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First grade teacher from Queensland who loves to share some amazing and inspirational ideas, strategies and resources. This teacher loves to share and feels that she is becoming a better teacher by learning from everyone she connects with.

Down Under Teacher is an Australian Teacher with some great ideas. Numerous amounts of details are put into the posts some really great ideas are shared.

Stumbled across this Blog gives real teacher insight and also has great classroom ideas and resources.

This blog is written by a year two teacher in a Queensland primary school who is not afraid to trial different ICTs in her teaching. She has even set up a class blog for the year, however, no blogging in the class blog has commenced yet.

Blog by a Year 2 teacher in Brisbane. Includes a link to her year 2 class' blog.

This teacher discusses the use of Glyphs, Infographs and student blogging.

Poster with some guidelines on copyright and fair use. Made for the USA context so specifics are probably not exactly the same as in Australia or elsewhere.

Playsheets are a digital worksheet, they should give immediate feedback. Oftentimes they take the form of a game. For example, if you use a website like http://quia.com/web you can input your curriculum questions into a variety of game templates. It is still curriculum questions, but some gamification has been applied  to what is essentially a worksheet. A …

Playsheets are a digital worksheet, they should give immediate feedback. Oftentimes they take the form of a game. For example, if you use a website like http://quia.com/web you can input your curriculum questions into a variety of game templates. It is still curriculum questions, but some gamification has been applied  to what is essentially a worksheet. A …

Kathleen Morris discusses the benefits of using blogs in classrooms. She has been an active 'blogger' for over 6 years now, and explains that she feels blogging assists students to make connections with their learning, particularly in primary school settings, with home, school, and global influences.

A primary school teacher's advice for using blogging in the classroom with students for learning.

A small list of examples of how ICT can be used to activate prior knowledge. Part of a activity for the week 3 learning path.

50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom

Skype is a free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom and their students to a world way beyond their campus. With Skype, students can learn from other students, connect with other cultures, and expand their knowledge in amazing ways. Teachers and parents can also benefit from Skype in the classroom.

Journal article documenting how 31 student teachers used ICT in schools.

Empirical research into the effectiveness of "whiteboard animation" (Google that term to find out what it is). An example of empirical resarch.

Using blogging to get students writing for each other, not for assessment.

As the title suggests, how to use Twitter to set up a PLN

Using comic strips to teach narratives. Idea for struggling readers and ESL students.

An article describing a project aiming to build a $30 spectrometer that can be connected to an ipad/iphone to allow anyone analyse the components of materials.  Imagine having your students use one of these to analyse the contents of tap water, tank water and beyond.

What would have happened if we had listened to these folk.  Will use a version of this in a lecture tomorrow.

Tallyn, my wife is currently studying for a big test, one that will take 5 or 6 hours. One of her biggest concerns is having to write with pen and paper for that long. Something she rarely does and knows will cause great pain in her hand. Let alone the pain caused to the marker by having to try and read my wife's handwriting. In 50 to 500 times there will be people laughing hard at us for thinking the ability to write with a pen was essential.

You can almost picture your grandchildren laughing at you for picking up a pen and paper to write your to do list can't you?? It is an exciting time we live in though:-)) Good luck to your wife.. she will need a hand massage after that sized written test..

Video and detail about use of an X-Box kinnect and any project to make any suface interactive.

"February 1, 2014 Whether you're the parent of a child with a reading disability or an educator that works with learning disabled students on a daily basis, you're undoubtedly always looking for new tools to help these bright young kids meet their potential and work through their disability. While there are numerous technologies out there that can help, perhaps one of the richest is the iPad, which offers dozens of applications designed to meet the needs of learning disabled kids and beginning readers alike. Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing apps out there that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle. "

Great apps Amanda!! I'm in the process of teaching my six year old to read and write as she attends an all Chinese kindergarten and is not learning any English. After an eight hour school day she really resists any more work that I try to do with her, which is very frustrating for both of us. She does however LOVE the iPad and I'll be trying some of the kindergarten specific apps mentioned in the article. Hopefully she won't even realise she is learning while playing. When we return to Australia she will be behind in reading (as our main focus for her right now is Mandarin) and will require targeted help.

Very helpful site!! The world is changing and we (as future teachers) should all be exposed to all the various ways that we can engage students in constructing and actively engaging in their own learning. If I was a child with dufficulties in reading I would rather engage with an Ipad rather than any other traditional way of teaching. Again this site is a proof of what a useful tool ICT can be and the positive results it gives when used in the right way.