What’s so Great about Vivaldi’s Spring?

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[podcast]https://ozline.com/media/Vivaldi-Spring.mp3[/podcast]

  1. Listen to podcast player.
  2. Why do you think people say this is so great?
  3. List what makes it “outstanding?”
  4. What would a person have to know to really understand and appreciate this kind of art?

Which Web 2 Tool?

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Look to Learn Launched

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I’ve just launched a site I’ve been wanting to get onto the Web for a while.  Called “Look to Learn,” the site combines what I like to call “Real, Rich and Relevant” resources with thinking prompts.  The rationale is to help teachers and students use such activities frequently (3+ times / week) as a way to nurture a culture of inquiry and to help students develop a disposition toward such thinking.  Another way to put it is, “Here’s an engaging way to foster an appetite for deep learning and the joy of learning that accompanies it.”

Tsunami of Waste?

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Gyre, 2009
8×11 feet, in three vertical panels

Depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world’s oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean.

Interpret This!

What is the subject of this artwork?

What is really the subject?

Explore details from the work.  What do you find most effective artistically?

Do you understand the meaning of gyre?  Did you know about the spread of plastic in the oceans?

Interpretation: Decide whether you think Chris Jordan’s work is more of an artistic or environmental statement.  Justify your opinion by supporting your view with specific insights or observations.

Global Debt

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What is the current US National Debt?

Based on this clock, how much did it go up in one second?

Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim


Module 2 Agenda

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Welcome back!

(you can download this Module 2 Outline)

Share what you’ve been up to

Core Activity Format #1: Look to Learn

Reflect on and plan your professional learning

Contribute criteria defining “Contemporary Teaching Skills”

Review Core Activity Formats

Let’s get started!

Sister Dorothy & the Rainforest

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“Parts” Cluster

  1. Use clustering software like Bubble.us or Mind42
  2. What’s the main idea or feeling? Put it in the center.
  3. Work as a class or team to brainstorm as much as you can about the movie.
  4. Group or connect any of the items into larger sets.
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Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

Held over a Barrel?

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Click on the image to see a larger version.  You can go to the original Web site to see more.

Headlines – What do you See?

  1. Write a headline that captures the most important point.

Note on this image: “Oil Barrels, 2008 – Depicts 28,000 42-gallon barrels, the amount of of oil consumed in the United States every two minutes (equal to the flow of a medium-sized river).”

Web 2 & the Studies of Asia PD

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Welcome to participants in this two day workshop held at the University of Melbourne and organised by Lindy Stirling, State Advisor, Studies of Asia (see the Studies of Asia Wiki).

Day 1

We will mostly be working from Tom’s CEQ-ALL site.  The outline of Day 1 with Tom  is:

  • Web 2.0 – Empowering Learning
  • Beginning with Web 2 Tools  WordPress, Pageflakes & Diigo
  • Designing your Learning Activity

Here’s a page of handy Web addresses and resources.

Day 2

Lisa Hayman will facilitate Day 2 which will bring in the VELS and authentic assessment as well as more time to work on the learning activities.