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The COL Inquiry Hub provides grade 8-12 students an innovative, technology driven, full-time program which allows them to pursue their own learning questions by shaping their educational experience around their interests instead of structured classes.

Mobile Learning Good Practice Guide These tips may help you to benefit from the experiences of teachers and schools who have worked their way through many issues to establish and implement successful mobile learning projects.

A blog sharing the progress of the Diocese Of Paramatta's experience with iPads. Several contributors to the site with lots of useful information & app recommendations. 

Some simple yet effective learning experiences for the smartboard.

A blog which has collated many Mary MacKillop resources into just one place. There are links to teacher websites, links to great clips and also some learning and teaching experiences. Well worth a look!

Jane Farrall is a Speech Pathologist and has extensive experience in both Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and in teaching children and adults with disabilities to acquire literacy. Jane has put together a great list of apps for AAC each with her evaluation and rating

A Different Way to Read Great Literature! This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!

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?

"For students and teachers, the Google Docs collection provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive. Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs."

A very interesting blog designed to support an integrated unit of work (Secondary) "Through The Eyes Of A Child. Enduring Understanding That literature helps us to actively explore the human experience and to respond to the changes and challenges in our own lives."

The Art Project powered by Google features interior tours of seventeen world famous art museums. Select a museum from the list on the homepage and you can virtually tour it using the same interface style you experience in Google Maps Streetview. Inside the museum just double click to zoom to a location. You can also open a floor plan overview and click on a room to navigate to that part of the museum.

Some ideas on how to use comic life in the classroom. A collaborative document, feel free to add your own suggestions and experiences as new slides!

Are you understanding the tearing, stuttering, slow or choppy MP4 playback on a computer? Oh. it's really not a happy movie experience. Don't wait for the movie any more, here share the reasons and solutions with you.

A wonderful example of passion driven learning incorporating technology in a majority ESL classroom - well worth a look. 

Awesome Science resource!!!