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

• Studies of Asia wiki
• Units of Work – from Studies of Asia Wiki
• BRIDGE
• Asia Education Curriculum
• Asia Education Student Activities

 

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.

• Grey Matters
• Jenny’s Blog
• LSC Indonesian Blog
• Maffra Indo
• Low Down on Learning
• Discovery Centre HCC’s Blog
• Smcdon32’s Blog
• Jessica’s Blog (notice the Poll)
• Come and play with us – Prep L 2010
• Em80’s Blog
• Prep T Rocks!
• Purplelly’s Blog

Extended Variations

• Japanese Culture – A resource for students at St Anthony’s Primary School
• Deana’s Blog (good use of podcast player)
• Melody’s Blog (excellent use of video, images and text)
• Sass Scribbles – (excellent use of the “blogroll” or links)
• Asian Literacy @ L.P.S Blog (excellent integration of media and continued use)
• Wild’s Epic Nihongo Blog! – and what it can become with ongoing use!

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

• Get a WordPress Blog
• Change the theme
• Make a Post
• Embed YouTube (remember &rel=0)
• Try TubeChop.com
• Get Firefox for extensions like the video downloader?
• Embed all kinds of media in WordPress (maps, images, documents or polls?)

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)

Activity 3: Look to Learn : : Learn to Look

• 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

Online Samples

• 1984
• Miniature Earth
• VisionShift: Whose Future?
• “I Can”
• Nuclear Giving
• There’s Data in them ther Kids (cartoon)
• The Global Rich List (interactive site)

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

• Netvibes – Tom’s Strategies and Studies of Asia Resources
• iTunes – Embed a podcast with a player
• TED / YouTube Channels
• Add the Tools Panel for your site (and use these icons to edit it for yourself?)

Path 3: Create a ClassPortal

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
• Revisit the Look to Learn site to bookmark what you like
• Simple English Wikipedia on China – regular China page.

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

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