Tip for Teachers
Our brilliant ICT Specialist Terry Keesing has created links for Typing games to improve students keyboarding skills.
Keyboarding Practice Games
BBC Dancemat
Computer Skills - Elearning
Fun to Type
Sens-Lang
Typing Master
Free Typing Games
Typing Chef
Typing Club
Keyboarding Games
Free Online Typing Test
This will be essential because by 2019 NAPLAN testing will be done online. Students will complete all tests including writing online. Students could be encouraged to practise typing skills every day for 10 min in the early years.
Our brilliant ICT Specialist Terry Keesing has created links for Typing games to improve students keyboarding skills.
Keyboarding Practice Games
BBC Dancemat
Computer Skills - Elearning
Fun to Type
Sens-Lang
Typing Master
Free Typing Games
Typing Chef
Typing Club
Keyboarding Games
Free Online Typing Test
This will be essential because by 2019 NAPLAN testing will be done online. Students will complete all tests including writing online. Students could be encouraged to practise typing skills every day for 10 min in the early years.
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PowToon
Create animated videos and presentations It's free and it's awesome. Click on the picture below to go to PowToon and see the video examples of how you and your students can use the amazing program. http://www.powtoon.com/ If you know about the formative assessment tool called Improve, watch this video made by using PowToon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tihrg7nBos 
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Science Literacy - Turning Students on to Grammar with Grammatikus
This site has a free trial and is a science investigation waiting to happen. Can it engage students with grammar? Suitable for upper primary and secondary school. Spend as little as 10 minutes a week with this diagnostic and adaptable English resource aligned with the National Curriculum . http://www.grammatikus.com/ 
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FlipSnack allows you to turn PDF files into amazing interactive books. It’s an ideal tool for teachers and students to collaborate and share their work with parents and colleagues.
Easy to embed on any website or blog, these flipbooks make classes and courses look fun and are also easy to download.
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Click here to see a Prezi demo
Prezi is a cloud based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas
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LaunchPad is your personalized cloud desktop giving access to school from anywhere. Accessible from any device, LaunchPad is ideal for BYOD and 1to1 initiatives.
click picture to go to LaunchPad
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Spritz - A new way of reading
Spritz’s mission is to change the way people read and make communication faster, easier, and more effective.
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 TalkingPets is a site that makes the pets talk. You choose your character,you can customize your pet and change the background. You write what you want your pet to say, choose the voice and save it. The text-to-speech application will convert your text into voice with your chosen pet moving his mouth and actually talking. |
 Learn how to take a "screen shot" or "screen capture". Here's a link to a web site that gives instructions for creating screen shots on various kinds of computer. |
ToonDoo is a cool, comic-creating tool. Children can show their science understandings using the world's fastest cartoon creator..
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Professional Music Studio
Soundation Studio has all the functionality of a professional desktop DAW including real time effects, virtual instruments, automation, recording and much more! And best of all - It’s online, accessible through your browser.
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VITAL is an innovative professional development programme provided by The Open University. This link will take you to Vital's list of handy web resources
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