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

Hello again!

Our main focus for today is to integrate cool Web 2.0 resources with powerful pedagogies into activities we can easily create and share. Let’s get to it! (ask about the great multimedia resources available)

Pedagogical Frameworks

• CEQ•ALL and a Rubric for self-regulated learning
• Quality Teaching Framework cheatsheet
• Looking Tasks / Thinking Routines

Podcasting

• Podcasting Tutorial
• Podcasting Resources
• Great Podcasting plug-in if you host WordPress yourself

Other Cool Things

• Clipmarks
• Stumble Upon
• Text2MindMap 

Easy Web 2

• Wordpress.com (Tutorial in pdf - example blog PD) (or hosted Wordpress.org or edublogs, etc.)
• Pageflakes - examples
  
• YouTube (YouTube Downloader, FLV Player, Tooble)
• Cool Tools: StumbleUpon, Clipmarks, ?

Examples

• A Looking Task, Background on Looking Tasks, Visible Thinking Team’s Thinking Routines site
• Free iTunes podvasts: KQED Quest Science, Time Magazine Video Reports, New York Times Latest Videos, Washingtonpost Videos, ABC Background Briefing, etc.)
• Subject Sampler
• WebQuests - example: Freedom Fighter or Terrorist?
• Background on Class Portals

Main Resources

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

“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. Choose what’s most interesting to you. Put Effort into the exercise and look to pursue Quality with ICT-enhanced learning this term.

Introducing C E Q A LL

(pronounced “seek all”)

• Choice
• Effort
• Quality
• Attitude
• Labour of Love
• Read an Overview
• CEQALL Profiles (pdf download)

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

Year 9 - MyPlace.com

• MyPlace Web site
• About the MyPlace project
• Paths for Teachers
• MyPlace Bookmarks - on Del.icio.us

Learning with WebQuests

Learn as a Team by Participating in a WebQuest

• What’s Web 2.0?
• Creating your Own Social Justice ClassPortal

Background on Web 2.0 & Wikipedia

• E-learning 2.0, by Stephen Downes
• The Hive - Atlantic Monthly article about Wikipedia
• Podcast of Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales on ABC’s Big Ideas
• Know it All - New Yorker Magazine article about Wikipedia
• Wikipedia vs. Britannica - Nature Magazine.com & The Register with Britannica’s rebuttal
• The Wisdom of Crowds - Wikipedia entry, Comments from a blog
• Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog

All About Podcasts

• Workshop links for learning to podcast

Blog your Learning

Use the comments link below (or set up a blog in the next section) to share your learning from today.

Set Up your ClassPortal on WordPress


Get started on your own Blog in minutes

• Download this Tutorial
• WordPress.com

Podcasting

Tutorials & Tips

• Screencast Tutorial on Using Audacity
• Tips on Making your First Podcast
• iTunes Tags Tutorial and another
• Kirk’s Eight Rules For Effective Podcasting
• Examples from Tony Vincent

Getting the software

• Audacity download
• LAME converter download (for saving as mp3)
• Using Garageband (and iTunes FAQ)
• Download iTunes (to access Podcasts cross platforms)

Other Resources

• PodCasting logos
• Demo files from Bright Ideas: logo, intro & sample
• Hotlist of Sample Sites (from dmoz open directory project)
• Google Directory of Sample Sites
• Imagine a Walk on the Wild Side
• The George W. Bush Public Domain Audio Archive
• Bushisms Audio Gallery

Copyright Free Loops for PC Users (Mac’s have Garageband)

• Audio Loops from Looperman (requires registration)
• Free Music Loops (from Partner in Rhyme)
• Glooped (Guitar Loops)

the following is from a post by Miguel Guhlin

• Wikipedia Sounds - Classical Music
• Creative Commons Audio
• Internet Archive’s Open Source Audio
• OpSound: Open Sound Resource Pool

Uploading Podcasts

• Upload to Tom’s Server (address will be: http://tommarch.com/podcasts/upload/yourfile.mp3)
• Consider using FireFTP (Firefox Browser extension)
• Free Site for uploading: BooMP3

Possible Topics

Things you and your students might Podcast:

Primary

• Reading your favourite book for Mother’s Day
• Telling a joke
• Sharing “Your Best Day”
• Singing your favourite song
• ??

Middle

• “A Day I grew Up”
• Recite a famous speech
• “Books on Tape” for the visually impaired
• Radio Program
• ??

Secondary

• Public Service Campaign
• Music Video
• Mashup
• Museum Tour
• ??

Creating your ClassPortal

Consider a Topic for your Class Portal:

• Curriculum & Core Content
• Hobbies & Personal Interests
• Popular Culture
• World Issues

Starting your WordPress Blog

• at WordPress.com - tutorial
• or ClassPortals - tutorial

Customise it:

• Log-in to the Dashboard
  
• Options - Change Blog name? Anyone can Register? Logged in to Comment? 11 GMT = Melbourne
• Presentation - Choose another Theme, “View site” in another browser tab or window
• Links - Delete default links. Add a Link to your School or ?
• Write - Page - Use Filamentality or Google to find a good hotlist on your topic.
• Manage - Posts - Delete default post and Create a new one.