I enjoyed Jay's web 2.0 presentation and use of google docs. I actulally thought he said Google ducks! We need to show eveyrone at some stage how to use this. I might use it with the Y9 sc competition, so that they can prepare their presentations. Science presentation was excellent too!
Mike

CPD day 14th May presentation

Exemplars of good practice

The following wikis are exemplars of how to use free blog sites to develop learning material. They are aimed at the learners. Both use the wikispaces format which looks good - but in practise I found it difficult to format and set up nicely; also easily to crash. However these three examples look good and may help as you set up your learning area.

Open professional development
IB extended essays
Ms C's Technology wikispace

Podcasting

Although auditory learners tend to be in the minority, teachers often rely on this teaching style. Podcasts provide a kinaethetic way for students to role play, revise and collaborate using podcasting sites such as podbeam.com.

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Podcasts can be made using "audacity" a powerful sound editor / freeware.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/


Using audacity


The main screen and the tool bar




Curser – move this to where you want to record/play
Zoom – in to see smaller time intervals or out to see more time
Use this to adjust volume.
This can be used to move your recording to where you want it.


When finished – file menu/export as an MP3 file.


Free Sound effects and music
http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/index.html
http://freeplaymusic.com/

Powerpoint not powerpointless

Power point presentations are easy to make and are excellent for visual (the majority) of learners. They can also be used to scaffold your lessons; starters, plenaries, learning outcomes, and exposition as well as provide powerful images which help to set contexts clearly.

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However it is also easy to become over enthusiastic and loose the plot ................

Mindmapping

Mindmapping has been used for some time to help learners brainstorm on; what they want to learn, what they are learning or what they have learnt. Effective use of colour and images can increase the usefulness. Online mindmapping facilitates sharing and collaboration between students.

http://www.mindmeister.com/.

Teaching rooms

Teaching rooms and laboratories will undoubtedly change as learning evolves