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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

"Welcome to My Place for Teachers. On this website you will find rich educational material to support primary and lower-secondary teachers using the My Place TV series in the classroom. Explore background information, aligned with the My Place stories, on events and people significant to Australia's history. Download clips and stills from the TV series, as well as teaching activities and student activity sheets that relate to current themes. Go behind the scenes with production information and interviews, or chat with other teachers and share stories in the teacher's forum."

The teacher work sample focuses on the assessment of student learning and adapting assessment and instructional strategies to meet student needs. Methods, data, and lessons learned will be shared.

This site contains the techniques, tips, and secrets used by master teachers!

This site contains the techniques, tips, and secrets used by master teachers!

An online TV schedule with several channels running around the clock

Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists.

Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists.

# Powerful educational software that delivers quality educational content and motivates kids through fun # Enables teachers and parents to target each child's learning needs # For use at home or school # Ages 4 - 15

# Powerful educational software that delivers quality educational content and motivates kids through fun # Enables teachers and parents to target each child's learning needs # For use at home or school # Ages 4 - 15

An online educational video sharing site

An approach for adapting instruction based on student outputs

Great for teachers * Host and manage blogs for your students * Use a Class Homepage to communicate with students * Reviewing capabilities of entries * Advanced privacy Ideal for students * Fully featured blogs to upload text, photos, or insert videos * Fun learning experience * Customizable visibility and comment settings * No e-mail address required

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.

Educator blog by Shelly Terrell

Educator blog by Shelly Terrell

This is an excellent technology blog by rm byrne

This is an excellent technology blog by rm byrne

Punya Mishra's TPACK newsletter. Mentions our project, Teaching Teachers for the Future http://www.altc.edu.au/ttf/

That's right! Voxopop talkgroups let you discuss your interests and passions with people from all over the world, using your real voice. It's a whole new way to talk online. Find talkgroups to join, or start your own and spread the word. Great for families & friends, interest groups, website owners, bloggers, podcasters and teachers. Start talking, it's FREE!

The aim of this project is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12. These books are richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, sketches, and original drawings. Wikijunior books are produced by a worldwide community of writers, teachers, students, and young people all working together. The books present factual information that is verifiable. You are invited to join in and write, edit, and rewrite each module and book to improve its content. Our books are distributed free of charge under the terms of the Gnu Free Documentation License.

This is an online television station dedicated to Australian teaching, also available on digital channel 45

This is an online television station dedicated to Australian teaching, also available on digital channel 45

"3D GameLab is an online, quest-based LMS that launches in August with a three week, FULLY ONLINE summer camp for educators who want to engage in and design quest-based learning that is tied to curriculum standards. This year's camp is just for TEACHERS, FACULTY and INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNERS"

"Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast."

Proposal for Macquarie's ALTC MSPD website