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This is a dynamic document designed to support teachers, school media specialists, and education leaders in developing, maintaining, and enforcing policies designed to: 1. Promote the most effective, productive, and instructionally sound uses of digital, networked, and abundant information environments. 2. Provide safe digital environments for learners and to instill safe practices and habits among the learning community.

video portal for schools

School desks: the next generation Interactive multi-touch desks look like giant iPhones, say Durham designers

A framework eSafety policy which schools can adopt as part of their Safeguarding portfolio of policy and guidance. (from Kirklees LA)

John McLear's School Technology - blog post & video describing a project to explore safe ways of providing access to YouTube videos

Michael Godsey, a Morro Bay High School English teacher, brought "Serial" into his California classroom. Podcasts used for lessons is part of a growing trend.

English teacher and connected educator Michelle Lampinen shows how weekly blogging assignments can transform a high school classroom into a community of enthusiastic writers.

St Benedict's subject specific links

Posterous blog describing a collaborative iPod Touch project between two schools

TeachMeet Midlands 2009 Friday 15th May 2009 6-9pm National College for School Leadership, Nottingham

celebrating tech in schools actually being used

converging on Wordpress multi-user Published by sinclair at 3:32 pm under blogging, web2.0 With the decision to stop using Edublogs, I am left with the question of what to use instead. This isn't just a decision for hosting of my own blog, that's done and dusted now. The problem is that I am not sure where to point others who are looking for a blogging solution. In particular, I've been charged with providing blogging training after Easter for staff at my own school and will need to have something for these practical sessions

Blogs by and for pupilas at Egglescliffe School

Impoverishment of the Educational Imagination Posted on | January 22, 2009 | Stand after stand at the BETT Show this year seemed to bear witness to a concept of schooling that is just about as far away from the joy of learning as it appears possible to get - it could really only get worse if we were to go back to thrashing kids. Everywhere I wandered I came across little gaggles of people listening intently to someone demonstrating yet another ticky-boxy piece of junk designed to rank and grade kids, to label them, to monitor them and to 'protect' them.

twitter in school

David Wilmott on Open Source Schools

A list of web based education tools that are considered of education value. The question is in England have you got access to them in your education authority / school?

Blog post by @tombarrett exploring some of the issues around different schools in different parts of the country having different sites blocked/filtered.