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These could be used as supporting facts for some of your assignments.

This website is extremely useful, I have just bookmarked the 'About' page as it had a quote that I wished to highlight - This site was founded to assist elementary and middle school teachers in integrating technology into the curriculum. I think that I will be using this website in years to come.

Community that supports learning in technology, science, engineering and maths.

Anne shares a link to an American news story about how the movie "Mean Girls" (released 10 years ago) would have been very different if it were set today. A good example of Postman's "technological change is ecological" and also of the point of Digital Citizenship. i.e. that technological change requires different skills in order to participate safely, responsibly and productively

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.

Because learning is lifelong - free online PD. Plus there's some other great articles on here about digital technology. 

If you are doing some lessons that incorporate ICTs on prac, where do they sit in relation to integration on this matrix?

A program where you can 'create and share your own interactive stories, games, music, and art'.

The first week at uni we started to use a program called Scratch. This program can be used for teachers and students at any level. It is also has free membership. The first activity that we were required to do was to use the motion button to create simple commands to move the script (the cat). The next part of the activity was to make a sequence of commands. This included the moving the script 10 step and then having the script turn around in a clockwise direction at 15 degrees. The number of steps and the degrees can be changed to suit the way you want the script to move. The next activity was to use the simple commands and have them repeat the commands over and over until you stop the command. We also learnt how to have the script change colour while the command sequence was going. The next activity was to draw regular polygons. The first polygon that was drawn was a square. The next challenge was to create other polygons. This program is great to work with. I had some time just to play, adding backgrounds, pictures and sounds. The goal for using this scratch program at uni is to explore options for introducing digital technologies and related concepts in the primary school classroom, as the Technology curriculum is being introduced sometime this year (2013). This program would fall under the Digital Technologies strand in the Australian curriculum: Technologies. This is where students will engage in the components of digital systems: software, hardware and networks.

Great site for children to create stories, games and animations.

Some great apps to help incorporate ICT's into Health and Physical Education

"5 Reasons Technology in the Classroom Engages Students"

TAHOE-TRUCKEE, Calif. - There is a swirl of attention being paid to rapidly evolving technology and its role in early education. Research continues to bear out that young children

Good little site for some great tech ideas, also, they are free. A very handy resource.

Free technology for teachers

Yay, The more resources we can get the better How to get permission https://archive.org/ a great resource, Wikipedia, Creative commons http://search.creativecommons.org licence explanation at https://en.support.wordpress.com/creative-commons/ This PDF

I found this article interesting as it reflects on the importance of embracing technology to benefit our students for the future.

Thanks for the article! I found this really interesting as I think as educators we do need to find that balance that works well in your classroom. There may be students that struggle with technology so I'm not sure if you would continue to use it as much as other classrooms...... Very interesting!!

Collection of reports from ABC current affairs programs covering the introduction of new technologies into Australian society. Arthur C Clark's 1974 predictions of what computers will be like in 2001 are particularly interesting.

Collection of reports etc around technology and innovation in learning.

I'm following Jerry Blumengarten on Twitter (@cybraryman1) but he also has this website. He tweets continually with his ideas, chats and sites about education and technology. I've just been reading his ideas on teaching with Twitter  http://cybraryman.com/twitter.html