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This website is full of helpful blogs by numerous teachers. It not only provides insight into creating effective learning episodes but it also highlights key resources that teachers can use when teaching.

This blog establishes great insight into how educators can continue on to develop their understanding about teaching and learning.

This document discusses the use of iPads in schools and how benificial they can be when teachers and students are trained to use them correctly. 

This blog is written by an Australian primary school teacher. The blog consists of advice, tips, tricks and resources on how to organise the classroom, organise yourself and lesson ideas. This blog also features some ICT ideas for the classroom.

Rebecca Davies writes an excellent blog regarding the ICT 'Plickers' - an alternative way to deliver and record quizzes.

An insightful and sometimes humorous blog of a former Biology/Physics teacher, and now curriculum director. Also includes loads of current biology resources!

Ramblings, musings, rants, and mumblings of a crazy science teacher.

It is always good to see that other teachers out there are a little crazy (and obsessed with ensuring students are learning to their potential). Have a read and see what you think.

Teaching ideas for a range of subjects

I know it's not a blog but I have found many great resources on this site under the free registration section. Everything from kindy, prep to upper school. It certainly is worth checking out.

TeacherStarter a free online resource, FILLED with online resources

An ICT resource for iPads - Using this app, pupils can record their own dialogue, music, and sound effects for a number of selected clips, and create their own unique version of the film 'The Gruffalo'

Great resource from Scootle, comparing the similarities and differences of objects "toys".

Found this and thought it was an amazing list. Has helped a lot with prac. What are the best apps for teachers? We asked TED-Ed Innovative Educators and the TED-Ed community. Below, 25 awesome apps recommended for teachers, by teachers. TED-Ed More than 250,000 teachers use TED education tools to spark student curiosity and explore presentation literacy skills. "TED-Ed is an outstanding resource in my classroom," says TED-Ed Innovative Educator Jennifer Hesseltine.

I found out today that there is a green screen in the classroom I will be going to for placement... I had never even considered this was available in schools! really looking forward to using it.

Hi All, I found this article to be very pertinent to this weeks content in EDC3100. I hope some of you can benefit as well: ABSTRACT (Copied from Sciencedirect) Technology integration in K-12 classrooms is usually overly teacher-centered and has insufficient impact on students' learning, especially in enhancing students' higher-order cognitive skills. The purpose of this project is to facilitate science teachers' use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as cognitive tools to shift their practices from traditional teacher-centered methods to constructivist, student-centered ones. This paper describes the outcomes and lessons learned from an application of design-based research (DBR) in the implementation and refinement of a teacher professional development (PD) program that is a key component of the overall project. This DBR study involved 25 middle-school science teachers from 24 schools whose implementation of cognitive tools with their students in science classrooms and virtually through a social networking site were observed over four years. A mixed-methodology was utilized to examine the impact of the cognitive tools intervention on teachers' classroom practices and students' development of new literacy skills. Identifying reusable design principles related to technology integration was another focus of the DBR study. The results revealed teachers' positive changes in their classroom practices by gradually allowing students to take control over the use of technology, and positive impact on students' ICT skills and science learning. Design principles for future professional development programs aimed at preparing teachers to adopt a cognitive tools approach are described.

Prezi providing examples of what happens with scaffolding and the incorporation of ICT

Prezi providing examples of what happens with scaffolding and the incorporation of ICT

This site has a wealth of resources to support all areas of the curriculum including technologies. The site is currently running a competition for creating a game from scratch.

3000+ educational games, videos and teaching resources for schools and students. Free Primary and Secondary resources covering history, science, English, maths and more

Found this handy little resource. Has anyone else used it in the classroom or seen it used?