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Welcome to educators, parents and carers everywhere. This is the first and best UK directory to locate quality podcasts from over 300 carefully selected podcast channels for educational use - ideal for teaching and learning activities with children, young people and educational professionals.

These are links from the unconference session, "Finding and Downloading Educational Podcasts," at the Learning 2.011 Conference in Shanghai, China, on September 10, 2011.

Professional Development Overview Professional development is not just something that is important for teachers. It is important for all those involved in education from the support staff right up to the administrators. Professional development that includes participants from support, teaching and administration at the same time can help to bridge the divisions between groups. When differing groups work together, there is a greater chance for understanding each others work and also for forging bonds between the groups to work towards a common purpose. Developing a culture of continuous learning and modeling the use of personal learning networks will be key to engaging students and the community. Below we focus on professional development for teachers; on the page following, we talk about professional development for administrators.

Hello and Welcome to the Web 2 in Education Wiki. This site is designed to provide teachers with a directory of free webtools along with some suggestions as to how they may be used in the classroom. I have searched over 2000 websites and listed over 295 tools, that's almost 300 opportunities for you to use ICT in your classroom and all for free! Where possible I have included a brief review and a screenshot or working example of the tool. If you come across any other tools that are not on my list please let me know. Alternatively, if you use one of these tools in the classroom why not let me know how you got on by becoming a member and joining the discussion forum. In the meantime check out the list of tools on the Site pages to the left or have a look at the Prezi presentation below which showcases a variety of resources created by my students and myself using Free Web 2.0 tools. (May 2009 -If you are a frequent visitor check the What's New page

World Health Organization (WHO) Study Group on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice

A sample of how Flickr can be used in education: Week 2 - Task 4 - Web Tour and Ideas Lab - Exploring Examples of Pedagogical Uses of Flickr

A guide to using Flickr in education

More than 50 Web Widgets for Your Learning Mix

Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss's book Reinventing Project Based Learning is a wealth of information about digital tools, the internet and Web 2.0 and how these tools can be used to meet the essential learning needs of 21st century students.  Here are some ideas taken from Chapter 3 of the book, all of which I've used with primary students and which I have tried to align with the new ICT in the PYP strands.

you don't have to follow back those who follow you-is one of Twitter's most important features.

In this video, we wanted to try to get into the heads of some of our favorite curators to understand what makes them tick.

We've created the Digital ID wiki to provide students, teachers, and administrators with a toolkit of reliable information, resources, and guidelines to help all of us learn how to be upstanding Digital Citizens who maintain a healthy Digital Identity (ID) in the 21st Century.

Globally Collaborative Project Ideas Inspired by Learning 2.0 A space inspired by the Learning 2.0 Conference in Shanghai on 14 - 16 September 2007. During the conference Kim Cofino moderated 2 very productive unconference sessions where conference participants developed 20 different ideas for connecting our classrooms. This is a space where we can start to cross-connect and further develop these ideas in a shared space. Please feel free to add, edit, embellish any and all of these ideas! Listed below are the 20 project ideas developed at the conference, each project is linked to another page within the wiki containing more details.

10 Tools for Getting the Most from Dropbox

The uses for wikis in the classroom are endless. Teachers can create wikis for many purposes including communication to parents and community, display of student work, how-to tutorials for students, student created projects, etc. The Wiki Lesson Plan Idea page focuses on ways to incorporate the use of wikis into the curriculum. This page includes lesson ideas for wiki integration, wiki plan collection sites, and example sites.

Within networks are passionate affinity-based spaces that are learner-determined.  Important literacies are learned through play in such spaces. For example in massively multiplayer online games like Minecraft or World of Warcraft, learners have the ongoing opportunity to participate in complex systems, which in itself is a critical skill.  I have previously written about my son, his play in Minecraft and the learning he is composing with his guild and have come to see how powerful and socially complex the learning among these players can be. (I discuss this here, here, here and here).