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During the presentation on iPads we discussed the use of eBooks. Plenty here to explore.

Clocks for students to manipulate

A couple of Year 7 students write a blog post (on their class blog) outlining why they think blogging is a good idea. The class blog is also a good example of some of the factors you might like to consider when blogging with a class (e.g. having a charter, clear roles and responsibilities etc).

A manifesto intended to question some of the assumptions around online learning and teaching.

Posted by Kathleen Morris (McGeady) January 29th 2010. Before you set up your class blog, it's really important to think about what rules and guidelines you will put into place and make sure the students and parents are clear about these.

Children can create their own customised Avatar - simple activity with loads of potential.

I think that this is a great idea for children and teenagers. By allowing students to create an Avatar, it gives them the opportunity to create an image that represents them or they can go completely crazy and create something far from the truth. Giving them an avatar in an educational environment then makes the learning fun and enjoyable as they feel they are playing just one big game. I have used this concept in a Contact Centre with Adults and have had success with it, purely for the reason it allows creativity and staff did not need to leave their desks to go to training.

Here i have found a blog of a primary school teacher from the Midwest, named Mrs K. She shares many great stories of her classroom experiences and offers a wide variety of tips and tricks of the teaching profession You can definitely see from her blog posts how passionate she is dedicating her life to the needs of her students. A very inspiring read!

Hi all, I've found a useful resource that I plan on implementing during professional experience. The web page features multiple lesson plans and other items of use that will become essential in teaching students, ensuring that their education is of the highest standard. Regards, Corey Kempthorne

This is great, I am also specialising in HPE so this will be useful for my degree. Thanks for sharing. Erin Cameron

This site allows teachers to set up individual student blogs and link them up as a class. All this is done while the teacher has full control over the blogs.

For those who are specialising in Special Education or will be general classroom teachers who may have students in their class with reading and writing difficulties. Spectronics have a blog which I have just begun following.

Hi Everyone, This is something that many professional experience students and new graduates struggle with or are unaware of. Please consider you voice health and do some further research or speak to a speech therapist for specific advice.

Kathy Cassidy writes and shares a video about what risks are acceptable to take when teaching children new tasks such as reading and writing. The idea that risk taking is apart of teaching is hard not to agree with. All students are individual and have a different way of learning, so approaching activities with different mindsets can be quite daunting. As teachers, she writes that we need to grasp the idea of the work risk-taking.

Hi everyone! My name is Matthew Westphal and I'm an on-campus student at the Springfield campus of USQ. I'm in my third year of studying (over the half-way mark of the degree, woo-hoo), and this is my first time taking this course, which I'm personally super excited for as I love all aspects of ICT!...

Howard Rheingold has written about the use of digital technologies for learning and other tasks. In particular, the possibility that digital technologies can be mind amplifiers. Tools that enhance our ability to think and learn. Something EDC3100 will touch on in Week 3

Identifies some issues with SAMR model and proposes an extension to the RAT framework. Adds L for leadership to produce RATL.