Advancing Professional Learning

CosmoLearning is a free educational website for students and teachers.

Marzano's 9 Effective Instructional Strategies tied to web tools

Blogs, Wikis, Docs: Which is right for your
lesson?
A Comparison Table

A list of free, fully resourced workshops and courses

The assessment tasks are not learning and teaching units, but they do suggest,
in broad terms, what learning needs to have taken place before students
undertake the provided assessment tasks. Teachers make professional decisions
about whether or not a particular task is suitable for their students

2009 ANZ Horizon Report

My talk today is about social media. I'm going to begin by dissecting this silly term and then we'll get down and dirty with how social media is being used.

Platforms for Participation

When students let their minds drift off, they're losing valuable learning time.
Here are ten smart ways to increase classroom participation

The goals of this course follow. Participants will:

better understand the historical role technology and media have played in educational & social change;
become knowledgeable of social learning tools & FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) as tools for teaching, facilitating learning, & designing educational environments;
become familiar with the wealth of open educational resources (OERs), learning-related content, & media available for teaching & learning;
become knowledgeable of relevant social learning theories and philosophies that respond to learning in the digital age;
better understand the many social, educational, political, cultural, and administrative issues often associated with technology & media in education and society;
become critical consumers and producers of digital media and information; and,
build sustainable, personal learning environments and networks.

■Basic Language Literacy
■Visual Literacy
■Historical Literacy
■Cultural Literacy
■Information Literacy
■Political Literacy and News Media Literacy
■Scientific Literacy
■Mathematical Literacy

A good, assistive resource for teachers using Bloom's Taxonomy.

You can click on the various links to learn how you can use the revised cognitive domain categories to develop learning objectives, questions to challenge your students, and assignments.

The research was designed to find out how Web 2.0 is being used, its potential impact in education and some of the barriers to successful adoption.

Strategy for Overcoming Resistance to Technology

Discussions about standardised testing, and the measurement of student progress and achievement, and are the issues of interoperability as they relate to work being done around data interoperbility between LMSs and SMSs in schools, and the whole area of e-portfolios

a handbook written by Futurelab and commissioned by Becta as part of a research and development programme aimed at supporting the delivery of the Harnessing Technology Strategy.

The core of the report describes six areas of emerging technology that will impact higher education in Australia and New Zealand over the next five years.