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- Internet and Email Services: Acceptable Usage for Schools (DET NSW)
- This document defines the policy for school students of the NSW Department of Education and Training for the appropriate and acceptable use of Internet and email services provided by the Department.
- Open2.net
- This site provides free online learning from The Open University and the BBC. Open2.net is the home of BBC/Open University TV and Radio programmes on the web. Interactive educational content across a wide range of subjects is available in the Learnin...
- Museum Box
- This site provides the tools for users to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. Lesson guidance and instructions for use are available in the teachers area.
- Australian Youth Forum
- The Australian Youth Forum is an initiative which enables young Australians to be engaged in discussions with the Australian Government about important issues.
- How Web 2.0 has changed the face of education
- A campaign called Next Generation Learning was launched this year by Becta to promote the effective use of technology in schools, colleges and other learning environments. Tony Richardson explains how Web 2.0 has the potential to revolutionise techno...
- Teaching tolerance
- A collection of lesson plans and activity ideas for the teaching of tolerance and harmony. The activities can be implemented directly or adapted for classroom needs.
- Boolify
- Boolify is an educational Boolean search tool. Boolify makes it easier to for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and by showing them how each change to their search instantly changes their results.
- National Curriculum Development Paper
- The National Curriculum Board (NCB) position paper was developed as as background reading for participants in the Into the Future Forum held in June 2008. The paper raises questions for discussion on which the National Curriculum Board will need to f...
- Particle detectives
- From the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) international project, Particle detectives is a web based resource for teaching upper secondary students particle physics. Users can 'drive' the LHC simulator and make their own discoveries or listen to the video ...
New ICT Research resources
- 144 Synchronous e-learning tips: Strategy and research
- The eLearning Guild conducted a survey of its members, asking for their favorite tips relating to strategies for effectively creating, managing, and u...
- Fostering learning in the networked world: The cyberlearning opportunity and challenge, a 21st century agenda for the National
Science Foundation
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) defines 'cyberlearning' as "the use of networked computing and communications technologies to support learning"....
- Ensuring the net generation is net savvy
- Net Gen students may know the Internet, but they are not necessarily 'net savvy.' Exposed to huge quantities and multiple formats of information onlin...
