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MindShift has published some useful apps and a brief description of them. Please click here to visit the page.

  Geoboard Children can stretch bands around pegs to form line segments and polygons. They can make discoveries about perim...

  Build a body   This enables children to apply their knowledge of the body's major organ systems by choosing organs ...

       Sparklefish This is a funny audio story compilation that you can record voice ads, stories and many other audio ...

Timed Reading & Comprehension Practice This app allows readers practice fluency and comprehension. Each level consists of...

  Emma's Mental Maths This is a fun way to improve mental maths skills! There are multiple levels to move up and you are only able...

    K12 Equivalence Tiles This is a very useful whole class teaching tool, or small group teaching tool. The tiles let you compare...

Tap tap blocks This is a great app to use as a whole class or in small groups. From an early age, children can build on the c...

Our Grade 5 maths class have been working with 3D shapes.  Have a look at their site   to see how their teacher led them through a discove...

Our Grade 5 class was asked to help the ‘Whacky Scientist’ investigate Solubility. The class was divided into groups of 3. Each group was...

I recently visited Australia and Singapore and am inspired and excited by the things I learnt. More so than ever, I am convinced that techno...

'Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time' --- ancient proverb. Have a look at this w...

Show Me is an interactive white board app that allows me to demostrate a topic. While I am drawing, I can record myself explaining a topic ...

iPad: Educational Next Steps from Sally Bowes

Quickoffice Pro HD : A number of staff have asked me what I use for writing documents and for doing spreadsheet type work. To be honest, I...

SlideShare  is fabulous for sharing presentations, documents, PDFs, videos and webinars- all available via a standard internet browser

K9 Web Protection Browser   is a free safe browser.   For families with small children, you are able to disable Safari and make K9 Web Pro...