The BBC in Wales has created this excellent web site for use both at school and at home and is aimed primarily at children aged 7 to 11, their teachers and their parents. The emphasis is on facilitating experiential learning to help children enter the world of the Iron Age Celts at their level of understanding. It is a beautifully crafted site with engaging activities and delightful graphics.

It can support studies of the Vikings undertaken by students of History in NSW at Stage 4.

Michael Fitzpatrick has written an interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald regarding the demise of email among the young. His reports indicates how SMS, or texting, in particular is favoured due to its response speed, privacy and personalisation. The report adds that this trend is also reaching mainstream age groups.

The Centre for Teaching History With Technology is a rich online resource for teachers that wish to converge their teaching of history with information technology. The web site features suggestions, activities, lesson plans and quizzes. It also incorporates dedicated pages that describe how blogs, wikis and podcasts can be utilised in the teaching and learning of history.

The Centre also sponsors the excellent Best of History Web Sites.

Flickr has just released version 3.0 of its uploader for both the Mac and Win platforms.

An excellent tool that allows batch uploading, tagging and commentary. You can also direct images to specific sets. You can alter the order of images via drag and drop. You can also work on another batch while one is in process. Via TUAW.

Kevin Lim has created a practical wiki with well organised pointers to Web 2.0 guides and descriptions.

There are also links to accounts and descriptions of more advanced Web 2.0 topics such as folksonomies. Do not forget to explore the rich set of links and resources in the wiki’s sidebar.