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New words created by smashing together capitalized words to remove word breaks. SomePeopleConsiderThisAnExample.

Content Clips helps you find and organize multimedia clips to quickly assemble simple web-based teaching activities and presentations. Use the collection of free resources or make your own. Create and save personal links to web sites or even to images from other collections and sites.

Find great conferences to attend. Discover what's hot while it's on Track what's going on during the conference, even if you aren't there. Catch up on anything you missed.

"Music video by Brad Paisley performing Welcome To The Future. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 86,896 (C) 2009 Sony Music Entertainment"

If you carefully choose the right sort of game it will engage the children in your class - in my opinion you have to take that as a given. It is what you do with that engaged group of children and how you make a difference to their learning that counts.

With cloud computing on the rise, downloading may be a thing of the past.

"The iPad running Air Display works like any monitor on the Mac, and is configurable using the standard OS X Display Preferences .. it is the equivalent of buying a new monitor for your Mac."

A pricy but very handy app for the iPad that works over a wireless connection. Although the review talks about OSX, this also works with a Windows desktop.

Like wallwisher but maybe better?

I put together this Innovation Checkmap.  It highlights the working relationships that should be present in healthy, innovative organizations; a visual checklist to guide an audit of the innovation capabilities in your organization.    The map is simple to use:

" The Computers in Education Group of South Australia is a professional association of educators that promotes and supports teaching and learning with Information and Communication Technologies and the study of Information Technology as a discipline. "

If any teachers are interested what our sister group in SA are doing.

If you're trying to change someone's behavior, don't be so direct about your points... Use a story that connects to some universal truth about the subject-at-hand.  Give people a way to see the high-level consequences of their behavior, good or bad, and they may identify with your words in a whole new way. 

A huge list of interesting research in the area of youth and the digital world.

"A portable QR code reader for the iPhone. Fast and effective with the real-time auto detect mode. "

I am fascinated by the idea of how QRCodes could be used in a classrooms when schools acquire iPad2 tablet devices (with built in cameras)

Nassi-Shneiderman diagrammer. Structorizer itself has been written by Bob Fisch and is published, since version 2, as open-source under the terms of the GPL license, which means that everyone is free to change the code to fit their own needs as long as the header comments remain intact, so that each code can be tracked down to it's orignal author.

"With more and more people are using social media to communicate with loved ones during a crisis (and being advised to do so), it is critical Twitter users do their best to pass on correct information .. Here's seven ways the average person can be a good Twitter citizen during a crisis:"

Netiquette or list of rules that Twitter users will find handy during a disaster.

Gallery of learning technology ideas by some Victorian DEECD schools including planning, classroom case studies, stories and research.

Of interest perhaps to QLD learning technology coordinators.