Interesting points included:

Arthur C Clarke: “For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert”.
Robert Marzano’s was commissioned to research IWBs by Promethian and found that there was a 23% improvement in student performance when a) teacher has >=10 yrs experience, b) has used technology >=2 years, c) use IWBs 75-80% of the time, d) [...]

Shanti is the Assistant Principal at Sydney Distance Education Primary. She presented an excellent talk on the use of virtual constructionism in teaching and learning. I was also interested in a computer skills test to which she referred - the CLAS assessment. This could be used for some of the in-school research which we are [...]

An amazing system for sharing ideas and engaging debate - would be wonderful for developing students’ self awareness. Great for intercultural exchange as well. Do lookup: http://www.values-exchange.com/

Australian IWB Conference 09 Graham Wegner’s professional blog http://gwegner.edublogs.org . See
http://delicious.com/wegner/oziwb09
for his links from his IWB2009 conference presentation. He also recommends the K12 Online Conference http://k12onlineconference.org/