Welcome to Day 2!
Welcome back. I hope you’ve had a nice autumn holidays and beginning to Term 2. Also that you’ve had a chance to trial Look to Learn activities with your students and colleagues. Today we’ll begin with a review what we learned Day 1, how you’ve gone using these resources and approaches and to share your experiences.
The day will be focused into three main parts:
- Review, sharing and focus
- Setting up a WordPress blog
- Beginning to explore other Web 2 tools & environments
Review Day 1 + Use with Students / Staff
- (Add a link in the Comments to something you tried)
- Tom’s experiment with EtherPad (and the Word Cloud generated) based on 2 scenes from Rebel Without a Cause: Knife Fight Scene and Confrontation with Parents
- 3Rs Series:
- Megan’s Year 12 Psych blog & Year 8 SOSE
- Raelene’s video link & Tumblr for teachers
- Vicki’s Tumblr
- Vanessa’s YouTube link
- Sukhbir – stixy, wordle, set up blogs, used tumbler, voki etc
- Phil – I have been working with Edmodo with my students
- AGQTP Series
Tom’s Most Reblogged Tumblr Sources
Look to Learn Approach
- Some Recent Posts on Look to Learn Tumblr: Abled Yoga Vet, Caine’s Arcade, Animated Eye, Hotdog Crust, Political Truth
- Making Thinking Visible
- Looking Prompts / Thinking Routines
Problem-Solving Local Issues
- Experimenting with Edistorm: Local Issues Influencing Use (requires sign-up)
Reflection and Consolidation
Review your Tumblr site and personal notes to reflect what you want to take away from this refresher on what we have learned. What do you want to continue using, pursuing and trialling?
Online Spaces
WordPress Blog
- Examples: iDesign, International Studies, OurSpace
- WordPress
- Get a WordPress Blog
- Change the theme
- Make a Post
- Embed YouTube (remember &rel=0)?
- Try TubeChop.com (see the Tubechop Update tutorial)
- Get Firefox for extensions like the video downloader?
- Embed all kinds of media in WordPress (maps, images, documents or polls?)
- Customising your Menu
- Getting Started Tutorials from WordPress.com or WordPress Lessons or Overall WordPress Support Tutorials
- WordPress Shortcodes – sample
- Copy / Paste Look to Learn Prompts into a page on your blog
- Use the About Page to capture your goals for using the Blog
Participants’ Developing Blogs
3Rs Series:
AGQTP:
Other Possible Online Environments (for Day 3 mostly)
- Edmodo (example: Mr. V’s Psych Class)
- ClassBubbles (example: Next Era Ed – code: nexteraed)
- Ning / Elgg / Groups
Web 2.0 Tools
- Download the Web 2 Tools Overview handout
- Explore the Tools Panel
This is my year 12 Psychology blog.
https://missorrinpsychology.wordpress.com/
More the thinking stage for setting up on-line galleries where the kids have a real audience( outside their loving parents). Have been exploring tumblr a bit more too, getting my head around the possibilities for visual arts.
This is my tumblr that I set up for teachers to view and/or respond to educational issues as well as example of how they can use it with students.
https://raedel.tumblr.com/
* haven’t been able to use tumbler for my classes yet
*did use youtube clips of sound waves for my trig topic with year 11s
Vanessa
I have been working with Edmodo with my students and they have really taken to it. I am still in the initial stages and have not fully utilised all that it has to offer.
since last Pd I have tried to use stixy, wordle, set up blogs, used tumbler, voki etc. but really want to learn web 2 tools to introduce into lesson plans.
Here is a blog I had for my year 8 SOSE class last year.
https://goodshepherdsose.wordpress.com/
And here is my Maths YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/missorrin
Have been using Weebly a lot and today my students will be checking out Etherpad again. Students have been introduced to Stixy.
Notes at the end of the session:
I’ve invited participants into Edistorm via email so we will try that again.
Overarching task is for people to use their WordPress sites to get familiar with the technology so we can use it for ClassPortals / netvibes / space for student participation.
Hi Web 2.0 Team-
Have had some difficulties accessing Tumblr at my school. The website was blocked til this term. So was using the thinking prompts with pictures / books with my kids.
Still yet to use tumblr.
I have been supporting our Head of Primary as she works with teachers she is leading in ICT professional learning to embed ICT across the learning areas, and doing a little experimenting with the tools myself, particularly tumblr and wordle.
My tumblr link:
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/sandye1
Hello everybody,
I am looking forward to a great day today, I have it on good authority that the session is fantastic.
I am using a blog with my grade six students. They are studying feral animals, first writing what they know already, then posing questions for each other. The answers from students have just begun to be posted.
Eventually they will collaboratively design an imaginary feral animal or a trap for cane toads.
I have a Year 6 class mostly using iPads – a new program. Still waiting on these to be properly configured (imminent)… then it will happen…
Here is the blog URL for my classes work.
https://kidblog.org/SixR
They have only just begun posting this week.
To look at postings you will need these.
username: teacher
password: 111
I have been using thinking tools and look to learn in my classroom.
I have been using a blog in my Year 3/4 classroom.
Still learning my way around tumblr, but I have used things I find there in my look to learn activities.
Our blog is https://henderson3and4.wordpress.com/
Hi Amy,
Love the wordpress! What a great way of using it in the classroom. Nice one! 🙂
All of my work is in a program called myPLS by Editure. I am afraid it is passworded. I have been experimenting with wiki, blog, and web quests related to specific lessons. One useful powerpoint developed out of some searching for graphics to teach cell organelles.
You can probably show it to me if I logged into myPLS!
Hi,
I have tried to play with some pictures which I linked with our theme for this term- ‘Food’
Madhuri
Have enjoyed visiting the schools I am supporting for this project and understanding the exciting and challenging things they are doing and considering.
Also have been experimenting a little with Tumblr
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/olivia-clarke
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/madhurinoah10
link to my account on tumblr
This is a WordPress blog for the sharing of writing for our Middle Years students – Years 5 – 8.
Hi All,
I’ve got my yr 6 kids to create a wordpress account so they can publish a range of work online and develop an online portfolio over the course of the year. A work in progress but I’m excited about the opportunities and so are the kids…
Here’s the link to the writing blog. It’s a work in progress, but it’s exciting to see the students so keen to share and give feedback about their learning.
https://mystorieskings.wordpress.com/
This is an attempt to build a resource for Senior Mathematics Students