The Amazing Joyce Valenza shares this great poster of search engines specially suited to primary school students. The only drawback is that as it's a Glogster, it can take quite some time to load dependent on your connection.
This neat video from Google looks at how the Google search function works from the spiders though to the software algorithms that search the index of Search Terms that makes up Google. The only drawback is the self promotion tacked onto the end of the video.
A better download site than the ACARA site for the new Australian draft curriculum guides is the Herald-Sun. Just scroll down and you will find the links on the left hand side near the end of the story.
Pew have interviewed almost 900 internet stakeholders on their perspective on how the internet is affecting human intelligence and the ways information is being shared and rendered. This page contains links to the report downloads.
Scott McLeod poses the question of what's wrong with the edublogosphere and the answers are in the commentary responses. A really important read and exactly the way we would wish most blog posting would evolve.
This is another quick and easy to use chatroom like tiny chat. To start a chat session, all you need to do is go to our homepage, enter your nickname, and click the Start Group button. Once you do that, your chat session is started, and your browser loads the session's chat room. You then invite people by sending them the URL of the chat room. When your invitees access the URL, they enter the chat room to chat with you.
This wikispace contains links to a huge range of search engines and tools. Some of the links have brief annotations attached and many links lead to other wikis and search engine lists. The most useful aspect is the comprehensive nature and categorisation of the list.
This is a very comprehensive list of links to Internet Safety Resources under a range of headings: Online Predators, Cyberbullies and Harassment, Identity Thieves, Filters, Sexting, Searching, Safe Surfing, Phishing, Fraud, Gaming, Gambling, Addiction, Scams and more.
Part 1 of a four part series of videos made for MTV featuring stories from victims and perpetrators of sexting as well as commentary from commentators in the area. Could be very useful for discussion with secondary school students.
Another superb post from Tony Vincent this time a comprehensive listing with discussion of how to maximise the setup of ipod touches in the classroom. A definite recommendation for anyone looking to use iPod Touches in the classroom.
Janetta Garton from Willard R2 schools has provided under CC licence resources for developing Inquiry Based Learning Units. The site contains an interactive to test understandings of the concepts that make up inquiry learning as well as an excellent handout, slideshare and other resources.
This slideshare from upsidelearning.com is a really challenging introduction to the world of mobile learning. Though the focus is on higher ed and training the sentiments are applicable to all levels of education and is well worth a look.
This page has all manner of links and embeds related to Twitter including slideshare, YouTube, Prezi and e-books. The author list includes Jane Hart, Tomaz Lasic and Dean Shareski. Though it is quite comprehensive, because it has so many embeds the page can take quite a little time to load up.