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

Provides blogs from a range of teachers specialising in Special Education

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.

blog, classroom resources

This blog provides creative ways to infuse technology and Universal Design for Learning in your classrooms.

A blog that discusses creative ways to infuse technology and Universal design into the classroom.

One for the HPE folk.  A Victorian PE teacher who labels himself "The PE Geek".

He does discuss other reasons why ICTs should be used in classes, but unfortunately doesn't give enough practical examples. The gamification he talks about most specifically is a dance game on the wii. Now of course the students are taking part in a game, but their bodies are moving just like they would be if they were dancing without the use of the game, so it is definitely physical. Using these types of games in your teaching shouldn't outweigh the the students taking part in physical activity or sports and training, but it should supplement it. I think using ICTs in HPE will help to improve motivation and interest in students who are uninterested in sport, which is a big focus that teachers face, particularly with junior high school girls. Using these games to get them interested is better than forcing them to take part in an activity where they aren't going to put in much effort anyway. ICTs are also immensely beneficial to students studying PE in senior, as a lot more of the focus is on technique and improvement, so using videos to view performance and receive feedback is great for these students. Especially the apps and programs you can get nowadays that let you pause and rewind video, play in slow motion, and draw on the screen (to check if your body is creating the right angles in the movement etc). In primary they wouldn't be so concerned with technique improvement like this, but ICTs can be used to expose students to sports that they wouldn't normally see or experience. Primary students could research and create their own games and sports using the internet and computers. (It is harder for me to think about the primary context, because I haven't had much to do with it). I am sure there are many ways ICTs can be incorporated in the Primary HPE setting, you just need to think outside the box.

Oops, I think I got PE Geek confused with a PE blog I was reading recently. After looking at the actual link, this PE geek offers so much more! It is actually great, the apps he talks about are great for primary and secondary.

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Great idea that lets you easily access your blog and other websites on your iPhone.

Though this was a great idea but I am unfortunately using a Samsung Galaxy at the moment so here is an equivalent link for anyone with the same dilemma http://www.samsung.com/us/support/supportOwnersHowToGuidePopup.do?howto_guide_seq=5576&prd_ia_cd=N0000004&map_seq=33075&regDt=2011-09-06%2014:11:19.0&page_gb=D&model_name=SPH-D710&type_ia_cd=N0000002&subtype_ia_cd=N0000004&row_index=12

Thank you Mitch, I sometimes forget there's a world outside apple!

I follow Wendy's blog and I find her blog posts very engaging and interesting to read. They provide me with interesting insight in regards to ICTs and how they can be integrated in our teaching.

Hi everyone, please feel free to comment on my blog about "How Technology Evolves" and share your thoughts. I have attached a link to the page. Davina :) P.S. My apologies if you can't find my last blog post, I accidentally deleted it and had to redo the whole thing again.

An educator's blog listing and reviewing a variety of apps for use in classrooms with young children.

This website is set up for Early Childhood educators to make life easier. Its quote is "We all need to work together to make the Early Years Framework a reality". It contains links to interactive ICT websites and advice on the following topics: Being, Belonging, Becoming Reggio Emilia Learning through Play Social & Emotional Development Communication Skills Learning Literacy Learning Numeracy Equal Access for All Consistent Curriculum Smooth Transition Partnerships Quality assurance Activities for Little Kids ICT for Littlies Australian Early Years Framework Regulation Videos Other Early Years Links Recipes safe for kids

Its great to hear people say that we need to work together. I remember years ago a friend of mine (who was a Grade 6 teacher) told me of her frustration when she would encourage her students and they were alive with excitement to learn and explore and the work they handed in was exceptional from her point of view. However, six months into the next year she would be so disappointed because the grades of the Year 7 students would be declining and their attitude was one of apathy. What she wanted to do was to work with the Year 7 teacher so with a combined effort they could assist the students to continue their positive attitude throughout their time at upper primary school. The Year 7 teacher felt threatened and the sad cycle continued. When I read http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/blog-early-blog-often-the-secret-to-making-boys-write-properly-2211232.html as well as http://www.letthechildrenplay.net I was thrilled to hear what great progress is being made by teachers/schools when they collaborate. Thanks for the info.

An overview of some of the extra features Google provides for searching.   Like limiting a search to a particular site e.g.      "site:usq.edu.au uconnect"

An example of a different approach for the assignment 1 artefact that came through my feeds today.  It's a Wordpress blog that has been used to create a "presentation through hypertext of an alternative vision for a school". Not only is this a good example of trying something different in a webs ite.  It is about re-thinking education influenced, in part, by some of the factors we're talking about in this course. FYI, the clickable image on the front page is implemented using what is called an "imagemap".  Google that term and you'll find some resources/tools that can help

An brief intro to Minecraft and some of the applications it's been put to in education.

Not sure if this is a form of PD but something I think the middle years students would surely enjoy- think I feel a blog post coming on

A blog and wiki about 21st Century Teaching and Learning

Interesting article about blogging in Kindergarten