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Stephen Heppell: Each year a selection of ingenious students - from primary to university age - are invited along to BAFTA in London's Piccadilly to show and talk about the extraordinary things they are doing with new technologies in their learning.

Go Outdoors and Play with WherigoTM Wherigo is a toolset for creating and playing GPS-enabled adventures in the real world. Use GPS technology to guide you to physical locations and interact with virtual objects and characters

Unless technology lets me do something I couldn't otherwise do with a stick in the sand, I don't see much sense in it.

The 'unconference' approach to professional development, TeachMeet, involves short, sharp demonstrations of one technology, showing its whole potential in no more than seven minutes. We then reverse engineer what went into the product of the students' learning, leaving plenty of time to play and discover new skills. Crucially, we leave time at the end for planning your new skills into your next period of teaching and learning.

We're a bunch of like-minded, mainly UK-based, educators interested in educational technology. We produce a regular podcast with the aim of spreading good practice and innovative tools in education over at http://www.edtechroundup.com Hub.edtechroundup.com is a collection of blog posts from our own personal blogs that deal with here and now classroom practice from a variety of subject angles. Pedagogically-sound Open Source and Web 2.0 solutions figure quite high on our list of priorities. As always please feel free to get involved in our Diigo network and interact with us via Twitter!

I invited folk on twitter to add themselves to this list and quite a few did, I've blogged a bit about it and hope to use this technology with my class very soon. Thanks to everybody who help with the test, and please feel free to add yourself to see how

Create your own social network, quickly and easily. Elgg allows you to take full advantage of the power of social technology with elegant, flexible solutions for organisations, groups and individuals.

Advice on teaching tools web2.0

A weekly podcast about technology in education.

DB Primary is an exciting new Learning Platform aimed solely at the Primary education sector bringing together the best in the latest learning platform and social network technologies.

The Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get the most from innovative technologies

The Business Plan for 2010/11 sets out Becta's work for the financial year. The broad context for this plan is the use of technology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the education, skills and children's services systems, supporting the country's future competitiveness and prosperity.

This article responds to a generation of techno-criticism in education. It contains a review of the key themes of that criticism. The context of previous efforts to reform education reframes that criticism. Within that context, the question is raised about what schools need to look and be like in order to take advantage of laptop computers and other technology. In doing so, the article presents a vision for self-organizing schools.

Most language teachers shun social networking sites and other Web 2.0 technologies. Some even see the phenomenon as a threat, according to new research. However, a growing grassroots network is taking advantage, says Yojana Sharma

A weekly edtech podcast hosted by Darrel Branson (The ICT Guy) and Tony Richards from itmadesimple.com. We discuss all things digital in education - technologies, issues, great websites, web 2.0 and much, much more!

Futurelab's bi-annual magazine offers possible visions of the future of learning with digital technologies and other innovative resources.

A good place to start a discussion on the 'efficiency' of technology.

Good for exploring the ethical use of science & technology

podcasting tools for educators and examples of softnwares that are available.

Neofonie is introducing the WePad, a German-made unit that promises "fast Internet connectivity, a complete world of ready-to-use applications and easy access to books and photos, as well as magazines and newspapers from various publishers