Learning+landscapes

=Sharing the ICT Experience=

The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- **Alvin Toffler**

Recipe for the successful 21st century educator - Be a 21st century learner and share your experiences. The skills of natives + knowledge and experience of immigrants = powerful learning communities.

[|Edubeacon] - my blogging space with links to my pesonal learning community [|Linkingforlearning] - my website - easy acces to relevant library and learning resources. [|GotoWeb2.0] - keep posted on a large variety of Web 2.0 applications [|Resources of FUSE Secondary Students website] - DEECD - specifically for the Victorian teachers and students.

Essential Understandings
[|RSS] - one of the key understandings for using the internet as a tool for your own learning and the learning of others. [|Google Reader] aggregator - where your information collects - all in the one place. [|News feeds from the BBC] - an example of the use of RSS feeds [|New Scientist]magazine - another example Specific news search on ABC News [|(water buyback Murray Darling)]| [|Docklands]

**Blogs and Global Classroom**
School Library Assoc Victoria -[|Bright Ideas blog] [|Wildlife Direct] - saving endangered animals - the experience of Africa today - are we being left behind?

Social Bookmarking
My [|Delicious] bookmarks - access your internet bookmarks regardless of the computer you are using. Learn from your community of similar interests. [|Diigo bookmarking] - interest groups and annotation - a step up from Delicious.com. Where our weekly Resource Roundup links come from - automatically!

Personal Learning Network - Get yourself a Home Base
[|Google for Educators] [|Google Reader], [|iGoogle], Google Docs, Google Sketchup, [|Google Sites] [|Pageflakes]

The Power of podcasts
This is a whole unit on it's own - see [|Linking for Learning overview] [|iTunes] - it's not just music - check the podcasts and iTunes U (K-12 content).

Flickr and friends
My sample [|Flickr files] [|Bookr] - [|sample] [|11 ways to browse Flickr files by Mashable] [|Tag Galaxy] Picture Catalogue of State Library of Victoria - [|Lilydale local history pictures] Life Magazine - [|Sinking of HMS Strathallan, North Africa 1942]

Digital story telling
50 Web 2.0 ways to tell a story [|Tell a story in 5 frames - Flickr] [|Voicethread] - choose Classroom for education deal - my [|Murray River Life] [|Voicethread - The Raven] - Edgar Alan Poe - commentary on his work.

Social Spaces
[|Twitter] [|Ning] - [|OZ/NZ Educators], [|Classroom 2.0], [|ASLA Online], EdNA - [|me.edu.au] [|Library Thing]

Search Engines and more
[|Search me] [|Internet Archive Wayback Machine] [|Alexa - global top 500 sites] [|Wordle] - use this with students' essays, tag clouds, digital stories. See [|TagCrowd] for more complexity and you can save it. Login required. [|Online tools for Classroom Use]

Video Technology
[|UStream] - Will Richardson [|Teachers TV] [|Vimeo]

Opportunities for collaborative learning
[|OZ-Teachernet Land Yachts] [|Victorian Education Channel Global Projects] [|ePals Projects]

Online Professional Learning
[|K12Online Conference 2009] - 4th year. Begins 30th November - concludes 17 December. 40 presentations. [|Knowledge Bank Online Events] - from DEECD Victoria. View via Elluminate collaborative desktop