Grow me some answers in the Answer Garden !

What has been happening in the library?... at AnswerGarden.ch.

Looking for answers? Grow Some

 -a minimal tool for maximum feedback.

Answer Garden is a fun way for students to brainstorm, plan, and work together.

In the primary classroom teachers can type in a phoneme combination and have students submit words that fit the phoneme rule.  

  

Teachers can ask open-ended thinking questions on their classroom blog or website for students to answers.

In the library an interesting use of  Answer Garden would be during reading as a place for students to reflect on different characters, plots, settings, and themes from different modes of stories. 

Use Answer Garden to conduct a classroom survey.  

In HSIE studies  Answer Garden that gives students a place that they can write descriptions of  a place they are learning about.  

In history, give students a date range, event, or historical figure and let them add words to the Answer Garden that describe.

Student of the Week:

Teachers can create an answer garden to recognize  students in your classroom where each class member can suggest a character quality that they like about that student.

Since I have been away from my school library for a long time I am going to use an answer garden to find out what has been happening in my absence.

I discovered this gem here and have adapted some of the ideas.

Best Web 2.0 Tutorials for teachers

One of the best resources on the web for web2.0 Technologies is the commoncraft show. Lee LeFever's produces "In Plain English". There product is all about explanation.


* Twitter
* Photosharing
* Bookmarking-plain-english
* Social-networking
* Wikis-plain-english
* Blogs
* Googledocs
* Mylocation
* Wetpaint

Changing the Landscape - Are you

Presentation by Pip Cleaves from HCC region:

Changing the Landscape - Are you

View more presentations from Pip Cleaves.

iPad Tutorial

The Twitter Tutorial

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

The Twitter Tutorial

View more presentations from David Griner.

Twitter for educational purposes -A tutorial

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Twitter for educational purposes -A tutorial

View more presentations from Maggie Verster.

12 words is back!!

12 words. Write a story.  

What is 12words?  

Fun, succinct!!
PRIZES

Show us what you can do in 12 words or less. Tell a story, convey a mood, give a glimpse at a person. We’re reading.

If you have a story to tell, share it with us – briefly. If you’re aged between 15 and 25 and living in Australia when you register, you could win a prize.

How it works? 

brought to you by:
Nambucca Valley Youth Services Centre

The Nambucca Valley Youth Services Centre (NVYSC) is an inclusive, youth friendly organisation, which celebrates diversity in a holistic, collaborative environment at a grass roots level.

iPods, iPads, iPodTouches, Netbooks find their way into educational settings.

 There are some great places to find information on 

integrating mobile devices into teaching and learning.

Slide to Learn beginners guide to the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad

Learning in Hand - Tony Vincent

Learning in Hand is a resource for educational technology by Tony Vincent. From netbooks and web applications to iPods and podcasting, Tony has put together practical information for educators. Go to his site to download a free podcasting booklet.

Canby School District, Oregon, USA - Great instructions for all levels of school use

Apple Education - Mobile Learning

Apple Learning Interchange - iPod Touch

iEducation App Reviews site - run by Scott Meech

QuickieQ: An online Quick Question Response System, with specially designed iPod touch interface

thanks to : http://slidetolearn.ning.com/ for these links

TCEA 2010 Member suggestions-excel spreadsheet 
 

100 Hard-To-Find iPhone Apps For School

 50 Educational Apps for iPod Touch 

iPhone, iPad and iPod touch Apps for (Special) Education 

Beginners Guide to the iPhone, iPod touch & iPad in Education

The iPod Touch Classroom

An online community for schools using iPod Touches in the classroom
Listen to what these students think about using iPod touches in their learning.

Find more videos like this on The iPod Touch Classroom

How to play The Street Orchestra iPhone Application

Get your friends together and play synchronised music!

Here's a simple instruction movie on how to play 

the fantastic Street Orchestra iPhone Application!

Try out glogster...it's great!!

Tutorials are available on Glogster Ed.

Educator Resource Library - NEW! Download for free

"The Glogster EDU Educator Resource Library is a database of outstanding examples of Glogster lesson plans and rubrics, standards alignment activities, and Glog building media resources. It has been built by and for our community of educators!"

Explore Patricia's glogster she created for our Sandy Beach Public School  "Be Well Read" Competition.
Check out this Principal's glogster -Brian Nichols 
Imagine the possibilities for setting up a class assignment in glogster-e.g.,Central Frog
Play Glog On!

View more presentations from Jan McGee.

  how to use Glogster

Google TV is coming...but No Google TV for Australia before 2011

TV meets web. 

                             Web meets TV.                   Learn more

Google TV is coming but not yet for Australia.

It certainly looks like it is worth waiting for!!

Augmented Reality in Education

Check out this SlideShare Presentation by Karen HAmilton :

Augmented Reality in Education

View more presentations from Karen Hamilton.

This is the interactive Edgalaxy Teaching Ideas Mind Map

Click on the mindmeister icon on the bar below:


You can zoom and scroll around the map to find exactly what you are after.

Remember to click on the little page icon for a description of the task 

and the little arrow will take you to the link.

Digital literacies Creating visual texts

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Digital literacies Creating visual texts

View more presentations from Kevin Cummins.

Holly from Year 4 made her Prezi on CATS.

I have introduced and posted a number of things about Prezi before....

use the search bar if you missed them.

This Prezi example is a young students one.

If young Holly can create an interesting Prezi 

we can assume that many of our students (and staff members) 
would be able to use this tool too!

holly on Prezi

What will our kids think of todays technology?

Technology tools are being superseded so quickly these days. So many tools that have been invented and popular are not having a long life at all.

I remember looking forward to being able to have my own walkman. By the time I could afford one they were well and truly old technology! They were looking to get the newer technologies-iPods.

My first mobile phone in 1994 was a bag phone to use in the car. The reception out in the rural areas of NSW was very intermittent. I wonder what kids would think if they saw one today.

Spencer whipped up a fun Google Docs presentation that I've embedded below for your enjoyment.

Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies-May Review

Here is a roundup of the articles and tools added to the main Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) site in May. Check out the 31 articles and resources, 

and the Tools added to the Directory of Learning Tools.

 May 2010 Review

Tools for the 21Century Teacher

The Internet provides tons of free tools and resources for teachers to use in their classroom. 

Open publication - Free publishing - More 21st century

This handbook is for new teachers and/or teachers who are wanting to integrate technology in their classroom. 

The tools are both to use with students and use professionally.

Thanks for sharing this resource:  mzimmer557

How to use Audacity.

 Basic instructions for student voice recording using Audacity.How to Use Audacityby K Ferrell.