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Focus on Using ICT in Teaching and Learning with Professional Development
A Termly Newsletter" Term 1 2010
Wiki-Tastic Andrew Douch PLGs Web 2.0 Tools What is Educo?
Wikis seem to be the Andrew Douch and his Have a peek at what Web 2.0 tips that Find out what Educo is
flavour of the month. keynote speech some of the everyone can use inside in the article.
What are they and how enthused all and made Professional Learning and outside the Page 2
would I use them? a great start to the Groups are up to classroom
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Wiki-Tastic!
I hope that you have all enjoyed Term one of the
ICT PD. The year tends more to focus integrating
the skills into the classroom.
Wikis
The TimNet wiki is the hinge pin that holds the
cluster together and after speaking to a few of you
in the first term it seems that teachers are in very
different stages, ranging from “what the hell is a
wiki?” to “yes I have one”.
Wikis are a online space that everyone can edit. So
you can create a webpage (in about 5 minutes) and
you and your students can contribute to the space.
Classroom
Students can use wikis as platforms for
collaborative problem solving; group laboratory
reports; "WebEssays" (essays that combine images,
text, and hyperlinks); classroom writing projects;
and the creation of a class "textbook." Basically,
wikis can be used to support any type of
collaborative student project.
The fact is as we all teach in different way we
would all use them in different ways. The
important thing is to have a pull factor there - a
reason for the students to go there and also spend
some time in your lesson to introduce it to the
students. It’s excellent to have everything that you
want for them in one place on the web.
Visit your ICTPD wiki at
timnet.wikispaces.com. There’s lots of links
to resources and information about what is
going on the PLGs and you have access to
update it!
Some good examples of class wikis are:
http://21centuryedtech.wikispaces.com/
http://ah-bon-french.wikispaces.com/
http://bergmannscience.wikispaces.com/
http://
gamingintheenglishclassroom.wikispaces.com/
http://hench-maths.wikispaces.com/
Douchy!
Andrew really started the day off with a bang and
managed to show us what can be achieved. The
use of podcasts, web 2.0 tools, quizzes, instant
messaging, etc was amazing and good to see that
he wasn’t a geeky ICT teacher! I found it is a little
daunting to see how much time he has spent
preparing his web based resources, but it was a
relief to that he had introduced each of his tools
one year at a time. It shows that once you have it
there its done and you only have to improve it.
His notes from his workshops are available on the
wiki and there is a link to his blog below.
Other nots from workshops have also been placed
on the wiki for your to use.
http://andrewdouch.wordpress.com/

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PLGs?!?!
The Professional Learning Groups have been set up
to help teachers integrate ICT into their classroom.
The meeting is intended to bring teachers from the
same Learning Area together on a mini project that
they can collaborate on. The first term has just
been to set a goal for the rest of the year.
English
The first to meet and decided to use the
Mahara E-Portfolio software to trial blogging
with one of their classes this year.
Art
A diverse group that decided on two topics of
using Single Lense Reflect Cameras and video
production.
Maths
Create a wiki for teachers and students to use
that will group resources on a year and topic
basis.
Social Science
Create a wiki for teacher use only so that the
teachers can share resources between subjects.
Technology
Create a wiki for teachers to share resources -
especially with the current changes.
Science
Use the E-Portfolio feature of Mahara to
showcase student work and trial parental
access.
Health and PE
Use Educo to create online topics and allow
students to upload and share their own work.
Language
Use the E-Portfolio feature of Mahara to
showcase student work and attach MP3 sound
bites.
if you want to examine in more detail all of their
progress is updated in the wiki..... or you can just
ask the members in person.
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Web 2.0
Originally web pages used to read like a book with links to
other pages. Now we can edit, upload, collaborate, even
run auctions all of this is Web 2.0
wallwisher.com
Allows students to add comments to a web page all
at the same time. This takes about 2 minutes to set up
and engages students - especially when they find out
they are anonymous. I’ve used this to ask quick
questions and get answers from the group. Or asked
them to upload links to research ideas whilst it is up
on the whiteboard updating itself.
clipgenerator.com
Tried this just for this review. In 3 easy steps allows
students to show photographs in a professional
manner.
1.pick music
2.upload pics
3.done!
tubechop.com
Have you ever wanted one minute of a ten minute
web clip?? Tube Chop allows you to cut youtube and
other clips.
Just copy the web address of your clip and paste into
the site and CHOP! Cannot be simpler!
D U C O
Educo
This is a Learning Management System and is used
for online course delivery. It is available to all of us
in the cluster and there are teachers in your school
who use it. It is not an intranet as it is course and
subject specific and is being used across the South
Island. It allows students a place to learn through
blended learning.
http://educo.vln.school.nz/
Moodle is the software behind Educo and is
different as it is built for education.
The focus of the Moodle project is always on
giving educators the best tools to manage and
promote learning, but there are many ways to
use Moodle:
Moodle has features that allow it to scale to
very large deployments and hundreds of
thousands of students, yet it can also be used
for a primary school or an education hobbyist.
Many institutions use it as their platform to
conduct fully online courses, while some use it
simply to augment face-to-face courses (known
as blended learning).
Many of our users love to use the activity
modules (such as forums, databases and wikis)
to build richly collaborative communities of
learning around their subject matter (in the
social constructionist tradition), while others
prefer to use Moodle as a way to deliver content
to students (such as standard SCORM
packages) and assess learning using
assignments or quizzes.
Recently added to Educo has been VLN
Portfolio. This will add the Mahara software
(myportfolio). This allows students and teachers
a place to social network and showcase their
work.
TimNet 2010