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When socializing or communicating with Facebook here are some resources to support your understanding of the environment, a few tips to ensure for a safe experience, and some links to keep up you up to date on changes and privacy settings. The concept to be aware of is that anything online is not private. So be cautious and thoughtful about what you say, share and post. It will be associated with you on the internet and you may never be able to get rid of it. Think before you post!

how to wirelessly control a set of Keynote slides running on an iPad connected to a projector. Not surprisingly, there's an app for that. Apple has an app called Keynote Remote to support your Keynote slideshows.

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.

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.

Whitefriars College teacher librarian Karen Kearney has developed a resourceful wiki to support Maths learning and teaching.

Apps and websites to support inquiry learning - mostly apps!

An interesting collection of ideas for what parents can do at home to support the life-long learning of science

The final round of government funding is currently being distributed to schools all around Australia. So far over 967,000 computers have been bought, infrastructure built and (most) teachers up-skilled to benefit from the acquisition. But as the funds come to an end, many school principals are wondering if the process has been beneficial, and how can they continue to support and progress the Digital Education Revolution?

Interacting with real world data and resources Learners can use ICT to gather real world data to support problem solving, either from online databases and other resources or directly through surveys or in other ways.

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

Whitefriars College teacher librarian Karen Kearney has developed some interesting resources to support learning and teaching.

The news released on 14 September 2010 that Victorian schools will be able to gain access to funding and support to become eSmart schools is a brilliant step towards cybersafety.

Excellent site about the history of specific words. Includes videos that would support particular topics in history etc. An example is the video on propaganda.

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."

Mndfulness for school students - resources, podcasts, blog