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Hosting: learning management systems in a secure and stable web-based environment for Australian K-12 schools learn more... Support: for teachers and administrators with instructional design and technical advice to gain greatest benefit from a LMS learn more... Training: via face-to-face and online courses to effectively use a LMS to optimise achievement of student outcomes learn more...  
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In January 2008, Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd announced the Federal Government's Digital Education Revolution - a $900m 4 year program which aims to achieve 1:2 (computer to student) ratio in all Australian secondary schools. Grants up to $1m are available to schools for computer hardware whereby the Federal Government enters into a funding agreement with respective Block Grant Authorities. The $900m figure was calculated on 900,000 students nationally in y9-12 at $1000 per unit for 'effective ICT deployment' to improve the above mentioned ratio. |
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In our opinion, Twitter is a killer social networking app. Its easy to use, fun & unobtrusive. There are no doubt numerous ways to respond in no more than 140 characters to Twitter's perennial question: What are you doing?
Well, here's another way to Tweet! In case you didn't know its possible to post messages to Twitter using your Skype account & also receive updates from those you follow.
There's actually a Skype bot that, with the right instructions, will post to your Twitter account. Here's how... |
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'Google Generation' refers to a generation of people born since 1993, who have grown up in an Internet dominated world. According to Wikipedia, the phrase has entered common usage as a "...way of referring to a generation whose first port of call for knowledge is the internet and a search engine, Google being the most popular". |
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In no particular order, We've listed our 10 favourite web tools for teachers. Eleven, actually! We hope they are of value to you and your students. Best wishes for a fantastic year.
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