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Read this for great reasons as to why teachers should blog

Worth a look at even if your not a music teacher. Kynan gets a mention. 

This is a fantastic web 2.0 tool. Upload images and annotate. You can other embed media inside the annotations. Annotations pop up as you click or hover over the objects you add. You can embed the annotated image into webpage or blog. This could be a useful tool for teachers and students. Lots of scope for creativity with layers etc. You can share to a group and set editing permissions for public or restricted people/groups for collaboration purposes. 

Digital storytelling comes in many forms. Digital storytelling could refer to creating podcasts, creating videos, or creating multimedia ebooks to name of few of its forms. If you're considering developing your first digital storytelling project for your class, here some resources that can help you get started.

This is a great article outlining the success of the Finnish education system. They don't standardise test, they don't track or target teach, they have smaller class sizes, train, educate and pay their teachers better. Dah!! That's why they top the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results. What's happening in Australia???

A website where you can sign up on twitter to communicate with other teachers in a specific area you might be interested in. 

a list of the top ten sites visited by those interested in ipads and education

Wow look what we can do with google apps Ed which we are using via our student email. Plenty of things possible here. Google video is really only available for teachers at NFPS.

Some great ideas on how to use google sketchup in the classroom. With "how too" guides for the teacher to use. This would be perfect in a 1:1 setting but could be used in the lab or on pc's in classroom

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

This looks great and it's free. Could be useful for students and or teachers who are curious about design

Not sure the teacher intervention is necessary for upper kids but could be useful for lower

Great list of 5 animation tools that could be used in the classroom. Think I might check some of these out to see if they are suitable for my writers workshop class.

DEFINITELY checking these out! I've been looking for some good ones. Thanks Andrew!

Great post covering the basics of google maps. Segue...I had a great session with grade 2 integrating their map reading and story writing. Planned out a map and dropped markers on various landmarks around melb. Students in pairs were then allocated a marker with corresponding landmark and then had to write their part of the story. Best explained here http://2bornot2b.global2.vic.edu.au/2012/03/23/a-google-map-journey/.

Networked Learing - what is it why is important for us as teachers to understand it

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.

Graves approach to writing stimuli. Some of this could be useful for writers workshop and WUSW etc 

List of 10 maths websites that are great for students, teachers and parents!

why we fear creativity

Awesome Story starter, prompt site. Great for WUSW and or homework ideas.