Online story books
Posted on December 8th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
Online story books from primary games
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Online Books
Posted on December 4th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
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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Big books for early year students
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/BigBooks/
A site containing the following books
Big Books
Muddy Time
Bluebell Time
Blackberry Time
Harvest Time
What happened to my Granny in 1918
Colin’s Passage To India 1942
My Great Grandfather’s Journey
Old and new toys
Where Do Hedgehogs Go?
Little Red Engine
What’s That Sound? (Windows Media Player)
What’s That Sound? (QuickTime)
What’s That Sound? (Real Player)
http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/BigBooks/
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FILE MANAGERS
Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
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 [...]
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The KDE Education Project Tour
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
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
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
Tux Paint is free, open source drawing program designed for primary students.
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Social bookmarking
Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
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 [...]
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Free Language Courses
Posted on February 26th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
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 [...]
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Emailing photos and uploading photos to blogs.
Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
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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Software For Starving Students
Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
When you go into court you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people that weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organised for students (but available to anyone. The cd can be downloaded at http://softwarefor.org/
7-Zip
MP3Gain
Notepad++
OpenOffice.org
Paint.NET
Pidgin
POV-Ray
PuTTY
Scribus [...]
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