Pani

Pani
Originally uploaded by shazzandrob

Playing with my pano iphone app

Talking Photos - lots of fun to be had here

Time's Top 10 of everything from 2009

and the year is not even over! Here's the link

Moodle as a web page

This is great, I am definitely wanting to have a play with this

Teach with contests website for teachers

Could be some good motivation for your learners on this site - a range of 'doable' contests

Letterboxes at Kelly's Beach, Opotiki

A great reminder of the importance of snail mail

shazzandjedd

shazzandjedd
Originally uploaded by shazzandrob

Working at ulearn 2009 with Jedd in Christchurch, way cool

Imagechef

For word mosaics
http://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/

crazy iphone app you will love

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/10-off-the-wall-iphone-apps9.htm http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/10-off-the-wall-iphone-apps9.htm

ePortfolios tutorial

http://www.joecar.demon.co.uk/2009/10/eportfolios.html

Forms in Google Docs

This link has a how-to and a why it is a good idea to use google forms from google docs.

10/20/30

Guy Kawasaki's advice for presentation

MeonMag site

Upload your photos and create your mag cover

elearn magazine

Good place to read about best practices in education and elearning

Create your own letterheads - BizCardCreator

38 Ways to use wordle

Thanks to Clif's notes - this presentation shows some cool ways educators could use wordle in their teaching and learning

CBBC Newsround

A great site for teachers -

Quizzes for your website

Wiki how for claymation

Great site of free paper crafts

This is beautiful, scroll down the site for all sorts of beautiful paper models to print and make

Open thinking video clip

Fantastic collection here of all sorts of interesting, educational and entertaining video clips for educators and learners (guess that's pretty much all of us)

Flickr flip book

From the brilliant blog of Taras Novak comes this great mashup

Typing web

Great free tool for learning to type, a lot of people I know would find this very handy!

Soungle

A place to search royalty free sounds

Wolfram Alpha - a fantastic tool

Wolfram AlphaThis is amazing, you can find data for ANYTHING

Stop worrying about your children

This is the best advice I have read in a very long time - let's get into it and believe in our kids

Planet photoshop

Tutorials for photoshop

World Digital Library

Fabulous international resource site here.

Conversion of files

Convert youtube videos to mp3 files

Jigsaw puzzles to play online

Puzzle fun

Woz

I love this post about one of the inspirational people of our time - it reminds me a lot of why I want to still be a classroom teacher. Why do I love it? This is all about the joys and frustration of ‘teaching’ - the student you would love to have in your class but struggle to help him get credits and always having to defend him against the ‘management/admin’ side of things! Bring them on - I want classes full of these dudes to keep inspiring and challenging me!

Tools for teachers

An awesome collection of tools for teachers - something to play with in the upcoming teaching recess!

yulerd

yulerd
Originally uploaded by shazzandrob

Abbey up the Yule Road post in Eskdale

Ottobib

Instant bibliography generator - ottobib

Way cool

I just won this book from the Sunday Star Times.  It was a promotion for the new TV programme on TVNZ6 called 'The Good Word' that screens on Sundays and Wednesdays at 8.30 pm.  I am looking forward to finishing some piles of work before putting my feet up for a great read.

Social media in learning

An interesting 'comment' about social media and learning - thanks to Will Richardson for alerting me to this

Totally true

From Sustainably Digital's blog - how to scare away quality teachers

Michael's blog for moodle & google

Here's a link to Michael Penney's blog about integrating google and moodle for learners

animoto barrier

Conversations

Conversations
Originally uploaded by hey.milly

Abby and Stevie chatting with Dave, Simon and Alannah at Learning at Schools 09

Pony cookie

Pony cookie
Originally uploaded by Montreal Confections

This is (possibly) nothing much to do with education but in terms of creativity it took my fancy, way cute!

What we are thankful for

I am thankful for knowing Laura who blogs here about the things she appreciates and is doing (which are FANTASTIC) in her life, and who every so often makes me stop and think about what I am thankful for and what I am doing to be appreciative of others in my life too.

Today I am happy that my parents are both alive and well and in their 80's living independently around the corner from me in a gorgeous spot called Ocean Shores village; I am also really happy that last night we had a really good race on Windsheer - thanks to Freddie, Rosie, Tony and Baz who are not only crew but also wonderful friends; and very thankful that tonight I get to go out on another yacht race - this time on Duchess Matilda with Mike and Daphne, thanks everyone - especially my Rob for making all that happen. Above all I am daily thankful that my sons and daughter and well and happy and going in the directions they have chosen for their lives.

Create your own Garfield comic strip

Wow, a whole new way of telling your stories! For Garfield fans and those who just want to play this is cool. Garfield comic creator.

Great freeware site

Free Software nicely catalogued and easy to find what you want - heaps to choose from here!

And now this - Lit to Go - MP3 stories and poems, very cool

Paragon at the Mercs, Jan 2009

paragon at the MErcs, Jan 2009
Originally uploaded by shazzandrob

Bumper cove at Great Mercury Island, January 2009 - about a week into our wonderful sailing holiday.

My total new favourite incredibly interesting study

While at sea over the last 3 weeks I have had the opportunity to study an amazing organism, one to be truthful that I had never given much thought to in the past - moon jelly's rock - I will be adding to this in the future but for starters this link is pretty cool! 

Jellyfish on National Geographic

How to photograph jellyfish

PDFs and paper plane

http://www.zurqui.com/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html Build the best paper airplane ever!

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