Online story books from primary games

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Berleigh State School have  over 200 audio books listed on their homepage.

The audio books have been sorted by year levels.

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A site containing the following books

http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/BigBooks/

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Free online file managers

11 Notecentric: Using Notecentric, you can not only organise your notes online, but also share them with your classmates.

10 Box.net is online file storage. You can create shared folders to collaborate with colleagues. The first 1GB is free.

9 DropSend enables you to send large files up to 1GB. You can also back up all your files online and share and collaborate with colleagues.

7 Flowchart: Create charts to organise your thoughts or notes. You can collaborate with your colleagues, chat and design a flowchart at the same time.

6 Bubbl.us: Is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

5 openomy is an online file system. You can store files on Openomy and access them from any computer. Openomy organises files and users via tags (as opposed to folders). Store files up to 1GB.

4 ThinkFold: Create outlines that can be shared and collaborated in real time using ThinkFold.

3 Google Notebook: Add clips, organize your notes, and even access your notes from your mobile phone with Google Notebook.

2 Google Docs and Spreadsheets: Keep all of your documents online, and even collaborate with peers using this tool from Google.

1 Backpack  allows you to create pages to keep all your stuff like images, ideas, notes, lists, calendars, to-dos and files online. It also enables you to set email and mobile reminders. You can keep these pages to yourself or you can share them. It has the potential to be utilised as a basic intranet.

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The KDE education project  is a collection of free educational software.

Students, parents, children and teachers, can freely use KDE software, copy it, modify it to their needs and enjoy learning!

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Tux Paint is  free, open source drawing program designed for primary students.

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Google added a feature that allows you to use google to find the meaning of any word.
Preface your search term with “define:” and google will display appropriate definitions from multiple different sources.

Below I show how to google define “blog.”Google  Search for the Following 

define: blog

Thomas Edison Quotations

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up”

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”

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Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organise, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet.

The advantages of using social bookmarking are:

All your bookmarks are in one place regardless of you loction or the computer you are using.

Share your bookmarks with a group of colleagues and see their bookmarks. Promote your websites and blogs.

Listed below are a few social bookmarking sites.  

 Furl

Stumbleupon

del.icio.us

If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

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Mango is designed to equip you with conversational abilities from the very start. Whether you’re learning how to order a pizza or ask when the game starts, Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in 12 different language courses. Native speakers and a friendly instructor guide you through a unique experience for refining the art of foreign conversation.

If you can’t be a good example . . . then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning

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I found a great application called shrinkpic that automatically shrink photos to attach to emails or upload to your blog. Once installed on your computer you never have to do anything! It works automatically and silently in the background.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. 

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