LINKS, SOFTWARE & TOOLS
Here you will find a range of Links, Software and Tools designed for teachers, educational staff and other like minded students.
Please scroll down to view below at your leisure.
EDUCATIONAL TOOLS & LINKS
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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This site is the Department of Education and contains everything a professional in the field of education will need. Visit regularly for news, employment, changes and great information.
Visit: http://www.deewr.gov.au/Pages/Default.aspx
Within the Department of Education, there is a great site available to support teachers with materials, details, the K-10 syllabus and the Australian Curriculum. It has a great Curriculum Support website to prepare and inform teachers of the Australian Curriculum.
Visit: http://det.wa.edu.au/curriculumsupport/k10syllabus/detcms/portal/
Curriculum Support Website: http://det.wa.edu.au/curriculumsupport/detcms/navigation/category.jsp?categoryID=8535437
THE LEARNING FEDERATION
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The Le@rning Federation website features interactive multimedia resources that support learning on concepts and skills in a range of curriculum areas for P-12 years. It is a website for teachers to refer to and contains digital curriculum resources.
Visit: http://econtent.thelearningfederation.edu.au/ec/p/home
MATHEMATICS
The Mathematical Association of Western Australia (MAWA)
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The Mathematical Association of Western Australia, known as MAWA was established by a group of dedicated mathematics educators who wanted to promote mathematics education in Western Australia. Since its inception MAWA has grown to include Pre-service , Primary, Secondary and Tertiary teachers, students and parents. (MAWA, 2012)
Visit: http://www.mawainc.org.au/
GeoGebra
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GeoGebra is a freely available, dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins interactive geometry, algebra, graphing, tables, calculus and statistics together into one easy-to-use package. (GeoGebra, 2012)
Visit: http://www.geogebra.org/cms/en
SOFTWARE
ENDNOTE
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EndNote is referencing software to assist you to produce a professional reference page or bibliography and is able to organise references that you accumulate for professional work and research. A great resource for any student.
Visit: http://www.endnote.com/
JING
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Jing is a simple, free software that allows you to creat images and videos of what you see on your computer screen.
Visit: http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
SYMBALOO
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Symbaloo is a start page tool that you can customize and format so that all your most important links are available at ease.
Visit: http://www.symbaloo.com/
SOCIAL TOOLS & LINKS
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Twitter is a popular instant messaging system that allows a person to send a brief text message to their followers. Twitter lets your friends and colleagues stay informed throughout the day on relevant information.
Visit: http://twitter.com/
Diigo
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Diigo is a social bookmarking website that allows users to bookmark and tag web-pages.
Visit: http://www.diigo.com/
Shelfari
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Shelfari is a social cataloguing website for books. Shelfari users can build virtual bookshelves where they can store, rate, review, tag and discuss books. Users can also create groups and discussions about books or other topics.
Visit: http://www.shelfari.com/
YouTube
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YouTube is a global, video sharing website which users can share, upload and view videos from all around the world.
Visit: http://www.youtube.com/
iTUNES
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iTunes is a digital media application that allows you to download and organise music, apps, books, TV shows, videos and so much more
Visit: http://www.apple.com/itunes/?cid=OAS-US-DOMAINS-itunes.com
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Facebook is a social networking website and service where you can create a personal profile and add other users such as friends, family, celebrities and other people of interest. Facebook allows the exchange of messages and notifies users of any updates to their or others profiles.
Visit: http://www.facebook.com/
SKYPE
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Skype is a wonderful website where you can talk face-to-face with others using your computer or mobile phone.
