This post is designed to support a professional learning day with a group of Teachers from Holy Spirit College. We will be looking at a range of ways that they might use Web 2.0 applications to enhance learning or to make the students learning more authentic.
The presentation is based around a presentation developed for a similar professional learning day with the Religious Education Staff and can be found below
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Examples of Web 2.0 applications that may be of use your stage 4 classes are listed below.
This voicethread is quite interesting. A teacher has posted a series of pictures and left voice comments on each. Viewers can then have their say via audio recording and text. Its like an easy two way podcast.
Godtube is a video sharing site. This link is the results of a search for parable. You can post movies, view others movies and leave feedback.
This animoto movie is a song written and performed by a year 4 students from Mary Immaculate Eaglevale. The student recorded her song, gathered the images and animoto created the movie.
Teachertube is another video sharing site this time for teachers and students. The link is the results of a search for hinduism
Blabberize is an application that will allow you to upload an image, record your voice and make the image look like it is talking. Gimmicky but would be a way to allow historical figures to “speak”
http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/427374/?nextnav=recent
Tabblo is a photo site that enables simple desktop publishing. Visually interesting with the ability to add text. This example is on a sculpture but you can see how it could work with a visually rich task
The Catholic Wiki Project is an experiment to see if Roman Catholics around the web can come together to create an accurate, valuable resource on the Roman Catholic church. Students could evaluate and contribute to pages related to issues currently being studied.
Flickrcc is a great creative commons resource for finding and using images. This link is the results of a search for virgin mary
Podcasting is an interesting way for students to sharing their learnings. There are a number of teachers using podcasts within the Diocese. This link is an example from a Year 11 class.
Religious Podcasts - Easily find religious podcasts by searching or navigating our directory. You might find something of interest here or add student created podcasts.
For those occassions that students create powerpoint or slideshare presentations you may choose to publish them to slideshare. Alternatively you might have students search for presentations on slideshare.
This link is the results of a search for parable
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Regardless of how students create their work I believe there is great value in publishing and sharing this work in a common area.
To achive this you may choose from a range of tools including blogs and wikis. This blog is where one of our teachers shares student work and encourages students to leave constructive feedback on their work.
This wiki was designed to share student work created as a part of the Religious Literacy Assessment.
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Podcasting provides students with the purpose and motivation to create spectacular products, like presentations, advertisements, jingles, news reports based on current affairs, interviews and radio programs.
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