Panoramio is a community-powered site for exploring places through photography: cities, natural wonders, or interesting sights, and locations, you, and your students have visited.

Panoramio is different from other photo sharing sites because the photos illustrate places, and are geo-located. You won’t see many people posing in front of places ~ Panoramio‘s all about seeing the world. Get exploring some stunning images.

Every Last Drop is an interactive website which takes a look at how much water we waste on a daily basis, and how small changes can make a big difference.

Worth scrolling down to the end, this is a simple, but really thought provoking, drop by drop nudge.

“On May 2, 1947, John Cabot set sail aboard a magnificent cruise ship named The Matthew with a crew of servants, and an abundance of DVD’s to keep the crew entertained”.

All About Explorers was designed, to help children discover the importance of checking the voracity of information they find on the web, & this site is almost complete fabrication.

Registering is free & lesson plans are available to download.

With links, from the fabricated facts, to more solid “info”, it is then up to the pupils to work out the “truth”, or “innacurate” information, & through this, begin to gain respect for the need to assess the validity of what we are “fed” on the net.

We have mentioned Button Beats before. They have now changed their name to ButtonBass yet still produce some remarkable, simple, & fascinating musical experiments.

The GreenFrame player is just one of the interesting sound tools you can explore. Record, and trigger, your own sounds, and mix them with prerecorded samples.

Try the cubes, mixers, keyboards, drum kit, guitars, or audio recording studio.

There are many musical machines, and gizmos, that enable remarkable invention.

The site is supported by panel adverts but free otherwise. What are you waiting for? Go on and and get playing.

The last, of three, full on days at Linaker Primary School and Children’s Centre, in Southport, in Sefton.

Today saw another, new, step taken in the age of adventure, with the newly appointed “Digital leaders”.

The school recently “hired” 15 Digital leaders (7 in year 6, 8 in year 5) who have already set up and logged into Blogger accounts, and started in their support of teachers, fellow pupils, and each other, throughout the school. Thanks to them for their support today and “here’s to the up-for-it explorations of today”.

What fun was had, in the lands of technology today! Exploring uncharted territories, discovering distant digital domains, and generally stretching technology in wild and wondrous ways.

We set foot in the high~ways, low~ways, no~go~ways, by~ways, here~ways, share~ways, there~ways,  slow~ways, up~ways, down~ways, under~ways, wonder~ways, no-wonder!~ways, plunder~ways, try~ways, wonder-why~ways, explore~ways, never~before~ways, your~ways, my~ways, our~ways, oh~the~power~ways, who’d~have~known~ways, should’ve~known~ways, newly~truly~alone~ways…

To tell a tale, of any kind, is a challenge. To do so, with access to the wondrous opportunities that technology offers, these days, surely makes it simple?! Well, it does produce a lot of potential, but also introduces challenges of their own.

The children showed some remarkable, mature, problem solving techniques, through which we all learned a lot ~ the mark of great digital leaders. To teach is to learn. To be open to learn teaches us a lot.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

John Cotton Dana

“Digital Leaders” is a fascinating concept, and one that is gathering strength, and pace, in schools far and wide now. The Digital Leader Network, draws together those who are exploring the ideas, power and potential, of this movement.

Empowering learners, teachers and sharers of discovery in so many ways.

The Digital Leader Network is a collaborative blog where digital leaders and teachers can showcase the inspirational work that is going on in their schools. It was started by passionate teachers in 2012 and has gone from strength to strength thanks to the community of people who contribute to it.

The network aims to spread the good work of digital leaders far and wide in an attempt to create more sustainable solutions to ICT developments in schools. Each Thursday at 9pm (gmt) members of the network join in #DLchat, on Twitter, and share their thoughts, ideas and what their digital leaders have been doing.

Have a read of this collaborative document where people have shared their experiences of starting digital leader projects in their schools.

The challenge today? To carry on a story of discovery, in small groups, and retell that tale with the support of some inventive, digital delights.

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To work in a group adds additional challenges that these children experimented with ways to master ~ finding a common path; valuing strengths and supporting weaknesses; assessing the best way to allot time, resources, and “man-power”; getting something “done well”, inventively and in the most remarkable and effective way.

Well done all. More to follow…