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Jenny Luca is Director of ICT and eLearning at Toorak College in Mt.Eliza. Her blog aims to share what she discovers about the potential of Web 2.0 application in educational settings.

As well as pertinent regular blog posts there are a series of podcasts in signficant topics on technology adoption and leadership in the field. We live in a moment of unprecedented change, and our conceptions of schooling and education are being challenged in fundamental ways. Educational leaders around the globe are grappling with unfamiliar new contexts for learning which demand new ways of thinking and leading around an increasingly uncertain future. ML Publishers Will Richardson and Bruce Dixon unpack some of these new contexts, and articulate a mission that is focused on helping our readers become not just modern learners but modern leaders as well, leaders who are better informed and make better decisions for the modern students in their charge.

Kay Oddone maintains a current website and regularly contributes to her blog. Interests include professional and connected learning and leadership.

I'm an author, business leader and visual facilitator working at intersection of leadership, learning and change. Drawing on his business background Tanmay Vora blogs about individuals, teams and organizations delivering high-performance through process excellence, culture, capability building, coaching, consulting and leadership development interventions.

"Initiating and maintaining a Personal Learning Network (PLN) can be an incredibly exciting, rewarding and very effective way to engage with professional learning. However, learning mediated by social networks is not without its challenges. "

Megan Daley's blog post before her EduTECH 2015 presentation.

As our libraries evolve in the age of digital information, they need our help more than ever to stay well-funded and supported so they can grow in their critical role as advocates of technology and information literacy. Should they become learning commons, gathering places for trading information, technology hotspots, makerspaces, or all of the above? The possibilities are wide open, as you'll see in this playlist of videos about the future of libraries.

"MP David Shoebridge gave a Notice of Motion in the NSW parliament in support of quality libraries in schools run by qualified teacher librarians." I am so happy to see the support happening.

Blog of Elizabeth Hutchinson focusing on the value and worth of school libraries

Social media-networked digital media such as Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and wikis-enable people to socialize, organize, learn, play, and engage in commerce. The part that makes social media social is that technical skills need to be exercised in concert with others: encoding, decoding, and community. I focus on five social media literacies: Attention, Participation, Collaboratio,n Network awareness and Critical consumption

Employers require creative and problem-solving skills and an ability to adapt to changes. Those new skills and abilities kids can't polish by solving standardized tests. That's why teachers need to foster new skills in the classroom- skills of 6 C's education: Character Education, Citizenship, Communication, Critical thinking, Collaboration, Creativity.

"The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) has a role to establish a shared and agreed platform from which the quality of teaching and school leadership can continue to grow."

"Robinson is so correct in her portrayal of thoughtful educational leaders, and she includes teachers, principal and central office administrators when she refers to leaders."

Practical classroom strategies to reinforce each of these four qualities: autonomy, competence, relatedness, relevance