Web Tools for Flexible and Effective Teaching and Learning ACEC 2010: Digital Diversity Rebecca Swain Carey Baptist Grammar School Rebecca Swain ACEC 2010

Note: Some sections from the ACEC presentation have been removed to protect students’ privacy. Please me if you wish to discuss them: When looking at sample texts, pressing the symbol on each page (below) will return you to your previous place in the presentation. Enjoy! 

Digital Tools: Thinking First  How can technology be used to help students to engage with content, create, and collaborate at EVERY curriculum level?  I get beyond the bells and whistles by questioning: What learning goals underpin our use of technology in the classroom?  Not all Web 2.0 tools are the same. Some have wonderfully intuitive systems, and others are messy. Some have clear and engaging help videos and others require that you look elsewhere for set-up notes. Most are free for educators so you can pick and choose! Rebecca Swain ACEC 2010

What roles do students play?  Students as readers;  Students as collaborators;  Students as creators; Rebecca Swain ACEC 2010

Students as Readers  How you can use technology to encourage, generate thinking and discussion:  AV YouTube, ASO or TED;YouTubeASOTED  Podcasts (eg Lingua Franca or other Radio National etc);Lingua Franca Radio National  Word Wordle; Word clouds Wordle;  How students can use technology to show you what they know (let them publish it...):  Make it Freemind or Bubble.us; Make it visual FreemindBubble.us  Symbols and visual Animoto;Animoto Rebecca Swain ACEC 2010

Students as Collaborators  Work in teams on shared resources & understanding:  Discussion Google Groups; Discussion Boards Google Groups  Blogging Wordpress; Blogging Projects Wordpress;  Web Delicious; Web Navigation Delicious  Online Wikispaces; Online folios Wikispaces  Social Ning; Social Networks Ning Rebecca Swain ACEC 2010

Students as Creators  Build in flexibility so that learners can play to their strengths... A case study from the Year 11 VCE Writing Folio  Photography; Photography;  Music; Music;  Podcasting; Podcasting;  Blogging; Blogging; Rebecca Swain ACEC 2010

Too much choice? Rebecca Swain ACEC 2010

A Focus on Planning For every task I introduce to the classroom, I consider the following:  What am I trying to achieve?  Engagement, collaboration, independent achievement, creativity, a deeper understanding or something else?  What tools might I use?  What do I already know that can help me get there?  What have I seen or heard about that might provide the solution?  What do my students use in their own time?  Will I use technology or not?  How will I use them?  Will this be an in-class or at-home task (or both)?  Will it be collaborative or individual? Rebecca Swain ACEC 2010

 Students as Readers  Students as Collaborators  Students as Creators Some texts (such as work samples) have been excluded out of respect for students’ privacy. Rebecca Swain ACEC 2010

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Student Submission (name removed):  Rebecca Swain ACEC 2010

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