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"One of the essentials in Reading this year is one-on-one conferencing with students. When I saw that The CAFE suggested using three-ring binders with tons of copies for each student, I went mentally-fetal. It wouldn't just be one three-ring binder I'd need to organize. I have three classes! Knowing that much paperwork would overwhelm me, I set about devising a system. I settled on Evernote with an iPad I've borrowed from my district's IT department. I want to lay out a few screenshots of how it works and why I like it."

lightweight bookmarking "yummymarks is a simple, beautiful way of keeping track of the websites you love. yummymarks allows you to take your bookmarks to any computer, and works with any browser"

Is it sacrilege pointing out an alternative to the mighty Diigo? Perhaps we ought to think of yummymarks as lite social bookmarking.

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach - 21st Century teaching and learning

Inspired by comic strips and hated by font designers, new research suggests Comic Sans may help people remember what they read.

Google spreadsheet of TEDTalks

"Companies who want to know more about prospective employees can learn a lot by checking their Facebook profiles, according to a new study. Jennifer Golbeck and colleagues at the University of Maryland surveyed the public profiles of nearly 300 Facebook users for information about their favourite activities, TV shows, movies, music, books, quotes, and membership in political or other organisations. They also looked at the "About Me" and "blurb" sections. The work did not include status updates or other data that is only available to users' online friends."

Enter in the URL of the picture page (as seen in your browser) you are interested in and ImageCodr.org will generate the ready to use HTML code. It will also display a brief and easy license summary, so you don't get in legal trouble because you missed something.

Generate embed code for CC licenced Flickr images... simply enter in the URL of the image and ImageCodr.org will generate the ready to use HTML code with proper attribution. It will also display a brief and easy license summary, so you don't get in legal trouble because you missed something.

But after a change to a conservative government that has a very poor track record when it comes to supporting public education, Victorian teachers are slowly awakening to a very different landscape. Perhaps the most rude awakening has occurred by way of the latest notebook lease offer from DEECD.

"So here they are - a Top 100 Learning Game Resource list. If you are already developing learning games, these links will broaden your horizons, as they did mine. If you are contemplating beginning - it might help to look at links that interest you to get some grounding ideas."

This is Wetoku. Videoconferencing tool recommended as easy to use and distribute video to the web.

"Inkling is a platform for interactive textbooks, built from the ground up for iPad. It turns paper-based textbooks books into engaging, interactive learning experiences while staying compatible with the print book for classroom use."

Nice interactive app that schools with iPads should consider exploring as a replacement for traditional textbooks.

Platform for interactive books. Conversion of books to iPad. Add video and QA to content. Purchase chapters or textbook. McGraw Hill platform.

"Below is a series of frequently asked questions regarding the capabilities of the iPad and the reasons for our decision to use iPads from Years 5-9, with a strong recommendation they also be used in Years 10-12. Please take the time to browse through as it might cover some of the questions you have been asking yourself."

St Hilda's School Brisbane Below is a series of frequently asked questions regarding the capabilities of the iPad and the reasons for our decision to use iPads from Years 5-9, with a strong recommendation they also be used in Years 10-12.

Notes.io is a web-based application for taking notes. You can take your notes and share with others by providing the shorten url to a friend.

Wonder if this is from the same stable as minutes.io?

"We thought it would be fun to poll our Google+ Community and see what extensions make your lives easier and put together a friendly guide.  We received TONS of responses and are thrilled to share them with you all. In each section below, you will find a link to the extension in case you'd like to check it out and review's from your fellow Google+ Community members.  For a teaser, we'll let you know that the extension that was most popular out of all the responses comes from the Security/Privacy category.  Any guesses?  It is Last Pass which helps in storing all those pesky passwords!"

"Recently, as a part of the Ed Tech Crew Christmas Hangout, Darren Murphy posed the question, what would your ideal school be? It got me wondering, what does the talk of ideals really achieve?"

Am interested in whether you feel that there is anything clearly missing from the survey Tony. I tried to keep it short so that people would actually complete it. My fear was that if you add questions like 'why do you think 1:1 is important' as Richard Olsen has suggested then people would start turning off :/

Here is my post in regards to the results from the survey: http://readingwritingresponding.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/11-devices-in-schools-reflection.html

There is an add-on teaches kids to code their own modifications to the game. In this Wired article, Klint Finley explains how the creators of the add-on called LearnToMod hope their tool could be a gateway for students to discover a love of computer programming.