The Big Question

A nice little presentation encouraging teachers to use Web 2.0 tools to create personal learning networks.

Collaborating, Presenting and Publishing in your classroom – New Pedagogy

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The presentation from the Magdalene Staff Development day

During the session we explored

• Dfilm – is now Dvolver. Make your own movie with the
  

  Dvolver creates creativity tools. Have you ever wanted to direct your own movie? No problem. Our MovieMaker helps you make a movie in a few simple steps. When your opus is complete send it to a friend. Or, post it to your website or myspace page.

• Picasa Web Albums
  

  Easy and free web albums for schools. A number of our schools now use this to publish school photos and student work.

• YouTube – moviesfromsje’s Channel

  An example of a school youtube channel. This one is from the art department at St John the Evangelist at Nowra

• Woolley’s posterous – A demonstration site

  A demo posterous site. Just email anything to post@posterous.com at it will set up a blog for you and post the contents of your email.

• TrueTube – Education

  TrueTube is a free, website which uses real-life stories and issues to encourage teenagers to explore and debate the world of morality, ethics, politics and religion.

• Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie

  Easy Movie/cartoon making – Make 3d movies for free. Includes a range of languages

• A N I M O T O: the end of slideshows

  Easy and visually cool. Make great videos very easily

• Arty Reflections » Welcome

  Student Art Blog, a great example of using a blog to share student work and encourage positive feedback. Evaluation and thinking skills are also embedded in the process

• SlideShare

  Share powerpoints online, easy and powerful sharing of presentations. Ability to comment and discuss presentations

Our diocese has an excellent collection of blogs and wikis being used in powerful ways to improve student learning and teacher capacity. Below are a collection of blogs and wikis from the Wollongong Diocese along with a brief description of their intended purpose.

A Professional Reflection Blog

This blog captures a teachers ideas and thoughts around ICT in the classroom at http://smallsteps.edublogs.org.

Secondary Blogs

Publishing and Assessement

A blog to assess the students through the use of technology. This blog is only in the very early stages and will be added to over the coming weeks.
Survivor North Era

Resource Sharing and Organisation

http://scomagdalene.wordpress.com – sportcoaching webpage which is used to share materials with other teachers and to organise the resources used in the course.

Student Course Content Wiki
http://pdhpe12.pbwiki.com – Wiki to support the PDHPE HSC Course. It has a range of student created materials on there as well as other course material and resources that are useful in teaching the course.

Blogging – year 11 and year 12 economics (http://11economics.edublogs.org, http://12economics.edublogs.org

A wiki that will help students and parents discuss and review math topics from school for years 7 – 10 http://mathemaniac.wikispaces.com/

Welcome Year 7 to your online classroom. This site has been set up for you to access set class work and additional material that may not be covered during class sessions. http://7history.edublogs.org/

A photography blog posting content for students and inviting their reflections on artwork. http://stage5wetphotography.edublogs.org/

Primary Blogs and Wikis

http://ithink.edublogs.org /….. the purpose of this blog is to explore the text types ‘exposition’ and ‘discussion’ . The students are presented with two points of view and asked to develop their arguments in an online environment

http://puzzlingprimaryproblems.edublogs.org /….. the purpose of this blog was to trial differentiation via blogs in the area of Mathematics

http://mshearman.edublogs.org /….. the purpose of this blog was to enable students to showcase their artwork in an online environment and also participate in art appreciation type conversation using a thinking framework

http://neverendingstory.pbwiki.com /…. the purpose of this wiki was to encourage my students to build a collaborative story
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http://creation1.pbwiki.com /…… the purpose of this wiki was to showcase the RE LITERACY PRODUCTS. It was created as a wiki with the view of other schools also adding their products, thus creating a diocesan wiki

http://rainforestrescue.pbworks.com/ a student rainforest wiki – a wiki book of sorts

The purpose of this blog is to explore the power and potency of IMAGES and other forms of MULTI MEDIA . By participating in this blog you will be asked to INTERPRET and COMMENT on a variety of different images http://picturetalk.edublogs.org/

This is a great tool to create a super simple blog. Just email your content and its added to your blog.

More information here

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

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

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.

Digital technologies have revolutionised how creative works are made, distributed, and used. The challenge facing our schools is to ensure that we are teaching our students to treat others creative works in a fair and just way – with integrity.

Creative commons allows us to use and build on the many great resources on the web. It enables students to build on others creations and learning in a legal and ethical way.

The presentation below explains a little more about creative commons

Some of my favourite creative commons sites are

flickrcc A great photo sharing site for creative commons photos. You can also edit photos from within the site.

Creative Commons Search – A search engine for creative commons resources

archive.org The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Freely download images, movies, music

Freesound The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs.

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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The Macarthur Schools Joint 1:1 Staff Professional Learning Day is an initiative to support teachers in their move to a 1 child-1 laptop(1:1) learning environment in 2008. This posting supports a session on Web 2.0 tools delivered on the day.

This session will look at a selection of web 2.0 tools that can be integrated into your classroom practice immediately.

The presentation can be found below, hosted on slideshare and the examples displayed can be found at http://del.icio.us/MarkWoolley/MacPDDay

[slideshare id=50739&doc=web-20-tools-for-your-classroom-right-now-10302&w=425]

The Web 2.0 tools in our grab bag can be found at the links below

For each of these tools it is simply a matter of signing up and start exploring. You can probably find a class expert for each of these tools

You can find additional information about blogs, wikis, del.icio.us and RSS on the pages of this blog.

Technorati Tags: Web2.0, Education, Learning

YouTube has been banned in Victorian state schools . The intention of this ban is to halt the use of Youtube as a cyberbullying tool.

Banning publishing and sharing tools like Youtube is one way to limit its use DURING SCHOOL HOURS as a bullying tool but completely misses the opportunity to address cyberbullying and appropriate use of technology.

So in one part of the world (for example Shanghai American School) we have schools creating Youtube accounts for students to publish and share their work. Below is an example of a movie created to teach people at cyberbullying

In the Victorian example we have a powerful learning and sharing tool blocked, in the school above we have students learning about cyberbullying and actively engaged in educating others about its impact.

Which strategy best prepares students for the future?

technorati tags:youtube, education, learning, banning, cyberbullying, publishing

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This is from a 15 year old Student blogging on Web 2.0 and School

The Benefits of School 2.0

I was sitting in maths earlier this week, learning about some formula
that I’m almost certain I’ll never see again after my exam in May
(unless I fail that is…) when I turned to the guy sitting next to me
and told him about the Blog I wrote a couple of days before hand, and
how there were people out there taking a serious interest in my
opinion… which to be honest really surprised me. When I had finished
the story there was a pause. He then asked me, “What’s a Blog??”… My
only thought after that was if only he knew. If only he had discovered.
Not just what a Blog is, but what a Wiki is, what an RSS or and Atom
feed is. How it could benefit him. If only he had been taught…

Read the rest at the source

technorati tags:web2.0, students, bassplayersblog, learning, school2.0

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