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The following is a guest blog post by Dr. Greg Farley. Greg is the Director of Technology at Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District and an Adjunct Professor and course developer at the Graduate Schools of Education at Monmouth University and Drew University. Greg also conducts workshops at K-12 schools and universities and mentors doctoral students and administrators in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Check out his blog Embrace, Adapt, Enhance. I visited Eric's High School on February 24th to observe Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and his implementation of a contemporary learning environment. I was impressed. I was most impressed at Eric's reflection that he was once part of the problem, banning devices from his school rather then embracing the use of the technology. That has changed and Eric trusts his students to interact responsibly with media and communication tools. These expectations are being met by staff and students.

Australian curriculum aligned and a bit more engaging than Studyladder. Shared by Suzanne Jessen.

Dear Savvy Searcher, My students keep wanting to enter their entire research question into the search bar. I keep trying to tell them that's a bad idea. How do you teach students to identify the right words to use in a search? Frustrated Educator

Purpose of this topic To provide guidance to ensure that schools respond reasonably and respectfully to objections about the use of specific curriculum resources.

Australia's National Year of Reading 2012 starts here, with the opportunity for you to vote for the book that you think should represent your state or territory as one of the eight on our national recommended reading list for 2012. You can help decide the eight books that are the National Year of Reading 2012 collection.

tables that draw together the inquiry skills sequence (F-10) in science, history and the draft geography curriculum. by Mandy Lupton Lecturer in Teacher-Librarianship School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, Queensland University of Technology Victoria Park Road Kelvin Grove QLD 4059, Australia

dotEPUB is software in the cloud that allows you to convert any webpage into an e-book.

Achieving Information Literacy Standards for School Library Programs in Canada Edited by Marlene Asselin, PhD Jennifer L. Branch, PhD and Dianne Oberg, PhD Canadian Association for School Libraries

As a Visual Bookmarking tool - As an addicted Delicious user, I'm pretty amazed by the easiness of moving from one platform to another after so many years of becoming accustomed to the former one. But it is not anything like Delicious. The visual bookmarking concept is something else entirely for me. For daily links from tech blogs that I see and like, I mostly use the +1 button (to save everything as a list in my Google+ profile), but anything that looks good, and I know I will remember based on a visual memory and category, goes inside one of the albums I've created in Pinterest. And, I love that it can be DIY content that you created (such as food or craft photos that you can upload) along with content you find around the web.

Model for teachers to using with ACARA to plan effectively with Big 6 (Ross Todd).

For anyone involved (or not) in social media, this is a great campaign for reading http://ow.ly/8vI70

I blog with 10 Tips for Book Trailer Makers: http://t.co/KIGMtWjB