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Interesting article on one schools experience with the widespread introduction of laptops in schools.

This is a teachers guide to web 2.0 at school! enjoy!

Students from Anna Bay Public School in NSW using an interactive whiteboard in their classroom. Forget the chalk dust, the dog eared textbooks, even the more modern DVD player. Today's school students are downloading homework on iTunes, listening to lessons via podcasts, communicating with other students all over the world through social networking sites, and even video conferencing with leaders of business and industry.

Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress. BuddyPress is completely free and open source. Unlike hosted services, BuddyPress allows you to stay in control of your site and create a totally customized, unique experience.

Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress. BuddyPress is completely free and open source. Unlike hosted services, BuddyPress allows you to stay in control of your site and create a totally customized, unique experience.

Links to varying other sites to assist in classroom learning.

some 2.0 ideas for primary school

"Classroom Collaboration Using Social Bookmarking Service Diigo * ShareShare * RecommendLog in to Recommend by Michael F. Ruffini Published on Tuesday, September 27, 20110 Comments Classroom Collaboration Using Social Bookmarking Service Diigo By Michael F. Ruffini * Social bookmarking websites enhance and improve the learning experience by encouraging group collaboration and making organizing and saving web resources faster and easier for students. * Social bookmarking services offer greater scope for research, integration, and collaboration compared to the more traditional bookmarking applications such as browsers, which offer limited functionality. * Among social bookmarking services, Diigo has features and functions that make it useful for the classroom, giving instructors tools for setting up groups of students, highlighting key information, and commenting. Classroom collaboration is an area that benefits directly from today's Internet experience in that students can develop their potential for learning by becoming more actively involved. Indeed, they can learn to approach and solve problems by collaborating with other students and their teachers. Social bookmarking websites give them opportunities to discover and organize information. While many social bookmarking sites offer some collaboration opportunities, I have found that Diigo (Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff) combines a user-friendly social platform with bookmarking features, making it an effective research, integration, and collaboration tool for use in the classroom. In this article, I compare the benefits of traditional and social bookmarking websites. Then, using Diigo as a focus, I explore the possible uses and benefits of social bookmarking for research and collaboration in the classroom. Traditional Bookmarking Teachers and students routinely use the Internet for archiving, organizing, and sharing information associated with their research and

While the NBN brings the promise of greater capacity and download speeds, the backers of the multi-billion network are pushing the vision that it will propel us into an era that goes beyond faster movie downloads. One of the most commonly used examples is video-conferencing.

This is a website with information for schools on arts competitions and programs such as public speaking comps, school spectacular etc. with a variety of helpful resources for teachers.

Great website dedicated to assessment and curriculum

A nice website keeps you up to date on the technology scene and provides other websites to check out. Gives great short reports on learning technologies..

the site has an interesting point "In fact, many online schools provide all the support services that you would find at a campus-based school - including online libraries, career counseling, writing tutors, study support" :) so its not just resources like online lectures and library databases

Powerpoint presentation

Cool Tools for Schools is Cool

"School students are broadcasting their creations across the world"

The Web 2.0 Research Projects aimed to identify how teachers and students can benefit from Web 2.0 technologies, and provide practical guidance based on examples of actual use in Victorian schools.

A collection of Educational Primary Schol Lessons. Free!

free primary school lesson plans and education resources are available for various subjects

Here are some 2.0 Ideas for the primary school classroom environment

Free Media Library We understand that one of the greatest challenges for schools and the wider public is access to material that they can use and adapt in their own productions. The Free Media Library provides an extensive resource to fill this gap. We encourage you and your students to upload your own creative work. Help us to build this resource for the Generator community.

ABCya.com is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.