This is the PPT from a workshop I ran at the School Library conference in Brisbane 2008, about sites you can use in the classroom to engage and captivate students.

1. Creating Captivating Content

5. Mom’s William Tell Overture http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =RxT5NwQUtVM

6. The Y Generation - The Silent generation - people born before 1946. - The Baby Boomers - people born between 1946 and 1959. - Generation X - people born between 1960 and 1979. - Generation Y - people born between 1980 and 1995. Why do we call the last one generation Y?

8. http://8rib-it.wikispaces.com/

11. VoiceThread http://voicethread.com/#q.b184987.i0.k0

12. READ Mini-Posters http://www.ala.org/ala/productsandpublications/READ_Mini_Posters.cfm

13. Yahoo Avatars Create at http://uk.avatars.yahoo.com/index.html Use on your web pages, blogs, nings, email, mobile phones and instant messaging

15. Cool Text http://cooltext.com/

16. Wordle http://wordle.net/

18. Captivate them! "Sometimes traveling to a new place leads to great transformation" -- Fortune Cookie