Hi! Great to work with you today.

My basic premise is that ICTs can promote Real, Rich and Relevant learning. In addition, newer “web 2.0″ applications can “super-charge” learning even farther. The caveat is that if we don’t take this opportunity, the same applications can be used by students to side-step learning and even threaten their positive experience of life.

Here are some links I think you’ll find helpful:

Basic Platform for a Classportal

• WordPress.com (download a Tutorial in pdf?)
• Siteground.com for Fantastico hosting
• Ning

Enriching Resources

• Mr. Barlow’s blog
• Add a PageFlakes RSS Feeds Page
• Create a Group Del.icio.us Bookmarks Account
• Free iTunes podcasts: (See the CALL DVD: KQED Quest Science, Time Magazine Video Reports, New York Times Latest Videos, Washingtonpost Videos, ABC Background Briefing, etc.)
• Podcasting Tutorial

Managing Resources

• Clipmarks
• Diigo
• StumbleUpon

Pedagogical Frameworks

• Self-Reflection matrix on ICT Integration (Download)
• CEQ•ALL and a Rubric for self-regulated learning
• Looking Tasks / Thinking Routines

Learning Activities

• A Looking Task, Background on Looking Tasks, Visible Thinking Team’s Thinking Routines site
• Subject Sampler
• WebQuests - example: Freedom Fighter or Terrorist?
• Background on Class Portals

Main Resources

• TomMarch.com / ozline.com
• AIS Victoria - MyPlace Project
• CEQ•ALL
• OxleyLearning

“Web 2.0 Goes to School”

Technologies in the next 10 years will equip students to supercharge or side-step classroom learning. Both will happen. You get to choose which side you’re on.

Open Source Learning

Overview for Hands-on Sessions

In the Spirit of CEQALL and open source learning, you are the best person to determine what’s good for you to learn. Below are some options. Skim through the list and see what appeals to you. The first provides a chance to go through the 2nd10 Steps on your own. Next are two are hands-on using Web 2.0 tools (blogs and social networking) and other Mac tutorials. You might also like to explore CEQALL and the project MyPlace (years 5 - 10). The last section provides some links to interesting readings. Choose what’s most interesting to you. Put Effort into the exercise and look to pursue Quality with ICT-enhanced learning this term.

WordPress Weblogs - be online in minutes!

• Have a play
• Download this Tutorial
• WordPress.com

• Get started on your own Bog
• Download this Tutorial
• Class Portals (to start your own ClassAct Portal)

The 2nd10 Steps

• Explore the Steps (click a step for info)
• Search Filamentality
• Peruse aNew3R’s (try “editor’s Picks”)
• Study the “Freedom Fighter or Terrorist” WebQuest

The MyPlace Personal Learning Environment (elgg)

• Download this Tutorial
• MyPlace Community Web site
  
• Log-in
• Complete Profile (Tagging!)
• Add RSS Feeds
• Look for Friends
• Add Photo
• Blog your learning today (you can do this in any of the blogs you may have started: WordPress, Class Portal or the MyPlace Community).

Hands-on Macintosh

• Video Tutorials for Macintosh - Atomic Learning

Introducing C E Q A LL

• (pronounced “seek all”)
• Choice
• Effort
• Quality
• Attitude
• Labour of Love
• Read an Overview
• CEQALL Profiles (pdf download)

Year 9 - MyPlace.com

• MyPlace Web site
• About the MyPlace project
• Paths for Teachers
• MyPlace Bookmarks

Readings

• E-learning 2.0, by Stephen Downes
• The Hive - Atlantic Monthly article about Wikipedia
• Know it All - New Yorker Magazine article about Wikipedia
• The Wisdom of Crowds - Wikipedia entry, Comments from a blog
• Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog

Blog your Learning

Use the comments link below to share your learning from today or make a post on your WordPress Blog or your MyPlace Community page.

Stow the togs and swap the thongs, it’s school time again.

Teachers participating in workshops with Tom March are encouraged to register their interests with a  questionnaire.  This will facilitate working together online and in future face-to-face sessions.  Thanks.

• Moss Vale High School
• Marian College
• Carey Grammar

Hosting and open source software have come a long way in the past year. Costs are down and easy functionality are up. Now is the time for all educators to develop into “cutting edge-ucators.” Combining smart technology with smart integration sets us all on this journey into the Web’s second decade (2nd10). To help this happen, Tom March has made available a chapter from a handbook on setting up your own ClassAct Portal (pdf download). This step-by-step guide has been very popular at conferences and workshops.