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Sue Tapp -  High School Bloggers information:
http://teacherblogssubjectbased.wikispaces.com/

Pocket Projector
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/06/business/ptpogue06.php

Delicious most popular
http://popacular.com/

20 online images editors
http://mashable.com/2008/11/13/online-image-editors-2/

Math-a-Tube
http://www.mathatube.com/

Google Sketh up 7 released
http://sketchup.google.com/index.html

iPhone App
voice-activated Google Mobile app for the iPhone
http://www.google.com/mobile/apple

Edusim3d
http://edusim3d.com/alpha/

K12 Online Conference
http://k12onlineconference.org

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Feedback:
Adrian Bruce’s Teach Toolbox
http://adrianbruce.com/teacher-toolbox/

Tristan Mether -http://www.tristanmether.com - recommended:
http://www.thinkgos.com/gos.php
A google focused OS running off the back of Ubuntu with a dock just like OSX.

Mr Robbo’s mobile blogging projecthttp://vceoes.wordpress.com
The kids used utterli to cross post to the class blog while they were away on camp at the grampians.
Tool used: http://www.utterli.com/

Links

FOSS Conference in Sydney
http://ask-oss.mq.edu.au

Micro video blogging
http://12seconds.tv
Darre’l 1st 12secsonds http://12seconds.tv/channel/ictguy/48591

An Aussie Teacher TV
http://www.teacherstv.com.au

Custom search for kids
http://www.studysearch.com.au

Online image editor
http://www.sumopaint.com

Video for tots (little kids!)
http://www.totlol.com/index.php

Does you blog reveal your character?
http://www.typealyzer.com/

Google - Video Chat
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/talk-face-to-face-right-from-within.html
http://mail.google.com/videochat

National psychology week
http://www.psychologyweek.com.au/

Knowledge bank - Stephen Heppell talk
http://knowledgebank.globalteacher.org.au/2008/10/16/stephen-heppell-teaching-and-learning-in-the-online-world/

SuperClubs plus - site to check out for teachers and students - online safe social network https://www.superclubsplus.com.au/
Read about Lois’ experiences with super clubs plus:
http://loisath.edublogs.org/2008/10/24/online-safety-taught-well-in-superclubplus/

DVD capture (Mac only app)
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16324

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Feedback:
Darren Murphy
http://woices.com
http://comiqs.com/index.html

Free MacDonalds WiFi
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/10/mcdonalds_rolling_out_free_wi-fi_across_the_country.html

Free Secondlife Software
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.edublogs.tv/play.php?vid=1580
An overview of educational uses of Second Life including educational locations, tools, and learning archetypes that are applicable to…

Microvideo Blogging
http://12seconds.tv/

Watch it. Learn it. Technology focus AFAIK
http://www.woopid.com/

Herald Sun gives it to DEECD and the Ultranet
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24586362-2862,00.html

100+ Incredible Open Courseware Resources for Science Geeks
http://www.advantageedu.com/blog/

35 Family sites
http://mashable.com/2008/11/01/family-sites/

TutPup - Practice your skills - basic maths and spelling
http://tutpup.com/

Events
k12 online http://k12onlineconference.org
VITTA - http://www.vitta.org.au/
MAV -  http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/conference/

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Websites of interest:
Alternate LMS’s - get your stuff available 24/7
http://www.edu20.org/
http://hotchalk.com/
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/curriculum/socs/otls.html
http://yacapaca.com/
http://www.parishdata.com/chalksite/

An alternative to pageflakes that has recently popped up: Symbaloo
http://www.symbaloo.com/au/

Avairy is out of beta…
http://a.viary.com/home

Media Literacy
http://www.slideshare.net/reneehobbs
http://mediaeducationlab.com/

Cool Tools Wiki
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

Enclyopedia News
http://schools-wikipedia.org/
Interactive Encyclopedia
http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/default.aspx
Glossopedia™, is a free, safe, multimedia online interactive encyclopedia, connecting kids to the world by supporting explorations of nature, animals, science, and culture.

Is surfing the Internet altering your brain?
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE49Q2YW20081027

A link provided by ITTech - from the makers of kidspiration:
http://www.mywebspiration.com/

Some links provided by Tom March:
Oxford University Podcast:
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/

Article - Putting technology in Place
http://lessonplans.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/putting-technology-in-its-place/?th&emc=th
SMART Table
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/22/smart-pulls-the-cloth-off-multitouch-table-for-school-kids/

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Pageflakes
http://pageflakes.com

Multitasking Teens May Be Muddling Their Brains
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95524385

Tomaz Lasic - Moodle Tips from Belmont City College, Perth.
5-myths-about-teaching-with-moodle
http://human.edublogs.org/2008/10/09/top-5-myths-about-teaching-with-moodle/

Check your own Moodle pictures by using this format:
http://www.yourmoodlesite.org/userpix/

‘Net filters “required” for all Australians, no opt-out
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081016-net-filters-required-for-all-australians-no-opt-out.html

Blogging Videos for Educational Change
http://innovation3.edublogs.org/2008/10/19/top-ten-web-20-must-see-videos-that-superintendents-other-school-and-district-leaders-must-see/

New Literacy
http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=47102021

TeachersTV - Literacy Starters
http://www.teachers.tv/search/node/literacy+starters

Site suggested by ITTech from twitter:
Learning Through listening
http://www.learningthroughlistening.org/

Chris Lehmann - Pecha Kucha - Ingnite Philly presentation
http://www.practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1042-IgnitePhilly-Five-Minutes-To-Communicate.html

More Pecha Kucha from James Clay at the handheld conference
http://www.qik.com/video/400925

VITTA
http://vitta.org.au

K12 Online Conference
http://k12onlineconference.org

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ACEC Round Up
http://www.acec2008.info/

NowConference:
http://nowconference2008.ning.com
http://nowconference2008.ning.com/profile/TonyITmadeSimpleRichards

Feedback:
From Darren …Handheld conference
http://www.handheldlearning2008.com
http://elearningstuff.wordpress.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha

Also Becta Web 2.0 report:
http://schools.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=tl&catcode=ss_tl_dig_02&rid=15903

Digital Education Revolution :: Blog post - http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7984

The iphone app that glues your soacial network together?
http://www.fring.com/

Mac Apps from Mark Richardson
http://ictedservices.typepad.com/icted_services/2008/10/my-favourite-macintosh-applications.html

Windows app - Capture Fox 0.3.4.080917b
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8090

Media convertors
http://lifehacker.com/5058888/five-best-media-converters

Online Dabble board
http://www.dabbleboard.com/main

Twitter top 100 educators to follow:
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/socialmedia/edutwitter.html

A different look on copyright and access to resources on the web:
http://thepiratesdilemma.com/

From Twitter  tjtech posted the following site as being of interest: http://g.ho.st/?language=en

Events

Linux Conference Jan 09 - http://linux.conf.au/home

Mac Network activity 25th October 2008 - http://www.macschools.net/

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Interview with Jenny Luca
Her blog: http://jennylu.wordpress.com/
Powerful Learning Practice program: http://plpnetwork.com/

Jenny attended this Shanghai conference -
http://learning2cn.ning.com

Links

Fox Clocks - Firefox extension
http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/

iPhone 3G speeds
http://www.zacaltman.com/2008/08/iphone-australia-3g-speeds-are-the-slowest/

Twitter Keys
http://thenextweb.org/2008/09/16/twitterkeys-enhance-your-twitter-conversations/

Personal Apps
http://kathyschrock.net/soap/

Make your own books
http://www.blurb.com/

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Podcast that students made at the eTrain event at the Collingwood Children’s Farm - check them out here:
http://etraintourpodcast.edublogs.org/

Darrel’s Moodle Install PD links:
MAMP - http://www.mamp.info/en/index.php
XAMPP - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
Moodle - http://moodle.org
Moodle ‘ready made’ installers - http://download.moodle.org/windows/ & http://download.moodle.org/macosx/
Free Moodle Hosting - http://ninehub.com/

Moodle Features Course: http://moodle.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=6777
VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org/

Interesting flickr mashup
http://flickrvision.com

A game we can all be bad at…. Gordon Ramsay on the Wii
http://www.theage.com.au/news/biztech/gordon-ramsay-puts-game-on-the-menu/2008/09/15/1221330718814.html

Biology Search Engine - Valdo (pronounced vud-lo)
Link: http://www.vadlo.com/
About: http://www.vadlo.com/About_Vadlo.html

Free Elluminate
http://www.elluminate.com/k12/

More Sir Ken Robinson

http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2008/09/education-killing-creativity.html
Sir Ken’s site - http://www.sirkenrobinson.com/

Podcast that kids made at the eTrain - check them out here:
http://etraintourpodcast.edublogs.org/

Great to see our very own Google Search engine on the site - you can also visit the Ed Tech Crew Search engine here:
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=007672287586907941949:gwob1r3lpgk

iPod designed 30 years ago - http://www.kanekramer.com/html/development.htm

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Spore Ning
http://sporelearning.ning.com

Visualisation website
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home
From Rob Rankin

Comiclife book
http://www.ftcpublishing.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62&Itemid=111
From Deb Hicks

24 Apps for a USB drive
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/09/02/24-killer-portable-apps-for-your-usb-flash-drive
http://portableapps.com

7 Really awesome things about Chrome
http://mashable.com/2008/09/03/awesome-google-chrome/

Picasa - updated web presence - Google Albums
http://picasaweb.google.com/

10 Google tips and tricks
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/google-week-101-google-tips-tricks-and-hacks-462143?artc_pg=1

Ubiquity - Quicksilver & Spotlight for your browser?
http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

Pixlr - online photoshop like tool
http://www.pixlr.com/

Events
Vitta Conference rego’s now open
http://www.vitta.org.au/

Apples ITSC Events to be held all over Australia
http://www.apple.com/au/education/itsc08/

Open registrations to present at at NECC in 2009
http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/program/

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Interview with Andrew Churches

His blog: http://edorigami.edublogs.org/
His wiki: http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/
His school: http://www.kristin.school.nz/

21st century pedagogy and 21st century assessment
http://edorigami.edublogs.org/2008/08/16/21st-century-pedagogy/  
http://edorigami.edublogs.org/2008/07/17/21st-century-assessment-2/

Scuttle
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scuttle/

Other Sites

Physics Engines
Fantastic Contraption - http://fantasticcontraption.com/

Update - new release of the Phun - http://www.phunland.com/wiki/Home

100 best You0tube videos
http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/100-best-youtube-videos-for-teachers

MyGazines - http://www.mygazines.com/

Sydney girls school let student use iPods, the internet and mobile phones during exams as a new method of assessment: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=617470

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Links:

Photosynth - http://photosynth.net/Default.aspx

Details on the Launch -  http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10020637-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware

UMPC’s - http://www.liliputing.com/liliputers

Twitter monitor -suggested by Eric Marcos
http://www.monitter.com

Maths solar activity - http://www.roofray.com/

Digital story telling
http://www.jasonohler.com/storytelling/storyeducation.cfm &
http://digistories.pbwiki.com/

Tag Galaxy http://taggalaxy.de/

More Search with ‘How do ya …’  http://www.howdoya.com

Windows XP Power Toys
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx

Game - http://braid-game.com/

International Conference for Teaching and learning with Technology - http://www.ictlt.com/
Keynotes - Available online -Sir Ken Robinson, Mitchel Resnick
http://wiki.fahan.tas.edu.au/groups/ictlt/weblog/49e1d/Keynotes_and_Podcasts.html

Google Minus google - http://www.startupbin.com/google-google/

k12 Online Conference - http://k12onlineconference.org/

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Links:

Online Animator and Digital Story Telling Tool
http://goanimate.com

Data Visualisation
http://www.uuorld.com

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Guest Speaker - Darren Murphy on Google Teacher Academy

Google Educators on Flickr http://flickr.com/photos/colettec/2625209226/in/photostream/

Gone Google Chreyl Davis - http://picasaweb.google.com/cheryl.davismhs/GoneGoogle

http://googleteachers.wetpaint.com/

Apply here: http://www.google.com/educators/gta.html

Text to MP3 site
http://www.hearwho.com/

Text to audio
http://readthewords.com/

Comparison of Readthewords.com and Mac SO X voices
http://www.smsn.vic.edu.au/ictguy/index.php/2008/05/27/ictguy0811/

ABC Earth
http://www.abc.net.au/apps/earth/

Events
http://oznzeducators.ning.com/events

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Links

iphone pricing - http://www.numbersinaflash.com

NSW Education mail email deal:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/biztech/google-enrolled-for-schools-email-deal/2008/07/29/1217097291695.html

Lotus Symphony: free office suite for windows & linux
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/products.jspa

50 Awesome Search Engines Every Librarian Should Know About

http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2008/07/22/50-awesome-search-engines-every-librarian-should-know-about/

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Sprout
http://sproutbuilder.com

Google Streetview
http://maps.google.com.au/

Technology topic - Downloading and converting flash video.

Online tools:
http://www.zamzar.com and http://vixy.net/

Big list of video download helpers
http://mashable.com/2007/05/05/download-youtube-video/

Download helper
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006

IWB Wiki
http://iwblearningcommunity.wikispaces.com/

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Links

Search Engines
New search engine: http://www.cuil.com
Also … 13 more …
http://www.smashingapps.com/2008/07/18/13-most-unusual-search-engines-you-should-remember.html
Including http://www.deligio.com &  http://www.pdf-search-engine.com

Feedback:

Camtasia competition - do we have winners? Yes! Congratulations:
Sue Tapp & Ms Riggins

A free virtualisation tool you can use on the Mac and other OS to run other operating systems:
http://www.virtualbox.org

Jenny Luca suggested (http://jennylu.wordpress.com/):
http://wiki.idebate.org Welcome_to_Debatepedia!

Do you know copyright? Good one for libraians and educators
http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/

The Pirate’s Dilemma :: Copyright - video from lauren Ogrady:
http://ogrady.globalteacher.org.au/2008/07/01/another-perspective-on-copyright/
YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE5QsT5tJWs
What are you….. fight the rebellion or become part of it ……!

Nasa Images - archive of images from nasa: http://www.nasaimages.org

Microblogging tools
http://laconi.ca/ & http://identi.ca/

Western Metro Region conference.
WMR NOW online Conference
The WMR Ultranet Coaches, are delivering an online conference, using Elluminate, in October this year.

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Knowledgebank conference
http://knowledgebankconference2008.globalteacher.org.au
http://knowledgebankglobalteacher.wetpaint.com

Steve Hargadon’s post on web2.0
http://www.stevehargadon.com/2008/03/web-20-is-future-of-education.html

Feedback:
Russell Montgomery contributed a number of links to our Ed Tech Crew group on diigo
Russell’s Blog - http://russelmontgomery.typepad.com
Maths cast site by Tim Fahlberg among others
http://math247.pbwiki.com
Voicethread ning for Educators
http://voicethread.ning.com
More maths
http://www.intmath.com/

Chris Betcha’s Resources: Learning is a Conversation
http://betchablog.wikispaces.com/Learning+is+a+Conversation

Self Cast - Broadcast yourself!
http://www.selfcast.com

Edit Grid - Online spreadsheet
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9972158-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware & http://editgrid.com

PicLens
http://www.piclens.com

Snurl - shortening those long urls
http://www.snurl.com/

100 Unbelievably Useful Reference Sites You’ve Never Heard Of
http://www.teachingtips.com/blog/2008/07/07/100-unbelievably-useful-reference-sites-youve-never-heard-of/

via Heyjude - 25 Incredible Skins, Resources & Tools for the Gmail Power User
http://www.dailybits.com/25-incredible-skins-resources-tools-for-the-gmail-power-user/

A beautiful shortfilm online called Solar - very imaginative and beautifully developed
http://www.solarthefilm.com/flashindex.html

Opensource animation block buster!
http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/

*** Games Links ****
Wii Motion Plus
http://kotaku.com/5024907/nintendo-introduces-wii-motion-plus

Wii Speak - a microphone for your Wii
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1362770479;fp;2;fpid;3

Wii Music - simulate more than 60 different instruments
http://www.theage.com.au/news/articles/nintendo-plans-60instrument-wii-music/2008/07/16/1216162933893.html

Play Station Game - Fat Princess
http://www.ausgamers.com/games/fat-princess/

ACEC Conference
Early Bird Registrations close this week for the ACEC conference in Canberra in Sept/Oct
http://www.acec2008.info/default2.asp?orgid=1&suborgid=12

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Links

Please email us at edtechcrew@gmail.com for your chance to win a free version of Camtasia Studio from TechSmith - tell us what you would do with the software in your class to win. Please include your full name, your school and area you work within the school.

Moodle Site
http://moodleman.edublogs.org

Favthumbs
http://favthumbs.com/ - visualising delicious bookmarks.

Google Earth Tours -
http://earth.google.com/ig/directory?hl=en&pid=earth&synd=earth - download kmz files

Gmail for all NSW students ….
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147484/gmail_to_support_millionplus_student_users.html
And http://www.misaustralia.com/viewer.aspx?EDP://1214270475399

New Zealand Schools
Using Glogster - http://www.glogster.com/
BeFunky - http://www.befunky.com/
New New Zealand Curriculum - http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/

iTunes account - to access the US itunes store - Why?
http://forums.mactalk.com.au/20/45826-how-get-us-itunes-account-free.html

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Links

The following podcast was recorded from the conference floor at NECC 2008, San Antonio, Texas. Apologies for the audio quality - it sounded good at the time.

Please email us at edtechcrew@gmail.com for your chance to win a free version of Camtasia Studio from TechSmith - tell us what you would do with the software in your class to win.

ISTE
http://www.iste.org/

NECC08
http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2008/

MathTrain TV
http://www.mathtrain.tv/

MathTrain website
http://www.mathtrain.com/

TechSmith
http://www.techsmith.com/

Camtasia Studio
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

Jing
http://www.jingproject.com/

Google Teacher Academy
http://www.google.com/educators/gta.html

LAMS
http://www.lamsinternational.com/

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Special Guest - Will Richardson

Powerful Presenting Practice - http://plpnetwork.com/details.html

Will’s Blog: http://weblogg-ed.com/

Will’s Book: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms

Will’s Ustream Channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/weblogg-ed-tv

Will’s Video’s: http://weblogg-ed.com/videos/

ULearn08 Conference in NZ: http://centre4.interact.ac.nz/spaces/space.php?space_key=17876

21 Classes: http://www.21classes.com/

Blog post - Steep unlearning curve: http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/the-steep-unlearning-curve/

Book mention - Here Comes Everybody

Future of the Book Blog: http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/

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Ed Tech Crew Survey Results
http://edtechcrew.net/2008survey.html

FireFox 3 release - http://getfirefox.com
Spore Creature Creator  - http://www.spore.com

Ed Tech Crew mentioned on http://edtechtalk.com & Women of Web 2.0 Show 80  http://edtechtalk.com/node/3190

Teachers going to the Google Academy
http://googleteachers.wetpaint.com/?t=anon

Phun - 2D Physics (Mac, Win, Linux)
http://www.phun.at/

Photo Ballon Engine
http://www.superlame.com/

Google brings ‘Google Earth’ to your browser
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9953501-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware

2D driving simulator on Google Maps
http://geoquake.jp/en/webgame/DrivingSimulatorGM/

New search sites via Jenny Luca http://jennylu.wordpress.com/
SearchMe: http://beta.searchme.com
Veiwzi - http://www.viewzi.com
Thanks to Jenny - http://jennylu.wordpress.com/

The Return of HyperCard
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9962424-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware

Events
Via Deb Hicks… FINAL CUT WORLD TOUR - Thursday, July 24, 1-5pm - Melbourne
Register:  
http://www.apple.com/au/finalcutstudio/tour/

NEWS -NEWS
Australian Digital Revolution
http://www.digitaleducationrevolution.gov.au
Tony’s take on it all!
http://itmadesimple.typepad.com/learning_thinking_playing/2008/06/digital-revolut.html