ICT resources

Resource	Type	Year Levels	Audience	comment
"Sams teach yourself Adobe Flash CS4 professional in 24 hours"	Flash	Yr 9	Teacher	This is a resource for teachers. It is a comprehensive book, including basic introduction to action script and web applications.
Learn Flash CS 5 Tutorial	Flash	Yr 9	Teacher	This is a simple resource. Student can work through this easily. However, there are some that are fairly simple chapter that can be skip through. I particularly like the section on "The Flash Tools panel" because it is a good reference for students to find the meaning of tools quickly.
"Creating a Hello World iPhone Application Using Flash CS5"	Flash	Yr 9	Teacher	This is a simple application. Only display "Hello World" on iPhone. The most important part is that you need to get developer certificate to put this application on the iPhone. This is a good tutorial to get it all set up. Best to use this when student already know how to write application in Flash.
Derivative Plotter	Mathematics, Calculus	VCE	Students	This is a flash applet that student can explore the meaning of derivative. Student can use the example they gave. Or student can add their own example. As student progress through the years, they can try out different functions. It also allows students to change the domain and range of the graph.
Integer Additions using Geogebra	Mathematics,Number	Yr 7	Students	This is a nice application to helps students to understand adding negative numbers together. In my placements, I found students have difficulties understanding the meaning of adding a negative number. This give students a visual support.
GeoGebra Wiki	Mathematics	All	Teachers, Students	This wiki contain lots of resources to help students to understand different mathematical concept. They are not stand alone for student to use. It is hard for student to find what they need here. However, when teacher find the appropriate resource, student are able to explore the idea with these files.
"Khan Academy"	Mathematics, Science, and Humanity	All	Teachers	This website has a wide range of video in teacher science, humanity and mathematics. The convention of Mathematics notation could be a little different to what we use in Australia However, as long as student are aware of the differences, they are great video tutorial. And their mathematics exercises are excellent. It is interactive. If students have problem, they can ask for help and hints. The only disappointment was that they don't have the science and humanity exercises or resources for teachers.
"Game Learning"	Games	Yr 8	Teachers	You need to click on the resource page to get the resources. It contain a few different Game Maker project. It also contain resources for other game platform such as StageCast Creator 2 and Blitz Basic. Unfortunately, the lesson plan is not available. However, teacher can give the game for student to play and as them if they can duplicate or improve the game. Or teacher can use this idea and write his/her own lesson depending on how much scaffolding student might need. This could also lead to the idea of open source software and the advantage of the open source community.
"Schoolgamemaker"	Games	All	Teachers	This is an amazing website. I don't have time to explore all the resource there. It contain research paper for when you need to convince you school that's the path you want to go down. It contain different programming language such as Python, different game platforms, lesson plan and teacher forums. Some of the link require password or login. But some of it is free.
"XNA development"	Games	Yr 10 and VCE	Teachers	Game programming became very popular in the last couple of years. In my placement school, students as young as Yr 9 started learning to write program C# and XNA. They have lunch time programming game club once a week. This website help set up XNA environment and tutorial on how to write program for games. This is more complex then the GameMaker or Scratch environments. However, students can use what they learn to help with their VCE unit 3 and 4.