ICT-2009

How to create a blog with Blogger
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Learning Circle Three: Online Tools to Support Blogging (Bling Your Blog!)
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 Below are some sites that you may find helpful/interesting when creating and updating your blogs. __Reminder __: Before using any of these sites, please ensure you have permission to use your students photos/work etc. Do not associate children’s names with their photo.

· Easy to add to a blog. · Gives clear step by step instructions. · Good for demonstrating sequential work, children’s artwork or photos of visits. · Upload your photos and add captions. · You can add music and special effects. || · It creates a slideshow with music. · Upload your pictures or pull them from Flickr, Picasa and more · Then just choose a soundtrack and you're done! || · Great for videos, pictures, sharing documents and presentations. · You can post or record your comments onto the slide. Gives a great online step by step tutorial. || · Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios on SlideShare · Share publicly or privately. Add audio. || · A widget is an interactive application that can be installed on web pages, desktop platforms, and mobile devices that accept this type of content. Technically speaking, a web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any HTML-based web page by an end user. Most widgets have a media-rich graphical interface that becomes visible once the code is successfully installed on a web page.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Name || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Website || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Description ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Slide || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|www.slide.com] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Great first online slide programme to practice on.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Animato || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|www.anamoto.com] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Similar to Slide (see above).
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Voicethread || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|www.voicethread.com] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Slideshow with commentary
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Slideshare || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|www.slideshare.net] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Slideshare – convert powerpoint presentations
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Google Docs || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|www.google.co.nz] || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Well we __all__ know about //google docs// but did you know you can use them to convert your powerpoint presentations so that you can add them to your blog? Believe it or not they are working on making google docs a //better// place! Give it a go! ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Widgets || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|www.widgetbox.com] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Check out this definition:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Lost? · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Basically It is just a complicated way of saying you can add an interactive object onto your blog. Examples of these are: “counters” that help you keep track of how many people have visited your blog, or a “clustermap” to tell you where they are from. They can also be a clock, welcoming message etc. · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Just type in your bog address and the widget site will put your widget on for you. Worth checking out. || · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">You can create your own creature/person to welcome your visitors to your blog. ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Voki || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|www.voki.com] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Similar to widgets.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Clustermaps || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|www.clustermaps.com] || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Clustermaps are widgets that tell you where your visitors come from ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Earthalbum || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|www.earthalbum.com] || <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Earth album allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr. ||

**Blogs - what are they and how could they be useful?**

 * Personal website or online log that contains content organised like a journal or a diary that can be accessed and commented on by others
 * Postings are opinions rather than verified facts
 * Blogs foster the development of online learning communities
 * Provide opportunity for students to develop authentic voice
 * Provide an authentic audience and feedback for students
 * Increase student motivation - because they get authentic feedback from someone other than their teacher
 * A way to develop digital literacy skills - research, clear communication of ideas/information

**Blog Suggestions** [] -A blog/website aggregator [] - Derek Wenmouth's Blog: Musings on the use and impact of technology in education, and of the future of education in general. [] - The blog of Bruce Hammonds: Has interesting things to say about Inquiry....and also Literacy and Numeracy [] -Recent visitor to Napier Tony Ryan's blog

**How to get Started** You (teacher) set up a blog, post some things for your class to read, use, interact with. Set up a class blog for your current/next inquiry. Involve your students in blogging about their learning within the inquiry in some way. Swap access information (username & password *** only needed for schoolzone - other blog hosts like edublog or blogspot will only need a url address to access them ** ) to your class blog with your cluster buddy so that their class can view your blog and post feedback and get your students to visit their class blog and post feedback too. The ICT team would like to see each class make at least one posting during their inquiry and make at least one visit to their buddy class' blog - more often if possible. // Optional Extra // - include blogs as an information source/resource for your class during your inquiry. Introduce one blog aggregator so that students can search for relevant blogs within the blogosphere.
 * Term 2 ICT Task**

Meeting Your Buddy
 * Discuss the focus of your current or next inquiry (the one for this term)
 * Talk about how you could use your blog within the inquiry
 * Arrange to swap details to access each others' blog - via email once you have this set up
 * Decide when your blog will be active and open to visitors (you don't want a buddy class visiting when there is nothing to see!)
 * Get your students posting on your class blog and visiting your buddy's class blog to post feedback

Term 1 ICT Task - Terry Maloney and Dana Anderson
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Adding an image to the Wiki
Follow this step by step presentation to help you with adding images to the Wiki. media type="custom" key="3157420" width="320" height="226"

Creating a Google Account
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Using Google Docs
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November 2008
At our first meeting we decided there are 2 aspects to what we do with ICT in Inquiry. Below are the ideas we came up.

> -Visual Thesaurus > -Lexipedia > in different schools ||
 * = **Locating Information** ||= **Demonstrating Learning** ||
 * * Key Words-Wordle
 * Relevance
 * Searching
 * E-Mailing
 * Faxing
 * Interviewing
 * Digital Cameras
 * Video || * Wiki
 * Blog
 * PowerPoint
 * Photostory
 * Voicethread
 * Blabberize
 * Partnering up between 2 classes

Feel free to add other things that may fit into these aspects.

Our 2009 purpose is to support inquiry through ICTs. In essence we are taking a [|multiliteracies] approach to inquiry - recognising that 21st Century learners operate in a digital world where many of the 'texts' they engage with in their lives beyond school are multi-modal and multi-media-based. So our challenge is to extend the texts we include as sources within our inquiries, develop students' digital fluency skills to make sense of multi-modal digital sources as well as provide lots of opportunity for them to explore, use, apply and create with these skills and sources to create and represent their new knowledge.

Multiliteracies Presentation for Learning Circle
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Personal Learning Networks
media type="custom" key="3492546" This slideshow is designed to support the learning of older students but there is a really neat YouTube clip called 'The Networked Student' that outlines the potential of online web2.0 tools, how they relate to each other and how learners can use then to learn about and contribute to their field of study.