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Links to libguides on Global education topics. Fantastic resource.

ISTE & EdSurge are curating a list of free products offered by companies and organizations to support learning during extended school closures. Search the directory to explore what products will best support your needs.

This is a "social network for those interested in Web 2.0, Social Media, and Participative Technologies in the classroom." Looks like a good resource to be part of for your PLN.

This is a great article because it provides many practical resources to help teachers get started in connecting their classes to other students around the world. It also includes a list of resources to help facilitate this digital communication and collaboration. There are links to these resources for further information.

Wayfarers Cycle connects Indigenous communities around the world.

Discusses the origin of the 13+ age restriction for social media (COPPA applicable in the USA) and what it means for parents in an Australian context

A noteworthy crack-down on copyright infringement in social media and its associated impacts.

"Information and communications technologies (ICT) policies in schools have two dimensions. One is to ensure that students are protected from pernicious materials on the Internet. The other is to enable student access to the extensive resources on the Internet for learning and teaching. While these two dimensions are not intrinsically in conflict, in actuality, such can become the case."

A wiki that provides directions for developing guidelines and policy around the use of social media in (and out of) schools.

More a functional, professional resource than for ETL523 assessment.

"The CyberSafety Net is an aggregator website that draws in the best resources from the internet and presents them in a logical sequences for each year level from Prep to Year 12. Teachers, Students and Parents can freely use the materials on this website. At Coomera Anglican College, teachers are using the CyberSafety Net as a combined Scope and Sequence and curriculum, embedded into RaVE (Religious and Values Education) , PC (Pastoral Care), PD (Personal Development) and homework tasks (Religious and Values Education), and implemented at school and during homework activities."