Getting Started with the Web John Hurley H2 Learning

Introductions Who we are –Teachers and Learners What we want to achieve –Better teaching and learning

Learning to Change Changing to Learn

21 st Century Teacher Be knowledgeable about how students learn and understand available resources (including ICT) Be involved in reflective practice. Adopt a collaborative approach that embraces change and flexibility of methodology. Develop productive relationships with students that support their engagement with learning. Practice differentiated instruction that encompasses distributed learning, diverse evaluation and diverse groupings.

The Multimedia Classroom The Multimedia Classroom?

Finding Web Resources?

The web can be used to: Prepare helpful updatable materials in advance. Show videos of situations. Show, replay and slow down visualisations explaining how something is happening. Make these materials available as notes for revision and extension activities later.

Three stages Before the lesson –Find and organise resources During the lesson –Engage students and facilitate practice After the lesson –Create opportunities for discussion, revision, and self assessment

Some ideas to get started One a time! Go to specific education websites Search the web Search video/image/podcast sharing websites

Basic Web Search Tips 1.Choose the most appropriate search term you can think of and as few words as possible. Use descriptive or unique words that help define what you’re looking for. Terms like ‘reception desk greeting’ or ‘cv writing template ideas’ state exactly what you’re after. 2.Although Google and Bing currently dominate web search there are hundreds of other search engines that specialise on specific subjects. You can use web search to find these various search tools.

3.Look out for words that have more than one meaning. Combine them with descriptive words to get more accurate results. Words like brushes or service can have several meanings so be specific. For example ‘acrylic paint brushes’ or ‘hospitality hotel service example’. 4.If you are using web search for something a bit more obscure use “quotation marks” around your phrase. This tells the search engine to return results of pages that use your phrase exactly the way you’ve written it. Basic Web Search Tips

5.During the last couple of years search engines have been providing improved local web search features that make it easier to find local businesses. If your search is area specific add the town, city or village to your search term. 6.The use of Brand names and Company names will also help you to narrow your search and find results that are likely to be what you’re looking for. Basic Web Search Tips

Or you want to save the video for regular use… Can’t Access YouTube? Save the file to your own computer or USB stick

Can’t Access YouTube? Save the file to your own computer or USB stick Or you want to save the video for regular use…

Finding Web Resources

Finding Images

iTunes

Organising your resources Keep track of your links Bookmarks (Firefox/Chrome/Safari) Favorites (Internet Explorer) Using Favorites Tasks Adding a website to your Favorites Finding a website in your Favorites Organising your Favorites folders

Integrating ICT

Key questions What are your learning outcomes? What aspect of learning does it aid? –Visualisation –Feedback –Reflection –Collaboration –Communication –Creativity Do all students have the required ICT access?

Evolving

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