Opening the Doors to WEB 2.0 Tools

Opening the Doors to WEB 2.0 Tools

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time” Chinese proverb

Who has:

purchased something online?

A Twitter account?

A Facebook page?

looked at it today?!!

Digital Natives

Digital Immigrants

Which one are you?

History of Technology• Technology changes and so do attitudes towards it and in particular

the attitudes towards the younger generation who embrace it.• Change is irresistible.• Change is exponential.• How have changing technologies impacted in the classroom.

– 1970s - 1980s

– 1990s - 2000s

– 2010 – 2020 and beyond…..

Children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.Socrates, c.400 B.C.

Web 1.0

• What is Web 1.0

• The information Web

• How have we used it?

45 Million users (1996), mostly companies who owned the content

Web 2.0•The social web

•Engaging

•Collaborative

•Sharing

•Creating

Web 3.0 ?The intelligent Web

Predictive

Portable

Google glasses

Intuitive

Behavioural Advertising

TPACK: Embedding ICT into the CurriculumTPACK is a framework to help assess the effectiveness of the learning experiences that are being delivered to students. It moves beyond the traditional analysis of pedagogy and content by also ensuring that good teaching and learning theory is also supported and enhanced by technology

Matthew Koehler 2006

3 phases of ICT implementation into classrooms

Tag Clouds

Word Clouds

Tag Clouds / Word Clouds

Wordle

Tag Clouds Word Clouds

Wordle Word cloud websites

Wordle – have a goTask – How can you use word clouds in your class?? IWB??

Why use Word Clouds?

Great spelling group activity

Daily writing stimulus – focus words, grammar

Student reflection on vocab use

Motivating / engaging

Embed word clouds on your class blog

Qr Codes

Qr Codes

www.qrmaker.org

Task – Discuss how you might use QR codes next week in your class!!

• Quick

•Helpful for junior children to locate websites

•Motivating

•Ability to access information quickly

Turn a paper based book into an interactive book with QR Codes

Podcasts and Vlogs

How to use in your Class

Oral Presentations (writing for a purpose)

Capturing reading activities

Self Reflection tool (diary doom)

Self assessment/ Peer assessment

Oral Procedures, recounts, narratives.

Dramatisation - Diaries, readers theatre, advertising, radio theatre

Music - vocal, instrumental, rhythm

ESL assistance

Podcasts and Vlogging

• Share with a greater audience.

• increases accountability.

•Great for developing literacy skills (writing scripts, interviews etc)

• Use other programs to enhance eg Audacity

• Motivates students – “Podcster of the week”

• Improves oral literacy – fluency, diction etc

•Promotes teamwork and cooperation

•Students learn some amazing ICT skills.

Why Podcast?

Task - What activities do you have planned this term that could incorporate a podcast?

Podcasting ideasPodcast examples SchoolTube

RSS

Understand that social interactions influence the way people engage with ideas and respond to others for example when exploring and clarifying the ideas of others, summarising their own views and reporting them to a larger group (ACELA1488)

Class BlogsJust another text

Class Blogs / Wiki’sJust another text

Why set up and use class blogs

•Share materials, news, downloads, links and more to a much wider audience. Other schools “quad blogging” collaboration•Create home - school links. Greater access.•Facilitate online discussions and collaboration. •Create a class publication that students can easily publish to and you can easily edit.•Motivate students to write.•Provides a starting point for the use of a huge range of other ICT applications.

Blogger

Wikispaces

Tuarthillroom11Tuart Hill Room 9

Simplesite

Edublogs

Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view (ACELT1603)

Voki

Voki – Avatar creator

What is VokiVoki is a type of widget. It is a free service that lets you create customized avatars. Voices can be added to customized avatars and posted to any blog, wiki, website or profile.

Why use VokiVoki can be used as an effective learning tool to:Motivate students to participateImprove message comprehension.Help at risk student to check their writing. Introduce technology in a fun way.Use as a presentation tool – speeches.(tone / pitch)Utilize Voki as an effective language tool (text to speech in over 25 languages)

Task – Make your own Voki

Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak clearly and coherently (ACELY1688)

Prezi

Connectives

Beginning with the word “My" write a paragraph describing the photograph below. Make sure you use a variety of connectives, include at least three adverbs and one metaphor.

Literacy - Writing

Prezi

Prezi

Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives (ACELA1491)

Prezi

What is Prezi

Digital Cameras Ideas Ideas Ideas • Students take photos of mathematical concepts around the school (patterns, angels, shapes…) • Use student taken photos as a daily writing prompt • Photo Story – Excursion (e.g. to aid writing a recount)•Prompt for narrative/descriptive writing.• Illustrate a science experiment (e.g. growth of a plant)• To record the method in cooking activities – produce a cookbook.• photo’s of nouns, verbs in and outside the class etc• Images of assembling 3D objects• Demonstrate a PE exercise• Digital storytelling – Kitchen Garden• To record learning in Maths• Mentoring – Student experts to train younger students.

Problems Problems

Task - What are the main reasons using ICT in our classrooms is sometimes just too hard?

• Time.

• Too many kids and not enough computers.

• They don’t work most of the time!!

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Solutions SolutionsHow can we best overcome these problems

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Creating Texts - Year 1 LiteracyConstruct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs (ACELY1664)

Australian Curriculum

Create a story using digital photos.

Create a timeline for an excursion using photos taken by students.

Create word clouds in spelling sessions

Use Wordle to practise phonics on IWB.

Use Voki to record students oral reading – play back to self assess.

Create podcasts of students reading their stories.

Create a class blog. Students to contribute to.

What - Curriculum How – Strategies - activities

Creating Texts - Year 3 LiteracyUse software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements (ACELY1685)

Use Prezi to create collaborative story writing.

Maintain and contribute to a class blog or wiki.

Use a word cloud as basis for daily writing.

Make Vlogs summarizing and reflecting on learning.

Make a script for a cartoon show create and share using comicmaster.

Use prezi to present a scientific report.

What - Curriculum How – Strategies - activities

Creating texts – Year 5 Literacy

Use a range of software including word processing

programs with fluency to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and

place visual, print and audio elements (ACELY1707)

Write a script for a TV Advertisement, video it and post on class blog / Wiki.

Use Prezi to create report / tell story with images.

Make a comic using Comicmaster.

Use Voki to present a persuasive text.

Create a Vlog for a report or speech.

7 WAYS TO INCREASE TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION IN THE CLASSROOM

1. Create a clear picture of what an classroom with integrated technology looks like.

2. Build a school based professional learning network.

3. Build an online professional learning network.

4. Invest in yourself.

5. Expand your learning network to the classroom.

6. Publish, publicize, and advertise your students’ technology-related work.

7. Develop a reflective practice with your integration of technology in the classroom.

Any teacher that can be replaced by technology

deserves to be.David Thornburg

This Site is current and has links to some amazing Web 2.0 tools you can easily use in your class

www.edjudo.com/web-2-0-teaching-tools-links

http://www.21stcenturyschoolteacher.com/cool-websites.html

Web 2.0 Links

Horizon Report

Critical Challenges identifies1. Digital literacy continues its rise in importanceas a key skill in every discipline and profession.

2. .Appropriate metrics of evaluation lag behindthe emergence of new scholarly forms of authoring,publishing, and researching.

3. Keeping pace with the rapid proliferation of information,software tools, and devices is challengingfor students and teachers alike.

The Horizon Report

http://www.boxoftricks.net/internet-resouces-for-education/

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Home

http://www.teachgennow.com.au/

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

References

http://ictintheaustraliancurriculum.wikispaces.com/TPACK

TPaCK - http://mkoehler.educ.msu.edu/tpack/

http://searchengineland.com/what-is-a-qr-code-and-why-do-you-need-one-27588

http://edublogs.org/10-ways-to-use-your-edublog-to-teach/

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationupclose.phtml/47

http://web20intheclassroom.blogspot.com.au/2008/01/blogging-in-classroom-why-how-and-lots.html

www.edjudo.com/web-2-0-teaching-tools-links

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ict/podcasting.htm

High expectations are being recognized as key to the success of all students, especially those at risk. Traditional ability grouping of students often leads to diminished expectations and lower achievement levels for students who are placed in lower tracks. The traditional placement of first-grade students into three reading groups of high, middle, and low achievement "predicts future educational outcomes with alarming accuracy"

By using heterogeneous grouping of students rather than ability grouping, teachers will no longer pace their instruction to the perceived ability level of the class. Instead, accelerated learning will meet the needs of students of varying abilities and interests.

Prof Asa Hillard