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Site developed in Australia provides a wealth of Web 2.0 tools, integration ideas, and tutorials for successful engagement.

President Obama's first address on educational reform.

Blog post on Twitte use ideas.

Whether working individually or collaboratively, Webspiration™ is the new online visual thinking tool that helps you: capture ideas organize information diagram processes create clear, concise written documents With integrated diagram and outline views you can think visually, structure your work effectively and express your ideas in the ways that communicate best.

With speakers like neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor and global health expert Hans Rosling, the list proves one of the compelling ideas behind TEDTalks: that an unknown speaker with a powerful idea can reach -- and move -- a global audience through the power of quality web video. Links to all 10 talks are found below the video window -- or browse through our Top 10 TEDTalks Theme. Even if you've seen them all, the highlights video below is darn fun.

The 2008 Digital Media and Learning Competition theme is Participatory Learning. Participatory Learning includes the many ways that learners (of any age) use new technologies to participate in virtual communities where they share ideas, comment upon one another's projects, and plan, design, advance, implement, or simply discuss their goals and ideas together. Details

I love this idea - public Google Doc with ideas for going paperless in the classroom.

Randomly create a sentence as a writing prompt or storystarter.

Ideas for interactive and engaging lesson activities in a range of curriculum areas. Contributed by teachers from all around the world.

Great website with center ideas for reading. Multiple areas as well as great ideas for instructional materials.

Whether we talk about Indian contemporary art or contemporary pieces of western origin, one thing is common; there is absolutely zero focus on the end results. The contemporary style of art encourages the idea of expression more than anything. As per contemporary art, if a person has an idea, an imagination or a notion, it doesn't matter what the end result is, the piece will be valued for its conception.

Every working person's dream is to have a career as if you're not working. Earning money while playing games is the most literal way to make money without feeling like you are at work. You can go live a fantasy life and go on exciting adventures, fight mobs, spiff up your gear and earn money while you're at it! Here's how you can start making money by playing games: Live Streaming You can earn money by playing in real time in front of an audience. There are always new games coming out and some people might not have the resources or time to play them. These people often go to livestreams to watch other people play the game they are interested in, sometimes while multitasking. Here's how you can start livestreaming your gameplays: Set up an account. You will need to find a streaming website of course. There are plenty out there but the biggest names in the livestreaming business at present is Twitch and YouTube Gaming. It's useful to research about which company caters to creators better and once you've made your choice, go ahead and set up your account. Gain a following. This is probably the hardest part of making money off of playing games. As with every media platform, a good following is always useful. You can either create a huge following, profit from them by having them view ads from your stream or, you can build a loyal following and profit from them via donations. Search for popular games. If you're not getting enough followers on your preferred site then you are probably playing the wrong game. Do your research and check which games people are most interested in playing and play it as well! Creating Game Guides People get into new games all the time and a lot of them turn to guides when they are stuck in a particular level or instance. If you are a seasoned gamer, you can definitely write guides based on your gameplay and earn money from it. Learn how to write creatively. In order for you to actually be able t

WhatsApp is a great way to show off your status. It is an expression that expresses one's thoughts, ideas and feelings in a creative way, especially written about it. WhatsApp citizenship shows how you can uniquely and easily integrate your own ideas into Cox. Updating status on WhatsApp is the way to live your life or move on. Also, citizens want to update coats and have fun, if you can handle clever and effective advice. There are different types of WhatsApp that are used depending on their convenience or mood.

We are the stories that we tell and it is the stories we share which unite us. This was the seed of an idea planted by a day with author, artist, musician and story teller Boori Pryor. Understanding the power that our stories have allows us to better value their role in our lives, to see them as more than recounts of the past or imaginings of the future. Stories should be viewed as the powerful agents that they are with the force to shape who we are as much as we shape them.

For schools the concept of a learning organisation should make perfect sense, after all learning is our core business, or it should be. Perhaps that almost three decades after Peter Senge identified the importance of learning within organisations the idea is only now gaining traction in schools tells us something about the approach taken to learning and teaching within schools. With an increased focus on the development of professional learning communities as a response to the complex challenges that emerge from a rapidly changing society, it is worth looking at what a learning organisation requires for success.

There is a growing momentum in education driven by a desire to share our practice and learn from our colleagues. Increasingly teachers are finding ways to break free of their classrooms and share their ideas. Collaborations in the interests of unlocking the collective potential of the profession are spreading within and importantly between schools. For many these collaborative endeavours and desires are satisfied by online communities but for many the possibility for a face to face conversation is more alluring.

Making, Maker Centred Learning and STEAM fit neatly alongside Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) for many schools. Commonly this approach includes a constructivist view of knowledge and teachers seek to establish conditions which allow students to explore questions and ideas with greater independence than may occur in the traditional classroom.  Learning becomes a collaborative partnership between teachers and students with a clear focus on a learner centric approach.

As teachers we hope our lessons are engaging and that our students are engaged. We understand that positive learning experiences are more likely to occur when we are engaged cognitively and affectively by what we are doing and that when we are, new ideas and skills are more likely to stick. Engagement is an important consideration in learning and as such it is worth taking time to consider what it means to be engaged and perhaps how we bring the benefits of engagement to our teaching and our learning.