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Mar Pesce on Those Wacky Kids. A seminar about "The Digital Education Revolution", Adelaide, Monday 2 June 2008. All about kids, hyperconnectivity, and the gap between how the kids communicate today and how we try to educate them in the classroom. The text for "Those Wacky Kids" is available at http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/?p=56

a website that is a useful resource for using the interactive whiteboards in the classroom

Now that we are using the Internet in the classroom to support instruction, it is important the area of assessment be addressed. One usable method for teachers is to provide a rubric for student use and for both formative and summative assessment purposes.

** Visit this site to help you develop an assessment rubric for your culminating assessment task.

Web 2 in Education Wiki. This site is designed to provide teachers with a directory of free webtools along with some suggestions as to how they may be used in the classroom. Over 2000 websites listed over 295 tools and all for free!

Another great site for finding new educational tools.

Students reflections on Blogging. I particularly like the quote from a student called Taylor. I think she is quite mature and really seems to grasp the concept that having an active blog is having a say. A tool that has the opportunity to give people who may otherwise not have a say, a means to express their perspective, certainly has the opportunity to change the world as we know it. Do you agree?