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"You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone."

Tim Berners-Lee has dubbed Facebook a threat to the universality of the world wide web. Next month marks the twentieth anniversary of the first webpage - served up by Berners-Lee at the CERN particle physics lab in Geneva - and in the December issue of Scientific American, he celebrates the uniquely democratic nature of his creation, before warning against the forces that could eventually bring it down. "Several threats to the Web's universality have arisen recently,"

Each week we will place a new post accessible through the tab on the top of the page labelled 'further instructions', which will give a little run down of the week's activity.

Collaborative drawing tool. No login. Simple to use and share. Fast to get started. Suitable for simple drawings using some basic shapes provided including word bubbles. Endless possibilities for ESL and other simple classroom visualising activities.

Huffington Post recently put up a story called You're Out: 20 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade. It's a great retrospective on the technology leaps we've made since the new century began, and it got me thinking about the difference today's technology will make in the lives of tomorrow's

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.

"To be released in 2014 this new publication will focus on the link between technology and education by investigating how the connected society is transforming learning. The rapid spread of digital platforms, increasing connectivity, the potential for massive online collaboration and "networked intelligence" are not only opening new doors to lifelong learning but breaking down generational, geographic and disciplinary boundaries." Graham Brown-Martin @grahambm

"Preparation for webinar series focusing on using GAFE to teach writing. A curated list of detailed features (that are easy to use and access) within Google Docs." Educators may want to know how to use these features to jazz up writing assignments and make a more creative, personalized document."