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Great Primary ICT ideas

21 Mar

Just sat in a little meeting about some ideas for tech in the PYP. These were some of the things that were shared:

Managing blogs:

Schools need to set a minimum amount per week for teachers. The general consensus seemed to be at least once or twice a week. This way no one in the set was looking like an outlier (bad compared to others)
Consent forms for student photos are needed if they are to be used on the blog.
The idea of an after-school bloggers club came up. Some teachers were pursuing this.

Traffic light system:

This is a neat and simple idea for students to self assess along with teachers:
Red – Student cannot do it
Yellow – Student can do with help
Green – Student can do this by them self

Using PowerPoint in new ways

Students take screen-shots using a program to show progress and incorporate it into the slide-show
Students add arrows and text to explain what they have done
Students use the PowerPoint presentation to explain what has been done to others

A resources that was mentioned to stay away from was:

epals – it was mentioned to be rubbish – not updated and not accessible

Good resources were:

itass
textease
iboard – only for foundation, year 1 and 2
cricksoft
spicynodes
artisancam
voki
domo by goanimate
2simple to animate
alice
thinkquest
assess ICT for assessment
videopad for simple editing of video

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Posted by Dr. Thomas Johnson | ict-design.org on March 21, 2011 in Education, Technology

Tags: Education, Primary, Resources, Technology

Intended for the average teacher, rather than just the nerds (like me). Ian Jukes will be the key-note speaker talking about learning as a digital native at TechEx, an exciting conference that I will unhappily not be able to attend. Ideas for the conference are listed below:

The Facebook debate will be a drama contesting and supporting the notions behind this social network
21st Century Learning ideas – 2 minute ideas about lots and lots of different things – with free prizes from sponsors
Big building with neat TedTalk – and discussions
Flip Thinking- Let’s rethink the idea of homework – Are kids doing the hard stuff at home and the easy stuff in school?
iPads and Slates – Sharing of ideas about them – Should 1:1s be switching to these?
Hy Tek Software – for use with physical activities
Blogs – Student blogs and links to the outside world – How are schools using these properly?
One-Note – A Fantastic collaborative tool to be discussed
The Perfect School and how it should look
3D World
Moodle
Intelligently Searching the Search Engines – Searching Twitter, Subscription Databases

John Tratner asked groups at the ISTEC meeting to ask for some of the things that we would like to see. We came up with these ideas:

Inspirational Moodle stuff – courses or styles of courses (innovative ways to use it)
Ways that Classroom teachers are using tech beyond the tech teacher
How Chrome OS fits into education
Google apps and Google Docs – How are they using it
Bookmark synching methods
Giver (for sharing files) – Linux-based
Introducing Lino-It
Online Storage – DropBox – Boxnet
Using Freecorder – For downloading video, sound from computer and converting files

Students are resources. Here are some reasons why.

07 Nov

To help develop this website and also to tap into the expertise and know-how of students, I asked them to view the site in progress in order to comment, blog, and make additions. I set up the class with a Microsoft One-Note* document available for all students to have access to. I created a few headings. In this case: good blogs, cool links, neat videos, music and games, and then let them to it.

I started with my grade 7 class and I think they had a lot of fun with the assignment. In doing this, I found out more about where they were coming from and they also found out a lot of cool things about their peers.

I feel the project worked so well I will have to try it out with other grades.

*One-Note is an excellent collaboration tool because it can be linked through a common server or LAN thus enabling multiple users to write and create on the same document simultaneously.