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This presentation focuses on a diverse array of web 2.0 tools teachers and librarians can use to enhance classroom websites, collaborative projects, and multimedia reports created by students individually or in distributed teams.

I can see great potential for teachers and students with this! Personalised learning/Differentiation 

Technological change is not additive; it is ecological, which means, it changes everything. -Neil Postman

In this technological age a plagiarism checker is essential for protecting your written work. A plagiarism checker benefits teachers, students, website owners and anyone else interested in protecting their writing. Our service guarantees that anything you write can be thoroughly checked by our plagiarism software to insure that your texts are unique.

"This budget production will hopefully help to explain the Ultranet to even the most technologically challeneged people (like my Mum)."

Here is a low budget production that does a better job of explaining the Victorian Ulranet than all the slideshows I have seen so far. It explains the different rooms of this intranet where parents, students and teachers will interact using the icons from the Ultranet website.

Though centralized PC labs have been an important part of both campus space planning and IT infrastructure for the last two decades, this may be changing.

Amazing - and great inspiration for student-made versions using Prezi!

"Problem Based Learning - An Instructional Model and its Constructivist Framework"

Nice list that explains the framework behind constructivist learning.

"In my last post I wrote about some iPad apps that I thought were must adds for administrators and educators alike. Since then I have received some great suggestions from my PLN and had the chance to check out other apps that I have found a use for as a High School Principal. "

Similar apps to what I am using. Interesting blog to follow.

"computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning. Researchers say the lure of these technologies, while it affects adults too, is particularly powerful for young people. The risk, they say, is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks - and less able to sustain attention. "

Interesting article about growing up with disruptive technologies.

The core content of Hector's World™ material features high quality 2-D animation with fun and engaging characters. Children can observe the characters as they learn how to stay safe online.

This Ning was developed to support a workshop presented by Apple Distinguished Educators at CSUN 2010.

"Online fraud and related crime is on the rise, affecting more lives and costing individuals and businesses more money year after year .. In this infographic, created by Sam Franada of Lines & Moodswings for KGBPeople and based on data from Wikipedia, the I.D. Theft Center and other sources, we learn that 10% of Americans have had their identities stolen .. Check out more facts about identity theft - including the best ways to protect your own identity."

A graphic charting online fraud and identity theft in the USA. It would be interesting to get students to look up the figures for Australia.