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Sandpit Time  The following are links to tried and trusted resources for e-learning in a New Zealand context

 Introduction Ciick [|here]  and add to the page what you have got out of today so far. Be specific. What will you change or what will you add to enhance the teaching and learning in your classroom. This resource is based on the **Literacy Progressions**, including relevan t links to support literacy learning for each year level. ||  Literacy games - every game has a brief synopsis as well as resources for interactive whiteboards ||  From learning Alphabet to early reading strategies - great resource to share with parents so they can support learning from home || **NE to Year 3** || An interactive writing help site that includes downloads for off-line use. Writing texts covered include reports, procedures, explanations, expositions (persuasion, point of view), discussions, narratives, recounts, descriptions, responses (inc. reviews), poetry, letters, invitations, news items and emails. || **Year 1-Year 8** || Huge variety of student interactives, down loadable PDF's and lesson plans ability to search the site for most relevant resources - must view site || **Year 1-Year 8** || A storehouse of digital content to support learning across the curriculum, from early childhood through to senior secondary. ||  Science, Art resources for NE to Year 8. Lots of interactive resources you can utilise on your IWB. Try these for a starter - [|What is a sentence?] [|Primary Science Videos] [|Negative Numbers] || **Year 1 - 8** || to their writing. **"Show don't tell".** Click on the highlighted text and the sentence will expand. || **Middle - Senior Primary** ||
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 * [[image:bop_elearning.png width="180" height="63" link="@elearningbop:Literacy Progressions"]] || Local e-learning group
 * NE to Year 10** ||
 * [[image:ICT_games_logo.png width="193" height="59" link="@http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html"]] || UK based site
 * NE to Year 3** ||
 * [[image:Star_fall_logo.png width="199" height="39" link="@http://www.starfall.com/"]] || Starfall.com - Reading
 * [[image:Jenny_E_logo.png width="187" height="69" link="@http://www.writingfun.com/"]] || Writing Fun - Jenny Eather
 * [[image:Read_w_t_logo.png width="191" height="34" link="@http://www.readwritethink.org/search/?resource_type=16"]] || Read Write Think
 * [[image:Digi_store_logo.png width="202" height="21" link="@http://digistore.tki.org.nz/ec/browse?topic=English"]] || Digistore NZ
 * NE to Yr 13** ||
 * [[image:Global_Classroom_.png width="204" height="89" link="http://www.globalclassroom.org/"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Global Classroom - a digital resource with Math, English, Science, Social
 * __**[|Adding description to text.]**__ || A great example to share with your students of how they add greater description
 * [[image:Picture_6.png width="188" height="31" link="http://www.booktalks.org.nz/"]] || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,'Bitstream Vera Sans',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">We help New Zealand Authors and Illustrators connect with their readers via [|Skype] . || **NE to Y8** ||

into "themes" eg counting, time, odd and even, place value etc || **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> NE to Year 3 ** || A storehouse of digital content to support learning across the curriculum, from early childhood through to senior secondary. || <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: right;"> follow categories. Strong Literacy and Numeracy focus || **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">NE to Year 3 ** || Strands. || **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">NE-Year 10 ** || starting with whole increments and leading up to sixteenths. || **Middle - Senior Primary** || mathematics. Covers a range of topics from number to geometry. || **NE to Y8** ||
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 * [[image:ICT_games_logo.png width="188" height="63" link="@http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html"]] || UK based site, huge variety of games with brief synopsis for each game, organised
 * [[image:ICT_games_logo.png width="188" height="63" link="@http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html"]] || UK based site, huge variety of games with brief synopsis for each game, organised
 * [[image:Digi_store_logo.png width="200" height="19" link="@http://digistore.tki.org.nz/ec/browse?topic=Mathematics"]] || Digistore NZ
 * NE to Yr 13** ||
 * [[image:Woodlands.png width="225" height="32" link="http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/"]] || Absolute top rating UK site - huge amount of resources, that are organised into easy to
 * [[image:nz_maths.png link="@http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/digital-learning-objects"]] || Links to digital learning objects for the Numeracy Project, organised into Curriculum Levels and
 * [[image:Ruler_Game.png width="195" height="34" link="http://www.globalclassroom.org/rulergame200/index.html"]] || Use this interactive tool to learn how to read a ruler using different measurements
 * [[image:count_me_in_to.png width="197" height="36" link="http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au./countmein/children.html"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Developed by the NSW Department of Education to support the teaching on

to your videos with two screens. A great way to interact with your audience and deliver a presentation much more effectively. || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Year 1 - Year 8 ** || engaging curriculum-based learning activities in English and te reo Māori, many of which have been developed to reflect a literacy, numeracy and ESOL focus. The activities are intended to support facilitated or independent use by students. || **Years 3 - 8** || Browse by topic Science, Health & PE, Technology, Languages, Social Sciences,The Arts || <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: right;">**NE to Yr 13** || web links to information about conditions, resources and related sites || <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: right;">SENCO and Junior school || Māori in the New Zealand Curriculum 2007. The resource contains 20 units of work, each having a distinct theme and providing fun opportunities to learn and practise new language. <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> || **Year 7 & 8** || site to get inspiration and collaborate with other teachers around NZ. Lots of examples of effective e-learning across all curriculum areas. Join the wiki! || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Teacher Resource** || in a fun and exciting way. Sure to engage boys and motivate them as they compete against their peers. ||< **Yr 1 - 8** || computer software to blogging to social networking to jing. If you want to learn how to use it this is a great starting point. || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Teacher Resource** || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">On this wiki you will find resources for different educational applications, Web 2.0 and digital image and video resources crated by Suzie Vesper an ICT Facilitator in New Zealand at a national level. || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Time to reflect. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Click <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|here] <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> to reflect on your time in the sandpit.
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 * [[image:http://www.viddix.com/images/logo_viddix.gif caption="logo VIDDIX" link="http://www.viddix.com/?l=en"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">VIDDIX is a new videoplatform that allows you to connect all kinds of webcontent
 * [[image:http://www.viddix.com/images/logo_viddix.gif caption="logo VIDDIX" link="http://www.viddix.com/?l=en"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">VIDDIX is a new videoplatform that allows you to connect all kinds of webcontent
 * [[image:http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/images/banner-logo.gif width="149" height="74" caption="Go to home page - WickED. " link="http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/index.php"]] || <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;">wickED is an online environment for 7-12 year olds (years 3-8). It provides
 * [[image:Digi_store_logo.png width="202" height="21" link="@http://digistore.tki.org.nz/ec/p/home"]] || DigiStore NZ
 * [[image:Sen_logo.png width="201" height="46" link="@http://www.senteacher.org/Print/"]] || free resources for SENCO - both Literacy and Numeracy downloads,
 * [[image:Picture_1.png width="206" height="34" link="http://www.tki.org.nz/r/language/lls/wehi/index_e.php"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Ka Mau te Wehi! is based on levels 1 and 2 of the draft Te Reo
 * [[image:S4L.png width="113" height="47" link="http://softwareforlearning.tki.org.nz/"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Quality software recommended by New Zealand Teachers. A great
 * [[image:Footee.png width="152" height="90" link="http://www.footee.com/"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">A great site to reinforce subject knowledge in numeracy, literacy and science
 * [[image:Lookah.png width="177" height="56" link="http://www.lookah.tv/"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">A great teacher resource providing video tutorials on everything from your
 * [[image:Tech_Tools.png width="213" height="25" link="educationalsoftware:home"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">
 * [[image:Picture_7.png width="164" height="14" link="cooltoolsforschools:home"]] || A wiki that showcases suggested web 2.0 tools that are cool for school! || **Yr 1 - Yr 8** ||