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This is a site where teachers can upload and share lesson plans and lesson ideas which directly correlate with the Australian Curriculum.

Most of Australia is well positioned to witness the next transit of Venus on Wednesday 6th June 2012. The Surveying and Spatial Sciences industry in association with the Astronomical Association of Queensland (AAQ) is providing resources to enable students to participate in a re-enactment of a great scientific endeavour and in doing so learn valuable lessons in science, mathematics, history and geography.

Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It's all free. It's all enriching. But it's also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Free audio books, free online courses, free movies, free language lessons, free ebooks and other enriching content - it's all here. Open Culture was founded in 2006.

NSW Dept of Education site with games, videos and lessons.

Naming takes on new meanings in digital settings-as students build personas through e-mail addresses, screen names, and online profiles, they can be unaware of the ways that others may read the information they share.

"We invite you to explore the various features of Diigo. Become educated and informed on the powerful use of Diigo for student learning. Learn how this research tool can enhance classroom instruction and promote higher levels of student collaboration. As you navigate through our site you will see examples of valuable lessons and resources, all displayed for your use. "

Nice website for teachers to learn how to navigate the Diigo environment and examine examples of how they can use it to enhance student learning.

Video that compares educational games and entertainment games. It argues that we should 'enable learning' through tangential learning in games rather than have lesson style games.

"Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. Slavin also warns that we are writing code we can't understand with implications we can't control."

An thought-provoking talk that could be used in study of social and ethical issues embedded in algorithms topics in Information Processing and Technology.

"So while I was talking to a client today who has been agonising over the detail of the design, features and colours for their website (for the last 5 months) I was reminded of the principle of "Just Ship It" and how important it is in the new age of digital media and how even more relevant Nikes slogan of "Just Do It" has become."

Some good lessons and rules here for teachers mulling over social networking, when and where to start. Just do it.

Welcome to the morguefile classroom. Do you want to learn the basics of photography or improve certain camera skills? Do you wish to contribute to a growing knowledge base for photo enthusiast. With the morguefile photography classroom you can begin to take better photos of any subject and get more enjoyment from your photography.

"Increasingly sophisticated technology could well consign forced days off to the history books. In fact, old models of education - students in seats in school - have been continually challenged in the rolling digital revolution. "

Interesting when we consider those schools forced closed by fires, floods and the lessons picked up by those closed by snow.