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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?

Education students at Flinders University have been investigating web2.0 tools and how these can be used to enhance learning and teaching.The site provides an excellent overview of many free web 2.0 tools for teachers and students.

This is the page where you will find most of the tools of interest.

A good video to prompt discussion about what technologies teachers use to provide opportunities for students to create.

A research article studying the ways that teachers can improve students' oral language skills with the use of Smartboards.

This site adapts Blooms Taxomony to the use of digital technologies to enhance student learning outcomes. Bloom's Digital Taxonomy isn't about the tools or technologies rather it is about using these to facilitate learning. Outcomes on rubrics are measured by competence of use and most importantly the quality of the process or product.

This site would be valuable to help you design your culminating assessment task and learning activities using ICT.

This site identifies the standards for students using ICT developed by the International Society for Technology in Education.

Visit this site to identify the standards that your integrated learning plan addresses (Stage 1).

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.

an interesting maths task for students to do with MyFloorplanner

This video shows the use of Prezi in a tertiary setting to enhance learning by setting through the concept with the students. The presentation is fun, casual and most importantly engaging!

"Twenty One enthusiastic year 8 science students from Westall Secondary College performed at the STAV Science-Drama state finals. Their creative dance interpretation covered many months of hands-on learning; from building a telescope, studying clouds to cosmology. When they dared to ask the big questions, science with curiosity set their imagination free."

useful links to hundreds cultural sites for students

Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who, in 1956, developed a method of classifying cognitive thinking into different levels, each building on the previous level, from the most simple to the most abstract. Cognitive learning includes knowledge recall, comprehending information, organizing ideas, analyzing and synthesizing data, applying knowledge, choosing among alternatives in problem-solving, and evaluating ideas or actions. These skills are targeted in education.

Visit this site to help you develop a culminating assessment task that develops students' higher order thinking skills.

Problem-based learning (PBL) is focused experiential learning organized around the investigation and resolution of messy, real-world problems. It is a complementary approach to inquiry based learning.

Visit this website to learn about how to create engaging learning for your students.

A site by Harvard Graduate School of Education that contains answers to frequently asked questions about Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences.

Visit this site to consider catering for the needs of all students in your assessment task and learning activities sequence of your integrate unit plan.

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