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A great extension for Google Chrome. That allows you to take screen shots and then annotate them. This would be very useful for teachers and or students who create 'how to' instructional 

This is a great example of one maths lesson that is open ended to suit the differentiated class. Step by step instructions on how to do it. 

Great getting started and how to for edmodo: Edmodo is a 'walled garden' social networking tool designed by teachers for teachers and students. 

Very helpful for WUSU writing.

how to write driving questions

Great ideas on how to use ICT in Project Based Learning Tasks

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

Article discusses how to assess 21st century skills 

Lately I have been thinking a lot about thinking. More specifically, I have been thinking hard about the absence of thought in education. The absence of thought in students, teachers, administrators and policy-makers. This year's political discourse is a wider-world reminder of the ubiquitous lack of thought on the part of otherwise educated adults. We know more but are oddly - increasingly? - thoughtless. Why? Thinking, in the sense in which I am interested, is not mere mental work (or idle mental noodling). There is certainly lots of that going on everywhere. Thinking in the educational sense is not about doing one's work. Little thought need go into a typical course pacing guide or by a student in filling in a Venn diagram. Those are mental tasks. Such work cannot by itself yield a truly thinking person.

A great tutorial demonstrating how to set up a time laps video in your class or wherever you want it

Great step by step instructions on how to create a quiz using google forms. 

A must see. Very freaky! Makes the mind boggle. Gives an insight to how complex things have become. 

Great short video demo/example of how Google docs can be used to improve student writing. If you have a spare three minutes... worth a look

great explanation on online copyright and how to use creative commons

Looks like a great teacher interactive discussing how to find the volume of a cylinder

This looks like an amazing site with loads of activities for teachers and students. Amazing when do people find the time to put this together and who is paying for it?

Yep Andrew, total agree! Not quite sure how the stages relate to VELS. But loads of open ended problems and games. Seems to have activities for just about all of the different areas of the Maths cirriculum.

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

Creativity is the act of thinking. Whether you are deliberately engaged in thought for the purpose of making novel connections or in a state of incubation where the creative process is happening somewhere in the deep unconscious it is thinking that you are doing. Making thinking visible is a must read and have for all schools who are wanting to promote thinking. The thinking  routines outlined in this book are easily implemented and have robust research from Harvard Graduate School Of Education that demonstrate their effectiveness.