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The FBI has recently released a series of games for Years 3-8 to teach how to safely and ethically use the internet.

robot image used in VCE exam. be aware of where the image comes from

Students at almost 500 Australian schools are running Facebook pages dedicated to humiliating their peers.

"ABC Splash is a new education website for Australia, packed with 100s of videos, audio clips and games. Totally free to watch and play at home and in school."

"ClassBadges is a free, online tool where teachers can award badges for student accomplishments. Through your teacher account, you can award badges customized for your classroom or school. "

"In order to make this program grow, students will have to take a role in terms of creating and managing their badges. Of course, we will be there to guide the students, but it will require students to be a little more creative with their time in the library. We feel this will be a positive program to help student learn time management skills, as well as increase their reading throughout the school year."

"This is by far the BEST stop motion app available. It is so easy to use which, as a parent of a 6 and 8 year old, is critical. Kids are able to use this with little to no parental guidance and more importantly, they LOVE this app. "

"This all sounds amazing, but it won't happen until game developers and educators can come together to create educational games that have rich content and the strong engagement that is currently only seen in the best commercial games. The real gamification of education is going to take years of serious effort to make happen, but that doesn't make it any less fun to think about right now. "

I have just completed this course. It was good for the background knowledge and access to resources, video etc. I would use it in conjunction with what I have researched is happening in schools. I feel more confident to apply the principles to my teaching.

"New digital forms of information offer rich and extraordinary opportunities for libraries to expand community access to information and to revolutionize in positive ways the relationship between libraries and users. At the same time, these new forms of digital content pose new challenges. As libraries struggle to meet the challenges of providing digital content in an environment characterized by significant uncertainty and changing on a daily basis, there is a need for an Association-wide group of experts, broadly representative of the many constituencies within the library community, that can proactively address these digital content opportunities and issues at the highest level and from both a policy and practical perspective."

Air New Zealand air safety video, featuring characters from The Hobbit.

"A step by step, no-fuss explanation of Twitter, how to set up an account and how to use it professionally to access the wealth of resources, information and connections that are literally just one click away once you build your network."

"School librarians bring pedagogical order and harmony to a multi-media clutter of information by crafting challenging learning opportunities, in collaboration with classroom teachers and other learning specialists, to help learners use the virtual world, as well as the traditional information sources, to prepare for living, working and life-long learning in the 21st Century"

eSchool News article on the shift in how school libraries opeate in the digial age

"ABC Splash is a new education website for Australia, packed with 100s of videos, audio clips and games. Totally free to watch and play at home and in school."

"Create Games Rapidly Drag & Drop, No Code "

So many ways to bounce information off each other.