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A look at Creative Commons and Fair Use in media and blogging. An often ignored element when it comes to online publishing. Also includes some good links to sites containing free-to-use images.

Wylio is an image search engine designed to help bloggers and others quickly find, cite, and use Creative Commons licensed images. Wylio results only return images that are listed with a Creative Commons license. Wylio makes it easy to give proper attribution to the creator of the image by providing you with html code that includes attribution. All you have to do is copy the code and paste it into your blog post or webpage - Richard Byrne

Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud based platforms for hosting and sharing files. Like Google Drive, Dropbox offers a decent free storage space to start with and there is also the possibility to buy more storage capacity. Unless it is a Google doc or presentation, I always save my PDFs and other documents to Dropbox. What I like the most about this tool is its syncing capacities which are way faster than Google Drive. You can upload a PDF on your desktop and access it instantly on your Dropbox account  in iPad.

A fantastic how-to for Twitter, a great introduction for those who are too afraid to dip in.

An interesting initiative in regards to coding in schools

A great online eBook that explores all of the different elements of browsers and the web. Important for staff and students.

18 creative ideas for music teachers with just one iPad

"The English Developmental Continuum F-10 provides evidence based indicators of progress, linked to powerful teaching strategies, aligned to the progression points and the achievement standards for the AusVELS English Domain. These teaching strategies are designed to support purposeful teaching of individuals and small groups of students with similar learning needs. It is intended that teachers use the strategies in the context of their own classrooms, text or topic being taught."

The Mathematics Developmental Continuum F-10 provides evidence based indicators of progress, linked to powerful teaching strategies, aligned to the progression points and the achievement standards of AusVELS Mathematics. Indicators of progress are points on the learning continuum that highlight critical understandings required by students in order to progress through the AusVELS achievement standards. --- A great place to build your content knowledge, but also a great place show where the next step is.

"Education Kit The State Library of New South Wales and the Centre for Learning Innovation have collaborated to develop interactive learning activities for primary and secondary school students. Teachers and students can investigate further the original letters, diaries and artworks by members of the First Fleet that are held in the State Library's collections. Topics include: Bennelong Indigenous Contact Port Jackson Sydney Cove and the First Fleet Australia Day The Kangaroo  Rose Hill"

"The Library's unrivalled collections provide a fascinating insight into the first encounters with the original inhabitants and amazing insights into how European explorers discovered, charted and settled this vast land. "

"Big History is the attempt to understand, in a unified and interdisciplinary way, the history of the Cosmos, Earth, Life and Humanity. Big History is ambitious - it seeks understanding by bringing together and linking the knowledge available in many different scholarly disciplines. "