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Here's a place to share interesting innovations and uses of technology that we come across. If you want to add something and aren't yet a member email me at tomha@nayland.school.nz
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First Class
[|Here]'s a link to the discussion forum at the Indpendent Schools Network about First Class.

And [|here's] some background on the software from wikipedia.

[|This] is the official site of the school version of FirstClass. I don't know if the fact that it's also used for businesses and other organisations and wasn't initially developed for education a strength or a weakness?

Cool Stuff Other People Are Doing
Here is a page on what the possibilities are for using IT. Here's a video of a great way to make a simple electronic whiteboard. I haven't seen it done for real, but it looks like something Max could be into?

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Something much more prosaic, but here is the wiki from the school that I was at in Norway, that most of the teachers are using for putting up a lot of the content of their lessons.

Other Things
I heard a podcast of this MIT professor,Mitch Resnick, who has developed new ways of using robotics in education... one of his projects is called 'The Life-Long Kindergarten'. Pretty 'far out' stuff! media type="youtube" key="nxSy8nXoQNc" height="344" width="425"

Here is the theory that I think Geoff's breakdown of tech users was based on.