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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.

Great blog post around integrating ICT into the visual arts curriculum

With almost 70,000 followers Vicki Davis was named one of "Twitter's Top 10 Rockstar teachers" by Mashable. Vicki is a full time teacher and IT Director at a small school in Camilla, Georgia. In her words, "my mission is to help you be a better teacher. I'm passionate about helping all teachers reach every student so I write a lot about teaching, staying motivated, and how to connect with other teachers." 'Coolcatteacher' has also been consistently named one of the top 50 blogs in education worldwide. What piqued my interest is her belief in using technology effectively as a teacher.

Questions should ignite learning. Curious kids never get bored. But why do young kids ask more than 100 questions a day and by middle school, they've stopped asking?

This teacher is preaching the "Teaching Gospel for Today"! Asking questions and promoting problem-based learning to students is how to teach students today. Thank-you for sharing this bernielou!

A brief summary of my unit plans- activity from EDC3100 study desk

The Oz government's Cybersmart website with a range of resources for various audiences.

A collection of links around the C2C project  in Queensland Ed schools

http://www.learningplace.com.au/uploads/documents/store/resources/res_40997_eLearning_in_the_Early_Phasev2.pdf This is a document that can be gotten to through David's link. It has some great ways of using ICT in the early years classrooms

Interactive Whiteboard. Students engaging with tecnology variety of resources/ programs writing lessons, activities, short presentations, playbacks

Explanation of narrative structure plus a visual story for students to cut out and put back together.

Site produced by Australian Government.

Year 2 science learning area. The activity has clear imaging and easy to understand questions.

An interesting website, but also incorporating active citizenship within our ICT saturated world. Very encouraging, and positive!

I like this resource, my son needs something just like this as he struggles with his emotions, I am sure many students would benefit from this activity.

A useful site with resources and ideas for teaching in the Special Needs context.

A large number of hands on activities - great learning ideas for individuals with special needs.

Barbara Day, a teacher with over 25 years of experience, is incorporating ICT's and making her resources available through blogging her daily and previous experiences in the classrooms of America. She provides her blog readers, intricate and useful stepping stones to incorporating ICT's into classroom activities.

benefits of ICT in education