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How do new teachers use ICT?
Market research report now available
 edna commissioned market research with first year teachers about how they currently use ICT in their teaching, and how their pre-service training prepared them for using information technologies.
The focus group participants:
- were ‘digital natives’ with much greater reliance on ICT than their more experienced colleagues;
- use the web much more in planning than in teaching – Google and Wikipedia predominate;
- described their pre-service ICT training as patchy and inconsistent;
- experienced similar barriers to previous teachers & ICT market research – limited school infrastructure, site blocking;
- advised owners of websites to 'keep it simple'.
Beginning teachers research report
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VET e-learning funding
$7m of opportunities
 Registered training organisations (RTOs), business and industry can apply for more than $7 million in funding opportunities to embed e-learning in the vocational education and training (VET) system.
Grants are available for innovative e-learning solutions, workforce development for new industry sectors, flexible learning toolbox production or trials of emerging technologies.
Details at Australian Flexible Learning Framework
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ICT workshops coming to you
Connecting through edna: building digital bridges
 A program of one day mini-conferences from 26 March about technologies transforming education from preschool to university, featuring:
- finding free digital resources for learning;
- e-portfolio primer;
- integrating ICT in learning;
- introduction to Moodle;
- web conferencing.
www.edna.edu.au/workshops for information and registration.
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What's on this month
e-learning conferences and events
 Safer Internet Day takes place each year in February to promote safer and more responsible us of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world.
10 February, worldwide.
The Australian e-portfolio symposium will discuss indings from the research undertaken as part of the Australian e-portfolio Project with an aim of establish an e-portfolio community of practice. Representatives from higher education, VET and schools are welcome to attend. 9 February, QUT, Brisbane.
 Your School Library: Web 2.0 and Beyond is an online professional development course on the role of teacher librarians in taking care of teachers, change and leadership issues as well as online tools. Online only commencing 20 February.
More upcoming conferences and workshops at
edna events.
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Leading schools in the digital age
Free master classes for school leaders
Principals and school leaders are invited to register for a free Master Class that explores the creative use of digital technologies in schools, presented by national award winning principals and authors of Leading a digital school.
All states and territories from 4 March.
Visit Teaching Australia for details.
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Look out for the edna and Scholastic 2009 schools calendar in your school, pre-school or education faculty.
International year of reconciliation
International year of astronomy.
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