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This latest partnership is the next step after a series of initiatives from both companies this year. Facebook has released a "Family Safety Center" and "Social Report Tool" that allows people to report bullies or harassment to parents, teachers, or other authority figures.

Get free faculty resources to help you engage your students e.g. microsoft education labs, creative commons add-in, scientist add-in

Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.

The 3 games she refers to at the end are amazing and look at gamers developing skills that are transferable to the real world.

Superstruct was a massively multiplayer forecasting game, created by the Institute for the Future, and played by more than 8000 citizen future-forecasters from September - November 2008. Although the game is no longer live, you can still learn about it and explore some of our archived game content

A few easy tips can help teachers create engaging lessons for interactive whiteboards

"Making History: Research, Create and Share - is a resource that has been developed by Museaum Victoria. The site provides teachers and students with the resources they need to research, plan, create and share community digital histories. This is a fantastic resource for a local history project or a family history assignment. As part of the resources and tools, you are given access to videos offering advice from experts such as historians and curators, and you have access to the forum. If you are not sure what to base an assignment on, there are a list of themes, which allow you to explore resources by topic, such as 'Living with natural disasters', 'World events, local impacts', and 'Migration and cultural identity'."

This list of website is used in Session 1 - Differentiating the Curriculum Using Technology

Tom Barrett has created Maths Maps using Google Maps. The maps show the location, and the placemarks explain the math activities (placemarks are colour-coded according to year level, from year 1 to year 6). Each location deals with one topic

Maths video by one of my old students. demonstration of how students can use their laptops to explain concepts etc

Online version of the Notebook software.

Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other, to deepen content learning. By thinking dispositions, we mean curiosity, concern for truth and understanding, a creative mindset, not just being skilled but also alert to thinking and learning opportunities and eager to take them

Visible Thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the content areas and fostering students' intellectual development at the same time

Pecha-Kucha presentation style is 20slides x 20seconds. Slides move on automatically. this video explains where developed and why and looks at ways to use it in the classroom

Google Earth for educators community - classroom resources, tutorials & tips, etc

For the music teachers out there, the BBC has a fantastic online resource for introducing students to world music (specifically from India, Ireland, Brazil, Turkey, and Nigeria). The Street willgive students a glimpse at another countries instruments and key musicians. You will be able to listen to their music, and find out about the religion and food.

Communication has changed, and students and educators are increasingly using video technologies in all aspects of education. Knowing how to produce, edit, and distribute video gives high school and college graduates a valuable and much-in-demand skill. School systems also are increasingly using video on their web sites to keep parents informed about school events-and many educators are using video to bring lessons alive for their students.

This is a quick overview of how to use Photo Story 3. It is made for those consumers who learn fast and don't need a lot of detail.

this 8 page PDF is very detailed in how to use photostory. a good resource to use if a student has a problem you can't answer

2 tutorials are free at this atomic Learning Site - Importing and arranging pictures and Removing black borders. These are high quality tutorials.

Around 2 minutes long a simple introduction to using Photostory 3