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a fantastic post about class and student blogging. Some great links for blog support and ideas. A must read if you are unsure about the widgets and sidebar. This is compulsory reading for level 3 teachers who should be considering students having their own blog.

Read this for great reasons as to why teachers should blog

Looking at the New Directions for school leadership and the teaching profession discussion paper, the only evidence presented to support the assertion that Victoria's education outcomes are not improving is the report "Challenges in Australian Education: results from PISA 2009: the PISA 2009 assessment of students' reading, mathematical and scientific literacy" Specifically the New Directions paper focuses on reading literacy, where in 2009, 14,251 students were given a two-hour pen and paper comprehension test. To get an idea of what types of competencies the reading test is assessing we can look at the sample test , with questions range from comprehension about a letter in a newspaper, the ability to interpret a receipt, comprehension around a short story, an informational text, and interpreting a table. While it doesn't seem unreasonable to want our students to be able to accurately perform these kind of tasks, these tests are not a true or accurate representation of the skills and competencies our students need in today's technology driven world.

If you are a teacher and want to keep your finger on the pulse of whats going on globally in education or even locally. Get tweeting. This blog posts explains twitter for educators and why its import to develop a Personal learning network

Wow a lot to get through here but should be some great resources, ideas, I think i will start with the first one

This looks very interesting. The potential is huge for students to develop apps for the Android platform. How can apple beat this one if they have locked down their apps store? The great thing about App inventor is that it looks like it has been modelled on Scratch 'Blocks' of building scripts. My Grade 5 and 6's (some whiz kids lower) would love to get their hands on this. The potential for them to develop their own apps for perhaps an Android tablet or smart phone is enormous. Rich and authentic possibilities for learning. Have DEECD made a wrong choice in going with the ipad? 

Some cool useful widgets that might be useful for blogs. I know that Peter O has used poll daddy on his class blog

10 tips for personal learning networks

Widgets

Cool speeches by some amazing poeple. The Ken Robinson's 'Schools kill creativity is a must look.

A great poster creator. Worth a look students can upload images and manipulate them to look like posters. Students can export out to blogs etc or print. Could be useful online tool for short presentations of student work. 

Great site full of resources. Check out the creative commons page for images for blogs this could be very useful

Interesting article about how to use minecraft in an educational setting. 

Another great list of online tools for creating music. These are worth exploring if not only to inform the students that they exist. Holiday challenge via a class blog perhaps?

An interesting blog about web tools used for building games 

Some ideas around why we created @motmedu Looking for a conference with a difference? What story do you have to tell? The #motm13 Unconference is built around stories for the purpose of making strong connections with other passionate educators who are integrating ICT with pedagogy.

Some interesting links here for people to explore if keen on boosting their ipad knowledge

Create a 'wild self' by choosing from different options. A great tool for story writing or even to create an unusual avatar for blogs. Kids love this website.

Bec Martins great blog reviewing apps and games for the ipad and ipods

Way Cool Guitar lessons on youtube. Wish I had some more hours in the day. This could great for the aspiring guitar player in your class. This link is so going on the music blog