OZ/NZ educators

Drew Noah has created some 40 videos looking at how to use things Google.

A great video explaining about the responsible use of the internet. It has been very cleverly produced and speaks to - not at - young people

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Educational games and activities for primary.

upload a document - and then review, annotate, mark up and comment online - great for student feedback. Allows collaboration online and sharing - PDF like, with cloud based interaction

The internet can be a very powerful tool to learn how to do things that you might need to do but don't really know how to do it. From Make Use Of comes links to five great tutorial sites.

Create debate is an online space to browse a debates on an ever expanding range of topics, create your own debate or popularity contest, participate in a debate amongst other activities.

Edistorm takes the metaphor of sticky notes on a boardroom wall and brings it online allowing anyone - anywhere to brainstorm with only a web browser. Each user picks their favorite ideas and Edistorm brings the best ones forward.

Andrew Churches extrapolates from ancient Rome in this excellent discussion on 6 tenets of Digital Citizenship. As he says, "The internet is a little like the proverbial elephant that never forgets. Our digital footprints are not like the footprints on the beach, washed away by the next wave or rising tide. Rather they are like footprints left to dry in the wet concrete of the footpath."

Joyce Seitzinger has created this great poster size guide for teachers, allowing them to compare the functionality and pedagogical advantages of some standard Moodle tools, adding a column to indicate how tricky the tool is to set up.

This blog post from Scott McLeod talks about the lessons he has learned via digital storytelling. "I've been working with digital storytelling for a couple of years now, first as a learner, and then as a facilitator. I find the process to be transformational, not only for me but for my students. I learn something new every time I work with students and teachers in this process."

This article responds to a generation of techno-criticism in education. It contains a review of the key themes of that criticism. The context of previous efforts to reform education reframes that criticism. Within that context, the question is raised about what schools need to look and be like in order to take advantage of laptop computers and other technology. In doing so, the article presents a vision for self-organizing schools.

A post tjhat offers information for you to check out different types of class blogs to get ideas for your own class blog. You could also use this list to make connections with classes in other countries.