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"Google Squared takes a category and creates a starter 'square' of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web."

iMoot is an annual event where the Moodle community of over 32 million users are provided the opportunity to join together on a global scale. This web based event engages a global audience of Moodle practitioners, administrators and decision makers in one event for an online e-conference with a difference!

"Victoria's privacy commissioner has issued a stark warning to government agencies about the use of cloud computing, warning that it may be "impossible" to protect personal information held about Australians when it was located offshore - or even just outside Victoria."

"In Australia, 1.6 million computers end up as landfill every year. In Victoria, as many as 500,000 computers become obsolete every year (MMV). VITTA is committed to the view that obsolete computers and components should be recycled or disposed of in such a way as to minimise the environmental impact of e-waste. "

"Just as newsrooms were starting to stir with the rumoured explosion of a Qantas plane off Indonesia, and journalists began making calls to hotels on the island of Batam, Twitter was recording thousands of versions of what might have happened. "

Some fascinating things to consider in this media article between informal twitter users and formal journalists as the social networking tide sweeps across the story to lift it gently onto the beach. What really happened, when and where is the real news?

"There are many teacher contributed resources which you can search in a number of ways: keyword, popular resources, new resources, cloud tag, or category. Members may wish to share a resource by clicking on the "add a resource button" and filling the details. You may also help others with their selection by commenting on the value of the resource to your teaching and learning. Members must be logged in to access resources."

VITTA eKnowledge resource portal

"An elderly Georgian woman who allegedly shut off internet services in her country and neighbouring Armenia while scavenging for copper cable is facing charges that could lead to three years in prison. In an interview the woman tearfully insisted she was innocent and said she had never heard of the web."

Interesting disaster recover planning case study.

Up to twenty successful Year 11 students will be placed with individually appropriate industry professionals in a mentoring relationship.

ICT provides a rich and flexible learner-centred environment in which students can experiment and take risks when developing new understanding. Its extensive capabilities allow students, by visually coding and representing their thinking, to clarify thoughts, and to identify patterns and form relationships between new and existing knowledge.