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this might provide some ideas when thinking of fun and alternative ways for students to display their knowledge

I Loved this image as it shows just how interconnected the subject areas across the curriculum can be in real life. It pays to remember this as we strive to plan our lessons.

A common response to Postman's "Technology is always a tradeoff" is to raise the idea of txt speech ("cu in 10 mins @ a m8 house LOL" - thanks Tollie) as a loss. Folk being lazy? This suggests we've been lazy for a bit longer than some may imagine. If I had time, I would like to look more into the authenticity of this resource.

A great digital story telling resource

This not something that is only done using ICT, but it is something the ICT (especially various types of image editing software) really helps to take to another level. The idea is to use visuals - alternate representations - to help people understand/learn abstract concepts

Just one of the tweets (and an animated GIF) from a Twitter account called "science porn". The value of this image (and some of the others this account tweets) is they way they help people visualise difficult concepts or ideas. Showing students these types of images/visualisations can help, but what about asking students to create these types of visualisations? How might that help their learning?

In a world-first, physicist and cosmologist, Professor Stephen Hawking, appeared at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on April 25 and 26 via DVEtelepresence Holographic Live Stage technology.

I thought I'd post this short movie. It's an example of ICT activities being done in a class I had my last practicum in. It is a simple activity that the teacher did, using ICTs that were readily availble.. The teacher takes a traditional printed text being used in guided reading (PM readers) and helps the students produce a digital text based on the language used in the original text. Students select images from google images and then use a digital camera to take photos or video, and manipulate the images using IWB software, to place themselves in the digital text. The images are uploaeded into Movie Maker where additonal text, ddialogue and sound are added. The finished artefact is then uploaded toYouTube so that it can be placed on the school website for sharing. The students and their families can view the new digital text at home. The movie is also presented at the school assembly. The teacher does ICT activities like this on a regular basis in English. If you google Tyalgum Public School and click on More News you can view other ICT activities the Kindergarten, Year , Year 2 class did. I think this type of ICT activity gives the students a sense of ownership of their learning.

This is a great activity. Just emphasises how important it is that we know how to use all of these ICTs in the classroom because if we don't know them this activity could take a long time or ICTs wouldn't be used in such a great way. Out of interest how long did it take?

This is a research article regarding pre-service educator training in integrating ICTs in Early Childhood Education.

'It is also disconcerting that some children still do not have access to computers at home and therefore do not have the opportunity of developing the skills my grandson and other 'digitals in diapers' like him take for granted - skills such as using a mouse, finding letters and numerals on a keyboard or screen, typing letters, navigating websites, retrieving files, using pull-down menus, loading CDs and DVDs, uploading photos from a digital camera, using toolbars, saving files, printing documents and files, using drawing software and typing words (Zevenbergen & Logan, 2008, p. 42). Although some of these skills are used for playing games, this is still an impressive array of digital literacy skills, even more so when they have been acquired more through independent learning and experimentation than through an adult providing instruction.' On the above I would like to add that children should learn or use skills in order to play. Children learn through play and this is a concepts that underpins learning in the early years

FREE picture/ image library for education

Thousands of copyright free and copyright friendly images and photos for teachers and students.

Using this post of mine to explain what the phrase "links to online resources" from the learning journal component of assignment 1 might include.  Look at the annotations on this page for more explanation

I've linked my friends Instagram page because she posts some great photos about her experiences teaching prep and some of the stresses and highs and lows that she endures throughout her teaching experience

A early childhood blog that share photos and stories about teaching, learning, creating, document design. This blog has great ideas for different teaching resources.

I came across this page today while searching for some teachers. They also have a store on the "Teachers pay teachers" website/store and i love all the displays and other things they have.. will definitly be looking at their store when I'm doing up my resources

I founds this blog that seems really interesting with loads of great resources for early childhood educators!

Creating Interactive Timelines

I have followed Miss Jacob for a while on facebook and find lot's of resources from different websites in this one location. It is great for ideas for younger children without having to look at lot's of different websites.