UWCSEA Teachers

"What is the 'Art Project'?A unique collaboration with some of the world's most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Explore museums with Street View technology: virtually move around the museum's galleries, selecting works of art that interest you, navigate though interactive floor plans and learn more about the museum and you explore.Artwork View: discover featured artworks at high resolution and use the custom viewer to zoom into paintings. Expanding the info panel allows you to read more about an artwork, find more works by that artist and watch related YouTube videos.Create your own collection: the 'Create an Artwork Collection' feature allows you to save specific views of any of the 1000+ artworks and build your own personalised collection. Comments can be added to each painting and the whole collection can then be shared with friends and family."

Fantastic to look at the art museums and particular paintings

Good intro to Twitter -- a Picasa slideshow by Kathy Schrock

"This presentation provides an in-depth overview of the micro-blogging tool, Twitter. The links to the tips, tricks, tools, research, and other items included in the presentation are listed below."

"Here are a few essential elements that help make the teaching in small groups effective for these students:1)  Use short text;  2) Keep meaning-making at the forefront; 3) Plan in ways that help you tailor the lesson to the specific needs of the group; 4) Allow talk time as you encourage students to negotiate the meaning of the text beyond the literal level and actually teach talking behaviors to maximize comprehension"

a Flickr pool of photos + quotes 

A huuuuge list of CC music sites - great for kids' videos and remixes etc.

Science experiments related to Light and Sdund

What will they come up with next?  I've tried it and it's amazing.  (Though no Khmer available yet, so not much help in Cambodia...)

A blogpost from Jabiz Raisdana about whether or not students should unplug or disconnect from tech use. Very interesting perspectives, and a huge lot of comments, which all bring up interesting points

great videos re ICT and teaching - bookmarked by Louise P

article in the Sydney Morning Herald

Always an excellent predictor of upcoming digital trends in education

Great Keynote speech about 21C Learning

Some links for inquiry and digital tools

Fantastic array of resources, ready made phonics etc very useful

It use to be you only had to worry about your school website Then it was the wikipedia entry Then came videos that kids were uploading to YouTube and Myspace Next came Facebook Shortly after that Twitter and now location services (Foursquare, Facebook Places, Gowalla and Google Latitude )

With regards to creating a video like the one above do you: Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address some cirriculuar outcomes but you might have to look them up later. Fingers crossed. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful things with students is important.  Do it but perhaps as an extra-curricular activity because you're not sure where it fits with a robust curriculum but still think it's important. Not do it at all.  

Miley Cyrus' single "Party in the USA" performed in American Sign Language by Stephen Torrence.

interesting criticism of the Reading/Writing Workshop model as privileging Web 1.0, rather than recognizing the relevance of Web 2.0 in children's lives....