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This is the Dandenong High School Learning Resource Centre blog which contains useful links, news and information for staff and students at Dandenong High School.

Episode 2 of Gareth Malone's Extraordinary School for Boys.  How do we engage boys in reading and writing?

A great video and idea about using the cloud to support education so that wherever children are they can explore and learn from each other around the world.

Free plays and other resource for drama teachers.

A teacher's blog which shows how the school is using Evernote for student portfolios.

Great 5 minute tutorials on how to use different websites in education, heaps of great ideas!!

Lots of great interactive resources for all subject areas and year levels

Recommended apps for iPad organized according to learning theories. Unfortunately Langwitches is blocked by school filter.

Anne Knock writes about the 'secret sauce' of an innovative school. How do we maintain a culture of innovation?  'The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.' Some thought provoking ideas in this blog.

Gareth Malone, a choirmaster, is employed to raise the achievement and engagement level of boys.  His mission is to raise their level in six months.

A user friendly pedagogically sound website with resources and links to the research process and links to the Australian Curriculum.  Leonie McIlvenny has done all of the work mapping information literacy, research and inquiry skills scope and sequence.  A great guide for other schools.

A platform designed to build an online student community to help high school students take charge of their learning.

A huge collections of video turorials for math

A great article on web 2.0 tools for the classroom, including suggestions about how to use them in inquiry based learning

An uplifting message about the true measure of our worth as educators.

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