…a classroom teacher tries to work out the wonders of the web…
Every day I am discovering new and amazing things that can be done using Web 2.0 tools. My latest discovery (which will be old news to many) is Pageflakes. How easy is it to add a feed!! The layout is also easy to adjust and user friendly. Can anyone suggest any disadvantages? Why would you use Google Reader instead?
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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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…
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:
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…
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.
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.
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