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  • Create distribution lists for class groups
    • Christen Jacobs
      Christen Jacobs on 22 Apr 09
       
      Share distribution lists to minimise use of "School Staff" list
  • “Bcc” (Blind carbon copy)
    • Jason Coleman
      Jason Coleman on 22 Apr 09
       
      Do people still use this function?
    • hal jordan
      hal jordan on 22 Apr 09
       
      Only when mistakenly sending emails about they didn't actually want people to see...
    • Merrick Brewer
      Merrick Brewer on 22 Apr 09
       
      What is this anyway? I thought it meant you published your emails to BBC TV
    • hal jordan
      hal jordan on 22 Apr 09
       
      It's a means of sending an email to various other people at once. For example, you might send an email addressed to a parent concerning a manner but you'd CC the same email to your year level co-ordinator so they know exactly what you're communicating to said parent.
  • c     Set up your own collection of RSS feeds
    • Paul Smith
      Paul Smith on 22 Apr 09
       
      Once RSS is demonstrated to staff through sites such as Pageflakes staff may see how the benefit of the web working for the user rather than trawling through google.
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  •     Contribute resources you find to local and online colleagues
    • Paul Smith
      Paul Smith on 22 Apr 09
       
      Using resources such as Delicious to pool resources and share ideas with other teachers saves so much time!
    • Christen Jacobs
      Christen Jacobs on 22 Apr 09
       
      Being too prescriptive about what tools to use will date this document - better to leave it to individuals to work out what's best for them
    • celia sutterby
      celia sutterby on 22 Apr 09
       
      How do you create a floating sticky note?
  •   Maintain a list of core course documents throughout the year
    • Merrick Brewer
      Merrick Brewer on 22 Apr 09
       
      Maybe this could be expanded a bit. list some of the "core course documents could be teased out.
  • core course documents
    • celia sutterby
      celia sutterby on 22 Apr 09
       
      Microsoft OneNote is a really useful resource for keeping track of these materials and remembering what you did in previous/similar lessons.
  • (Powerpoint)
    • hal jordan
      hal jordan on 22 Apr 09
       
      Why just Powerpoint? Why not a HTML based presentation? Or one done in Flash? All are possible.
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 22 Apr 09
       
      Yes, what about great online presentation tools? How much (if at all?) do we still have to play by the "Everyone needs to know MS suite so schools need to do this as 'Job Prep?'" Do you feel this as a need in your schools?
  • ito
  • Juxtapose other stimulus prompts ito challenge thinking
    • Merrick Brewer
      Merrick Brewer on 22 Apr 09
       
      Is that 'into', Itunes, to, it, it is a challenge really.
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 22 Apr 09
       
      Oops, typo. Thanks ;-)
  • ito
  • Add a document for students to download
  • ito challenge
  • Edit a word processed document by: using find and replace, checking word counts, inserting page breaks, accessing the spellcheck and thesaurus functions
    • Jason Coleman
      Jason Coleman on 22 Apr 09
       
      Is this more of a "basic" skill that we assume that all educators already know? If this section is regarding posting documents, we are talking about a different set of skills.
    • Christen Jacobs
      Christen Jacobs on 22 Apr 09
       
      Assume nothing
    • Mahendra Kapoor
      Mahendra Kapoor on 22 Apr 09
       
      I assume this is a somewhat mandatory skill that users of Word Processing applications should have. How unprofessional to read a doc that has spelling errors etc!!
  • Analyse class maps as tools for discussion
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 22 Apr 09
       
      Many of the ICT standards view Tech as a tool for thinking.
    • Paul Smith
      Paul Smith on 22 Apr 09
       
      Enabling students to access work and files from locations other than school will be more and more vital in the future.
  • Join a professional learning community and follow posts for several weeks
    • hal jordan
      hal jordan on 22 Apr 09
       
      Would this, however, be counted as hours in regard to the VITs PD requirements? If so, how would it be monitored/recorded?
  • Partner with a colleague to offer a new technology to extend or enrich learning for a group of your students
    • Christen Jacobs
      Christen Jacobs on 22 Apr 09
       
      Blog the use of this technology and share with other classes via a social network such as Classroom 2.0
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 22 Apr 09
       
      Good point. Collaboration doesn't need to be in-person & synchronous - or does it?
  • Use tables and styles to enhance the formatting of a document
    • Jason Coleman
      Jason Coleman on 22 Apr 09
       
      Does this enhance an educators "ability" to create and post?
    • Paul Smith
      Paul Smith on 22 Apr 09
       
      Our school does this through online content management called "Study Wiz"
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 22 Apr 09
       
      Yes, any means - Moodle, Wordpress, Sharepoint, etc. - the idea is that we have a professional responsibility to make core documents available. Do you agree?
  • Consider taking an active role in an online community.
    • hal jordan
      hal jordan on 22 Apr 09
       
      For what goal? Personal business just to keep technical skills up or must it be related to profession related topics? More clarification needed.
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 22 Apr 09
       
      Good point, Hal. What do you think? By "Level 4" I would expect this to be a professional community. Is this fair?
  •   Embed a video
    • Paul Smith
      Paul Smith on 22 Apr 09
       
      Visual Media engages students!
  •    Create opportunities for students to post sincere comments
    • Paul Smith
      Paul Smith on 22 Apr 09
       
      Finding online resources (Wikis, Blogs) that dont require email addresses and passwords can be an issue with younger students.
    • hal jordan
      hal jordan on 22 Apr 09
       
      That's why setting up an in-house system where you can create a large number of individual student accounts at the start of the year (such as VBulletin) comes in very handy.
    • celia sutterby
      celia sutterby on 22 Apr 09
       
      On the flipside, we use a vocabulary training website in LOTE which students can't access if they declare their DOB to make them younger than 13!
  • Upload presentations, videos or animations for student use
    • Larry Mckeown
      Larry Mckeown on 22 Apr 09
       
      Any ideas about the best way to do this? Should it be a WEB 2.0 application, such as Dropbox? Or is bandwith use a concern, so a LAN setup should be used?
    • hal jordan
      hal jordan on 22 Apr 09
       
      Just to save on costs, you'd probably have to do it over a LAN. It would also create a more reliable system, since an intranet/local network is less likely to fail than the connection to outside resources.
  • (QuickTime Pro)
    • Jason Coleman
      Jason Coleman on 22 Apr 09
       
      Obviously not the only resource for this. Open source solutions to cut costs?
    • hal jordan
      hal jordan on 22 Apr 09
       
      Definitely, open source is a very good way to go.
  • Create opportunities for students to synthesise their learning through projects that call for a creative, problem-solving or innovative response. 
  • Join a professional learning community and follow posts for several weeks
  • c     Join a professional learning community and follow posts for several weeks c     Join an online chat, webinar or presentation as an observer c     Choose one aspect of the learning framework to research
    • jennyann north
      jennyann north on 22 Apr 09
       
      Twitter is excellent for following like minded people and sharing thoughts, opinions and ideas about education and web 2.0 technologies.
  • Choose at least one work that you are willing to publish to the Web and do so.  This may be in any format: visual, written, video, audio, presentation, etc. The forum may be a wiki, professional journal, educators’ social network, iTunes, etc.
    • Larry Mckeown
      Larry Mckeown on 22 Apr 09
       
      How do you ensure appropriate content, privacy of other students, etc, in an environment where students can publish content for the world to see? Can you effectively?
    • hal jordan
      hal jordan on 22 Apr 09
       
      There are certain systems (such as VBulletin) where you can very closely control viewing/reading/writing permissions very easily.
  • Attach files appropriately to email messages
    • Christen Jacobs
      Christen Jacobs on 22 Apr 09
       
      Organise inbox into folders and use calendars
  • variety of bookmarking
  • Foundational Skills
    • Christen Jacobs
      Christen Jacobs on 22 Apr 09
       
      This is GREAT. Now we just need an online database so we can take a good long hard look at our own skills and those of other staff. I don't think this should be threatening to anyone, but guide them through some essential skills.
  •      Explore a new Web application and use it yourself for a lesson
    • jennyann north
      jennyann north on 22 Apr 09
       
      Introducing Dipity to year 6 next week to create a timeline for Anzac. Will let you know how it goes.
  • c     Review a new personal device & suggest how it could aid student learning
    • celia sutterby
      celia sutterby on 22 Apr 09
       
      I'm still undecided about delicious versus diigo -any suggestions?
  • Christen Jacobs on 22 Apr 09
     
    A checklist of ICT skills for teachers
Tom March

Teacher-Replacing Tech: Friend or Foe? | Fast Company - 0 views

www.fastcompany.com/...can-computers-replace-teachers

New Models

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  • cybernetic takeover might mean a redefinition of "teacher" as a research assistant or intellectual coach,
  • Just as the Internet replaced telephone operators and the nightly news anchor as the default source of information, teachers may be next on the chopping block. Automated learning is a cheap solution to recession-swelling class sizes and renewed calls to make technological innovation a centerpiece of education.
  • “Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.”
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  • Unlike one-size-fits-all lectures, the report finds that computers can custom tailor the pace of learning to each individual student.
  • Department of Education found that online learners spend more time learning and on task.
  • The lure of video games and other mindless online activity quickly eclipse the fleeting intrigue of scientific exploration.
  • Professors Barbour and Reeves find that they still favor students with “independent orientations towards learning, [who are] highly motivated by intrinsic sources, and [who] have strong time management, literacy, and technology skills.”
  • Tom March on 28 Feb 11
     
    "Just as the Internet replaced telephone operators and the nightly news anchor as the default source of information, teachers may be next on the chopping block. Automated learning is a cheap solution to recession-swellingbclass sizes and renewed calls to make technological innovation a centerpiece of education."
Sarah Hallows

Top Rated Edutopia Resources: Week Ending May 13, 2011 | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...es-edutopia-week-ending-may-13

Top Resources Edutopia Readings

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  • Sarah Hallows on 15 May 11
     
    Here are Edutopia's most highly rated resources this week. Note that our resources can be rated along three parameters: PRACTICAL Practical materials are ones that you can use to improve your classroom or school right now. These include lesson ideas, tips and strategies for implemeting a new practice, or anything else that is useful RIGHT NOW (as opposed to something that may take 10 months and several committee meetings to implement.) INNOVATIVE These are materials that inspire you with their cutting-edge ideas. Not necessarily something you can implement right away, but if they're Practical too, then you can certainly choose both. PERSUASIVE Persuasive resources are those that make the case for a particular practice or idea. Maybe they helped to change your mind. Or maybe they could change someone else's mind. You could use these materials to persuade your school board, for instance, or your principal to adopt a new approach.
Tom March

Shopkick App Pushes Bargains, Aisle by Aisle - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...17app.html

Crumbware

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  • Tom March on 17 Aug 10
     
    Another step in the New WWW- Whatever, Whenever, Wherever
Tom March

Innovation: Google may know your desires before you do - tech - 16 July 2010 - New Scie... - 6 views

www.newscientist.com/...our-desires-before-you-do.html

google The New WWW

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  • Tom March on 18 Jul 10
     
    Here's a report that confirms my thesis that the 20th Century's "One Size Fits All" has shifted to "All fit to one's sighs" in the 21st.
Tom March

Capturing the Visible Evidence of Invisible Learning | Academic Commons - 0 views

www.academiccommons.org/...le-evidence-invisible-learning

Visible Thinking

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  • Tom March on 03 Mar 09
     
    Here, in this forum as part of Academic Commons, the essay complements eighteen case studies on teaching, learning, and new media technologies. Together the essay and studies constitute the digital volume "The Difference that Inquiry Makes: A Collaborative Case Study of Learning and Technology, from the Visible Knowledge Project." For more information about VKP, see http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/vkp/.
Tom March

One New Orleans charter school changes the culture, sees the results - 2 views

www.nola.com/...post_67.html

New Models Intrinsic Motivation

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  • "They make it clear that for every action there's a reaction, not only in school, but in life," said Briana Henry, a ninth-grader at Wright.
Tom March

About Ning - Pricing Plans - 2 views

about.ning.com/...plans.php

ning

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  • Tom March on 18 May 10
     
    New Mini plan could be for some schools
Tom March

Google TV: Australian Launch Date 2011 | Google Web TV | Sony - 1 views

www.theage.com.au/...eres-web-tv-20100521-vvvq.html

google tv

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  • Tom March on 24 May 10
     
    "Internet giant Google is out to expand its kingdom to the living room with an ambitious new service that lets people mesh television viewing with surfing the web."
Tom March

The potential power of Google Wave is far bigger than its demo « Alexander va... - 0 views

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New Models Tools Web 2.0

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  • Google has not only spent time and energy making sure Wave can suck content into the platform, it has spent as much time and energy making sure it can get out too! Farewell destination based business models. Farewell walled gardens. If Wave gets adapted, it will put the user in control, and that is exactly what we need to do to break out of our current web 2.0 boundaries. That is what makes this development so remarkable.
  • Google just did some major plumbing on the web, and honestly, they were probably the only ones that could do this
  • Tom March on 08 Jun 09
     
    Some really good points are made in this post, highlighting how limited Web 2.0 in its segmentation of cool apps. All schools (everyone?) know that combining the data and tools we already have is critical.
Tom March

TED Talks Demystified for Teachers | The History Teacher's Attic - 2 views

www.historyteachersattic.com/...talks-demystified-for-teachers

history TEDTalks Resources Learning to Look

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  • Tom March on 18 Jun 09
     
    So, in the interest of preparing for teaching a new course next year, and wanting to sort TED out a bit, I've created the following list based on disciplines (organizing knowledge or research by discipline is, it should be pointed out, in stark contrast to the real objective of TED Talks in general). I really like this TED fella, and I hope he doesn't mind:)
Di Scanlon

Swine flu alert! News/Death ratio: 8176 - Gapminder.org - 0 views

www.gapminder.org/...-news-death-ratio-tuberculosis

Resources news_death statistics

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  • Di Scanlon on 27 May 09
     
    "Swine" flu in context
Tom March

Building the 21st-Century Mind: Scientific American - 1 views

www.sciam.com/article.cfm

education Pedagogy Contemporary ICT Skills Thinking Prompts Learning to Look

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  • Tom March on 18 Apr 09
     
    His most recent book, Five Minds for the Future, offers some advice for policy-makers on how to do a better job of preparing students for the 21st century. Mind Matters editor Jonah Lehrer chats with Gardner about his new book, the possibility of teaching ethics and how his concept of multiple intelligences has changed over time.
Tom March

Lyndhurst to equip district students, faculty with iPads : page all - NorthJersey.com - 4 views

www.northjersey.com/...dent__teacher_to_get_iPad.html

ipads deployment

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  • "This will take Lyndhurst education to the next level,"
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 26 Mar 12
       
      Of gaming and distraction? What have they done to prepare the curriculum for learning pace, not seat time?
  • apply it to the classroom
  • we replaced one ink cartridge in the whole district this year."
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 26 Mar 12
       
      cool!
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  • "We are going to put together what we think meets our needs based on the common core standards, the curriculum standards and our district goals,"
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 26 Mar 12
       
      Ouch, ouch and ouch. Intrinsic motivation? Personal excellence?
  • iAuthor, a tool that will enable teachers to create their own books by pulling information from existing textbooks and other online materials.
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 26 Mar 12
       
      Copyright will be an interesting element here.
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