Great work by Participants

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The following is a list of the Web sites created over two days by teachers supporting studies of Asia.  We used WordPress.com as the main platform to post Look to Learn activities.  These included embedded YouTube videos and a clever workaround to open shortened versions through direct links to TubeChop.  Thinking prompts encourage students to engage in open inquiry in order to develop a disposition for critical thinking.  The sites also link to Netvibes pages teachers created to enrich the current multimedia resources available to themselves and students.  Finally, we joined Diigo as a way to bookmark, share and collaboratively annotate Web content.  A full two days, but visiting the links below will reveal the great work achieved by all participants.

Lindy Stirling organised this workshop and did a fantastic job rounding-up such a motivated and talented group of educators as well as the location which was perfect for a group this size.

Here is the link for the original workshop posting with all the links and resources.

Studies of Asia in Melbourne

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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.

Studies of Asia Links

 

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.

Extended Variations

Brainstorm what you noticed using shared a shared Stixy board or Twiddla

and debrief Web 2.0 terminology


Activity 2: Creating Your Smart Online Space

Fine-tuning your Blog

Activity 3: Look to Learn : : Learn to Look

Online Samples

Activity 4 – Web 2 Tools

Download the Web 2 Tools Overview handout and paste in the Tools Panel for your site.

 

Day 2 – Personalising Your Learning to Personalise Student Learning

Paths to Personal Success

Download the pdf for Tom’s strategies.

Path 1: Create 3 – 5 Look to Learn Activities for your students

Path 2: Enrich your site with content and rich media

Path 3: Create a ClassPortal

Manage your Rich Media Links

Piecing together Digital Learning

1. Smart Online Environment

  • Your current space or WordPress.com
  • Get a Blog
  • Modify the Blog’s Appearance
  • Settings for success
  • Making a Post – embedding YouTube
  • Creating a Page

2. Rich Resources

  • Get a Diigo Account
  • RSS Feeds from Netvibes
  • Set up a page of feeds
  • Add it as a link from your blog
  • iTunes – browse and subscribe
  • YouTube / TubeChop
  • TED Talks

3. Digital Learning Pedagogy

  • Dispositions, Habits of Mind, Intrinsic Motivation
  • Look to Learn
  • ClassPortals
  • WebQuests 2.0

4. Self-managed Learning Framework for students

  • CEQ•ALL
  • The Remembered 20%
  • Map Skills to Hit 50
  • The Students’ Half

Feedback

Important – please complete this form (made with jotform)

ISV – Look to Learn for Early Years

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Welcome!

Look to Learn: Developing a Culture of Inquiry in Early Years’ Classrooms

The Blurb: Experienced teachers know that positive routines form a foundation to classroom learning. However, routines can also be used to engage students in critical thinking and knowledge building, activities often considered beyond the abilities of early years learners. Participants in this one-day session will experience what it’s like to ‘Look to Learn’ from the inside and then use and create such activities for their own students. See how rich digital media like blogs, videos, podcasts and images stimulate interest that is then developed through routines that prompt critical and creative thinking. This hands-on workshop provides the theory and practice to enhance the spirit of inquiry and appetite for learning that is already alive in your classroom.

Here’s a set of materials to go along with this Web page.

Discussion and Orientation

Given “The New Default”, what are our challenges? (stixy)

examples 1: Mankind is No Island, Miniature Earth, Global Rich List

examples 2: Slides

Look to Learn Links

Online Samples

Building your Looking to Learn Platform

Choose your Approach

  1. Easy YouTube downloader for Firefox
  2. TubePrompter
  3. Get a WordPress Blog

If WordPress, then get started!

Visible Thinking Tools

Site to visit Regularly

Manage your Rich Media Links

Expressionism

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The Paintings

four square
Four Square
Franz Kline
American, 1910 – 1962
more info		 lavendar mist
Number 1, 1950
(Lavender Mist)
Jackson Pollock
American, 1912 – 1956
more info		 name II
The Name II
Barnett Newman
American, 1905 – 1970
more info

Questions

  1. What kinds of things are the subjects of these paintings?
  2. What’s the real subject of these paintings?
  3. Why would a gifted artist want to skip painting people, places, and things?
  4. Which elements of design stand out the most?
  5. How much skill would it take to create paintings like these?
  6. Would you like to read general questions for looking at art?


Internet Resources
Style & artists:

More examples:

Historical or cultural issues:

Impressionism

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image
Rouen Cathedral
Claude Monet
French, 1840 – 1926
more info		 image
Pont Neuf, Paris
Auguste Renoir
French, 1841 – 1919
more info		 image
Plum Brandy
Edouard Manet
French, 1832 – 1883
more info

Questions

  1. What kinds of things are the subjects of these paintings?
  2. What’s the real subject of these paintings? (hint: trick question!)
  3. Why would artists want to paint fuzzy like this instead of clearly?
  4. Which elements of design stand out the most?
  5. How much skill would it take to create paintings like these?
  6. Would you like to read general questions for looking at art?

Which is the “Real” China?

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This image is from Tag Galaxy (taggalaxy.com) after searching for the word “China.”

Thinking Prompts

  1. If these images were all you knew of China, what would your impression of it be?
  2. From your perspective, which images depict stereotypes? What are the values or judgments behind the stereotypes?

Version 2

Now apply the same questions to this image of China, Shanghai & Architecture):

Thinking Prompts

  1. If these images were all you knew of China, what would your impression of it be?
  2. From your perspective, which images depict stereotypes? What are the values or judgments behind the stereotypes?

Finally, you might want to explore China Today and address the same questions.

iPad for Learning Intro

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Note: Once your iPad is set up for local networks with its WiFi Address, make sure you know your wireless passwords.  Once you have added these zones, they will be remembered and you won’t have to log into them again.

Do you want to download the handout?

test dropbox

Initial Sharing

As we wait for WiFi access, let’s share what we’ve found so far.  Some things can be demonstrated through the projector.

Common Tasks

Things you might like

  • ABC iView (media streaming)
  • TED – Technology Entertainment Design (consider an iTunes Subscription)
  • Others?

Subject Specific Apps (Free + Paid)

Activity #1 – Shared Analysis

In this activity we will use the Diigo Web Highlighter in the context of discussing uses for the iPad in the classroom.

  1. Go to this Web site: 10 Ways to use the iPad in the Classroom
  2. Make sure you have your Diigo Web Highligher installed
    • If you get stuck with the deleting bit, paste this into the Bookmark in your iPad when you are editing the Web Highlighter:
    • javascript:s=document.createElement%28%27script%27%29;s.type=%27text/javascript%27;s.src=%27https://www.diigo.com/javascripts/webtoolbar/diigolet_b_h_ipad.js%27;document.body.appendChild%28s%29;
  3. Make sure you have a Diigo Account
  4. Go ahead and highlight, add a new comment or comment on someone else’s comment.
  5. Should we use an education account?  A possible pilot project?

Activity #2 – Social Bookmarking

Now that you have access to Diigo and the Oxley Learners Group, let’s help each other by adding links to our shared collection.

  1. Make sure you have the WebHighlighter bookmarking button, a Diigo account and membership in the Oxley Learners Group.
  2. Surf the Web and when you find a link that you want to share with students or staff, Click the WebHighlighter and add it to our Group.
  3. Use the Tag Dictionary or add your own tags

Here is a cloud of current links:

Activity #3 – Shared Writing

Try our a shared document.  Here is a Google Doc that is open for everyone’s input.  Share something interesting or whatever you like.

  1. Contribute to a Google Doc
  2. Do you want to sign-up for a Gmail / Google Apps account?
  3. Do you want to contribute to an FAQ page on our use of iPads?

Activity #4 – Online Survey

Google also provides online forms that work great for easily posted surveys or quizzes.

Resources from Apple

ISV – 5 Day Finale

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Welcome & Agenda

Today is a celebration of participants’ learning.  This is the fifth and final session of the workshop series that began in Term 1.  We have focused on trying out new Web 2 tools and strategies like Looking to Learn, ClassPortals and WebQuests.  Today people will share something they have created and we will review our learning.

Presentations

Twiddla EtherPad

Leveraging Web 2 – AGQTP

Real Rich and Relevant Group

Reviewing “The Edge-ucators Way”

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Download the Edge-ucators’ Way Skills List

Resources

Taking banner ads off YouTube Videos

  • &showsearch=0

Don’t show related videos after yours plays

  • &rel=0

Caroline Chisholm Workshops

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Ongoing work with Caroline Chisholm Catholic College in Melbourne focuses on 1:1 learning and their Notebook program.  A special CCCC blog has been set up with sample look to learn activities, links to ClassPortals and WebQuests as well as beginning to codify a range of ICT and pedagogical certificates of professional achievement based related to these survey results.  We’re working  to support blog-based 1:1 personal learning for students.  This complete set of materials and advice about CEQ•ALL is also available for download.

Mankind is no Island

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View this video made by filmmakers using camera phones

See-Think-Wonder

  • What’s one significant thing you noticed?
  • What does it make you think about?
  • What does this make you wonder about yourself or the world?