Website+of+the+Week

Week 2, Term 1

1) Shape Collage www.shapecollage.com/ This is a down-loadable application via a website that lets you create awesome coll ages out of the photos you have in your pictures folder. The software is excellent. Easy to install, easy to use, and very flexible in the collages it can make. Visit the website, explore and watch the short video to discover it's advantages!

Week 3, Term 1

2) The Book Depository // Click on the logo above to take you directly to the website // //.// The Book Depository is the UK's largest dedicated online bookseller offering the largest range of titles in the world, available for dispatch within 48 hours. Founded in 2004 to make 'All Books To All' we focus on selling 'less of more' rather than 'more of less', differentiating yourself from other retailers who increasingly focus on bestsellers. Currently, The Book Depository is able to ship over 2.5 million unique titles, within 48 hours, from our fulfillment centre in Gloucester, United Kingdom. This figure is increasing everyday. Apart from publishers, distributors and wholesalers, we even list and supply books from other retailers! The Book Depository is an international bookseller shipping our books free of charge, worldwide, to nearly 90 countries. By working with various world postal authorities and other carriers, we are always looking to add more countries to this list and will work to do so in the future.
 * All books available to All**
 * Free Worldwide Delivery**

Week 4, Term 1 [|New Zealand Book Council] =Your Reviews= What did you think of that book you read recently? Any book, any type, we want you to tell us all about it! The first winners were selected on **Friday 27 August**, and their reviews can be found below. Three from each age group will be selected to feature online, and the best reviewer aged between 5-7 years, 8–12 years, and 13+ will each receive a pack of books courtesy of Scholastic NZ. The top three reviews will also be published in //[|The School Library]//, the Book Council’s reviews publication sent to member schools. There is a word limit of 200 words on all entries. Entry dates for the coming few months: **Friday 25 February** **2011** and **Friday 13th May 2011**.

Week 7, Term 1

[|Show us your Longdrop]

This website has been set up to showcase all the creative Long Drops that are popping up around Christchurch.

Week 8, Term 1 [|SuperLame] Add comic balloons to your images, put word balloons and speech bubbles anywhere you want, even outside the borders of your image. Once you've made the perfect combination of picture and speech bubble, you can simply email it to anyone, anywhere in the world with the click of your mouse.What good would this web tool be if you couldn't do anything with your picture once you finished it? No good, that's how good. Well, get this, when you've finalized exactly what you want your cat to say, you can easily save it as a ".jpeg" file and use it anywhere JPEGs are accepted. Pretty good, right?

Week 8, Term 1 [|Maths Zone] Fun games to test your knowledge of times tables.