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The Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) was today advised by an Expert Working Group that breakthroughs in the science of learning, including brain function, motivation and the practice of teaching, have the potential to transform how individual Australians acquire and retain knowledge throughout their lives.

The Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) was today advised by an Expert Working Group that breakthroughs in the science of learning, including brain function, motivation and the practice of teaching, have the potential to transform how individual Australians acquire and retain knowledge throughout their lives.

Share, manage and access all your business content online. Learn More. Sharing. Reinvented. Over 50,000 businesses are realizing the benefits of cloud content management with Box. See why it's time to reinvent how you share content. With Box.net you can store and share your content with confidence. 99.9% up-time guarantee, SSL encryption, redundant storage, configurable permissions, and more.

Share, manage and access all your business content online. Learn More. Sharing. Reinvented. Over 50,000 businesses are realizing the benefits of cloud content management with Box. See why it's time to reinvent how you share content. With Box.net you can store and share your content with confidence. 99.9% up-time guarantee, SSL encryption, redundant storage, configurable permissions, and more.

An up and coming blog on Games Design by Cathie Howe. Keep an eye on this one.

The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative: * planning of education projects linked with the development of free content; * development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning; * work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs. * networking on funding proposals developed as free content.

The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative: * planning of education projects linked with the development of free content; * development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning; * work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs. * networking on funding proposals developed as free content.

Online tutorials on how to do just about anything!

"Microsoft Math gives students tools, tutorials and instructions, all in one place! Its large collection of tools, tutorials, and instructions helps students learn mathematical concepts, while quickly solving math and science problems. Students see how to solve problems step-by-step - instantly! Microsoft Math works for many grade levels, studying subjects from basic math to calculus."

"Moreofit is the first (and best) website similarity search engine. Give moreofit a website you're interested in, and it'll suggest to you alternative highly related and popular websites to explore. why? Sometimes it's hard to know what to search for, and sometimes search just doesn't cut through the clutter. If you've already found a site you love, just tell moreofit, and it will show you similar and alternative websites. how does it work? moreofit takes over 130,000,000 instances of people manually organizing and describing websites and combines this with sophisticated matching and clustering technology. In short, it's magic. "

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.

A little youtube that talks about how education has changed (length 2:30)

Desktop recording of how to insert Google Gadgets in LAMS sequences.

From the site: Using Blooms Taxonomy in education is a highly effective way to scaffold learning for the students. With the recent popularity and pervasive nature of iOS devices in school districts it is essential for educators to understand how to implement Blooms in the classroom using the apps that are available. While this list is by no means fully comprehensive, it will assist educators in getting started when implementing iOS devices in the classroom. This site will change almost daily as it will be updated with new and exciting apps!

A wonderful example of how students can use PhotoStory to create a moving video profiling soldiers listed as missing following the battle of Fromelles. The students are from Year 9 at St Mary's Cathedral College.

Shows you how Google search rankings correlate with conversions and revenue for keywords purchased - interesting source of statistical data.

Want to create high-quality, interactive activities for your students, but don't have a degree in computer programming? Well, now you don't need one. Fuse Creator will help you to create engaging interactive content, quickly and easily, which you can use over and over on your school or personal computers, websites and VLEs. Also click on the Tools tab above to find out how Fuse Creator supports the Rose Review

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

An example of a class blog, with a particularly interesting section on how to make worm farms.

Welcome to the AVALON project website, your route into virtual worlds for language education! The information presented in this website (click on the right-hand menu for specific topics) is addressed to anyone interested in virtual worlds for educational purposes and in particular to: * Language teachers * Language learners * Teacher trainers * Learning technologists * Decision makers in the field of education The AVALON website provides you with access to: * Information about the use of virtual worlds for language education * Information on how to Get Started in the virtual world of Second Life® * An Online Community of educational experts and language teaching practitioners who are using virtual worlds for language education * Guidelines for teaching in virtual worlds * Resources for Teachers * Resources for Teacher Trainers * Resources for learning technologists * Tested Course Scenarios for use in virtual world environments * An Open-source archive with selected 2D and 3D content from the project

"Think of Stixy as your online bulletin board. Create as many Stixyboards as you like, one for each project. Use Stixy to easily organize and share: * Your family's schedule * Projects at work * An upcoming holiday with your friends * Your photos from your last bike trip * Or share a file or two with a friend Only you set the limitations for how you want to use Stixy."