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A fantastic spec ed blog with tips, information, supports, videos and lectures designed to motivate, teach and create a community of like minded educators

A fantastic teacher blog with a Primary school focus. It offers ideas for using technology and some free resources

A "professional learning module" to help pre-service teachers learn more about the National Safe Schools framework. Completing all of the module enables you to print a certificate of completion that may be a useful addition to your ePortfolio.

Tips for what to have prepared and packed for working in a casual role

Practical information for a casual teacher to be prepared - it looks like it could come in handy one day!

This is excellent, as a pre-service teachering interested in relief work before gaining a placement, i found this site interesting and informative.

While a bit of a laugh, the last paragraph touches on something a little more serious in terms of the potential for unintended consequences.

A blogging project focused on creative writing. Each week students get a prompt and have to create a response using 100 words

Here a graduate teacher aims to use a variety of digital tools and resources to engage students and enrich their experience in attempting to answer the question 'Who are Indigenous Australians?' The teacher explores how a range of digital tools and resources can be used to collaboratively build students' knowledge of Indigenous cultures and histories in Australia and internationally. 

Group work - in my obervastions there was a lot of group work and team building skills during a Physical Education lesson, at the beginning of the year. It created a great environment, where they felt safe and equal to contribute in the classroom.

This article is a part of a recent increase in interest in the difference between trolling and abuse in online forums. A potential good opportunity to explore some questions of digital citizenship.

A list of 5 different tools that can be used by students to publish information. Some I hadn't heard of before.   The blog itself is written by a 2nd year graduate teacher teaching grades 3/4 in Ballarat, well worth a look

"Collaborative learning is a type of learning where a group of people pool their resources and attempt to learn together. Even if the "group" is just two people working together, collaborative strategies can help to stimulate interesting debate and allow learners to discover a new perspective on material. Many educators are now turning to collaborative learning strategies to help their students to learn. Here are 10 of the best collaborative learning tools available on the web today."

The "research strategies" outlined here (by a teacher) are close to how I research and would be a good fit for part of a PKM process for most teachers.

I read this article today and it made me think about the 'older' generations and how they cope with the new technology. It isn't going to be long and we'll become the 'older' generation. How long until we are overwhelmed with a variety of 'new' technologies we can't cope and just go back to our 'old' ways, in this case sending a letter. I'm sure some children have never sent a letter through the post office!! I also love the offer of the CEO to help teach the gentleman how to use online shopping!!

Fair comment about the letter at the post office, but according to my own kids "the post office is where you pick up stuff from ebay" so I guess the concept is still there just the context has changed.

Unfortunately are lot of teachers are "the older generation" as far as classroom practices are concerned. Often using technology means booking a computer labs to allow students to type their assignments (so they can read their hand writing); allowing students to email completed work instead of handing in paper copies or using a data projector to show the class a power point presentation.

This is a blog that provides a HUGE list of websites and ICT programs that are available to provide support for students with special needs. The list is organised into categories and subjects to help you find what you are looking for easier and each site contains a description. 

"A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work.m4v" wow I have never seen anything like this before.. It looks like she has become so accustomed to using an iPad that she doesn't know/forgets how to flick through a magazine. What are your thoughts on this?

For me - as I think you can probably guess from how I used it - this talks to me about how technology becomes mythic. This child's schemas are such that she assumes everything has a touch interface. While she's currently wrong, it may not be that long before that is the case. From there lots of implications and questions flow.

A website that will take a provided section of text and perform a range of analysis on that text. The aim to help with the editing and improvement of writing.

I have been following this teachers blog for the last week and a half as part of my PLN. Her most recent post, which contains a presentation she will be conducting includes a HUGE amount of apps for every imaginable topic- behaviour management, English, creativity etc etc

Sorry for my ignorance but how do you follow her blog? I am interested in the apps, good find.

Similar to Imagecodr, this collection of browser extensions (Chrome and Firefox supported) help you develop appropriate attributions for Creative Common licenced Flickr photos. One step up from Imagecodr, as well as a version for web pages (like Imagecodr) this one also provides a text string for addition to a presentation or other media.

A step beyond Khan academy videos. Students making their own.

This is a concept that my Year 7 child is engaging with at the moment using a different ICT approach. I find it a very valuable experience to demonstrate their understanding to themselves, their teacher and ... the world. A great idea!