(Friday 24th May 2013)
Give these Year 6 students some feedback on their first online writing pieces. (Victoria, Australia)
Also - class guidelines about Giving effective feedback.
(Thursday 23rd May 2013)
The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) has confirmed that Year 9 to Year 12 students in 2013 will be the last to receive laptops under the current DER scheme.
(Wednesday 22nd May 2013)
Each of these Year 7 Book Trailers is about 1 minute long and uses the persuasive techniques learned about by students in Language Arts to get others interested in their book. Trailers were created using the iMovie app on iPads.
(Tuesday 21st May 2013)
Following their recent announcement of the amalgamation of storage across their free accounts, Google have announced that they are amalgamating the storage quotas on their Google Apps services (including Education), resulting in a combined 30Gb of free storage across Drive, Gmail and Photos.
(Friday 17th May 2013)
In response to Google's announcement of 15Gb of free shared storage (see below), Copy has increased it's free basic storage to 15Gb, plus a further 5Gb if you join through a referral, and then 5Gb for every subsequent referral, up to tens of TerraBytes!
(Friday 17th May 2013) Google have announced that they are amalgamating the storage quotas on their free services, with a combined 15Gb of storage across Drive, Gmail and Photos.
(Thursday 16th May 2013)
Students of all ages with enquiring minds will enjoy Chris Hadfield's videos about life in space, posted from the International Space Station.
(Tuesday 14th May 2013)
Parents have come to believe that their child will be permanently categorised by their NAPLAN results. (Dr James Athanasou - SMH)
(Thursday 9th May 2013)
If you are not able to join the 600+ teachers at the Sentral Conference at the Olympic Stadium today, follow the conference conversation on Twitter - #sentral2013
(Friday 3rd May 2013)
Just like Kodak, Nokia, GM and Microsoft in the corporate world, large educational organisations can also find themselves in technological denial.
(Thursday 2nd May 2013)
The world's first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for modern internet browsers as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the web. (SMH). See an example.
(Wednesday 1st May 2013)
Rather than taking pens, paper, calculators and textbooks for a measuring exercise around the school oval, students at St Leonard's College in Brighton East are using their own tablet devices to support their learning activities. (The Age)
(Monday 29th April 2013)
Setup your Chrome browser to sign in with multiple accounts, providing portable access to separate Google accounts on multiple computers and devices.
(Tuesday 16th April 2013)
Could this be the new Dropbox? Access your files from everywhere, on all devices and platforms. Sign up for 5Gb of free storage space (plus another 5Gb for installing the app from this referral).
(Saturday 13th April 2013)
Coalition ideas reminiscent of 1977 comments that "there is no reason for any individual to have a computer in [their] home". (SMH)
(Wednesday 10th April 2013)
Although the popular CAP Research Modules are no longer available online, they can be downloaded as a single file from this archive.
(Thursday 4th April 2013)
Register now for these hands-on workshops. Learn how to use Apple Configurator to install the latest iOS and a range of apps on multiple iPads. You will also learn how to make and install Profiles.
(Wednesday 3rd April 2013)
Some lessons here for Australian schools - Texas leads the US in expenditure on standardised testing, yet lags well behind in educational performance. (Carolyn Heinrich)
Travel Tech Useful tech tools & apps for travellers.
Opinion
The Learning Curve SMH education blog - you can post comments relating to the discussion.
Maralyn Parker Telegraph columnist writing about current education issues.
Where2Now
Discussion of issues impacting the implementation of ICT in the curriculum.
Edu Media (Aust)
SMH Education
Education articles from the Sydney Morning Herald.
HeraldEducation
Variety of resources for teachers and students. (SMH)
Standardised Testing
Reading Links to a variety of articles relating to the implementation of teacher and school rankings based on the results of standardised tests.
Discussion
BYOT and Trust Teachers are concerned that if students are allowed to use their own devices they will be checking email, texting, and engaging in other off-task activities. Just like we all do in staff meetings!
All Together Now Neil Hopkins discusses the pace of pedagogical change in primary schools.
ICT Co-ordinator - Bridge or Barrier? An effective ICT coordinator acts as a bridge between new technologies or new approaches to using technology and the successful outcome of students' learning.
Things That Make a Difference Some thoughtful discussion about support for teachers integrating new technologies in the school curriculum.
Handling the inappropriate Discussion about what happened when a NSW teacher introduced the Edmodo social networking environment to their Year 9 class.
iPad
iPad Deployment Enterprise deployment info for iPads in schools, from Apple.
iPad apps for educators Some neat apps here for those exploring the iPad in their classrooms.
iPad to the Cloud Save iWork files from your iPad to Box and Dropbox.
Teaching & Learning
HPS Student Showcase A selection of the fantastic work students publish on the Helensburgh PS school Intranet every year.
Slowmation Quickly produce meaningful animations that represent learning, using free software. Developed at UOW.
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy A variety of resources to support the application of Bloom's framework in our learning environments.
Agile teachers Stephen Heppell discusses how teachers can thrive in new learning environments.
Google-proof questioning A "Google-proof" question requires analysis, interpretation, and investigation. We need to set tasks that challenge thinking skills, not Googling skills.
Teacher Tips for Blogs Ideas and discussion about the organisation of student publishing projects in the classroom.
Printopia (Mac)
Installed on a network computer, this small utility will allow you to use Apple'sAirPrint on your iPad to print to any printer on your network.
EnolSoft (Mac)
Capture YouTube videos for reliable display when required in your classroom. Free.
School web site management Use Web 2.0 technologies in conjunction with your school web site to share the ownership of the site's day-to-day updates between multiple staff.
Preview's extra features Apple's Preview application does a lot more than just view PDF documents. You can easily edit photos and PDFs using the Annotate tools.
Blogger Navigation Bar Hide the blue banner that appears at the top of Google Blogger blogs.
Administration
10 Worst Practices
Michael Trucano lists what he considers to be the 'worst practices' related to the large scale use of ICTs in education. Do some of these sound familiar?
Effective presentations A slide-show can enhance your lesson or presentation, especially for visual learners - but it does not make a poor presentation any better. Some ideas and tips.
ICT Planning
Discussion of ICT planning in the context of whole-school planning practices.
