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The Queensland Government's page on cybersafety in state schools. Includes pointers to a range of information and resources, including information about the web filtering process at Queensland State schools.

Magazine report of a presentation by the CIO (Chief Information Officer) of the Department of Education and Training in Queensland. The presentation talks about how using ICT to gather and enable analysis of student data is helping schools and teachers better support students.

ICT integration and teachers' confidence in using ICT for teaching and learning in Queensland State Schools.

And a good read this is too if I do say so myself :-)

Queensland Government framework for ICT in classrooms

A Queensland based prep teacher sharing her knowledge and ideas from here prep classroom.

Queensland teacher with a prep class, talks about school and life in general as well as shares resources to use

List of cybersafety resources recommended by the Queensland Government, including programs for primary and secondary students.

The Queensland Department of Education's page on "Cybersafety and schools".

Education Queenslands list of resources for school staff

A Bond Uni course gets taught in Minecraft.

Alice Brown is an early childhood health, wellbeing and social ecology specialist lecturing at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) where she teachers undergraduate and post-graduate students. She has completed her Doctoral, Masters and Bachelor st She posts interesting, professional and insightful articles and ideas that are related to early childhood.

A project and a collection of photos from Queensland's history.

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

An education Queensland document discussing what elearning is and how to use it at your school. 

Queensland Education Department's learning and disability support website.

Education Queensland student protection information.

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 blog post discusses the educational value of video games and is written by Andria Ballschmieter, a special education teacher in a rural high school in south East Queensland.

QCCA

First grade teacher from Queensland who loves to share some amazing and inspirational ideas, strategies and resources. This teacher loves to share and feels that she is becoming a better teacher by learning from everyone she connects with.

Down Under Teacher is an Australian Teacher with some great ideas. Numerous amounts of details are put into the posts some really great ideas are shared.

Stumbled across this Blog gives real teacher insight and also has great classroom ideas and resources.