Welcome
Please begin by using the comments link on this post to share your personal learning goals for this workshop.
I have the pleasure of facilitating another 2 Day workshop for the Studies of Asia group at the Victorian department of education. Lindy Stirling, State Advisor, Studies of Asia (see the Studies of Asia Wiki) has organised this session at the Clifton’s in Melbourne’s beautiful CBD.
After adding your comment, you might like to download the handouts for this 2 Day Workshop
Studies of Asia Links
- Studies of Asia wiki
- Units of Work – from Studies of Asia Wiki
- BRIDGE
- Asia Education Curriculum
- Asia Education Student Activities
- Our Workshop Practice Blog
Participants’ Blogs
- Georgina Kirwan https://gkirwan.wordpress.com
- Catherine Bradford https://fuzokuchatham@wordpress.com
- Tom James https://globalengagementbirmingham.wordpress.com/
- Julie Walker https://juliewierenga.wordpress.com
- My Hoa Lam https://peonies2610.wordpress.com
- Rosa Pantaleo https://rosaritap.wordpress.com
- Nicole Mitchell https://mrsfarrelly.wordpress.com/ & https://mrsfarrelly2013.wordpress.com/
- Sandra Hemer https://jamescookprimarys.wordpress.com
- Peta Mundine https://pamundine.wordpress.com
- Sharon King https://sharonindobps.wordpress.com
- Andrea Quinn https://mpsnanjingchina.wordpress.com
- Dubrelle Campbell https://misscampbell13.wordpress.com/
- Shiromi Wijeratne https://jamescookps.wordpres.com
- Lina Ventura https://linaven.wordpress.com
- Felicity Emselle https://fbreee.wordpress.com/
- HUONG NGUYEN https://vietnamesecultureataglance.wordpress.com
- William Postill https://mpsasianfestivals.wordpress.com/
- Hang Tran https://icted25.wordpress.com/
- Julia Bay https://dpsmulticulturalcalendar.wordpress.com/
- Ben Sandy https://mrsandy123.wordpress.com
- Tom Gamble https://birminghamps.vic.edu.au & https://notablankslate.wordpress.com
Activity 1: Great examples from previous Studies of Asia Workshops
To get a sense of what we will be creating over the next two days, please explore the work created by participants in previous sessions. Try to notice the features, strategies and benefits gained from such a learning platform.
- Jasmine
- Carolyn C
- Jenny B
- Maffra Indo
- Wild’s Epic Nihongo Blog!
- Japanese Culture
- Asian Literacy @ L.P.S Blog – Great PD WebQuest on Asian Cultures
Brainstorm what you noticed using a shared Stixy board
Activity 2: Creating your Online Platform
- 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 or Chrome 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
- Copy / Paste Look to Learn Prompts into a page on your blog
- Copy / Paste the Web 2 Tools Panel?
- Copy / Paste this Workshop post into your blog?
- Use the About Page to capture your goals for using the Blog
Fine-tuning your Blog
- Comment Settings
- Siderbar widgets
- Various How-to Videos from WordPress
- Add as a link to your Sidebar (video) or Add a link (page)
- Pixlr for Editing images
Resources
Interesting Videos (all on YouTube)
- TedTalks Director
- TrungTamAsiaChannel
- Indian based Asian News International (ANI)
- ChannelNewsAsia (Singapore)
Images for your blog (Creative Commons-licensed content)
Podcasts
- See the Tom’s Netvibes Podcast page
Links
- Sampler of Resources from Scootle (Log-in required)
- Tom’s Draft activities for Asia Education Foundation: Chinese Migrants & the Goldrush
- Lindy’s Studies of Asia Units
Added Bonus?:Web 2 Tools
- Download the Web 2 Tools Overview handout
- Explore the Tools Panel
- Use these icons to edit it for yourself?
Presentation Interludes
Activity 3: Look to Learn
- Painting Elephant Look2Learn
- Online Samples by K-12 / KLA
- Look to Learn – overview
- Look to Learn Web site
- Look to Learn Sample Prompts
- Diigo Look to Learn Links
- Thinking Routines from the Visible Thinking team at Harvard
“Asian” Tumblr Look to Learns
- “Japs” & Chinese
- Statuary
- Ecological Footprint
- Pendulum
- In custody – racism?
- Miniature Earth
- Bangladeshi prostitutes
- Stereotypical Aussies? (is this how we see others?)
Work Period
Task: Create 2 – 4 5 – 10 Look to Learn Activities for your students
Activity 3: Enrich your site with content and rich media
RSS Feeds
Netvibes – Lindy’s Cambodia Resources- RSS in Plain English (Common Craft)
- Tutorial: Add a Link
- Tom’s Strategies and Studies of Asia Resources
- Tom’s Podcasts page
- Tutorial: Add a Netvibes Feed
Other Media
- iTunes – Embed a podcast with a player
- Add Flickr images through Creative Commons Advanced Search
- TED / YouTube Channels
- Use Dropbox for online file storage (podcasts)
Activity 4: Manage your Rich Media Links
- (Social Bookmarking explained by Common Craft)
- Diigo Social Bookmarks: get the toolbar, login and start bookmarking!
- Consider joining or pinching from the Look to Learn Diigo Group
- Lindy’s Diigo Studies of Asia Group: Join this Group.
Activity 5: The ClassPortal Twist
- Child Slave Labor News (see also “Slavery Footprint“)
- PodKids Australia
- Possible Topics?
- Brainstorm your passions (Stixy)
References:
For Ideas & Inspiration
- OXFAM – Reshaping our World – Poverty Maps
- Idea Index from the Buckminster Fuller Challenge
- The Girl who Silenced the U.N. for Five Minutes
- Online Fundraising Efforts at Razoo
- 50 Items That Should Change the World
- Contribute to Wikipedia? – Simple English Wikipedia on China vs. regular China page
C E Q • A LL / Seek all!
Self-managed Learning Framework for students
- Overview / Rationale
- Profiles (pdf)
- Rubric (pdf)
My goal is to learn some new ICT skills to use with my class particularly relating to ‘Engage with Asia’. Also, to be able to share these new skills with other staff members.
Hi – I’m really glad you’re here planning to share with others. Great!
I would like to have a better understanding of how to use ICT in the classroom. II would like to have a meaningful lesson.
Hi Nicole – after 2 days you should have many lessons you can use. Day 2 is mostly about this after we get the skills in place today. Welcome!
I am teaching in middle primary this year and lower primary next year. I want to know what exactly can be done in my classroom with the grades I teach. As well I wonder how to take whatever we learn here to the rest of the staff. We have had lots of talk at school and it seems we are ready for the next step but aren’t sure what the next step is.
Hi Tom – I find the Look to Learn activities we do are great for the “Littlies.” Welcome!
I would like to know more about ICT in the prep classroom, exploring how to use it more effectively. I would also like to know more about using different ICT apps, websites etc. in combination with one another to create more meaningful learning experiences.
Hi Dubrelle, I have the same interest. It would be great to find out more about the Prep classroom.
Hi Dubrelle,
I am teaching Grade 1 next year after five years in the middle school and before that in the upper school. I have started looking ahead to how will ICT look in my new classroom next year as my experience is limited with the younger students. Good luck with the preps!
is a really good blogging site for the younger (and older) kids. An advantage of posterous is that you can “email a blog”. Have an explore 🙂
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I would like to learn more about how to use wiki and to gain more support of ICT to help my students to be become the best ICT leaners that they can be. To gain more information and skills in supporting my students to learn more about China (Asia)
Hi Shiromi,
We won’t actually be using Wikis so much as Blogs – you may, but I think you’ll find blogs more powerful. Let’s see. Welcome!
MY goals for this PD is to learn more about Blogs and wiki usage in the classroom.
I want my students to develop concrete/sound virtual literacy skills so they keep up a world that requires them to have abilities that we may not even realise yet.
Hi Hang. I would like to be able to use blogs and wikis in my classroom also, just not sure how to yet!
Goals
Updating myself on what is available in ICT for the use with students
Using a Tool to enagage studnets in their learning
Working with a team member to collaboarate , plan and deliver a curriculum that is linked to LOTE and ICT
Linking the Library and Art/LOTE sessions ( with my team member attending today)
Clarify usage of web2 sites and broaden/deepen my knowlwedge.
Increase knowledge of Asia – how I will implement in the new curriculum.
New role as a Dept Head so want to have new ways of communicating / sharing ideas /work with students and staff.
Would like to do the same with English
Clarify usage of web2 sites and broaden/deepen my knowlwedge.
Increase knowledge of Asia – how I will implement in the new curriculum.
New role as a Dept Head so want to have new ways of communicating / sharing ideas /work with students and staff.
Hi Marian,
Sounds a perfect match for what we have planned. Welcome!
I’d like to be able to use class blogs & wikis with my students & their parents.
I would like to learn ICT skills to apply in my EAL and language classes. I wish to undergo a user friendly training session and will pass on the skills to my colleagues.
I am representing the early years for my school, I would like to learn some ICT skills (Asia themed) that are transferrable to youngies!
Hi Felicity,
Great. Try some of these to get started: https://oxleylearning.org/kindy/looking-to-learn/
Hi Felicity,
I also am interested in early years and how to support their learning about China
Enrich my kowledge about the latest ICT so I can implement the outcomes into my planning.
Studies of Asia is my passion so I am interetsed to see how you make the links with ICT.
I want to learn about the latest IT ideas to use in the classroom. I am the Art/Indonesian teacher and I work with the Librarian adjacent to me and hope to do some IT/Asia things together.
Teaching laguages at secondary levels requires updated teaching strategies and ICT activities. Students these days are so techno-savvy, and I would like to keep up with them.
I’m interested in the integration of Asia into the curriculum. I’d love to study examples of schools and teachers using ICT to engage students with Asia, Asian culture in an authentic way. Also the use of ICT to allow students to develop 21st Century competencies is something I’m interested in. I’d also like to explore how schools plan and map out Asia and ICT into a curriculum plan (scope and sequence).
I would like to gain information and skills to support students in learning to communicate more broadly through technology. To be able to help build links with a sister school in China and to increase my own ICT skills.
I would like to know more about wikis and blogs and how to initiate these with parents and children. I would also like to know how to integrate my Asian Studies knowledge into ICT in the classroom.
Use skype with a school in Japan but I really want to explore other simple and effective ways of communicating and interacting with them using ICT.
Thankyou
Cathie Bradford
Blogging, twittering, I wish to learn to use them in planning my activities.
I am interested in how to integrate studies of Asia into the curriculum in an authentic manner. I’m also interested in learning more ways to incorporate ICT into the curriculum to support student engagement.
I am interested in learning about how to use ITC in Asian studies for primary schools, in particular the junior Prep, 1, 2 age group.
I am the Indonesian/Asian Studies teacher at our school. I am interested in establishing contacts with others in relation to Asian studies and the use of ICT.
This is interesting – Harmful ICT Lessons to be scrapped – from the UK talking about how we need to move ICT beyond Word and Excel.
There’s a great article relating to 21C ed and the elements that Tom is talking about by Will Richardson: My Kids are Illiterate. Most Likely, Yours Are Too