Dear Teachers and Pre-service Teachers
I am Dr Jenny Lane a senior lecturer and researcher at a University in Australia. I am an enthusiastic blogger  @EduJen and the President of the Educational Computing Association of Western Australia (ECAWA).

Welcome to to the Technologies Curriculum Resources Blog

Thank you for visiting our community resource blog. We have set this up as a useful resource for teachers and preservice teachers. Technology is an important part of everything we do. We have a new Technologies Curriculum in Australia and it makes sense for us to work together to find and share the best most useful resources to use in our teaching. Please use the menu headings at the top of the page to find posts in different categories. We would love to hear your feedback so post a comment on a resource that you find interesting or useful.

I am an enthusiastic blogger. Community blogging is a great way to work together to benefit all of us and most importantly the students we teach. Please use this blog to build  a set of resources and teaching ideas that we can all use as we plan our teaching in the technologies area. I look forward to seeing your postings and comments. All the work in this blog will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

I would like to thank ECAWA the Educational Computing Association of Western Australia and ACCE the Australian Council for Computers in Education for  their help and support in developing and maintaining these resources. I would also like to thank Sue Waters and the Edublogs team for technical help and hosting the blog on the Edublogs site.

Happy blogging
Dr Jenny Lane and the DTM4260 team

Dear Preservice Teachers

Writing your first blog post

I have added you to the blog as a student. You will receive an email inviting you to join the blog. Please follow the link and set up your account. Log in to the blog and start exploring. Take a look at the sample post- (see the sample post on the menu at the top of the blog).

Use the +New on the tool bar at the top of the blog page to add a new blog post.

Use the same headings as seen in the sample post. Remember to add a graphic and some headings to make your post attractive and cite any sources that you use. You are ready to write your first blog post.  you can save as a draft unit you are ready to submit. Your posts will come to myself and the tutors in draft form and we will review, edit and publish them and you will become a published blogger.

**NB: 🙂 Please use the categories to add all the needed data tags to your blog post. This will make your post searchable by subject, strand, substrand and year level. Take a look at the menu items on the top of the blog.

Extend the learning by posting additional ideas on a colleagues blog post- use the comment function on the blog post.

Have fun I look forward to reading your blog posts and seeing your comments

Dr Jenny Lane

All the work in this blog will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/