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For years, almost no-one wanted to talk about education policy. Suddenly everyone is. Of course, just because you can invoke the name of "Gonski" doesn't mean you've read the Sydney businessman's talismanic report on schools funding reform, much less understood it. Schools funding is a complex topic. There's an alphabet soup of abstract acronyms (SES, AGSRC) and a spaghetti diagram of administrative structures. Funding for a particular school could include money from parents, from a major church, from a state or territory, and from Canberra. The formula is set with a bewildering array of equations, fed by the demographic chance of Census data.

Looks like a good site for online maths games for all levels. 

My Home Page - great summary on current academic research from journals and publications world wide.

For those that are using ipod touch in the classroom

Another flow chart mindmapping tool

This looks like it could be loads of fun

Should be some useful stuff here

GREAT series of interactive websites on simple machines (goes into some technical detail too)

Great flash animated eg of simple machines

Awesome maths starter problems

why we fear creativity

Use this to integrate working mathematically into your program.

I am going to use this for maths games day! This is a wonderful repository of interactive maths related websites. For all grades 

Looks like a fantastic interactive game says its mathematics based but i only got through two rooms before I had to leave. Either way some students are really going to get in to this one

Nearly 1 in 5 gamers play social network games and 1 in 10 massively  multiplayer games. Growing social and online play is driving interest in online content. One in five gamers say they would either be "motivated" or "very motivated" to sign up to a faster broadband  service for game downloads and online play.

As games, particularly virtual worlds, become increasingly popular and as they begin to approximate large scale social systems in size and nature, they have also become spaces where play and learning have merged in fundamental ways. More important is the idea that the kind of learning that happens in the spaces of these massively multiplayer online games is fundamentally different than what we have come to consider as standard pedagogical practice. The distinction the authors make is that traditional paradigms of instruction have addressed learning as "learning about," while these new forms of learning deal with knowledge through the dynamic of "learning to be." It is the authors' contention that the experiences offered within virtual worlds provide a fundamentally different way of thinking about

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

Great student interactive for estimating the difference

Persuasive Writing Techniques 

A good site for spelling and vocab activities 

Wow some amazing resources here for English. This worth a look when planning for the week or term ahead

Great student interactive from bbc on the second world war