Timelines and other stuff; great videos!

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Timelines

Here are some tools to help you create timelines. I love using timelines to get children thinking about events in history. Timelines are useful tools which can be used as a graphic organiser. There are also some on our web 2.0 tools site







http://goo.gl/1D9Xi


Try dipity.com too

http://dipity.com/

A List of Apps from Richard Byrne

IOS Apps:  http://ipadapps4school.com/

A list of Android Apps:  http://android4schools.com/

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Videos…….

Videos are a great source of professional Learning for all learners.

This guy is great. Principal of a school in Harlem he is dealing with US educational problems, but some of what he talks about should resonate with us.

It's of Dr Geoffrey Canada, President of the Harlem Children's Zone in New York. Raised in poverty and the son of an alcoholic father, Canada introduces himself as black and mad. What he's mad about is the state of education, and the fact that few people seem to be bothered to do anything about it. He recognises that our traditional system caters well for the top achievers, who go on to be successful as leaders in our communities etc., but that it is hopelessly inadequate in dealing with a vast number of children who are then 'trapped' in the cycle of poverty and underachievement.

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A Video from Cyberwise presents a child oriented view on device usage:

http://virtualicteltpd.ning.com/profiles/blogs/what-are-kiwi-kids-are-really-doing-online-a-creative-challenge

 

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 I love the possibilities with creating stop-motion videos. Very easy to create with a tablet or camera and then a video editor.  I’d be happy to help you and your class create something. Have a look at this video. Very simple set up but lots of potential for creativity: (really like the cotton wool burnouts!!)



NASCAR Wizard from DIY on Vimeo.

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More videos for your activboard - Has a whole lot of videos from various sources which, as the title suggests are not made for kids, but are good to watch with kids.

http://thekidshouldseethis.com/

March 2013

Here are some tools which may help you in your roll as an ICT inquirer…..

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With Google Chrome you often end up with lots of tabs open. manage these tabs (and keep your computer running quickly) by using One Tab.

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Good advice for your eLearning publications

http://www.atrixware.com/blog/wp/tips-for-adding-the-right-images-to-your-e-learning-content/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

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22 essential skills for the 21st Century teacher. Some links here which might be useful. Various categories.

 

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/02/the-22-digital-skills-every-21st.html?m=1

 

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One of the tools mentioned above is Audioboo. A great little podcasting tool which is also available as an app for Apple and Android.

http://audioboo.fm/about/audioboo

 

Here’s some examples of a teacher making use of Audioboo.

http://blog.audioboo.fm/2012/12/21/michael-faraday-schools-use-of-audioboo-in-learning-is-electrifying/

 

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Google Earth street view takes you to the top of Everest and other tall peaks.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/03/google-summit-maps/?cid=co6617154

 

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Paris doesn’t change…….

http://www.rue89.com/rue89-culture/2013/03/24/paris-1914-2013-en-photos-grimpez-dans-notre-fabuleuse-machine-remonter-le

 

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February 2010

After a bit of a rest, the ICT Blog is back!  First up a recap of the goals for the year, then some websites you might find useful. Don’t forget to use Interface. It seems to be written for teachers by teachers and has a wealth of ICT related information and links.

I am very interested in personal learning networks and how technology can facilitate learning in this way. Spend 3 minutes watching this video and ask yourself if this isn’t a good way to learn? It throws the old homework question out the door!

Some of the sites mentioned in the video:

http://edu.glogster.com/

http://www.symbaloo.com/us/

http://www.evernote.com/

 

Sites of the Month:

Edutopia article on using video in the classroom.

Video Collections:

Maths at the Movies…….

Video Collection Site – organised into subject areas.

Smartboard videos on the Smart youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SMARTClassrooms

 

Online audio editor

Supermarket maths – which queue is the quickest

Powerpoint to Youtube conversion tool – display your class powerpoints on Youtube.

 Train your brain. Set up an account and watch yourself improve! 

 

Goals for the Year (and progress from last year!)

• Provided upgraded wireless access point management ( Thanks to the parents assn.)
• Placed more content on KnowledgeNet
• Rolled out student KnowledgeNet logins and training to Year 4 to Year 6
• Implemented Parents portal to KnowledgeNet.   166 caregivers now have logins.
• Implemented online roll marking
• PAT Data entered in PCschool system
• Migrated PCSchool to stand alone server
• PCschool database changed to faster .sql software
• Provided full broadband solution for 2010
• Upgraded server software for 2010 ..
• Mobile netbook trolley for 2010
• All computer switches 1GB
• Web and mail filtering in house
• All school computers to be standardised on Windows 7 for 2010

What’s happening this year …..

• More assessment data provided to PCSchool
  • Basic facts
  • ICAS Achievements
  • Curric Levels/ national standards inf
• Use of KnowledgeNet for class planning/teaching/communication
  • Development of Parent Portal
• Continued use of KnowledgeNet or Blog for communication and publication
• Wider use of internet as a learning tool – Faster internet connection
• Extended use of PCSchool Spider as an admin tool
• Integration of Smartboards as a classroom tool
• Use of video in classroom programs

Thinking and Learning

21st Century Learning Skills:

From the Thinkfinity site mentioned below

In some respects, the potential of 21st century learning lies in the
exploration of how digital tools (cameras, presentation software, computing
equipment) and online resources can support and enhance traditional
subjects,skills and teaching practices. The Internet alone provides students
with enormous opportunities to access:

· A trove of primary source documents previously located on library
shelves, but now available online through digital archives.
· Authentic scientific data across a range of fields from current and historical
meteorological forecast data to economic statistics
· Geospatial tools that combine data with dynamic maps
· Global communications media that make distance collaboration, cross-cultural exchanges and rich media experiences possible

How many of these opportunities do we provide for our students?

Inquiry
Fantastic inventions site via the Smithsonian Institute:

Authors and Reading:

This is the link I sent around earlier in the week of Michael Rosen interviewing various authors:
http://www.teachers.tv/readingaloud

Video of the Week:

Principal from hell! Rowan Atkinson deals with the problem of boys not issuing books from the library.........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBeguUvuDzs
Actually we have some books taken without being issued; perhaps we could try this technique?

Searching

Just discovered this Boolean Search graphical tool! We have some information on Boolean searching on our search site and it is a tool all searchers for information need to employ to some degree.:

But this is a very clever way of seeing how it works. The example in the image uses a search for information on Wellesley College but not including USA but including New Zealand results.I would think this would be good to do on the Smartboard!

And if you have a Vista machine, have you tried the snipping tool??

Under accessories, it enables you to take images of anything that is on your desktop and either copy it to the clipboard, or save it to an image file.

Blogs

What’s a blog? 6 and 7 year olds from Nelson Central School talk about what a blog is:

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=601b9f31bf04019c8593

Smartboard Activities:

For Juniors, try Animal Riddles:
http://www.meddybemps.com/riddles/

The Kids Network has a large number of categorised educational resources.

Thinkfinity is another one with links to a large number of interactive resources.

Inquiry, Videos for Teaching and Google Earth/Sky

This post and all archived posts and links are available here.

Following on from Monday, I really believe that using ICT can help you implement meaningful inquiries in your classroom. It's worth reading the Min of Ed's action plan called Enabling the 21st Century Learner: e-Learning Action Plan

Consider the use of webquests or similar as a way of individualising the inquiry process using ICT. They also can help you with the scaffolding around the process.

This Wiki has links to various Inquiry resources : http://fitzil.wikispaces.com/Inquiry+Learning

Steve has mentioned Kath Murdoch and Tasmania. She has done a lot of work on ICT and Inquiry and is well worth listening to and reading about. There are a couple of her books in our library, notably:

Classroom connections: strategies for integrated learning and Planning curriculum connections: whole-school planning for integrated curriculum

Here are some useful links too:

• http://www.ltag.education.tas.gov.au/Planning/models/inquirymodel.htm
• http://www.ltag.education.tas.gov.au/Planning/models/default.htm

I don't really mean it!

Internet Video Tools for the 21C Classroom:

Animation and poetry. This could be a way of bringing poetry alive. A thoughtful animation of the well known poem:

The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes

Could this change the way you teach poetry? Children could create their own examples using Photostory 3 or Powerpoint.

UK English standards for year 5 for this poem (Note that the filename .nbk is for the Smartboard notebook)I thought this one was good too. The Piano Well worth a look and you can see the UK resources for this video here and here.

Another way of creating online slideshows is using Animoto. Here is an example created in just a couple of minutes......
Wellesley Football 2007

Animoto 30 second shorts are free to make - give it a go and consider how you could use it in your classroom.
Other online slideshows:

• http://www.slideroll.com/
• http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/create_slideshow
• http://www.spresent.com/v2/

Not really video as such, but an interesting way of looking at the news through headlines. Click on the headline to read the story - You can play with the config to get just New Zealand stories..

http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm

This photo is amazing! Space station floating above Aotearoa! 12 Dec 2006 ( I can see Wellesley boys jumping off the wharf!) - http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-116/html/s116e05983.html

And continuing the space scheme, the latest version of Google Earth lets you look at space (our sky) in the same fashion with high resolution imagery. This has to be a great tool to use with a Smartboard. Download this version of Google Earth from the Wellesley Intranet. Let me kno if you have trouble installing it.

No relevance to videos or ICT but this link has a good diagram of the main coffee types - so that you know what you're asking for (or making). I heard some order a Vienna coffee the other night but I don't know how it's made. Can't see any mention of a Vienna here though. Any ideas??
http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/2007/08/20/an-illustrated-coffee-guide/