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This wiki site will serve as a launchpad to other documents and communities seeking to provide guidance in acceptable use policy development and also as an incubator for ideas related to issues, document structures, new problems and opportunities, and maintenance.

Use the Nike+iPod kit to conduct a virtual running race between schools in different parts of the world.

In the context of the future of learning management systems, this paper examines the concept and perception of a learning environment from the classroom to the internet and their relationship to perceptions of teaching and learning.

For whatever else it's worth to anyone bothering with the comments here, in spite of my failings as a blogger and an online community member, this site has been - from first post to last - a concerted effort at reconstructing the narrative of a Teacher and, particularly, that of a New Teacher. There are loftier goals for a blog, certainly, but this has been mine.

Could it be that part of the problem be that the teachers who attempt to teach with "real world" concrete examples have never had any real world concrete experience. 12 years of school followed by 4-5 years of undergrad, now you are a teacher, teach about the real world. hmmm

i-SAFE's In Sync with Internet Safety Challenge Books are designed to challenge elementary and middle grade students to develop critical-thinking skills as well as to be empowered to age-appropriately share e-Safety awareness and knowledge with their peers, their parents, and their community.

A range of teaching materials and student activities have been developed in the CyberSafe Schools program.

summaries of each chapter in Emerging technologies for learning

the eStrategy mentions embedded practice (as opposed to undeveloped) it includes "Embedded The site has developed innovative approaches to the sharing of effective practice, coaching and mentoring within and beyond the site and makes use of technology to achieve this. Child and student, peer and/or community mentors are an essential component. Organised and planned processes are in place to support and enhance teaching and learning activities and opportunities." and "Resources - Virtual Environments All children and students and staff contribute to virtual learning environments, complementing and extending teaching, learning and the curriculum. There is provision for children and students to create their own personal learning spaces. Virtual learning environments are fully integrated with the site's learner and curriculum management systems." Worth checking out ... also have a look at EdCap (Educational Capabilities) 4 phases including Online learning across all phases.

This DECS vision that should guide future policies. Check out what is below 'Digital Education Revolution' .. some good stuff

"Keeping safe - Child Protection Curriculum" is the document I have been referred to. In particular the sections relating to internet saafety and educators' responsibilities and obligations to children and young people .... do a search for 'internet' on this document (resource for parents) and the word does not appear anywhere! Please help me find this important document.

All tutors have years of tutoring experience, are experts in the subjects they teach and have passed government background checks. ... I'm interested if tutors/mentors/coaches are SA only ... and will enquire later. Also interested if other similar programs exist. Thanks for the 'heads up'

I thought it would be handy to have a quick reference to effective presentations. Alvin Trusty - TeacherTube (note innapropriate ads in TT now??) http://del.icio.us/atrusty/eTechOhio08 Peter Shanks - FlickrCC http://tinyurl.com/45m4sy

balanced documentary and supportive material. Thanks to Bill Farren comment#218 "One of the biggest surprises in making this film was the discovery that the threat of online predators is misunderstood and overblown. The data shows that giving out personal information over the Internet makes absolutely no difference when it comes to a child's vulnerability to predation. " PBS site 'What We Learned write up'

Digital citizenship isn't just about recognising and dealing with online hazards. It's about building safe spaces and communities, understanding how to manage personal information, and about being internet savvy - using your online presence to grow and shape your world in a safe, creative way, and inspiring others to do the same.

The handbook is intended to be of use to grassroots practitioners involved in designing new projects and adapting existing ones; to developers designing digital tools and resources; and to funding bodies wanting to ensure robust processes in their supported projects.

Although Bloom's Taxonomy proved useful to teachers and students alike, recent decades gave rise to numerous criticisms, implying that the model was out of date. These criticisms included concerns with setting applicability, contemporary language, and process conceptualization. More recently, Anderson and Krathwohl (2001) have adapted Bloom's model to fit the needs of today's classroom by employing more outcome-oriented language, workable objectives, and changing nouns to active verbs (see "stairs" below). Most notably, knowledge has been converted to remember. In addition, the highest level of development is create rather than evaluate.