What’s the big idea?

1. Making ideas happen http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/21/five-tips-for-making-ideas-happen/ Hierarchy of needs http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/26/designing-for-a-hierarchy-of-needs/
2. Seth Godin http://sourcesofinsight.com/2010/04/25/lessons-learned-from-seth-godin/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+SourcesOfInsight+%28Sources+of+Insight%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
3. Internet radio http://www.live365.com/index.live
4. Times spelling bee http://www.timesspellingbee.co.uk/
5. Check your facebook settings http://tlrr.blogspot.com/
6. Songsmith – create your own songs http://slav.globalteacher.org.au/2010/04/27/songsmith-create-your-own-songs/
7. Age report on the teacher-librarian inquiry http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/mps-to-hear-school-library-concerns-20100426-tnci.html
Harvard – role of libraries http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/gutenberg-2-0 Fixing teacher-librarianship http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/its-broken-lets-fix-it-the-traditional-model-of-school-librarianship/
Also http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1430054143.html?nid=3714
Libraries are more than books http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2010/4/25/the-last-of-the-book-librarians.html
8. Interactive whiteboard resources http://esandbox.wikispaces.com/IWBs more IWB and other links http://sites.google.com/site/ourladyoflourdeslibrarysite/Home
9. Drama links http://mentone-educational.com.au/products/stage more drama http://www.thedramateacher.com/ Website evaluation http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/ http://showme.physics.drexel.edu/thury/VELCRO.html and http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ and http://www.venganza.org/
10. Twitter – untweep people http://untweeps.com/ Twitter http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/step-away-from-the-tweet/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
11. Bring Maths to life http://www.dreambox.com/teachertools Timez Attack – fun way to practice times tables http://www.bigbrainz.com/Teachers.php Also http://mathforum.org/t2t/faq/faq.multiplication.html
12. Research models http://www.edselect.com/research_models.htm
13. Booktrailers / storytubes http://www.storytubes.info/drupal/node/43
14. Critical thinking http://critical-thinking.iste.wikispaces.net/
15. 5 Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading” http://j.mp/cmNwMg
16. English-web based resources http://resources20.pbworks.com/
17. Gaming webinar archive http://resources20.pbworks.com/
18. Librarians as Leaders of 21st Century Learning: Lessons Learned Webcast
http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=201596&s=1&k=02DA0064B0CC3E8CE6DBF7A7A2DB6AB4
19. Skyping http://kmessner.livejournal.com/147810.html
20. Fixing copyright http://www.uts.edu.au/new/speaks/2010/April/2004.html