Mr T joins Web 2.0

I have created a video tutorial (a vodcast, really) on “Completing the Square”. This is a pretty challenging part of Year 10 or Year 11 quadratic functions.

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This is really just a trial to see if I can use surveymonkey

I was looking for some more info on how to look after my students’ interests (safety, privacy etc) when they’re blogging etc. I went through the global teacher safe publishing page, which lead me to a great blog by Gail Casey with some blogging guidelines. These guidelines look like what I should be using with my students, when we get onto this stuff properly…

Does this code work?

There seem to be a huge number of possibilities out there that we (teachers and students) can use, but where do we start?

One that I am looking at is rafi.ki which looks pretty interesting. How do we use it in the classroom? I’m not sure - we don’t have the time, because we still have to teach all the curriculum.

Other interesting sites:

• www.voki.com create an avatar like what you see on this page
• www.toondoo.com create cartoons

Check them out.

When students are publishing information on the net, we have to be careful about privacy. There are some interesting conversations going on in other blogs (eg: the edublogger, Al Upton’s blog) - I am going to have to get some ideas for our school.

By the way, adding audio to some slides can be done through voicethread, but you wouldn’t start with a powerpoint presentation if you were doing it this way.

So the slideshare worked, but the audio didn’t. I will have to work out the next step. I’ve got a feeling that it involves voice threads or something…

Just testing if this will share this slideshow…

Here is another powerpoint tutorial from some of my Year 10’s. We know that it’s not super flash (and there’s also a maths mistake!) but we’re just trying things out at the moment.

area-of-a-square.pps

Here is a vodcast that a couple of my students developed. I am not sure if the audio will sync with the slides, but here goes.

finding-the-median.pps

I am just starting out at this, but we all have to start somewhere. I am wondering if I am going to have to get broadband internet on - depends how much of this I do I guess.

Here’s a photo of my cat - I’m testing to see if I can add photos!

That’s all for a start - I should be doing my homework!