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ABC www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/ Animoto http://animoto.com/ Studying Australian History? Read, watch and listen to Indigenous stories. Set up a free account, upload photos to create a 30 second short 'film' set to great music. Can be embedded in a blog or wiki or shared with a friend. Take a series of photos of growth of a plant. Place the photos in Animoto for a creative way to create a flim to show the growth of your plant. Studying human development? Bring in a series of photos of you as an infant, child and young person. Put them into animoto to create a movie about development. Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Australian Bureau of Statistics http://www.abs.gov.au Australian Centre for Moving Image www.acmi.net.au/video_kids.htm Australian Screen Online - DIY Doco http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/learnin g/diydoco/default.htm BBC www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/bamzooki/ Want to create your own podcasts for presentations or revision?. Download audacity and go from there! You can explore what sound looks like and learn how to edit and manipulate sound files. Go to the education page for students to look at real statistical data on a range of topics including projects on water, games and data analysis. Watch an animation, game or short film created by other children in Victoria! Get inspired to create your own! Want to create a documentary? Go to DIY Doco to get some practical skills and knowledge to create your own documentary based on a particular person or event. Studying internet safety. Discuss the issues and create a zook as one way of keeping your identity private on the internet. Download the free zook kit and create your own character. Compare your zook to those created by others! Watch animations, videos, take a virtual tour and play games related to historical topics. Whats your favourite object? Why is it special to you? Photograph and write about it. You could include it in a blog post. Create a short video of you talking about your favourite object. Watch these videos from Wales for some great ideas. Build a wild version of yourself with human and animal components! Send it to a friend via email. Want to know how many kilojoules are in the food you eat? Visit the following website and find out the nutrient content of a range of McDonalds foods by dragging and dropping what you eat onto the tray. What did you find out? Calorie King-Aussie BBQ http://www.calorieking.com.au/createameal/?menu=4 Calorie King-Pizza Hut http://www.calorieking.com.au/createameal/?menu=2 Calorie King-Subway http://www.calorieking.com.au/createameal/?menu=3 Comic Life Communicator Create a comic page illustrating a topical issue such as global warming, water saving ideas or whatever! Use Communicator to communicate with your peers. Communicator is a great way to collaborate with others outside the classroom, such as discussion of global issues.

BBC www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/ BBC www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/ga lleries/pages/schoolshoebox.shtml Build Yourself Wild www.buildyourwildself.com/ Calorie King -McDonalds http://www.calorieking.com.au/createame al/?menu=1

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Concept Mapping Read a story and select two characters from the story. Document key issues related to each character. Use colour and images to help illustrate your thoughts. Use a concept map to illustrate what you have learnt about. Creating a Calendar Many different programs will allow you to make your own calendar including Word and publisher. For a calendar that you can share online with your peers go to Google Calendar. Use this free social bookmarking service that allows you to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralised source. It is a great way to categorise, remember and share all those great sites. View the video to learn about a desert food chain.

Delicious http://delicious.com Desert USA Movie www.desertusa.com/video_pages/food_m ovie.html Desert USA Movie www.desertusa.com/video_pages/food2_ movie.html Desktop publishing

Learn more about the different types of energy by viewing the video.

Do you have the school formal, fete, open day or another event coming up? Create a flyer about this event. Think about how you will layout your page and what images you will use. Make sure you follow appropriate copyright procedures and obtain permission of third-party if necessary. What program are you going to use to create your flyer? How are you going to distribute the flyer? Search the digital resources to find content that relates to what you are studying. There are lots of resources available - animations, video clips, photographs and more. Take lots of photos of your school (both inside and out) and then import them into a multimedia application. You can also provide narration about your school and include special effects into your movie. What a fun way to show your family your school. Record experiments and processes from your Science class. Need to do a presentation? Use the digital camera to record your presentation. You can research, practise and record your presentation, and even re-record and share it with others. How creative can you be?

DigiLearn

Digital cameras

Digital Cam recorders

Use digital cam recorders in your Physical Education classes to provide evidence of peer-assessment. Have your classmate record you doing a triple jump and then providing advice to you as to how you can improve. Need to do self-assessment in Physical Education? Get a classmate to record you doing an activity such as long jump. Watch yourself and assess how you went and provide advice to yourself for improvement.

Digital Portfolio

Create your Digital Portfolio as a blog or wiki and include images, text, audio and more to show what you have learnt. Use PowerPoint to create a digital portfolio and show what you have learnt. Include photos, text, audio and more!

Doodle4Google Encarta Premium 2008

Have you doodled for Google. Check out what the other students have done. Can you be just as creative? Use this encyclopaedia resource to support your understanding of current topics, search for famous people and events or track information on a timeline across the ages.

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Excel Use Excel's spreadsheet to create a timeline about key events in Australia's history. Use some of the graphic tools, and enter and format text. Use Excel to create a shopping list for a recipe you will prepare. Include the ingredients and amounts of each ingredient you need, and then find out the costs of each ingredient. Learn how to enter formulas to calculate the cost of your recipe. Create a spreadsheet that contains details about what homework you have to do. Five shot sequence Students use cameras to take five shots in sequence to tell a story. Encourage students to use different camera angles to express the emotion within the story. Create an online mind map about the fours seasons. Save it to your free account. Send the link to friends who can also collaborate with you. Embed the final result in your blog, website or wiki! Create online games as simple or elaborate as you like to support maths concepts including measurement and space or adventure games to reflect a range of curriculum areas. Set up a blog! Your teacher will need to set up one first and become the administrator of your blog. Dont use your real name or image but share your thoughts with the world! Whats it like in your backyard? Studying cloning in Biology? Set up a blog on the ethical issues related to cloning. Share your thoughts. Studying Legal Studies? Select a current issue about responsibility and young people such as binge drinking and create blog. Share your thoughts with the world! Read the latest posts created by teachers and students at Hawkesdale P-12. Dont forget to leave a comment! Studying third world health? Set up a blog and share your thoughts on how to poverty history. Go Animate http://goanimate.com/go/ Google Earth Set up a free account and create your own online animations to share with friends. View other examples on the site for inspiration. Studying deserts around the world. Use Google Earth to explore these deserts. Studying countries of the world? Use Google Earth to locate specific countries. Google Maps Google Notebook www.google.com.au/notebook Google Scholar Use Google Maps to locate historical markers in your local area. Compare what you found with your classmates. Want to collaborate on a single online document with your friends asynchronously? This is the site for you - you can redesign research projects to include text, video and picture and cite sources correctly. Got an assignment coming up? Use Google Scholar to undertake some online research for journal articles, books, abstracts and technical reports. Create 3D designs and models for use in class projects. Redecorate your living room. Build a volcano for the science fair. Model your school and put it in Google Earth. Read and write book reviews at the State Library site Inside a Dog.

Free Mind http://freemind.sourceforge.net Game Maker

Global student http://globalstudent.org

Google Sketchup

Inside a Dog www.insideadog.com.au

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Kahootz 3.0 Kahootz and Blue Screen Create amazing stories, inventions, habitats, games, movies and soundtracks. Take a Kahootz expression and incorporate Blue screen techniques using freeware like WAX .The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video composition and effects. By taking a short film you can place individuals or objects into your Kahootz expression. Make a movie, draw a picture or write a story. Save your work to the site! Explore languages online for their interactive lessons and games. Watch the Food and Technology clips on basic cooking skills, healthy eating, wise food cooking and food safety and hygiene. Read, view and create a timeline showing the various stages of pregnancy. Turn your digital photos into virtual tours that include interactive maps, images, and comments. Want to learn some basic techniques in Food and Technology? View the videos to get some ideas. Create databases. Use OneNote to capture your thoughts and ideas in electronic notebooks, where you can easily organise, search, and share them. Create digital stories and presentations by adding music, narration and images. This resource offers tools to support homework including Maths, Science and Languages. Create films using stop motion animation- students connect a web cam and become animated film makers. Watch or view a NASA podcast or video. Want to go on an adventure? Visit the interactive museum that takes you on geography journeys. Here youll climb a mountain, hover over the Earth, speed across Europe, visit an archaeological dig, and even order sushi. Take a photo of a leaf and use the image editing features in GIMP to crop, recolour, resize etc. Edit photos and share online in school intranet. Photos can be grouped and tagged for easy indexing, slideshows or albums can be created for projects. Do you have to read poetry out loud in class? How about creating a podcast of you narrating a piece of poetry. You could even create some original music and an image-capture function on your computer to enhance your poem. Subscribe to podcasts to keep up-to-date with the latest information for your assignments. ABC Health has some interesting topics. You will need to use Podcasting software such as iTunes.

Kerpoof www.kerpoof.com/create Languages online Licence to Cook www.licencetocook.org.uk/ Make Way for Baby www.makewayforbaby.com/fetaldevelopm ent.htm Map Wing www.mapwing.com Market Fresh www.marketfresh.com.au/admin/produce/ Vid_preps/Prep_video_all.asp Microsoft Access Microsoft One Note Microsoft Photostory Microsoft Student Monkey Jam NASA www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpedi tions/hall/index.html Photo Editing Picassa

Podcasting

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Poll Daddy www.polldaddy.com/ PowerPoint Create a class poll on favourite sports using poll daddy and include it in a blog or wiki. Create presentations using Powerpoint for assessment purposes, class reports, debating notes etc. Create a class PowerPoint. Each member of the class is to create a slide about themselves. The class will need to work together to put their individual slides into one PowerPoint. The class PowerPoint could be put on the school intranet for the school community to look at. It also could be used for other teachers to look at and get to know the class.

PowerPoint animation

Did you know you can use PowerPoint to animate by using automatic transition between slides? Demonstrate a rocket taking off using PowerPoint. Are you selling something such as a car or even yourself? Create an advertisement and use PowerPoint slides to storyboard your ideas. Keep an up to date log on the books you have been reading and keep a record card of all the books you have been reading. Use Publisher to create a class newspaper. The class could be divided into small groups to research and report on a specific section for the newspaper. The class will need to work together to compile each of their sections into one document. It could be placed on the school intranet for the school community to read. Create a web site, invitation or poster. Studying biology? Want to learn more about the different types of worms and other invertebrates? This is the webquest for you. Create interactive stories and games online. Students can use Scratch to develop narratives in English or recount historical events. Through simple programming students can also develop Maths skills. Use this free application to create a tutorial or demo of anything on your computer using voice and presentation software. It will upload to a remote server automatically. Use a series of screenshots to create a 'how to use' information sheet about a specific task such as editing a photo. View the video to view some digital stories made from students in California. How professional do they look? Model a digital storytelling project upon one of these examples. Connect to other students via audio or video conference to find out about global issues. This survey tool allows you to create surveys on any topic of interest from collecting data on favourite sports to discussing nutrition and healthy diet. Listen to and comment on an inspiring talk by the worlds greatest thinkers and doers! Doing poetry or story writing? Want to learn about alternatives words go to this site and see what you come up with. Typing tutorial for students to practice touch typing skills.

PowerPoint for Storyboarding Premier's Reading Challenge http://www.education.vic.gov.au/prc/stud ents/default.htm Publisher - Class Newspaper

Science WebQuest www.glencoe.com/sec/science/webquest/ content/wormclass.shtml Scratch

Screen Cast-o-Matic www.screencast-o-matic.com/ Screen Shots Sfett http://sfett.com/ Skype www.skype.com Survey monkey

Ted www.ted.com/ Thesaurus http://thesaurus.reference.com/ Tux Type

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Using spreadsheets and graphs Doing an experiment in one of your classes and collecting data. Put the data in a spreadsheet and communicate it visually in professional looking graphs - could be a bar, line or pie graph. It is up to you! Upload photos and sound bytes to voice thread ,use a microphone to add your voice and commentary. Your presentation can be shared with others through the internet! Create a Voki character and record your voice. You could share your learning goals or explain a task. You can use your Voki as an avatar (picture of yourself) and also embed a Voki in a blog or wiki. Create two Voki characters that you can you as an 'avatar'. One that you think your classmates will identify as you and another character that you do not think your classmates will identify as you. Get the class to identify who the Voki characters belong to and provide reasons for their choice. Voice Thread www.voicethread.com Voki www.voki.com/

WebQuest http://www.education.vic.gov.au/teacher/ Global/webquests.htm Widget

Webquests provide opportunities for students to communicate and collaborate online. Check out the Great wall of China webquest or create your webquest with your class. Search for widgets that will support your learning, online calendar, graphic calculators, rss feeds and download them to your desktop. Studying climate in Australia/ Insert a temperature widget into your blog to track temperatures around Australia.

Wiki Windows Movie Maker

Create a wiki to help with the organisation of a school camp and school fete. Import your own digital video footage into MovieMaker to edit and create your own movie for posting to a blog or include in a school production. Create a document with hyperlinks. Use the diagram gallery to show the steps needed to reach a goal, for example to complete an assignment. Use Word's drawing features to present your information in a graphic organiser. Create a sunshine wheel to show good food sources of fibre. Use Word's drawing features to create a hierarchical chart that shows the classification of animals. Use Word's drawing features to create a Venn diagram that identifies the similarities and differences of physical development of males and females. Create a simple eight page booklet. Create a suitable story that will suit this booklet. Use a Word template to make the booklet. Experiment with the use of text and images and add to the template. Fold the paper according to the directions and voila, you have a booklet without staples.

Word - Hyperlinking Word and Diagram Gallery Word and Graphic Organisers Word and Hierarchical Charts Word and Venn Diagrams

Word template and storytelling

Youth Central http://www.youthcentral.vic.gov.au/ Zimmertwins www.zimmertwins.com

youth central offers a range of information and advice on issues like

jobs, study, travel, money and events in your local area - wherever you live in Victoria - whilst offering opportunities for you to participate. Watch the tutorial to learn how to create animations with Evan and Edgar. Create your own animations. Save to the site (keep settings private and use a nickname!)

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