Skoool (http://www.skoool.com/)

Overview:

Skoool website is collaborations between Intel and the numerous education departments throughout the world. It has many high-quality interactive learning objects resources for science and maths publicly available to all students and teachers. Skoool content is presented in small, accessible, easily digestible learning chunks that aim to be fun, motivational and exploratory.

Audience:

Education contents for K-12 children in the classroom and extending the learning opportunities at home.

Possible educational activities:

  • Drill and Practice
  • Quizzing
  • Inductive Reasoning
  • Group Problem Solving

Curriculum@Work (http://internal.sgsc.vic.edu.au/learningobjects/)

Overview:

This site is live CD-ROM containing learning objects that are designed to assist teachers and students in and across multiple learning areas. The learning objects are the corporations between the Department of Education & Training’s Curriculum@Work project and the joint Commonwealth/State Governments national content initiative The Learning Federation.

Audience:

Education contents for K-12 children in the classroom and extending the learning opportunities at home.

Possible educational activities:

  • Drill and Practice
  • Quizzing
  • Inductive Reasoning
  • Group Problem Solving

The Le@rning Federation (http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/default.asp)

Overview:

The ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Young Affairs (MCEETYA) established the Le@rning Federation (TLF) in 2001 to produce online curriculum materials and make them available to education systems in the States and territories of Australia and New Zealand. The TLF’s learning objects repository prioritises in curriculum areas including the following

  • Innovation, Enterprise and Creativity (Year P-10)
  • Languages other than English
  • Literacy for students at risk of not achieving National Literacy Benchmarks (Year P-10)
  • Numeracy and Mathematics (Year P-10)
  • Science (Year P-6 and 9-10)

Audience:

Education contents for K-12 children in the classroom and extending the learning opportunities at home.

Possible educational activities:

  • Drill and Practice
  • Quizzing
  • Inductive Reasoning
  • Group Problem Solving
  • Visual demonstration
  • Supplement the face-face classroom activities
  • Engage students in exploring, conjecturing, and reasoning, instead of simply engaging in rote learning of rules and procedures through the use of ICT at school and home.
  • Construct students’ knowledge from meaningful experiences (interaction).

LORN (http://lorn.flexiblelearning.net.au/Home.aspx)

Overview:

LORN aims to provide teachers and trainers to find and use online training resources from across the Australian vocational education and training (VET) sector. LORN provided a keyword search function that searches for metadata fields of each learning object in the selected repositories. Lorn is the ultimate gateway to online training resources

Audience:

Students of VET

Possible educational activities:

  • Drill and Practice
  • Quizzing
  • Group Problem Solving
  • Visual demonstration
  • Supplement the face-face classroom activities

BBC SCHOOL (http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools)

Overview:

The BBC has well written educational activities linked to the national curriculum. Most of them are fun and easy to use. Furthermore, it aims to engage students to view the resources in their spare time by making the online learning activities game-like. There are numerous activities based on the curriculum level of your class. They are categorised by age and key learning area, making locating appropriate resources easy. Some features provided by the site are:

  • Emailable tests
  • Exam tips
  • Covers the main points of each subject -> uses examples and pictures to illustrate certain ideas/issues
  • Well-designed and fun activities
  • Fun tests and activities

Audience:

Education contents for K-12 children in the classroom and extending the learning opportunities at home.

Possible educational activities:

  • Drill and Practice
  • Quizzing
  • Inductive Reasoning
  • Group Problem Solving

BECTA.ORG (http://www.becta.org/postnuke/index.php)

Overview:

This site aims to provide hundreds of open source softwares for schools to break away from the shackles of expensive license and purchase agreements that are often related to proprietary software.

Audience:

Educator [all level]

Possible educational activities:

  • Construct web pages
  • Edit/record sound
  • Edit/record/capture video
  • Computer-based assessment
  • Podcast
  • Open source Learning Management System