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ICT (IT) ICTeachers Resources - ICT. ICT - General Teaching Ideas. The Top 17 Free Digital Storytelling Apps for The iPad. 1-StoryKit This is an awesome iOS app that allows users to easily create an electronic storybook via illustrations by drawing on the screen, using pictures and text, and recording audio to attach to stories. 2- Talking Tom & Ben News This is fun app to use.

The Top 17 Free Digital Storytelling Apps for The iPad

10 Evernote Uses for Teachers. Evernote is a wonderful program which I use every day.

10 Evernote Uses for Teachers

At a simple level, it lets you store notes about anything that you choose. These are all synced so that you can access them using the PC / Mac / iPhone / iPad / Android / Blackberry (and other) versions of the software, as well as via the Evernote website itself. One iPad in the Classroom? – Top 10 Apps. Essential Paid iPad Apps for Schools. I’m not a big fan of Top 10 lists but after a year of experimenting with apps on iPads at school, it’s getting to that time when decisions need to be made on what apps we will invest heavily when the App Purchasing Program comes into full effect in Australia, hopefully soon( Yes, rightly or wrongly, I have been running multiple copies of apps from one account for testing purposes, waiting for Apple to release its Purchasing Program so we can be 100% legit.

Essential Paid iPad Apps for Schools

If they had it in place from the start, I would have done it from the start.) Top 12 Math iPad Apps for Students and Teachers. Are you a responsible digital citizen? Thinkuknow - home. What’s the big deal?

Thinkuknow - home

Do you enjoy playing games online? Chances are, if you don't, you know somebody who does. The gaming industry is huge! Did you know that around the world, more money is spent on games than on the film industry?! Multiplayer magic. 10 incredible iPad apps for education. Learning is rarely fun; it’s even less fun when being taught within the confines of a lecture hall or classroom.

10 incredible iPad apps for education

While this may be true, there’s no reason why you can’t make the process more entertaining and challenging. The tablet market has paved the way for educational resources in the form of slick, new apps, with text-books now being replaced by online downloadable versions of themselves. 12 Characteristics Of An iPad-Ready Classroom -

Implementing iPads isn’t exactly a just-add-water proposition.

12 Characteristics Of An iPad-Ready Classroom -

While they’re wondrous little devices capable of enchanting learners for hours, to get the learning results you’re likely after will take planning, design, and reflection. It can help to start out by asking yourself some important questions, such as “What can the iPad do that is not possible without it? Put another way, what problems does the iPad solve?” 10 reasons I love using Edmodo in my iPad classroom…

A Simple Guide to All That Teachers Need to Know about Digital Citizenship. Digital citizenship is a key component of the technology and media literacy.

A Simple Guide to All That Teachers Need to Know about Digital Citizenship

We should not only teach our students how to be good citizens in the real physical world but how they can be good netizens of the online world as well.Today's learning requires alot of use of technology and most imprtant of all, our students are using technology on a daily basis- text messaging, blogging, Facebooking, Twittering, watching videos, gaming and networking. Online Safety. 11 Resources for Teaching & Learning Web Safety. Over the last three plus years I've reviewed a lot of resources related to web safety.

11 Resources for Teaching & Learning Web Safety

Here are some of my favorite resources for teaching web safety. Welcome to the Web is a series of lessons for teaching young students how to navigate the Internet. There are seven lessons in the series although the first lesson is really just an introduction to the site. The other lessons in the series teach kids the basic vocabulary of the web, online safety, and search techniques. The series concludes with a challenge exercise in which students test their new knowledge and skills. LMK Life Online is a website created for the purpose of educating girls about online safety.

The Google Family Safety Center introduces parents to and shows them how to use Google's safety tools including safe search, safe search lock, and YouTube's safety mode. T Internet Safety Connections Game. CyberNetrix - Internet Safety Education for Secondary Schools. Welcome to the Web. Thank you for visiting 'Welcome to the Web'.

Welcome to the Web

By working your way through this web site and taking part in the exciting challenges and activities, you will learn all about the Internet. Good luck! Choose a section to begin. Home: Cybersmart. Your Online Image. Teacher Guide- YT Curriculum- Lesson 1. Hector's World Information Island. 30 Innovative Ways To Use Google In Education. 30 Innovative Ways To Use Google In Education As the search engine that’s become its own verb, Google’s success is difficult to frame.

30 Innovative Ways To Use Google In Education

One of the most telling examples of their gravity in search is how few legitimate competitors they have. (Some would say they have none.) But cataloguing and indexing humanity’s digital wares isn’t easy, especially with an entire cottage industry trying to sabotage the integrity of a search for their own personal gain (among these trends, nefarious Search Engine Optimization).

That leaves education in a sticky place. To provide students with unchecked access to the internet (via Google) creates a sink-or-swim scenario that no longer works in education. The secret, then, is to let them play with digital media. Openuct.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/Online Visibility Guidelines.pdf.