Journeys with Learning

Moved!!!!

To those people using the resources posted here i have moved to a new blog
http://thebigquestion.edublogs.org/
I hope to see you over there sometime

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Creative Commons

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Podcasting in Science

Podcasting provides students with the purpose and motivation to create spectacular products, like presentations, advertisements, jingles, news reports based on current affairs, interviews and radio programs.

Today we will go through the process of creating an enhanced podcast that will demonstrate our understanding of the following science outcome.

Outcome 4.6: A student identifies and describes energy changes and the action of forces in common situations.

The outcome, learn to and learn abouts and a possible script for your podcast can be found here.

Some images that you may like use can be found here on Picasa

Interwrite Interactive Whiteboards

This simple presentation outlines how we will use the interwrite interactive whiteboards in our session today

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You can find the Interwrite getting started guide here

Download free Interwrite™ lessons and activity plans developed by teachers for teachers at the interwrite site. Make sure you click on the Content Unit Search

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Real, Relevant, Right-now Navcon Presentation

The presentation below was delivered at the Navcon 2K7
workshop by Michelle Shearman and Mark Woolley. This workshop focused on real, relevant, right-now technologies which have the
potential to transform your teaching . You can find the support blog here

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Animoto

Animoto can be used to create powerful multimedia quickly and easily. It can be used with k-12 classes and helps to promote an understanding of visual literacyStudents can shoot and/or collect potent images, create powerful verbal audio to accompany their images or compose songs to accompany their visuals. It provokes the student to consider both the impact of their work and the media choosen for that work.

When the movie is embedded in other web 2.0 tools it encourages real world feedback on student work.

The movie below was created as a year 4 students Religious Literacy Assessment, the student wrote and performed the song, gathered the images and created this in Animoto.

Below you will find two video tutorials on how to create an Animoto account and then how to create a movie in Animoto.

Creating an account in Animoto

Download Video: Posted at TeacherTube.com.

Creating a movie in Animoto

Download Video: Posted at TeacherTube.com.

Net Alert resources

The Australian Government has relaunched its NetAlert site, still with the same great resouces but with added free internet content filter.

The subsites listed below are a great resources for teaching students about internet safety.

Netty’s World
http://www.nettysworld.com.au/

Netty’s World is designed for young children (2-7 years of age) starting out on the Internet. It provides an interactive and safe learning environment for children and emphasises important messages about Internet safety.

CyberQuoll
http://www.cyberquoll.com.au/hub.htm
Internet Safety Education for Primary Schools

CyberSmart Detectives
http://www.cybersmartkids.com.au/
This site will help you and your family to find out how to be cybersmart and use the internet safely. It’s a young person’s guide to smart ‘net surfing, chatting and emailing.

CyberNetrix
http://www.cybernetrix.com.au/
Internet Safety Education for Secondary Schools

WiseuptoIT
http://www.wiseuptoit.com.au/
Wise Up to IT explores the lives of four young people
and their experiences on the Internet.
Four situations. Four victims. Four stories. Many strategies.

Teacher Planning and PD
A number of materials have been developed to help teachers learn about Internet safety and create teaching programs for their schools.

Finally for those from secondary schools you will find a number of quality resources related to cyberbullying and internet safety on St Josephs website.

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Animoto

Animoto is an amazing movie creator, add photos, choose music and Animoto does the work.

The Chorpus Christ movie below took about 2 minutes to create!!!!

New Story Telling Options

Alan Levine has put together fifty web tools you can use to create create a story. They are organized into categories according to the kind of story thet can produce or the kind of media they are built around.This is a great resource to encourage your students to present their stories and ideas in different fomats

You can find the ideas here – StoryTools

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iTunes U

iTunes U, a dedicated area within the iTunes Store featuring free content such as course lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports highlights and campus tours provided by top US colleges and universities including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Duke University and MIT.

Its been active for a few months now and is a great professional learning resource. You can check it out at the iTunes store.