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Signed my kids up to reading eggs about two weeks ago and am already seeing an improvement with my 5 year old's reading and phonic understanding. Great website. I had to pay to join but worth the money.

Hi Reading eggs is a great resource which I have on my "Wish list'" for work. I have signed my youngest up and his interest in learning has grown as well as his improvement with reading and phonic understanding. Bec

Hi, Reading Eggs is fantastic. I have seen it used whilst I was on practicum and the students were in the computer lab and working at their own pace. It was engaging and levelled at their ability, which I found to be the best feature of the program. As they learn they progress to the next level. Great literacy program. Thanks, Gianna

Refer to section on Gravity. Perfect for year 7 unit on Earth's gravity pull. Would be exciting to see Felix Baumgartner's freefall for the students. Will include the video in my unit plan.

This is a very informative article about the benefits of iPads in early years. As many schools are now considering their use it is a timely article

This American teacher's blog is a mix between awesome free downloads, behaviour management tips and teacher humour. She also has a Facebook page called Mrs. Russell's Room.

A description of the 1st one-to-one laptop program in the world (at a Melbourne-based private school). The important aspect of this is the purpose behind this program and how that differs from what has happened since. Arguably, how computers and computing devices are being used in schools has radically decreased even though the capability of the technology has radically increased.

I found this article really interesting after an experience in two year seven classes a few weeks ago. I was asked to help two grade 7 classes for the first 2 periods for three weeks. In that time, I wandered around quietly paying particular attention to what the students were actually doing on their laptops. I noticed on many occasions, several of the children were actually entertaining themselves by just "pottering" around on their laptop, even while the teacher was explicitly teaching. I was really curious to know how much the majority of students were actually learning. The class environment was relatively quiet compared to schooling in my day (in the '70's and '80's) but I had the thought, if laptop programs are NOT successful, we have a big problem that may not be confirmed for a decade or so. The other thing I found interesting is that the majority of the year 7's had done extremely poorly on their ICT exams.... interesting...

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