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The SAMR model has been around for a while, but I think it is time for a revisit. Most of us have been working with some element or other of 1 to 1 access, but has our pedagogy - the way we use the technology to teach in our classes - changed or shifted in that time?

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 State Library of Victoria is the major reference and research library in Victoria, responsible for collecting and preserving Victoria's documentary heritage and making it available through a range of services and programs. Our website provides information about the Library and its history, our collections and services, programs and events, and gives access to our catalogue and online shop.

Welcome to TikiToki, a web app that makes it dead easy to make stunning, animated timelines that work in your browser. Our basic account is completely free.How would you like to create beautiful, interactive timelines that include videos and image galleries? Well, now you can thanks to a great new web service brought to you by ChronoFlo and Webalon.TikiToki makes creating online timelines as easy as possible. Sign up for our free, basic account and within almost no time, you could be creating a timeline of your life, of a historical event that interests you or of the life of a great musician or artist... the possibilities are endless.

This is a performing group for children. Recommended age group of 3 to 7. All of our year preps, ones and twos have found this performance very entertaining and enjoyable. Focus on healthy eating, healthy choices.

device, I'm concerned that most one-to-one implementation strategies are based on the new tool as the focus of the program. Unless we break out of this limited vision that one-to-one computing is about the device, we are doomed to waste our resources.

Evernote is a clever online note taking service that keeps your note synchronised across all of your devices. You can include text, audio, pictures and much more. Notes are fully searchable and you can also save web pages and articles to your account. Explore how to get started with our guide.

Storify is one of our favourite sites, as it takes a whole new approach to story telling. We use it for putting together tutorials, summarising conferences and we think it has some amazing possibilities in the classroom. November 30, 2012 at 01:23PM

With the weather improving many of your students might be heading out on excursions or city experiences. Take a look at our post on the seven reasons why Evernote is the perfect tool for your students as they are on the move (and one reason why it...

Some good news today from YouTube. I just learned about this gigantic step YouTube took by allowing people to download music for free from its new service called YouTube Audio Library. This is not a comprehensive library and don't expect to find every piece of music you want there but still it is a very good start and is one of the best platforms we can use with our students to access free music downloads.

Some of our students will be doing a unit on Steampunk later this year so I need to know more about the genre. This site may be useful for anyone else who may be developing a unit about this genre.

The Joy of Reading

Designed to help support Our Lady of Mercy College Heidelberg teachers integrate web 2.0 technologies into teaching and learning.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxMelbourne, where x = independently organized TED event.

My Place in History, a new educational programme for Australian upper primary schools, is a web-based programme designed to teach students about the concepts of change and diversity - of backgrounds, in family structures, and the many economic, political and social circumstances in both our distant and more recent history that have contributed to who we are today and how we all came to be living in Australia.

This inspirational video was shared today by our presenter at the SLAV Conference and made a huge impression.  It could be used with staff and students for inspiration, to challenge thinking and to stimulate discussion about the creative process.