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Previously PBwiki, now PBworks. Free setup in 60 seconds. Join the world's largest community of educational workspaces.

"The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a national organization that advocates for 21st century readiness for every student. As the United States continues to compete in a global economy that demands innovation, P21 and its members provide tools and resources to help the U.S. education system keep up by fusing the three Rs and four Cs (critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity and innovation). While leading districts and schools are already doing this, P21 advocates for local, state and federal policies that support this approach for every school"

Sugar reinvents how computers can be used for education. Sugar provides a simple yet powerful means of engaging young children in the world of learning that is opened up by computing and the Internet. Sugar promotes sharing, collaborative learning, and reflection. Through Sugar's clarity of design, children and their teachers use computation on their own terms; they are free to reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful learning activities. Sugar is a community project.

Technological networks have transformed prominent businesses sectors: music, television, financial, manufacturing. Social networks, driven by technological networks, have similarly transformed communication, news, and personal interactions. Education sits at the social/technological nexus of change. . .

Windows MultiPoint Mouse Software Development Kit (SDK) gives education publishers the ability to build interactive applications that allow up to 25 students, each with their own mouse, to simultaneously engage on a single PC.

Windows MultiPoint Mouse Software Development Kit (SDK) gives education publishers the ability to build interactive applications that allow up to 25 students, each with their own mouse, to simultaneously engage on a single PC.

TIP is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.

Our full-featured wikis offer unlimited usage and our stellar visual editor. Check out our plans and pricing, and see why our customers call us the best wiki out there. Now hosting over 2,700,000 members and 1,100,000 wikis! We have given away over 175,000 wikis for K-12 education. Learn more and create your own classroom wiki today.

Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks began on July 10, 2003; since then Wikibooks has grown to include over 38,776 pages in a multitude of textbooks created by volunteers like you!

The UAI Estimator Version 12.0 (School Site Licence) What UAI will your HSC students achieve this year? The UAI Estimator can accurately tell you. * Calculates five estimates for each of the previous five HSC years. * Import results from other software packages, including the Results Analysis Package. * Excellent aid for those providing course selection advice. * Calculate past year student UAIs with confidence. * A complete year group can be saved and a variety of statistics calculated. * Assist careers advisors when counseling students about University options. More than 300 NSW High Schools are using this product Windows software. Only available direct to educational institutions. Author: Samuel Davis Direct from PEC price: $385.00 ($350.00 ex. GST)

Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute: * authors create and collaborate * instructors rapidly build and share custom collections * learners find and explore content

Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education. [Over 20000 members.]

CuriousWorks is a centre for innovation in arts, technology and education. It contains many examples of how video is being used in school

public collaborative Notepad (support joint construction of document in realtime)

When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting sessions, education, team programming, and more. Create new pad No sign-up, start writing instantly. EtherPad has been acquired by Google. ""Etherpad is simply the most frictionless way to get people on the same page.""

When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting sessions, education, team programming, and more. Create new pad No sign-up, start writing instantly. EtherPad has been acquired by Google. ""Etherpad is simply the most frictionless way to get people on the same page.""

An online educational video sharing site

Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. Wikiversity has over ten thousand learning resources, many of which are of the highest repute, and it is rapidly growing.

An amazing directory of twitter users, including education such as http://wefollow.com/twitter/nswdet

An amazing directory of twitter users, including education such as http://wefollow.com/twitter/nswdet

"Social media may have started out as a fun way to connect with friends, but it has evolved to become a powerful tool for education and business. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter and tools such as Skype are connecting students to learning opportunities in new and exciting ways. Whether you teach an elementary class, a traditional college class, or at an online university, you will find inspirational ways to incorporate social media in your classroom with this list."

"The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) came into being on 1 January 2010. The Commonwealth Minister for Education has outlined MCEECDYA's priorities for the Institute in a Letter of Expectation. "

"In Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. While allowing for some degree of student "voice and choice," rigorous projects are carefully planned, managed, and assessed to help students learn key academic content, practice 21st Century Skills (such as collaboration, communication & critical thinking)"