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My reflections on the Google I/O and Education. this post has got a lot of interest especially in Australia. I make the point..."This is the real work of education - helping people take control of their lives and realising that in these still early days of the online world, we are being pushed and pushed into vistas that may be limited."

"Claire Amos, Director of elearning at Epsom Girls Grammar, outlines ten tips for encouraging students to take the lead in a bring your own device approach"

Are you interested in a list of 23 free teaching tools that you can use on your classroom? From helping students learn through interactive 3D experiences to transform ordinary classroom experiences into extraordinary immersive education and much more…

eLearning Syllabus differs from traditional syllabus as it requires research time, participation, collaboration, and other factors to determine the time to instruction rubric to determine credit

Florida TechNet is an electronic clearinghouse of resources and elearning funded through a State Leadership grant from the Florida Department of Education.

Some thoughts on social media and education in Ireland as 2011 draws to a close.

Some thoughts on the interface between a schools mission statement and encouragment of online teaching and learning.

This is my latest blog post - it is about my draft ICT / Social media policy for secondary (high) schools. You can read and comment on it here. I would really like your feedback. Here is an excerpt! My primary source was Katie Lepi's Crowdsourced School Social Media Policy Now Available (here). Her work is based on over four-hundred crowd sourced edits! I have specifically included her in the Creative Commons license. I was also influenced by Doug Belshaw's Acceptable Use Policy - feedback required! (here).The comments on his posting are very interesting! I was inspired by Max Senge's A hippocratic Oath for Techies & Policymakers (here). Its simplicity is its strength!

Some ideas on Personal Learning Networks and Blogging

Site organized by application use, name, general reference, and so forth. A nice repository. Encourages outside people to add additional tools.

"Are you spending the bulk of your employee training resources building courses? If so, it's time to rethink your strategy. In this new Perspectives report from Guild Research, author Patti Shank examines informal workplace learning. How can you support it? How can you measure it? One thing's for sure: Your company needs it. "