But+wait,+there's+more!!

There are so many more places we could have gone with inquiring with ICT, in fact we probably could have done a week's worth of professional learning in this area alone! Given that the real world of budgets make this impossible, here's some areas you might like to explore further ourself:

These are great for stopping mindless 'cut and paste' jobs during student inquiry as they need to summarise and sort information. There are many sites on the internet for these, here's just a few: http://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm A great collection of interactive PDF organisers http://www.gliffy.com/online.shtml Online mind mapping program
 * Interactive Graphic Organisers**

There are so many great blogs, articles and web pages out on the internet, it can be difficult to keep track of everthing you like. Here's a couple of tools I use to manage my 'stuff'
 * I've found all this stuff - what do I do with it all?**

save all your notes, articles etc in this web-based tool that can be accessed from your computer, any other internet enabled computer, iPad, iPhone and more. My favourite thing about this app is it's in-text searching. So I can type in 'Guided Reading' and it will locate every note that has a reference to guided reading in it. This saves heaps of time and ensures you don't overlook anything useful.
 * Evernote**: http://www.evernote.com/

I've owned (and lost) many thumb drives over the last ten years. Now I use Dropbox instead. Dropbox is a web-based applicatio that you can store your folders and files in. You can access you stuff from any internet conected computer, iphone or ipad. No more frustration because the document you need is on the computer at home, or trying to work out which is the most recent copy of a certain document - dropbox does the syncing for you!
 * Dropbox** http://www.dropbox.com/

I find this the best way to keep up with all the blogs I want to follow. By subscribing to the blogs through Google Reader I have one place I can visit to stay up to date with what everyone is writing. There are some great apps to access this on your iPad and iPod too.
 * Google Reader** http:www.google.com.au (click on the 'more' drop down box at the top of the screen and choose 'reader'