events.

Also

Critical Past is a website of historical videos and photos which are free to view and stream online.  You are able to purchase the videos and photos if you wish to download them. 

You are able to search by year, date or day

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About ISQ Learning Forum

May 3rd, 2011 by · No Comments · Uncategorized

I joined the ISQ Learning Forum before the holidays and receive regular posts through an RSS feed to my email account. After mulling over the best way to keep the posts I’ve now decided to add them to my Snapshot blog. Here are some of my first posts:
Comprehensive Moodle Resource posted 6/3/2011 by Ian Quatermaine
Introductory videos for those investigating LMSs plus heaps of specific
instructional videos and Print resources for Moodle users.

Comprehensive Moodle Resource
Be a DIGIZEN

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The Digizen website provides information for educators, parents, carers, and young people. It is used to strengthen their awareness and understanding of what digital citizenship is and encourages users of technology to be and become responsible DIGItal citiZENS. It shares specific advice and resources on issues such as social networking and cyberbullying and how these relate to and affect their own and other people’s online experiences and behaviours.

10 Step plan for starting ePortfolios posted 23/3/2011 by Ian Quatermaine
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If you are just after tools then go to slide 65.

Photostory

November 12th, 2010 by · No Comments · Uncategorized

This is a great programme that you can download and then use to make you own videos.