teacher-librarians

Completely free teacher training videos for teachers who want to learn about technology and ICT in education.

A variety of resoures including handouts.

With mosaickr you can create beautiful mosaics from your flickr pictures, and even print them on posters! Creating a mosaick is easy and it's free

WPClipart is a collection of high-quality artwork and photos optimized for use with word processors and inkjet printers

2 students in Yr 7 and Yr 8 mentored a group of 5th grade students to make a movie about fractions.

Enriching the lives of children through the pursuit of peace for all.

Teacher Libranian resources for using Web 2.0 tools

This wiki was created for school library media specialists by Dr. Donna Baumbach and Dr. Judy Lee, University of Central Florida. The purpose is to provide information about some of the new web-based tools (Web 2.0) and how they can be used and are being used by school library media specialists and their students and teachers. Much of the information--including identifying a need for this kind of information--is the result of a survey conducted in 2008 of over 600 school library media specialists about their knowledge and use of web-based tools in library media programs.

Year 7 at St Joseph's Mundingburra created digital mosaics as an affective response to a group reading and discussion of Colin Thompson's "Dust," an Honour Book in the Picture Book category in this year's CBCA Book of the Year awards. The mosaics attempted to express the book's themes of starvation, isolation, loneliness, global responsibility, immediacy, caring, love and hope. The mosaics have been created through mashing bighugelabs with flickr images

A website with links for information literacy, reading & literacy, learning technologies, PD materials, school library management and teacher librarianship.

online interactive thesaurus/dictionary

Sharon talks about inquiry being a disposition cultivated during teaching and learning, rather than a process that "gets done" by students. She talks about successful inquiry leading to deep understanding, giving examples from her own experiences.

This is a webquest designed by Camilla Elliott. "A new tourist company, 'Antarctic Tours', wants to establish monthly trekking tours in the Antarctic for four months from November to the end of February. They plan to take 400 trekkers to Antarctica during this four months each year. The Australian government has requested that an Environmental Impact Team explore the impact of this tourism proposal on the animals and natural environment of Antarctica. The Environmental Impact Team will be made up of a Tour Operator, an Environmentalist, a Scientist and a Politician. This Team will present a report to the government with recommendations to either support or argue against giving the go ahead for 'Antarctic Tours' to begin operations in November this year"

This video is the first part of a two-part presentation. To learn more, view the second part.

Create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world. With 280 Slides, there's no software to download and nothing to pay for - and when you're done building your presentation you can share it any way you like

While this is an older video now, it's still useful for PD with teachers to remind them to add 'richness' to their curriculum.

This is a fun little video clip that maths teachers could use to introduce basic mathematical concepts.

A project of The Institute for the future of the book - a blog

The list was set up in response to requests from learning professionals for help in finding others to connect with on Twitter

Weblogs are increasingly being used in education by researchers, teachers, and students. Professors are keeping research blogs, requiring students to blog, or creating course weblogs. Students are keeping course blogs or personal blogs. Scholars are studying and writing about the weblog phenomenon while keeping weblogs about weblogs. The list is growing quickly. Here is a smattering of what is going on in and around Academia.