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For those who may not be aware Jeanette Davies has compiled some fantastic tutorials the capabilities within the iPad- well worth a look particularly in supporting special needs students.

Some high schools in Denmark are beginning to allow students access to the internet during exams. Exciting stuff, and fantastic to see countries looking into more open forms of assessment. I will be interested to see how quickly other nations follow Denmark's lead in this regard. Tools like Diigo would be a fantastic method of preparation for student's sitting these exams.

Accessibility options for the iPad - including a video on how to use it, and some handy tips. 

Some excellent apps for accessibility on the iPod Touch.

Studyladder has announced their free unlimited access to NAPLAN practice material. These cover years 3, 5 and 7.

Many of the Web tools out there are restricted to users 13 and over. To save others at school some time,John Pearce has compiled a list of popular/well known Web tools that can and can't be used by children under 13 - 1), so we are legally covered in what we are allowing our students to use and 2), so they know what is available. Please note that generally the sites that allow for under 13s still ask for parental permission ( even Edmodo if you haven't read the Terms of Use) so a solid school user agreement is needed to use these tools. Some of the sites are not US based so are not bound by COPPA and CIPA regulations. It still requires schools to carefully check out what can be viewed on these sites to ensure they are appropriate to access."

This site is great , but unfort to access all content there is an acct fee. However, there is lots of great free stuff on it. Just click on the free stuff link.

A nice tool that can be used for creating tests/quizzes online. Tests can be password protected so you have access to the results after anyone has completed the test. Does not require registration.

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?

Great site for accessing free on-line video tutorials to learn some of the basic features of the smartboard

Free App for iPad teaching basic sign language - Free

A great storybird from Cairns

Can't seem to get access to this one, Mark...This Storybird is private.This Storybird has been made private by its author. Any ideas?

Ok this will be a very important site in the coming years. This will be where school data will be accessed to check NAPLAN scores for comparison against "like-school groups". PDFs with screen shots are available at the moment. Data will be entered in 2010. Note: I'm promoting awareness of the site but very wary of how it might be used...

new google app to make sense of data.

could be very useful ... there's a huge fear of data out there (unnecessarily so) but an app like this makes it very accessible/meaningful. Thanks for sharing ...