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

Another review on some ios apps that you may have or may not have seen before

Lots of fun games!

This site has fantastic virtual worlds for the kids to explore. In particular, check out "Big Little Bang".

Smart Board Activities for all grades

Flash Card and Study games website covering lots of different themes from history to languages...check it out

More handy resources

The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) received a generous grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to help promote and provide deeper learning opportunities for teachers and students. Recognizing that 11,000 teachers will participate in BIE's 3-day PBL 101 workshop in 2012, the Hewlett Foundation helped BIE expand its professional development resources and expertise online. Now BIE can work with every school and every teacher through PBL University (PBLU). This summer, PBLU will pilot several Common Core aligned Math & English/Language Arts projects with complementary 2-week online classes. Teachers can receive PBL Teacher Certification from BIE, if they choose to complete all the necessary classes and implement the project with their students.

Looking for something to jazz up your literacy lesson? Check out Domo by goannimate. A free animation tool that allows you to create funky looking animations. A great tool for any literacy lesson especially if wanting to emphasise dialog, setting and characterisation for creative writing. 

Tony Vincent's take on project based learning

This is an ace trick that is simple and if you are needing to produce a load of qr codes or just add a few on the go... 

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

"Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence," sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz has said. Arts education, on the other hand, does solve problems. Years of research show that it's closely linked to almost everything that we as a nation say we want for our children and demand from our schools: academic achievement, social and emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity.

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.

grade explanation of theimpact of gaming on ed and the world economy, as well as skills taught by gaming

Simple but effective discussion about what is student centred learning. 

Collective Knowledge Construction model developed by ideas lab, fantastic read to apply to why we use ICT

Some People Must spend hours on youtube. Glad this guy has because its a great collection we could use this for our listening stuff...

Doing shape and or tessellation in Maths??? This blog post could come in handy. Some interesting discussion on tessellation in real life. So the next question is why do we teach tessellation in maths? Shouldn't we just get rid of this aspect of maths and create a new subject called design??

Interesting blog re all things music and apple. (mainly apps and idevices) Worth a look