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Check out this video showing how a child with special learning needs is using the iPad in class to improve his  word recognition etc. 

I was just wondering which google apps people are making use of in their classrooms or for professional/personal use. A couple of questions I am thinking about at the moment are: 1. Should we be giving students experience with public access tools such as these so that they can take the skills they learn with them rather than the skills they learn specific to Myclasses/myinternet? 2. With myclasses etc perhaps being phased out/modified/replaced at some stage is this a viable alternative that could be used instead?

A Guide to Annotating using Diigo. Invest 2 minutes to learn how you can help students learn from and with each other by annotating web pages in with Diigo

Creating and enhancing your personal learning network to empower your profession learning

Great presentation on PLN's and a range of tools to expand our personal learning networks

An amazing site from the University of Utah, great resources for teaching and learning about genetics

Any stage 3 teachers interested in a gaming  approach to learning. This would be very interesting.  The project aimed to trial the efficacy of student-developed games in stage 3 classrooms. This wiki features the results and impact of the project on learning from the perspective of students and teachers from the two primary schools involved.

iPad App Coffee Chats, author and digital learning consultant Wesley Fryer shares iPad applications useful for business productivity, eReading, multimedia sharing, and other purposes. These FREE coffee chats are shared from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm CST

great article on managing learning in a 1:1 classroom.

A great site for teachers explaining David Hyerle's Thinking Maps (8 only); has great video clip too!Thinking tools are graphic organisers that enable students to engage in independent thinking and learning.

This American ESL Teacher has created a list of re best sites for learning about the Australian floods. The list will be updated as he finds new resources and articles, and may be useful for your class?

With so much of the Northeastern Australian floods dominating the news at present- this site would be great for you to share with students when you begin the school year- some fantastic images to generating discussions around such a hot topic,

I am experiencing the floods first hand - am trapped in Toowoomba at present and taking lots of pictures/video....scary stuff...

Here are some great things you should consider trying with your classes next year! Some of them will sound familiar, others might be new to you, they are all great tools which can improve teaching and learning

A video sharing how technology is changing the way people learn, and how it is changing the education space in general. Well worth a look. 

Group wise: How to turn conflict into an effective learning process. A really interesting article for leaders. 

This Technology Integration Matrix illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students.

What it is: Me On the Web is a new tool from Google.  Announced just today, Me On the Web is part of the Google Dashboard that allows you to set up custom Google Alerts for your name in news articles.  This was always possible with Google Alerts but now those alerts are coupled with tips and resources for helping students manage their online identities.  Now everything can be tracked from one central location instead of scattered around in different places.  Me On the Web is easy to set up, just visit your Google Dashboard to get started. How to integrate Me on the Web into the classroom: There was a day when you could get away with not knowing and following your digital identity, that day is no more.  We all carry digital footprints, and now more than ever it is vital for us (and our students) to know how to manage those digital footprints.  Teaching students about their digital identity is the first step, Google's Me on the Web takes that a step further by helping students manage their online identities through Google Alerts and helpful tips.  Students must have an account with Google to fully utilize the Me on the Web features.  After students have their account set up, they can create a set of Google Alerts related to them.  This could be their name, email address, a sports team that they play on, the name of the school they attend, etc.  Students will quickly see just how big a memory the Internet has and get a first hand look at their digital footprint and learn some strategies to take care of it.

Centre for learning and performance technologies top 100 tools for 2009

Hey Brad, you should submit your top 10 tools, its close to closing for the year.

Thanks Mark - just sent it in then. I am liking diigo also. Looks like a handy little tool and have set it up to send through to delicious also. May become my social bookmarking tool of choice!!

A very powerful animation tool, very flexible and fully featured. Much steeper learning curve than the other options tagged. Easy to embed or download the result. Top end product, very flexible.

Wallwisher is a simple "sticky note" environment that anyone can post a note to (text, images, movies etc). This wallwisher was created for the participants of the Lighthouse Learning Technologies Course 2009

"The Educator's PLN" Quite a good NING on personal learning networks if you would like to explore nings or PLN's more