This site is great for connecting students with their natural environment through the subject strand of science.
Kristy Edmondstone lead me to this resource through her blog. Check it out at http://kristyedmondstone.edublogs.org/ :)
Project Noah is an example of a distributed citizen science project. Set students missions to explore their environment and catalog, identify and share what they find.
Exploring 150 examples of ICT innovation my favourite is a Web 2.0 tool called ZooBurst. It is a digital storytelling device that enables students to create 3D pop up books.
Getting a handle on numbers, their magnitude and relationship can be difficult for adults, let alone students. This is an example of where published data from the EU statistics agency is being brought into Minecraft to support visualisation.
#blogsync is a project/movement/approach where educational bloggers all write around a common question/topic. Billed as a slow version of Twitter chat. This example address the question "Wasted investment? Why do so many teachers leave the profession in the first 5 years?". It's origins are in the UK.
The Student Blogging Challenge is just one project that aims to help school age learners connect to folk outside of the classroom. An example of ICTs being used to exchange information/communicate
A new challenge runs every March and September.
An #edc3100 student's description of the process of creating a concept map as part of the week 2 path. Highly recommended in terms of demonstrating a process to follow and as an example of a learning journal post.
Be sure to take part in the survey toward the end.
Ms Cassidy's blog documents the interesting and valuable learning achievements of her students. Her blog offers a great variety of lesson ideas, including those which involve ICTs such as twitter to communicate with other learners from around the world and enhance the learning experience of all.
Upon researching a 'sharing teacher' - a teacher that is sharing what they do online, I stumbled aimlessly across a weblog entitled Ms. Cassidy's Classroom Blog. This weblog is from a class of 6 year olds in Canada and not only shares pictures and special activities going on within the classroom, i.e. Pancake Day, but also invaluable ICT resources such as Videos Just For Us and Learning with Twitter. The absolute BEST thing about this weblog though is that the 20 students in the class and actively involved within the ICT. They can comment and add any discussion to the page they like about their learning and the teacher provides an individual page for each student which they are solely responsible for keeping up to date, and posting evidence of their learnings. This is an exceptional idea of incorporating ICT into student learning as well as provide student parents and families an artefact in which they can see exactly their students learning and development.
Kathy Cassidy is a teacher in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. She is a first grade teacher who uses her blog to share the learning of her students with the world. Within her blog each child has a separate blog where they share heir activities and learning with videos pictures and posts. I have found this excellent as it allows the children to develop ICT skills early in their education and gives the parents and insight of why it is a great way to learn and allows them to see how there children are learning. her blog is always updated with will be great to follow for the rest of the semester and future. i was drawn to Kathy's blog as she teaches in the same context I do and reading her blog I felt like I knew her children and discovered more ideas to incorporate ICT'S into my pedagogy.
It's fun to make the Playdoh balls, but even more fun to smash them with your fist! After working so diligently to help Emmy Barr with her business, the students wondered what she had won in the contest.
I found this blog really interesting as it shows the children are engaged in using ICT in the classroom with their own blogs and videos of their work. It also shows the use of not using ICT with lots of hands on experiences. I think it shows the importance of using both in the classroom depending on what your learning. I will definitely keep a close eye on this blog.