Millthorpe School Languages Blog: An outstanding video made by Eleanor Kettley-Tomlinson!

An outstanding video made by Eleanor Kettley-Tomlinson!

Eleanor has produced this video on daily routine in French. It is unbelieveable – click the link to take a look for yourself!

tags: French, video, secondlife

guessthewordle / FrontPage

Each Monday, Wednesday, & Friday a new wordle will be posted for you and your students to view.

Each wordle will have a TOPIC and you will need to use your diciphering skills to figure out exactly what that topic is.

Then by using the google form, you are invited to share what you think that topic is.

You are also invited to create your own WORDLE and send it to me (jenuinetech (at) gmail (dot) com) You will be given full credit for your creation!!

tags: wordle, game, web2.0, wiki

How to Kick Butt on a Panel

Today I moderated a very good panel at a conference, and while this experience is fresh in my mind, I want to explain how to kick butt on a panel. At any given conference, there are about three keynote speakers and twenty five panelists, so the odds are much higher that you’ll be a panelist than a keynote speaker. Thus, I hope this entry appeals to a broader audience.

Read more: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/01/how_to_kick_but.html#ixzz0MRxqH6OE

tags: speaking, conference, panels, forums

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tags: socialnetworking, Tools, aggregator, web2.0

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CLI – Connecting classes trial

The project involved classes with students from two or more schools who received teaching and learning through “live” interaction using video conferencing equipment and shared interactive whiteboards across the DET wide area network. The combination of these individually “mainstream” technologies created a motivating connected learning environment that was more powerful than the sum of the individual technology components.

tags: IWB, collaboration, video

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Learn Chinese – Free online mandarin audio courses

Learn Mandarin Chinese quickly and easily!
40 online lessons with audio, including reading, speaking, writing, modern vocabulary, grammar, calligraphy, examples and exercices. All texts and dialogs in mp3 format for download.

tags: mandarin, language, chinese, learning

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dougbelshaw.com/blog » Blog Archive » Acceptable Use Agreements, Definitions & Digital Guidelines

Over the past week I’ve been working on policies and documents relating to E-Learning and electronic resources at the Academy. The following are links to the Google Docs that were created with feedback from my Twitter network. They are very much still in draft form and I would therefore appreciate further feedback!

tags: aup, acceptable, policies, admin, docs

Frequently Asked Questions

Some of the findings of positive psychology seem like common sense. Does this add anything to what we already know about the good life? It is easy to claim something is obvious after the evidence is in. It is the job of science to empirically prove or disprove what we consider as the common wisdom. Sometimes this common “wisdom” is true, sometimes it is not. One person’s wisdom can be another person’s folly. Positive psychology research is discovering some things that might not be considered wisdom to all.

tags: Happiness, positive, pointers

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http://xpatasia.edublogs.org/2009/06/21/evidence-of-21st-century-learning-on-a-learning-platform/ http://xpatasia.edublogs.org/2009/06/21/evidence-of-21st-century-learning-on-a-learning-platform/#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:51:35 +0000 Paul McMahon http://xpatasia.edublogs.org/?p=273 In the lead up to the conference, I have been meeting with quite a few vendors. Some of these have been learning platform vendors. These guys have the unenviable task of trying to sell their product to schools who are not really clear on what they want to use it for. Some schools for example convey to the community that their programmes are inquiry based and student centered but then they say that the platform must hold lots of past papers and worksheets that to all intents and purposes look exactly what I used when was taught 40 years ago!

I am currently out of Hong Kong working in Australia but I know that the many of the schools in Hong Kong have closed down due to the Swine Flu Pandemic. There is a lot of talk about how the students can still do work online. I am wondering how effective it is and, if it still follows the inquiry model?

Given that many of the schools say that they have been prepared for this to happen for some time now, it should be easy to see how schools have used these tools effectively. I, for one, am curious to know if it is possible to see 21st Century Learning in evidence on a portal? It is easy to direct kids to a website to do activities and write reports or submit results but what would we see on the portal if the students are engaged in communication, collaboration and creative endeavors leading to innovation?

I would appreciate your thoughts.

Photo: If the leaders don’t get it.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcleod/2919154475/in/pool-858082@N25

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ICT games – Resource Topics – TES Connect

Great set of learning games. Many suitable for an IWB.

tags: resources, IWB, games, interactive

Staff ICT Skills Log Questions.rtf – Windows Live

A set of questions for surveying staff about ICT skills in a school.

tags: skills, checklist, audit, CPD, training

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iMovie 09

At a demonstration, I saw a number of features in iMovie 09 that I wished were in FCP and I wondered if there was a way to use iMovie 09 in conjunction with FCP, utilizing some of its features to supplement the FCP workflow, most importantly in the rough cut phase of editing, as ‘09′ has an amazing skimming/edit tool. iMovie also sports a new and modern tool for exact clip trimming, the Precision Editor and it’s stunning. And, iMovie provides full Real Time playback, no rendering required, ever.

tags: imovie, digitalstorytelling, tutorial, howto, video

My Own Books

My own books is a fantastic site for fostering reading skills and thus, English language acquisition. It was created by Anne Pemberton, a retired Special Ed. teacher and she has done a marvelous job.
Students simply chose a story they want to read. Then, they put in their own name and BINGO! The story is all about them! You can print or read on the screen with pictures to support comprehension. Really cool and I suggest students print these out and share their stories. A great way to create a classroom , personalized library!

tags: reading, books, literacy, personalise

Fourteen Interesting Ways* to use Voicethread in the Classroom – Google Docs

Educators have shared these ideas for the use of VT in classrooms to engage and inspire

tags: voicethread, web2.0, ideas, collaboration, lessonplans

Educational Videos for Kids about Science, Math, Social Studies and English

NeoK12 is a great collection of educational videos for science, math, social studies, and language arts. Each category is subdivided by topic. For example under the social studies heading you will find sub-categories of geography, government, industry and several more topics. Most of the videos come from YouTube or Metacafe. You could find these videos yourself on YouTube, but NeoK12 saves you time through their categorization of videos.

tags: education, science, math, videos

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Tinychat | Home

With Tinychat, you can create your own chatroom and invite people through one simple link. You can also embed your chatroom on your blog, myspace, personal site, and many other portals. You can even invite people through email and twitter. Try it, we’re sure you’ll like it!

tags: twitter, backchannel, web2.0, chat

Mobile Learning Institute

The Mobile Learning Institute’s film series “A 21st Century Education” profiles individuals who embrace and defend fresh approaches to learning and who confront the urgent social challenges that are part of a 21st century experience. “A 21st Century Education” compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen.

tags: 21stcenturyskills, mobile, education

Put students to work: tips for a successful laptop program

One regularly overlooked aspect of implementing a school laptop initiative is student involvement. The education consultants at Generation YES recently outlined some ways to do just that. For the full report, go to http://www.genyes.org/freeresources/

tags: laptop, 1:1, students

IB Teachers Using Twitter – home

I guess that the name says it all!
An attempt to get all of the IB teachers using Twitter to join a wiki and share.

tags: twitter, IBO, PYP, MYP, DP

Glogster Tutorial – Annotated

Glogster is a powerful tool for students to use to create online collages that they can share with their friends and classmates. If you’re not familiar with Glogster, it can best be described as an online poster creation tool with music. Glogster for Education gives teachers the ability to create accounts for their classrooms. Using their Glogster for Education accounts, teachers can assign to and manage individual accounts for their students.

tags: glogster, tutorial, howto, web2.0

Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:: TES ICT Blog: Making the best use of the web in MFL lessons

05 February 2007 at 09.15 Making the best use of the web in MFL lessons The BETT show was a huge source of classroom inspiration for language teachers. Here MFL teacher Joe Dale rounds up some of the best Having…

tags: French, IWB

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Langwitches » Web-based Activities & Resources for Elementary School Students

Really good list of links to great resources broken into hand categories

tags: resources, tools, web2.0, games, iwb

An expert’s guide to YouTube | Webware – CNET

Want to use YouTube like a pro? We’ve got some advanced tips on how to search, watch, and share. Read this blog post by Josh Lowensohn on Webware.

tags: video, youtube, video editing, web2.0

Best Sites to Find Public Domain Images and Sounds for Student Projects | audio public-domain reference images photos | Making Teachers Nerdy

Now that more and more classrooms are publishing student work for digital storytelling, podcasting, or through wikis and blogs it is becoming increasingly critical students follow the copyright and fair use guidelines. To help you and your students, I’ve created another freebie post – free images and sounds for student projects. Yes, there are multiple websites out there for public domain images and sounds, but I tried to pull those that are safe for student searching. You will find glorious photo landscapes, character illustrations of fairy tale characters, tornado sound effects, and more.

tags: music, photos, cc, creativecommons, sounds, images

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