Another great find from my TwitterTim.es feed today …….
the AASL Top 25 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning!
The “Top 25″ Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.
Categories include
Media Sharing
Digital Storytelling
Manage and Organize
Social Networking [...]
Flixtime – it’s been in my “lookatlater” list on delicious for a while and now that it’s Summer Break here in Thailand, I’ve got some time to check out everything on this list. Some changes have been made to Flixtime since I first bookmarked it and I think that those changes will push Flixtime ahead of [...]
As our CoETail certificate course comes to an end, as does our final project post.
As mentioned in previous posts, our whole 5th Grade team willingly took on a Science/Social Studies technology rich project for our Sustainability Unit of Study.
Using iMovie, every 5th grade student, either in a group, pair or individually, created a Public Service Announcement [...]
(Reflection Post 4 CoETaIL Course 5)
Today we spent a 45 minute session watching and peer-reviewing each others’ completed PSAs. Unfortunately, due to two days of closure right before our Songkran break, we needed to export our iMovie projects to a finished product BEFORE a peer-review. I would be extremely hesitant to export again before a peer-review. [...]
(Reflection Post 3 CoETaIL Course 5)
We’re almost at the end of our Grade 5 PSA making adventure for our Sustainability Unit – Time to take action!
Our proposed timeline was:
1 x session to Investigate
2-4 x sessions to Plan (invest the majority of your time in this stage – the better prepared your students are in this storyboard [...]
If you’re a visual learner then this is the news site for you!
It’s called Newsmap and it was shared by Andrew Churches in his Project-Based Learning Session (blog post brewing) at ASB Unplugged 2010, in Mumbai, India.
I think I love it because, not only is it colour-coordinated to the type of news it is, but you [...]
I was recently contacted by Shanthi Venkataraman, a student from Columbia University, Graudate School of Journalism, as my friend Silvia Tolisano (Around the World with 80 Schools skype project mastermind) had passed on my name as a teacher who had been using skype in the classroom for a number of years and had taken part in [...]
(Reflection Post 2 CoETaIL Course 5)
Grade 5 is using a google doc to help each other teach our students the technology skills required in order to complete the Culminating Project for our Environments/Sustainability Unit for Science/Social Studies.
In pairs or as individuals, our students will be creating PSAs (Public Service Announcements).They will need to analyze one aspect [...]
I’ve written about Animoto before. It’s very intuitive, quick and easy as well as free to use when you want to create a 30 second video. For just US$3 per video or US$30 per year, you can make longer videos.
Some ways to use Animoto in the classroom:
Teaser (introducing students to a new topic)
Assessment (students [...]
A while back, I submitted our VoiceThread as a Digital Portfolio for consideration for the VoiceThread Digital Library. The Digital Library is a database of articles about successful VoiceThread projects. It is VoiceThread’s hope to create a resource that offers guidance and inspiration for people undertaking new projects.
I’m honoured to say that it was been accepted [...]
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