OZ/NZ educators

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"Take a picture of a picture from the past in the present"

Great list of apps that have uses in education and learning situations

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"Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters"

The Victorian DEECD portal to high quality teaching and learning resources for schools. It enables teachers to Find, Use and Share Education resources. It is open to all teachers anywhere in the world and is located at www.education.vic.gov.au/teacher. It is free to use and managed by the Victorian Education Department. FUSE connects teachers to resources from across the world, Connect, Digilearn, Knowledgebank, the Learning Federation content and thousands of web resources recommended by Victorian teachers. In addition, it contains new resources provided by trusted education partners such as National Gallery of Victoria, the State Library, Museum Victoria, and Zoos Victoria. There are also access pages for students and early childhood children.

Student work is private until they are ready to share. They can then share with their teacher or peers via an email invitation. They are very much in control of the process."

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.

"there's no shortage of great web apps, services and sites out there for discovering new music or just listening to your current favorites. Read on for ten of our top picks for music lovers to get their fix online. "

"Your writing partner, helping you write a story from beginning to THE END"

Pre-service and in-service teacher and employee digital literacy evaluation tool. Educational Testing Services' iCriticalThinking (TM) Certification program is endorsed by the Global Digital Literacy Council and aligned with standards from the US's Association of Colleges and Research Libraries. "The core of the iCritical Thinking™ certification program is an outcomes-based examination that can  be incorporated into pre-service training and in-service development programs and used by administrators and education officials for consideration in teacher evaluation,training, placement, and advancement."

That it is necessary to shift away from ICT-skills centred PD, towards reflective, pedagogically focused learning, is clear. Unless we, as teachers, can justify using ICT and make pedagogical changes to enhance student outcomes, then efforts to 'teach' ICT will be superficial. Embracing a Communities of Practice model for ICT PD incorporates the ubiquitous recommendations; that ICT PD should be collaborative; ongoing; focused on teacher needs;and facilitate critical discussion amongst colleagues.