Journeys with Learning

Animoto

September 22, 2007 at 10:43 pm | In Web 2.0 Applications | No Comments

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

September 4, 2007 at 2:27 pm | In Internet Safety | No Comments

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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