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Microsoft is offering another free download aimed at the education market. Learning Essentials provides the following resources: Learning Essentials adds curriculum-based templates and toolbars to Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to guide students and teachers through projects. There is a separate set of tools for teachers and students. Some language versions include tools to create e-learning content.

If you need help to find appropriate games and to embed them into the curriculum, you cannot go past Kelly Tenkely's excellent blog ilearntechnology.

In a recent webinar, more than 90% of school leaders responded that they were leading an innovative school as a result of the implementation of technology. At the end of the webinar, when polled again, only one leader claimed to be leading an innovative school. The complete reversal was due to a presentation of the Six Questions that you will read about in this article.   This list of questions was developed to help educators be clear about the unique added value of a digital learning environment.

Fascinating. And very helpful. Thanks Cally.

I will be passing this on to my curriculum coordinator and learning technologies teachers to think about. Thanks, the e newsletter subscription looks good.

Cool! I remember working on history curriculum within my school, beholden to the 'pet' topics of my peers. With this kind of access to class work, it broadens the peer group hugely! Not to mention the multitude of variations within topics...

The Living Sky School Division in Canada has developed and shared an excellent digital citizenship continuum for students, parents and teachers. 

An insightful blog by Jim Dillon on the problems with testing and how things need to be changed to accommodate a growth mindset for all students.