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Excellent post about having our students develop their digital presence

Everyone is so excited about tethering the iPad 2 to a projector, admittedly very cool, that we have missed something else at least as good if not even better! Go all the way: make the iPad 1 or 2 into a complete interactive whiteboard solution!

Lots of excellent videos, articles and how to's for Teachers to get into FB with their students.

Let me know what you think! This year, we would like to find even more primary sources in every country that our learners choose to investigate. Rather than a formal class structure, it would be great to see them in small groups talking via Skype to as many people as possible. We'd love to have them engaging with students in other countries and continuing to connect with them after the initial interviews. It would be great to see them work collaboratively on Google Maps to which they add photos, information, questions and new learning. Hopefully they will use their class blogs to reflect on what they learn and to record their wonderings, so that people 'out there' can respond.

"Our initial post on 10 Great Maths Games Sites - as suggested by friend of the blog Vijay Krishnan - has been one of the most popular ever with literally thousands of teachers taking a look. So I thought it would be fun to try it for a new topic. So here we go - 10 Great Literacy Games Sites:"

Good for the wall in your class if you have students using Ipads!

Bring your own device (BYOD) and bring your own technology (BYOT) policies are growing in education and the workplace. Teachers are taking advantage of mobile devices for "m-learning," putting those mini computers in kids' backpacks and pockets to use. Here are 10 lesson ideas for BYOD and m-learning in the classroom.

Got 2 mins? Want to see how Voicethread can be used?

Teachers are finding new ways to use Twitter to engage their students, build stronger academic and professional relationships, and to share information in a richer learning environment, and they are using tools like these to bring more fun and functionality to the process.