I love the messages in this video – from students, teachers and the Principal. While these students are using Chrome Books, the philosophy behind this supports any model of BYOD. What a lucky school to have the support of this trust to enable this to happen for their kids. The benefits are obvious and the school and it’s community are appreciative of the backing of the trust in order for this to happen.
I can see the potential for something like this Rocketboard ap to be quite exciting –
I love this video . . .
While it is focused on FB – the platform is irrelevant – the power is in the collaboration of ideas, learning, and engagement (beyond the classroom). This video could be in the context of KnowledgeNet – or any other LMS . .
For many of us – our digital footprint has only started in our adult life. What though – of our kids born today?
I think that this is an interesting video to share with students to have them think about what footprint they are leaving . . .
I’m interested to track down this book – ‘Born Digital’ – life is so different for children of today compared to 30-40 years ago and I think we have to begin to understand ‘how they are wired’ being brought up in the environment that they are.
I love this clip from Breakfast TV during the week. A really rich environment shared with the public – and an insight into where we are going with our digital journey and KnowledgeNet. I think that it is really important that non teachers can get an insight into what our classroom environments are like:
Leave your favourite ‘Teachie’ website on Mark Sparvell’s website. Mark was Australia’s teacher representative at the World Innovative Teacher Conference that I attended in Brazil in 2009 and has continued on an upward journey with many other exciting projects and roles since – including a recent trip to NASA Spacecamp!!! (Mark was awarded the ‘World’ Innovative Teacher’s award). Keep an eye on his site as I’m sure this will continue to draw on innovative uses on teaching practices in the classroom and beyond!
Anyway – get onto his site – leave your favourite and keep an eye on what others are recommending! www.sparvell.com
With being ‘snowed’ in I have had the chance today to explore some websites with Sam (aged 9) and Allie (aged 4) and see what ‘spins their wheels’!
The Reading Eggs website looks fantastic. It is another site from 3P, the hosts of the popular ‘Mathletics’ website. As with Mathletics, students’ families or school pay for a subscription to allow them to log in and use the site. Luckily I had a free trial code for Reading Eggs and Allie is enjoying the opportunity to ‘learn to read’ some more!! It seems to have progressive activities that are unlocked as the child works through the activities/levels. It is very interactive and allows the child to hear the sounds of the letters and apply that knowledge to their reading activities.
Allie has become quite hooked – I don’t know what I will do when the trial runs out!!! (Pay up maybe????!!!)
I have the Interface online RSS feed on the right menu of my blog – but I don’t know if I have ever highlighted this site on my blog. I can’t rave enough about this magazine – both the hard copy (which I just love!!!) and the online site. There is just a plethora of information for teachers, managers, decision makers, students (if they get hold of it!!) . . . and so much material to guide and inspire you. I have kept EVERY copy of this magazine since it arrived in my letterbox in 2007 (I was an ICT facilitator at the time) and haven’t missed reading each one from cover to cover (and some I read for a second, third time . . ). I frequently refer to them before making purchasing decisions and was really interested to read the latest Facebook article, in the same week that I pitched to our BOT the need for us to be out there on FB!! It is topical, informative and inspiring! I’ve even had the privelege to trial some hardware and write a review for the magazine as well as article that was published back at the beginning of 2010 – Article here
Check out the Interface Online website – and it you don’t already get it – make sure you order your one now! (We now order them for EVERY teacher in our school it is in such high demand!!)
I’m playing a bit of catch up – so much for my ‘Daily’ post! Storybird looks fantastic – another online publishing tool. I haven’t yet used it – but it is a collection of illustrations that anyone has permission to use. You can then publish these online or have them published in hard copy form, along the same lines as Snapfish do with photos.
I’m looking to explore online publishing options. We have our Reading Blog that students publish about books that they have read to, and we also have our Tech Blog which celebrates the work that is going on in our tech rooms. I’d like to explore options for having students publishing their learning in other areas online – in more e-zine and e-book format. This is one that I was shown when at the MYSA conference on the Gold Coast recently. I’m going to explore it some more – but would appreciate hearing from anyone that has used the Calameo site.
