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Blog post by The Angry Technician discrediting the article "Why schools don't need ICT"

Educational Technology, educational ICT,ICT in Education, information technology, information and communication technology, practical advice, leaders, managers,Terry Freedman,spreadsheet,modelling,sequencing,spreadsheets,modeling

This report is based on evidence from inspections of information and communication technology (ICT) between September 2005 and July 2008 in 177 maintained schools in England, as well as other visits to schools where good practice was identified.

a really helpful presentation that will enthuse and share ideas about the effective use of ICT in the classroom.

Ricky School ICT Blog using blogger

Irish centre for ICT practice and advice Info on all sorts here. Soc networking. video. audio. netsafety. special needs.

The National Centre for Technology in Education is an Irish Government agency established to provide advice, support and information on the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in education.

Blog post discussing whether ICT is better embedded across the curriculum at KS3, or taught as a discrete subject

The EdtechRoundup Wikispace supports and records the development of the online collaborations of teachers, educators and learning technologists. We are a friendly bunch of educators with contributors ranging from PGCE students and the ICT curious, through

The MirandaNet Fellowship, founded in 1992, is an e-community of practice for international ICT policy makers, teachers, teacher educators, researchers and commercial developers who are passionate about digital technology in teaching and learning and about using technologies to promote cultural understanding and democratic participation. Currently there are over 850 members in 43 countries worldwide. The website, online forums, seminars, workshops and projects run by members are funded by international partner companies and government agencies. Currently projects are running with 2Simple, Fronter, Inspiration, LogicaCMG, Oracle and Steljes. MirandaNet gratefully acknowledges the support of its company partners.

Naace, the professional association for those interested in advancing education through ICT, provides delegates FREE on-line continuing professional development opportunities on this site.

Vital is open to all staff in schools and sixth form colleges across England, and will support the development of a range of forms of ICT CPD. These include courses, more informal CPD activities (which we call '15 minute CPD'), and peer-peer interaction.

Blog post by @grumbledook describing how difficult it can sometimes be for ICT Support Teams to serve the needs of all

writing with technology by tombarrett

1. About From 2008 to 2010 this digital codex will increase in size as my work towards an Ed.D. through the University of Durham continues. I'm being supervised by Steve Higgins and my working title is: What does it mean to be 'educated' and 'digitally literate'? The impact of ICT and the knowledge society upon education in the 21st century.

This is the gateway to the dc2 blogging community. Here you will find links to Dundee school blogs, the ICT Staff Tutors blog and to other relevant resources. Visit the Glow Web 2.0 group for information about using blogs, wikis, podcasts and other Web 2.0 tools in learning and teaching.

This is one of our class blogs where ads have been appearing recently. The class teacher contacted me for advice and I suggested that the school could sign up to be an edublogs supporter and then there would be no more ads appearing on their site. I also pointed out that if any other teachers were keen to set up a class blog, then their blogs could be included in the school's 'ad free' package. The school is happy to do that and the problem will be resolved soon.

Further to my initial thoughts of linking up the use of Diigo annotations with Google Notebook use I have developed a visual workflow of how a student might interact in this way.

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!

Ictopus (ICT online primary user support) is a free web-based support service for primary education.

Resources & details of courses (inc. Kodu) offered by Nikki Maddams (SSAT Lead Practitioner)