• The 2010 Social Networking Map / Flowtown (@flowtown)

  It is very interesting to look at social media use in terms of country populations; this could be useful to share with colleagues and students.

  tags: map social socialNetworking networking social media 2010 socialMedia web2.0 Flowtown

• Historical Facebook | Bright ideas

  Recently edtech guru Richard Byrne wrote about a way to encourage students to research using the concept of Facebook. By creating a faux Facebook account for a person of interest, students need to research that person and try to bring their personality to life.

  tags: facebook historical Education technology learning

• Promoting reading using Glogster | Bright ideas

  tags: reading promoting glogster libraries technology

• Reading-Active-and-Engaging – Book Trailers – Assessment Rubric

  tags: assessment booktrailers rubric reading Rubrics Book books

• OLMC on Twitter | Bright ideas

  tags: twitter olmc libraries technology

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• Mashpedia – Multimedia Encyclopedia

  Looking for an online, multimedia, real time encyclopedia? Mashpedia is just that and is worth using with students.

  tags: mashpedia reference research encyclopedia search web2.0 real-time wikipedia libraries

• School Library Association of Victoria 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner | Bright ideas

  tags: slav 2010 library slav50 anniversary dinner

• 2010 SLAV awards | Bright ideas

  Information on the School Library Association of Victoria awards for 2010.

  tags: slav awards 2010

• Microsoft Education: Lesson plans, tutorials & education resources

  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.

  tags: Education Web2.0 technology learning microsoft

• New Titanic expedition will create 3D map of wreck

  tags: Titanic maps mapping 3D

• Google Lit Trips @ Mooroopna SC | Bright ideas

  Teacher librarian Rachel Fidock has kindly shared information on how she has been developing Google Lit Trips with her colleagues and students at Mooroopna Secondary College.
  

  tags: Education Web2.0 technology learning libraries reading books Google_Lit_Trips google.earth

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• WWWW by wendymoyle – ToonDoo – The Cartoon Strip Creator – Create, Publish, Share, Discuss!

  What a brilliant depiction of how Wendy found the Victorian PLN program.

  tags: wendymoyle vicpln ToonDoo

• Information update May 2010 Alternative Search engine

  Alternative search engines; special search engines

  tags: search searching information search engines research

• Dropbox – Home – Online backup, file sync and sharing made easy.

  An easy way to share files without clogging up your email inbox.

  tags: storage backup dropbox sharing tools sync collaboration software technology

• Enhancing Teachers’ Take-up of Digital Content: Factors and Design Principles in Technology Adoption | Bright ideas

  Enhancing Teachers’ Take-up of Digital Content: Factors and Design Principles in Technology Adoption

  tags: enhancing teachers’ technology digital Education Web2.0 tools

• Emerging Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010

  The Emerging List of Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010

  tags: tools Web2.0 technology learning list 2010 Education

• VCE-Jersey-Boys – home

  tags: vce technology collaboration wiki JerseyBoys Whitefriars_College

• Wizard of Apps revised

  tags: joycevalenza slav Education technology libraries collaboration learning socialmedia

• Library20

  tags: slav joycevalenza Education technology libraries learning reading collaboration blogs wikis socialmedia

• slavvalenza – home

  tags: slav joycevalenza Education technology reading libraries digitalcitizenship digitalstorytelling network informationliteracy

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• National Year of Reading 2012

  tags: reading national year libraries books

• Readers Cup

  tags: readers cup Education web2.0 technology libraries reading books filmfestival FUSE

• Adventures in Library Instruction podcast

  tags: Education web2.0 technology libraries learning Podcast library instruction teaching

• Sharing eLearning at MESC – home

  tags: Education web2.0 technology libraries learning wiki eLearning sharing collaboration

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• Alan November: effective searching | Bright ideas

  tags: alannovember Education web2.0 technology learning libraries searching

• Live and Interative with Heidi Hayes Jacobs on Curriculum 21 | LearnCentral

  tags: HeidiHayesJacobs FutureofEducation Elluminate Steve_Hargadon Education collaboration web2.0 technology learning

• ISTE Learning

  tags: iste learning web2.0 professionaldevelopment techintegration profdev Education collaboration technology

• Eltham College of Education Junior School – Book Week 2010 | Bright ideas

  tags: eltham college education libraries reading books BookWeek

• MSC Library Reviews

  tags: library resources reviews msc MooroopnaSC education technology libraries reading blog books

• Year 9 Health MSC – FUSE – Department of Education and Early Childhood Development

  tags: fuse MooroopnaSC technology web2.0 tools learning libraries education

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• 2010 reform symposium

  tags: education reform symposium conference elluminate

• Twitter / @brightideasblog/Aussie authors

  tags: aussie twitter authors reading books

• Twitter / @brightideasblog/aussie-authors

  tags: aussie authors twitter libraries reading books

• Welcome to ABookandAHug.com

  tags: booklists bookreviews books reading readers_advisory library readersadvisory libraries education technology learning

• Welcome to Reading Rewards

  tags: reading books technology education learning incentive

• Echuca College Year 7

  tags: echuca college collaboration blog technology education learning tools

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• A virtual excursion to the zoo and online PD to start off Term 3 | Bright ideas

  A virtual excursion to the zoo and online PD to start off Term 3

  tags: virtual excursion DEECD virtualconference education technology learning collaboration

• Seeking Submissions for Proposed Anthologies from Practicing Librarians | Bright ideas

  Author and editor Carol Smallwood is putting together an anthology authored by a range of librarians.

  tags: libraries librarians anthology

• Tom March @ ACEC 2010 | Bright ideas

  tags: tom march acec education collaboration web2.0 technology learning tools

• ISTE 2010 Conference Ning

  tags: iste iste2010 Ning education conference socialnetworking edtech

• Summit: Mobile computing is education’s future | Mobile and Handheld Technologies | eSchoolNews.com

  tags: mobile future summit computing web2.0 education technology learning

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• Unboxed – Yes, People Still Read, but Now It’s Social – NYTimes.com

  tags: NewYorkTimes reading books eReaders socialmedia

• Stumpedia

  tags: search searchengine social web2.0 stumpedia searchengines socialnetworking

• D-Lib Magazine

  tags: magazine technology libraries D-Lib digital research

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• pathfinderswap – home

  tags: pathfinderswap, pathfinders, library, wiki, pathfinder, education, libraries, learning, technology, collaboration

• WikiNorthia

  tags: wikinorthia, wiki, technology, web2.0, collaboration, libraries, learning

• BBC Sport – Football – MOTD unplugged – Hansen’s history lesson

  tags: football, sport, bbc, soccer, worldcup, video, history, library, learning

• Can i play this at home | caniplaythisathome.com

  tags: soccer, football, worldcup, education, games, technology, learning

• Willowgrove – Screencasts

  tags: math, screencasts, screencast, wiki, tutorials, education, willowgrove, technology, learning, collaboration

• Wesley College investigates eReaders | Bright ideas

  tags: wesley, college, learning, libraries, reading, books, technology, education, eBooks, eReaders

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• Museum Box Homepage

  tags: history, web2.0, museum, interactive, writing, socialstudies, project, education, technology, collaboration, learning

• 21st Century Workers Require New Skills. « Libraries and Transliteracy

  tags: 21st, century, transliteracy, workers, collaboration, learning, technology, education, web2.0

• Convert any text to speech with iSpeech

  tags: audio, text2speech, speech, convert, ispeech, learning

• International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

  tags: international, strategy, disaster, reduction, UnitedNations, education, technology, collaboration, learning

• Stop Disasters

  tags: science, game, interactive, geography, education, environment, disasters, simulation, UnitedNations, technology, learning

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