Quintura Search Engine

This has been around a while and a few people have recommended  Quintura to me, I have not actually used it until this week. I was looking for a new search engine that used clusters or the tag cloud concept.
I tried a search on the Middle ages. This is the main era for study for the year 8 history [...]

Making web use easy for everyone

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Useful Links (weekly)

 Image * After – currently 21429 free textures and images availableFree high resolution images and textures for commercial and personal use. Daily additions. Free hi-res stock photography, with abstract graphics search. 

Clipart ETC Homepage free collection of over 44,000 pieces of educational clipart for teachers and students. This royalty-free clipart is immediately available to all, no subscription, [...]

Backup your gmail

My Gmail has become the other email service, the one that I use when I want an account other than my school account. Google is relatively stable, and all the Google apps have been great, but there is also a risk that you can lose everything if something goes wrong. This was brought home to me again this week when [...]

Illustrated Books – A new series of classics

The world of children’s literature is a vital and amazing one, and one that often uses wonderful illustrations. There’s something very special about any beautifully illustrated book. The simplest picture books can speak volumes, to young and old alike, in a way that simply text cannot. Illustrated/picture books can capture the layers of a story/text. [...]

From Twilight to Wuthering Heights

Like the Harry Potter stories there have been added bonuses to the publication of the Twilight Series by Stehenie Meyer. It has captured the imagination of younger (and older) readers and there have been spin offs, some expected and some unexpected. One of the unexpected bonus is that the classic, Wuthering Heights,  has become popular in [...]

Useful Links (weekly)

 Dear Speakers – James Duncan Davidson A good list of advice tips for presenters from a conference photographer (who has to watch them).

Windows SteadyState Windows SteadyState, successor to the Shared Computer Toolkit, is designed to make life easier for people who set up and maintain shared computers. 

Leximo | Free Online World Dictionary – Share your words with [...]

Young Sherlock Holmes – coming soon

In the beginning there was Arthur Conan Doyle and his original detective and the many reprints that followed.
If you have read this blog before you will know that I have been involved in presenting the crime fiction genre to our year 8 students. Sherlock Holmes is one of the major authors I talk about when we are looking at the history [...]

A sign of the (economic) times for CBCA

 The celebration has been cancelled. I was very sorry to read an announcement, on the CBCA website, that they are cancelling the 2010 CBCA Conference, that was to be held in Brisbane - the theme being  Across the Story Bridge.
It is with the deepest regret that we announce that the CBCA conference in 2010 will no longer [...]

The wonder that is The Corpus Clock

The Corpus Chronophage is an amazing thing, It shows time passing is such a unique and non-digital way. The more simple mechanics are explained and the sense of recreating history also comes through…. And how about the grasshopper/beastie that performs, especially when the hour is struck!
If I was looking at time passing, in a classroom setting, this [...]