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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.

A discussion of the difference between Multiple Intelligences & Learning Styles, as well as three tips for teachers: 1. Individualize your teaching as much as possible. Instead of "one size fits all," learn as much as you can about each student, and teach each person in ways that they find comfortable and learn effectively 2. Pluralize your teaching. Teach important materials in several ways, not just one 3. Drop the term "styles." It will confuse others and it won't help either you or your students."

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.

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.

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.

You are able to find this year's theme for book week and all the necessary merchandise and many ideas that you may implement into this years theme. You can also find the short listed books for this year (eventually)

"As part of an upcoming renovation we're spending a lot of time thinking about engagement and how to stage positive and productive user experiences. "

Minimalist posters that cover a variety of scienific discoveries and systems including sub-headings for women, corrections/commonly attributed to and Arabic scientists.

Registrations are open for the 2013 PLN course. It's now 7 units long, and will help you get organise, find free PD, start blogging and connect with other educators. Registrations close March 4 so spread the word!

A series of user guides for Twitter, featuring screencasts and tips about getting started, tweeting and using hashtags.

Comprehensive collection of free audiobooks, movies and videos. Science and Language videos are definitely worth a look.

Clever little web based whiteboard app. No login required, and collaborators can work on the same board and see updates in real time.

This week the focus is iPad and Web 2.0 Tools Tutorials. These tutorials will support teachers to effectively embed technology into their Literacy and Numeracy programs.

It is rather funny and quite true! It certainly shows how passionate some people are about the school library and I'm sure that many teachers would identify with it

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.

John Birmingham talks about how libraries are changing. He highlights a new app from the British Library, and proposes that Google and Wikipedia will never really replace libraries because they exist to make a profit, unlike libraries.