Many of you will be pleased to know that the nominations are now open for the 2010 Edublogs awards.

Like a duck taking to water, Penny has found blogging an excellent way of sharing, learning and reflecting.

Anyone who wants to sync documents, websites and notes between their devices will find Evernote just so useful and user friendly. It's kind of like cataloguing your entire computer's contents and the ability to access them from all of your devices.

Social media site for publishers Allen and Unwin. Great way to promote reading to your students.

Heather Stapleton, the Library Technician at St Joseph's College Geelong has created an excellent Prezi. She explains why she developed the Prezi: "The Prezi has been created to support the Year 9 English unit on Science Fiction."

Some answers to copyright questions for Australian teachers and schools.

You may remember reading about Whitefriars College teacher librarian Tania Sheko's collaborative learning project using Flickr. The project has now concluded and a few of the students have shared their thoughts, reflections and ideas about what they loved most about the project.

By developing this wiki with reading lists, information on texts, study guides, rubrics, book trailers, book reviews, directions and general requirements, students in years 9-12 (and their parents) have a head start on the year's required reading for English classes. Well done to Joyce Valenza for supporting her students in this manner.

What a terrific tool for creating timelines for and with your students!

Over four themed episodes that criss-cross the globe, journalist and academic Dr Aleks Krotoski explores the meaning of a phenomenon that is transforming everything from how we learn to how we shop, vote and make friends. The series reveals astonishing facts about how the web is rewiring our society, our economy and - drawing on a unique experiment conducted specifically for the series - maybe even our brains.The series brings together everyone who's anyone on the web - from its inventor Tim Berners-Lee to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg; from Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales to Amazon's Jeff Bezos; from web pioneers like Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to digital media barons like Arianna Huffington and Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams.

The Role of Teacher Librarians in Networked School Communities

The Learning Futures / Learning Spaces Forum focused on the changes to the physical and online learning spaces in Australian schools. 

St Michael's Grammar School teacher librarian Sally Bray developed a very good fiction blog and has kindly agreed to share her blogging journey with readers of Bright Ideas.

An extremely interesting book looking at the global effects of gaming; much of it is based in fact.

I really love the way that Monarch Academy Elementary (Primary) Librarian Keisa Williams has incorporated Google forms into her already excellent library wiki. Students get involved in the library and get experience using web 2.0 tools such as Google Docs, while Keisa gets an organised documents with records of all student requests, along with names, date of request and so on.

RealTime Health: the digital health network is a collaboration between The Le@rning Federation, The Chronic Illness Alliance , Aboriginal Medical Service of Western Sydney, Asthma Foundation of Victoria, Australian Hearing, Diabetes Australia - Vic, Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria, Orygen Youth Health and SANE Australia.

Bev Novak has been developing an interesting blog. Bev uses her blog as a forum for writing about, processing and sharing her learning with other educators. 

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