Some basic information about using spreadsheets for novices like me.

Worth reading about how to address the gender gap in reading.

A student response system which helps teachers engage their classroom through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops and tablets.

Download Sugata Mitra's SOLE Toolkit: How to bring self organized learning environments to your community.

You can make and send a video presentation directly from your gmail account.

Edutopia presents evidence based strategies to improve teaching and learning.

Free Technology for Teachers is written by Richard Byrne and is a site which shares information about free resources that teachers can use in the classroom.

Students can sign up for free.  The quizzes are fantastic for vocabulary, spelling, learning specific terminology and learning foreign languages.

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

An online platform created to provide support in the form of video tutorials for VCE Students.

The Open University has some excellent resources to support research on the part of children and young people.  The examples of research produced by young people are particularly interesting and inspiring.

Use your own photos and combine your own wit and tool and employ this tool to create your own inspirational poster.

A report from the US Library of Congress which shows what organizations including Libraries in the US and overseas are doing right in the area of Literacy and the promotion of reading.

An all you need to know guide to Twitter especially for newbies.

You have to love this article by Ann E. Cunningham and Keith E Stanovich which proves reading makes you verbally smarter.  Great data which shows how many more words you are exposed to if you read a minimum of 60 minutes a day.  Students need to practice reading more to develop their competence.

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.

Sheen Cameron is an educator from NZ who has published practical strategies to help students develop their reading and writing.  Some links and useful ideas are linked to her website.

Sheena Cameron has shared useful reading comprehension strategies and links to useful website on this wiki.  Great strategies for EAL and Literacy students.

A fantastic platform which promises to engage young writers.  Teachers can create groups to create a virtual writers' workshop and there are also special features such as writing prompts and author programming to enhance teaching and learning.

A really inspiring video from Natalie Warne an ordinary person who showed extraordinary leadership to help bring about change.