I have spent a lot of time this year putting resources created in our project online for teachers to share, so I thought this would be a good place to possibly ‘get the word out’. The resources are on the YVeLC website - just click ‘Resources’ in the menu, and they are divided into subject areas, general, and software. They have been created by myself and colleagues in the YVeLC in response to requests and perceived needs of teachers in our community. The resources range from curriculum material (WebQuests etc) to Professional Development material for teachers. There are lots of valuable material there, but two I have used a lot with staff are the very simple Multimedia Resources and the information on Open Source Software in Education.

This year we have also invested a lot of time in starting an online library of copyright free images for educational use. The images come from staff, students and generous friends, and now number aproximately 1300, and we are updating them all the time. These images are available for all students and educators to use for educational purposes, so please feel free to access them from the online gallery.
We use Joomla to create our website, and an advantage of the gallery component we are using is that you can put selected images into your ‘lightbox’ (like a shoping cart) and then download them all together in a single zip file. Very convenient.

I was just reading some posts over at Edubloggerworld , and a forum topic about using web 2.0 for PD caught my eye. I have participated in a Moodle based online PD program a couple of years ago and I thought it had a lot of potential. At the time, it wasnt felt to be appropriate for where out staff were at, so it wasnt pursued. Currently we run quite a lot of PD about web 2.0, but I dont know why it caught me by surprise to think of utilising blogs, wikis etc as an ongoing tool in all my PD. It is certainly something I am going to think about and plan to implement in future programs. Maybe because most of my PD is one off sessions run at conferences and such, but certainly for an ongoing school based PD program there is a wealth of possibilities.

I have been blogging for a while on Blogger, mixing up posts on my hobbies, education, travel etc.  So, I have imported all the education related content over here to edublog.  Please bear with me if the preceding posts are a little disjointed, but hopefully some of the links etc will still be of interest.

I get asked a lot for my bookmarks - I have collected a lot of links relating to using technology in education.  So, I have collected them in my Delicious account to make them accessible to everyone. Feel free to take a look….