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Goalsetting on Prezi
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PLIESE post
Mention Map
This is a cool little tool to see where you do your most learning/ have the closest connections on Twitter. Thanks to Bev Novak for the link.
http://apps.asterisq.com/mentionmap/main.swf?username=mentonemif
Prezi
Thought I would share my new Prezi.
It’s hard to use a new tool unless you’ve got something specific to make using it. So I designed this Prezi to use with my Year 9s next year to facilitate a conversation about Goalsetting, and hopefully help the students to think more deeply about their personal goals.
Week 12 – Digital Story
Week 12 – Digital story
Key activities
Week 10 – Gaming for Learning
Jane McGonigal (Professor?!) was GREAT. Another awesome TEDtalk to show staff. She absolutely made sense to me, but I am biased. I LOVE gaming (not WoW tho), but always feel like I am wasting my time. Thanks Jane for opening my eyes. 🙂
1. Loved that article from Mashable. I think the biggest obstacle for most teachers is time to research/ play/ embed the game in curriculum, and it follows then that your most important resource is your PLN, coz you’ve already got the curriculum, so let someone else find and recommend the game to you within the PLN, and go for it!
2. Quote from the BBC article:
“.. many trainee teachers did not understand the significance of the latest children’s books or films when they went into the classroom.”
Trainee teachers don’t know what they don’t know! Heck, many ‘experienced’ teachers have given up learning and just rely on what they already know to get by.
3. Games – what are kids learning. Yep, yep. Great stuff. Scroll right to the bottom though and check out the links back to our PLN blogs. Very cool!
4. FUSE video was v e r y slow to load. But despite that it was a great idea. Has anyone else noticed that there is heaps of resources for primary, but not so many for secondary?
5. Love the Consolarium idea. Could be use across classes, houses, year levels, etc.
Week 9 – What comes first, pedagogy or technology?
Key activities
As a teacher librarian in collaborative mode, it is sometimes difficult to get Web 2.0 embedded into your curriculum. Too often teachers don’t come (like today), or they have another agenda, it’s ‘their’ class and you don’t want to butt in, or they have less skills in Web 2.0 than you and aren’t interested in getting up to speed.
My main aim with Web 2.0 is to get more teachers up to speed with a number of Web 2.0 tools, and to keep feeding them expertise and assistance. Last week I had a Moodle win, and an Elluminate win (same teacher, and the Elluminate success fed the Moodle tryout). Trying to get into the regular all-staff PD sessions is also tricky, as they are being gate-kept at the moment. I will keep on plugging away nonetheless.
I can see so many great ways to use Web 2.0 tools in classrooms, but as a newby I have to tread softly and carefully lest I step on toes. 🙂
3. Here is my Tagxedo of this week’s main points
Well, it would be if it would upload! Epic fail! Twice! See my Tagxedo in Week 8 for my ace technique!
4. Jenny Sargeant’s presentation was quite text heavy (as she said in her intro) but there was heaps of great stuff there to share with ‘other’ staff in a PD situation. I can see myself using that Elluminate to inform other teachers about p vs t.
5. Can we quantify student improvement when using Web 2.0 tools vs. traditional tools? Should we try to quantify? Why or why not? Does this article by Will Richardson help clarify your thoughts?
It’s an interesting article, but a bit airy-fairy on the detail. Of much more interest to me was the model shown by Richard Buckland in Week 8 where he used a wiki to increase learning, and where the learning WAS transparent and quantifiable. I think that sometime teachers get really caught up in the assessment and not in the long term, and possible unassessable goal. For example, the English department at my school recently decided to timetable English class into the library once a fortnight to increase literacy. Great! Woot! said I. The HoE then send an email saying that teachers must check what the students are reading, and get work from them. Aaaargh! If this is a long term project, then we’re not going to see the results of this initiative for at least 12 months. But we had to be seen to be assessing the work, and not just sitting around on our bums reading, which IS what we are doing – but there’s is so much more going on than just a ‘slack’ lesson for the staff and students.
Small steps, small steps. 🙂
Texts Mark the Spot
2 Day kid lit conference in historic Bendigo. Details here.
Week 5 – Q. 10-13
10. Watch some of this Marco Torres video relating to students using copyrighted music in videos and how to avoid problems:
Oh, wow! This is one of those tl:dw moments. I got about 23 mins in, and had to get back to work. But I’m going back to this one. You really need to go BEYOND the music, because it gets way deeper.
Pity about the sync problem.
11. Explore these resources.
Loved the Spectrum of Rights comic strip. I would definitely use this with students to show how using Creative Commons works can really help their presentations. I have always had trouble with searching for items that have CC licenses. Any ideas, anyone?
I have seen and used all the other sites before, and they are all good. Most overlap each other, but none cover the whole range of copyright issues, so you really need to use them all together.
12. What are the things that you need to be addressing at school in terms of protecting intellectual property?
Definitely music, and web images, especially thumbnails/ images that you can search for using Google. Students use these media all the time to ‘jazz’ up their presentations, but have no idea about attribution or usage. Trouble is, neither do their teachers, so maybe that is where we have to start.
13. Attend the Elluminate session on with Sandy Phillips on Wednesday 26 May. Access to the session is via the link in the Ning.
Good stuff! Lots of Dept resources that non-dept school teachers don’t know about. Plenty to share. (When?!!!!)
On to Week 6.
Week 5 – Q. 7-9
7. Examine some of the following resources:
- Alannah and Madeline Cybersafety and Wellbeing Initiative (this is still a pilot and not available to all schools yet, however it is still worth looking at).
This is great! Can I have it now please?!!!
This link didn’t work for me. Anyone else have trouble?
Wow!!! That is a great resource, and would be good to use in mentor/ tutor groups or in ICT or within any other class setting. Pity it’s American.
This is good, but not as good as the US site. It’s more of a fun site to pop in and out of then something that you would work through. It’s a bit ‘same same’.
I loved one of the sentences towards the bottom of the article – “despite blocking access to site such as YouTube and Facebook”. Aren’t we talking about helping kids to stay safe? If teachers and students can’t access them at school, and parents (apparently) are watching how are they going to learn how to be safe?!
I’ve seen this before, but not really used it. Would be good for lower Primary. Too uncool above Grade 4, I reckon!
Good idea. Too close to the start of Term? I totally missed this!
Great for Years 5-7.
8. Can you add any Cybersafety resources to the list?
9. What do you think are your responsibilities in regards to digital citizenship in relation to teaching and learning? Read Tania Sheko’s post on ‘Whose job is it to teach responsible online behaviour’ and her post ‘The New Citation‘ to help you consider how to teach students to attribute research.
Oh, I LOVED The New Citation! Of course this is how we work in blogs. Why AREN’T we teaching our students to do this in Word?!
and whose job? If we expect them to use it, then we have to take resposibility for teaching them how to use it well.
This Teaching Life 
