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

This looks really promising Tania. Have you used it? We will have to explore this one further I think.

Just because you're online doesn't mean that you can't experience the world first-hand - or as close to first-hand as possible. Here are websites that feature virtual learning experiences, exposing online visitors to everything from history to geography, astronomy to anatomy, literature to government.

Great find Morena

A librarian in every school, books in every home - a modest proposal by Bob Peterson

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...

Mount Eliza Secondary College Librarian Lynn Swannell has developed an excellent presentation for her staff on how using Web 2.0 with students can help 'protect, nurture and grow'.

Have a look at this YouTube video of what the Mt Gambier Library staff put together for this year's National Simultaneous Storytime. Well done to the library staff on a great video!

Great evaluative tool for seniors that can be simplified for middle school too.

What a terrific tool for creating timelines for and with your students!

Some answers to copyright questions for Australian teachers and schools.

Catherine Hainstock has put together a draft list of iPad apps for use with the e5 model. Have a look at her post here describing the process. A chart of the apps is also available.

This is a conference by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape.

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.

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."

School library guru Dr Joyce Valenza has written an inspiring post entitled A Manifesto for 21st Century School Librarians. Covering our responsibilities to students.

Strathmore Secondary College library have recently set up their own library blog.

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.

Some great examples of libraries using Pinterest.

Connected educators  The platform is less importnat than the people who inhabit them.