Learn Scratch

“As more and more people start using Scratch, there is a great need for more tutorials and support materials. This site is a great example of how members of the Scratch community can contribute back to the community."
Mitchel Resnick, Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten Research Group and the Scratch Team, MIT.

Animator vs Animation

A fun animation - very inspiring for students wanting to produce their own Pivot Stickfigure Animator animations.

Click here to view the animation

Copyright and Creative Commons

Get Creative - Video
This is a an informative video about how Creative Commons copyright works and how it enables people to give permission for their work to be shared by others without infringement of copyright law.

Click on the Creative commons image to find out more:

Stats4Schools

Looking for large data sets? Stats4schools is managed by the independent Offcie for National Statistics and contains thousands of records and data. Following the launch of the NS Renewed Framework for ICT and the change of emphasis in some of the Programmes of Study, in particular "Exploring Ideas and manipulating information"- "manipulating and processing large quantities of data efficiently" ICT teachers are starting to look for a source of "large data sets", the "stats4schools" site is an excellent place to start!

TxtTools

txttools - SMS communication for education, health and business. I saw this demonstrated by Stephen Heppell at a conference recently - very cool!

Photosoup

PhotoSoup is a visual word puzzle generator that allows users to create word search puzzles with tag-photo pairs taken from Flickr. The tag is hidden in the puzzle, and only the associated photo is shown as a clue. The objective is to find all hidden tags in the puzzle before you run out of time.

Splashup - Online Photo Editing

Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it's easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photosharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.
Great for anyone who wants to edit images but doesn't have expensive image manipulation software on their PC - access to the Internet required!

Bebo Safety

Bebo Safety is designed to help educate young people, parents and teachers about the safe and positive use of Bebo.

http://www.bebo.com/Safety.jsp

This site is an excellent resource for teaching e-safety. It provides links to a wide variety of resources including vidoes that seek to address many of the issues around safe use of the Internet:
CyberBullying
Personal Data
Uploading/Sharing Content Safely

Ironically Bebo websites are often on the list of banned websites inside school so you may not be able to view these resources unless you are on a computer outside a school network. Not very helpful I know but it does illustrate why, if teachers are going to use these motivating and engaging tools like Bebo, e-safety needs to be addressed in school!