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The parents and students were engaged because the students really knew how to maneuver the iPad to demonstrate all of the work that they completed. I could sense that students were taking pride in showing their online professional portfolio, creations, and tweets. I am also thrilled that the professional blogs are a year-to-date body of work. We didn't just show them tests as was in the past, but all the learning experiences that have occurred along the journey. Students had an agenda that they were to follow and parents totally wanted to hear all about it. Some parents and students were present for over a half hour!

There are numerous ways to ensure this but one of the latest and most exciting ways is that of Rover from iSwifter. Rover provides cloud-based streaming through iSwifter's technology, enabling iPads to stream Flash content alongside other useful education tools. Free to download, it's targeted towards the K-12 education sector having partnered with education brands such as Discovery Education, Mathletics and Funbrain. Partnering with such brands immediately makes Rover an immensely useful resource of offering both fun and knowledge without the child even realising how much they are learning.

Diigo and Prezi I think that diigo is wonderful. It is such a good way to organise your bookmarks. It's also a great way to collaborate on resources. I often find great websites that my colleagues may find useful, though I'm never quite sure if they are worthy of clogging their inboxes. With diigo I can just add to a group list and then everyone can access them. Getting something like that up and running is definitely a goal for next year. The head librarian at my school is also very excited about diigo and I have drawn her a very messy diagram of how diigo groups can work. In order to tick two things of my list I thought I would use prezi to put together a clear explanation of diigo.

Revision is a critical piece of the writing process-and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader's Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way. The sharing features of Google Docs enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. You'll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing. On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from Writing magazine filled with student-friendly tips and techniques for revision. You'll also find a teacher's guide that provides you with ideas for how to use these materials with Google Docs to create innovative lesson plans about revision for your classroom.

This document is a compilation of available worldwide ICT4E policies and plans, at both a national and Ministry of Education level (where available).To enhance the reach and quality of teaching and learning through the effective use of ICTs, policy makers need to be aware of how to best utilize ICTs to create value-add for their country's education system. A supportive policy environment and framework, developed at the national level is key to the successful integration of ICTs into any education system. Ok!

Some very cool and easy to implement ideas to get your kids blogging, you could have this as a checklist so you don't have to always be thinking how to get kids/parents interacting on the blogs.

Keep track of what you do on your computer.  If you want to control how much you faff around, this is a great tool for you.