Enriching the Your Site
- Download the handout packet
- Download the Web 2 Tools Overview handout
- View the Calendar for session dates
The main purpose of today is to explore Web 2.0 tools and resources that enrich your main online platform – for most of us this is our WordPress blogs. There are a lot of great things to explore and get familiar with and immersing ourselves in this is the first purpose of the day. The second is to brainstorm how you might use the construct of a “ClassPortal” to engage students in ongoing personal learning and knowledge-building. Let’s get started!
Review Look to Learn
Before getting started on new things, let’s review the Look to Learn activity format and see if anyone had a chance to use it with students or colleagues. Here are the Help Links again:
- Look to Learn – overview
- Look to Learn Web site
- Look to Learn Sample Prompts
- Thinking Routines overview
- Thinking Routines from the Visible Thinking team at Harvard
- Article on Making Thinking Visible by David Perkins
Adding Rich Feeds with NetVibes
- Add Netvibes tutorial
- Netvibes Tour
- Tom’s Tech Feeds (and others – years 3 & 7 + Studies of Asia)
Podcasting & Audio
- Get Inspired!
- Radio Willow Web – First Grade “Blast Off”
- Large Collection of Fairytales read online
- PodKids (Australia)
- Resources for Podcasting
- Podcast Booklet from Tony Vincent
Web 2.0 Tools Review
- Download the Web 2 Tools Overview handout
- Explore the Tools Panel (Copy and Paste it into a page for your site!)
- Choose from different Web 2 icons
- Create a menu for navigation including Pages, Categories and Links (Netvibes)
Social Bookmarking & Personal Research with Diigo
- Social Bookmarking explained by Common Craft
- What is Diigo? Watch the Intro video for Diigo version 5
- Diigo Education sign-up
- Download Diigo Toolbar
- Join the Diigo Early Years Group
ClassPortals
- What is a ClassPortal?
- Chapter 1
- Why ClassPortals?
- Using a Blog as your ClassPortal (create a new blog?)
Participants Sites
AGQTP Group
- Gary H
- Marion N
- Brendan V
- Allister R
- Tim H
- Luke S
- Catherine B
- Sarah H
- Jackson B
- James J
- Lisa F
Hi Tom, love your document on web 2.0 tools.
thanks,
Lisa
Would like to get an impression fo the plug ins for WordPress. We are trying to set up WordPress on our school server, so would also like some tips for this.
Keen to work on some thinking routines. Also plug-ins for wordpress.
https://rtscalemodel.wordpress.com/
https://year8sustainability.wordpress.com
Hi Tom
Today I’d love to learn how to create integrated worksheets and activities- a cartoon with some questions online and getting students to comment online, a video clip they are to watch and then answer some questions online and post their comments. I would like time to also develop the blog also. perhaps develop a unit of work this session. (spend the day developing it?)
Hi Sophie, Sounds great. You can do all three at once: you will use the blog to post the cartoon etc. and this can build to a unit of work – all taking place in WordPress so you’re getting more familiar with it.
Welcome.
yes very much in line with something I would like to do, integrated worksheets that promote interactivity of students and some visible thinking routines
Thanks for last session Tom. In between sessions, I created a few more pages which embedded information, pictures and links that are relevant to the topic. However, I’d like to learn to make this more interactive so that I can include tools which will encourage the students to think and reflect, rather than my WordPress just giving them all the information. I’d like to have spaces where they can share ideas and commment on each others.
I would like a place/space where students can reflect also
Yes would like to establish a way to intregrate a range of media and stimulate thought and reflection in an interactive way with students
I need to practise working with WordPress as I forgot the steps involved in setting up student resonses.
I am also trying to do the same
Same here !
I would like to learn about the process of stimulating thinking routines as an introduction to a new unit on wellness in the LOTE, Indonesian, part of a new unit plan for next semester. Image to stimulate thought and response. creating magazine ” agony aunt” letter , email etc whereby students can respond to each other, role playing, offering advice.. AND/ OR Would like to further create an online activity multimedia usage about popular music in Indonesia, traditional etc with sound bites, ie from youtube looking at influence of westernisation in modern and popular music trends in indonesia.
Heather, Ron Ritchhart has just released a book on these thinking routines; Amazon link is: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Thinking-Visible-Understanding-Independence/dp/047091551X
Book comes with DVD of teacher examples and includes ways to assess. It’s a great read.
Thank you. It’s really helpful
We placed an order for the book in March in anticipatioin of the book being released in May. Hopefully it will arrive soon.
Cheers,
THe last session enabled me to discuss the issue of use of web technologies in our school and we have built up an account for the Arabic department and started to ceriate our own materials to share in our space. That was some thing we lak and really nead.
What I need to add to my knowledge in this area is how to add podcasts & videocasts
and how to design a quiz, test and online games. In addition to that I want to know how to share the markbook for example and receive comments from students on their marks without being able to change them (marks)