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This page is for sites that might be useful to us in our work.

Educational Sites

Here's a wallwisher with a lot of my favourite sites.
These are good to share with teachers - just click on a 'sticky' to see the site.
Educational Websites

Youtube Videos

This site has 100 videos for teachers - that's a few hours of viewing!

100 Youtube Videos for Teachers
Kurwongbah School Thinking Skills
This site has some useful guides to various thinking skills strategies.

Kurwongbah thinking

Vision Mapping===

This is a site that takes a lot of searching but
has some good ideas for working with a staff.
It is an English site and has six scenarios for possible futures for schools, then gives a number of practical activities built around these.

=Vision mapping

==21st Century Pedgagogy===
A straightforward article on 21st century pedagogy that would be useful for a PLG or a starting point for effective pedagogies.
Educational Origami

Ka Hikitia===Ka Hikitia Slideshow

A terrific slideshow with practical idea about how to implement Ka Hikitia in a school and classroom - wish I knew who made it!

Student VoiceCollecting student voice

This is from an English Gifted Ed site but has a list of interesting and effective ways of collecting student voice.

Interactive Blooms

Blooms Triangle
This page has an interactive Blooms triangle where websites to use with students are hot linked to the levels of Blooms.

Big Think


12 videos to spark educators' thinking.
Big Think 12 videos

Gooro

From Mark Dashper - Just been looking at the
new educational website Gooru, and it looks like an awesome resource. You might like to watch the short video overview.

Gooru allows teachers to search for content based on specific lesson plans and specific standards. They can also upload their own content.
Gooro Website

TKI E-Learning

Well worth a look especially the section on community engagement.
E-learning