Posts Tagged ‘online tools’

Blog Wordle

Wordle is so cool!
I have seen these before, but never knew how people made them. Cheers Darcy

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Podcasting

One of the tools I didn’t get up to in the Online Pedagogy workshop at ETA conference was podcasting.
For those after some information:

A podcast is an audio (sometimes also video) recording that can be downloaded, ’streamed’ and subscribed to by users.
The word originally was a blend of the words ‘iPod’ and ‘Broadcast’, but they can [...]

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Getting students involved in blogging

Barriers to getting involved:

Access issues – power in rural and remote areas
Equity issues – not all students are digitally literate
Equipment access – access to computer labs, laptops, broadband
Home access – students with no computers or internet access at home
Behaviour management – ICT TOO EXCITING!

Please add any ideas you have for overcoming these barriers…

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Online Pedagogy

In today’s conference workshop I will be exploring four important issues relating to learning and teaching strategies for using online tools:

How the purpose of your site relates to its form
The intended teacher-student dynamic online
Students and internet safety
Getting students involved and monitoring contributions

Please respond with comments to this post if you have any questions, information or [...]

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Connectivism

Thanks to Darcy for tweeting this link to the Connectivism Wiki.
There are some great ideas here – I especially like the entry on Externalising Ourselves.  I am going to use a quote from this in my ETA Conference presentation on Saturday about Online Learning and Pedagogy:
The ability to connect concepts and ideas and to understand [...]

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Cool tools for schools wiki

click, click, click…
After reading my blog comments I clicked through to Lee Mowbray’s Twitter account, then through to her shared blog Stepping Stones for teachers, and from there I found a link to a wikispace called Cool Tools for Schools.
The Cool tools for schools wiki stores information about a wide range of useful web-based tools, [...]

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