The Big Question

Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history. Nearly one thousand students pack Harvard’s historic Sanders Theatre to hear Professor Sandel talk about justice, equality, democracy, and citizenship. Now it’s your turn to take the same journey in moral reflection that has captivated more than 14,000 students, as Harvard opens its classroom to the world.

This course as a 12-part series challenges us with difficult moral dilemmas. It could be a great resource in Religious Education and HSIE to engage students in bigger issues.

The video below will explain a little more.

A Celebration Of God’s Creation

The children of Wollongong Diocese have recently completed a diocesan assessment task which required them to create a product to show their knowledge and understanding of

• GOD AS CREATOR
• CREATION
• THEIR PLACE IN CREATION

Find out more and explore the Religious Literacy Blog here

This post is designed to support a professional learning day with some Religious Education Teachers from Holy Spirit College. We will be looking at a range of ways that they might use Web 2.0 application in their stage 4 Religious Education classes
The presentation can be found below

Examples of apps 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

[slideshare id=147182&doc=the-pencil-parable-1193470555496386-5&w=425]

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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