Week 5 – Q. 7-9

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7. Examine some of the following resources:

This is great! Can I have it now please?!!!

This link didn’t work for me. Anyone else have trouble?

Wow!!! That is a great resource, and would be good to use in mentor/ tutor groups or in ICT or within any other class setting. Pity it’s American.

This is good, but not as good as the US site. It’s more of a fun site to pop in and out of then something that you would work through. It’s a bit ‘same same’.

I loved one of the sentences towards the bottom of the article – “despite blocking access to site such as YouTube and Facebook”. Aren’t we talking about helping kids to stay safe? If teachers and students can’t access them at school, and parents (apparently) are watching how are they going to learn how to be safe?!

I’ve seen this before, but not really used it. Would be good for lower Primary. Too uncool above Grade 4, I reckon!

Good idea. Too close to the start of Term? I totally missed this!

Great for Years 5-7.

8. Can you add any Cybersafety resources to the list?

Copyright or Copywrong

9. What do you think are your responsibilities in regards to digital citizenship in relation to teaching and learning? Read Tania Sheko’s post on ‘Whose job is it to teach responsible online behaviour’ and her post ‘The New Citation‘  to help you consider how to teach students to attribute research.

Oh, I LOVED The New Citation! Of course this is how we work in blogs. Why AREN’T we teaching our students to do this in Word?!

and whose job? If we expect them to use it, then we have to take resposibility for teaching them how to use it well.

Week 5 – Q. 4-6

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4. Read the BBC News article Pupils ‘must manage online risks’. What are your thoughts on the article?

Absolutely! It’s crazy to think that just because students are ‘digital natives’ that their brains get any ‘smarter’ as a result. Children still need direction and boundaries, and the best way to learn is to ‘do’, in a safe and managed environment.

5. View the 7.30 Report presentation on Bullying Rates Alarmingly High.

Yep. See answer to 4.

6. View the Slideshare presentation by Ollie Bray on internet safety.

This was disappointing. Was it supposed to have sound? I didn’t find the slides or the notes very helpful together. I guess you could use them with students, but what was that sofa – king – ??? – slide all about?!

Week 5 – Q.1-3 DC, CC, and DD.

Ramblings

1.  What is digital citizenship? How could you incorporate this concept into your classroom? Have a look at the contents of this wiki to assist you.

Digital Citizenship is really just The Golden Rule. It can be difficult when others don’t follow this way of being on the web (swearing, spaming, stalking, etc.) but there are ways and means to deal with that. This is a great wiki (seen it before on Bright Ideas?) but the resources are a bit ‘thin’ at the top end of school (VCE).

2. Creative Commons. What is it? How can it help students and teachers?

It can help students and teachers to jazz up their wikis, websites, blogs, nings, etc. without breaking copyright. Many of the sites I looked up in my search for ‘music icons’ only wanted an attribution line somewhere on the site – Icons by MediaMash – with links back to the main website. It also helps students, and teachers, learn that not everything on the web is theirs to take – most things are copyright in some way or another.

3. Watch the video on Digital Dossiers.

http://www.teachertube.com/embed/player.swf
This video is pretty freaky, but I think it’s all about what you do with your digital dossier. ‘Andy’ hasn’t done anything wrong – he’s not been offensive or creepy, he doesn’t stalk people, and he seems to have put on pretty reasonable information.

Week 4 – Extension Activities

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Extension Activities

9. Examine the following resources.

I really liked this part of this article:

I became aware of this connectedness of our thoughts as I read Ted Nelson’s Literary Machines back in 1982. Perhaps the seminal introduction to hypertext, Literary Machines opens with the basic assertion that all texts are hypertexts. Like it or not, we implicitly reference other texts with every word we write. It’s been like this since we learned to write – earlier, really, because we all crib from one another’s spoken thoughts. It’s the secret to our success.

  • and this one about eReaders.

    • And surge they have!

    Moodle looks good. Just yesterday we had a presentation from StudyWiz, which looks like a total rehash of Moodle. Anyone using either of them?

    I have already used Google Earth and am aware of the teaching resources available. Now to get the teachers to use them!

    I can see where Evernote would be useful, but isn’t this what iGoogle does?

    10. Do you have a Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch or other eReader/s in your school? When the iPad was announced, there was debate online for days about the need for e Readers and the future of books. What are your thoughts? How will they impact on the use of fiction and non-fiction?

    No iAnythings in our school, except those the students have. I think there might be a definite possiblity that we might be getting iPads on the book lists at some point in the future. When? *shrugs*. We do have some eBooks for the staff to use to print out answer sheets and assignments quickly and easily. Mostly in science.

    11. Explain how sites such as Moodle or Google Earth can change the way students interact with the subject matter they are studying.

    Real time information and feedback.

    12. How can the use of videos from the above sites help teaching and learning? Is accessibility an issue in your school? Can this be changed with lobbying the right people?

    Accessibility? Half of the things on this course are inaccessible here – especially visual stuff like TwitPic etc. Lobbying and EDUCATING the right people.

    13. How do you think sites such as Evernote help you organise yourself? Can you envisage educational applications for Evernote?

    If kids have the right hardware in front of them then they can save and share in an instant.

    14. Read the Enterprise Project developed by the Education Unit of the State Library of Victoria. How does the example of incorporating these tools in teaching and learning assist you?

    It’s sort of clunky, isn’t it. I can see how you could use it to introduce students to Google Docs and how you could embed it into an existing curriculum (always a good thing to not be reinventing the wheel!). Mmmmm.

    Onto Week 5!