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Multipart documentary series about the indigenous people of Australia is a history of Australia after the European colonizers, told from the perspective of First Australians with first-person accounts, archival photographs and footage, interviews with historians and similar sources. The documentary begins with an explanation of the mythological/spiritual belief of indigenous Australians known as the Dreaming.

The HTAV is proud to present a series of public lectures "MYTHOLOGIES" in conjunction with the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne.The first of these will be held on 18 March @ The ICT Building, 111 Barry Street, Carlton starting at 6.30pm.

Managing Classroom Behaviour', the second in the series of research digests prepared for registered teachers and the Victorian Institute of Teaching by the Australian Council for Educational Research

This is a useful source of one-page "how to" guides

Tim's one-page guides to Web tools

A few additions to the one page guide series on Twitter, tagging and crowdvine by Tim Davies

This series of tutorials is brought to you by Baltimore County Office of Library Information Services. On the wiki you will encounter the tools of the new Internet: Web 2.0 tools that are bringing our students in touch with the entire world through social networking, video, audio, and gaming sites. There are nine tutorials, each of which focuses on two - three Web 2.0 applications so there are 23 Things for you to do. There are many places for you to explore, experiment with, and think about creative ways to use this in your library or to collaborate with classroom teachers.

April 2008 publication from MCEETYA as part of the Learning in an Online World series. This one focuses on Learning Spaces for contemporary learning.

is a series of eleven, 40-minute podcasts of Australian poetry, read by the authors. The poets come from all over Australia; some are emerging talents and some are established; several of them are on the school syllabus.

A series of technology how to books with full colour screen shots that my mother absolutely loves!

A great Google Doc from Dan Russell all about optimizing Google Images searches. This is part 1 of a 2 part series.

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.

If you are looking to use iTouches or iPhones in the classroom then you may need to restrict access to certain apps or sites. This page from Demo Geek uses a series of screen grabs to show you how to do this.

"Hitchcock from Cinemek is a mobile storyboard composer. For those of you that don't know, a storyboard is a series of panels of rough sketches outlining a scene of a movie or commercial. They are used to help plan out the shots needed before you start filming. "

Storyboarding in your pocket. Hitchcock allows aspiring cinematographers to create movie layouts while on the go. Not free.

Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds is the third in a series of large-scale, nationally representative surveys by the Foundation about young people's media use. The report is based on a survey conducted between October 2008 and May 2009 among a nationally representative sample of 2,002 3rd-12th grade students ages 8-18, including a self-selected subsample of 702 respondents who completed seven-day media use diaries, which were used to calculate multitasking proportions.

"What Makes a Great Teacher? Image credit: Veronika Lukasova Also in our Special Report: National: "How America Can Rise Again" Is the nation in terminal decline? Not necessarily. But securing the future will require fixing a system that has become a joke. Video: "One Nation, On Edge" James Fallows talks to Atlantic editor James Bennet about a uniquely American tradition-cycles of despair followed by triumphant rebirths. Interactive Graphic: "The State of the Union Is ..." ... thrifty, overextended, admired, twitchy, filthy, and clean: the nation in numbers. By Rachael Brown Chart: "The Happiness Index" Times were tough in 2009. But according to a cool Facebook app, people were happier. By Justin Miller On August 25, 2008, two little boys walked into public elementary schools in Southeast Washington, D.C. Both boys were African American fifth-graders. The previous spring, both had tested below grade level in math. One walked into Kimball Elementary School and climbed the stairs to Mr. William Taylor's math classroom, a tidy, powder-blue space in which neither the clocks nor most of the electrical outlets worked. The other walked into a very similar classroom a mile away at Plummer Elementary School. In both schools, more than 80 percent of the children received free or reduced-price lunches. At night, all the children went home to the same urban ecosystem, a zip code in which almost a quarter of the families lived below the poverty line and a police district in which somebody was murdered every week or so. Video: Four teachers in Four different classrooms demonstrate methods that work (Courtesy of Teach for America's video archive, available in February at teachingasleadership.org) At the end of the school year, both little boys took the same standardized test given at all D.C. public schools-not a perfect test of their learning, to be sure, but a relatively objective one (and, it's worth noting, not a very hard one). After a year in Mr. Taylo

The 2010 Horizon Report: K-12 Edition is the second in the K-12 series of reports and is produced by the NMC in collaboration with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), with the generous support of HP

"We've been getting a lot of questions ever since our GMAT Choose Your Own Adventure video went up. Well, one question, really: How can I make one for my students? Answer: It's easy! Youtube has a great tool called Spotlight that lets you make any video interactive. It's really handy for lessons and quizzes. Essentially, you can ask students a question - or a series of questions - and when they answer show them a personalized video response according to how they did."

One teachers ideas about how to use Evernote in the classroom...

From PBS This is the first program in a series "Program: Digital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century Episode: Full Show Featuring the foremost thought leaders, innovators and practitioners in the field, Digital Media is a startling preview of a 21st Century education revolution."

@langwitch Her post in the series "The Digital Learning Farm" based on Alan November's work of "The Digital Learning Farm", which he also outlines in his chapter of Heidi Hayes Jacobs' book "Curriculum 21".