Welcome to Day 2!
Welcome back. I hope you’ve had a nice autumn holidays and beginning to Term 2. Also that you’ve had a chance to trial Look to Learn activities with your students and colleagues. Today we’ll begin with a review what we learned Day 1, how you’ve gone using these resources and approaches and to share your experiences.
The day will be focused into three main parts:
- Review, sharing and focus
- Setting up a WordPress blog
- Beginning to explore other Web 2 tools & environments
Review Day 1 + Use with Students / Staff
- (Add a link in the Comments to something you tried)
- Tom’s experiment with EtherPad (and the Word Cloud generated) based on 2 scenes from Rebel Without a Cause: Knife Fight Scene and Confrontation with Parents
- 3Rs Series:
- Megan’s Year 12 Psych blog & Year 8 SOSE
- Raelene’s video link & Tumblr for teachers
- Vicki’s Tumblr
- Vanessa’s YouTube link
- Sukhbir – stixy, wordle, set up blogs, used tumbler, voki etc
- Phil – I have been working with Edmodo with my students
- AGQTP Series
Tom’s Most Reblogged Tumblr Sources
Look to Learn Approach
- Some Recent Posts on Look to Learn Tumblr: Abled Yoga Vet, Caine’s Arcade, Animated Eye, Hotdog Crust, Political Truth
- Making Thinking Visible
- Looking Prompts / Thinking Routines
Problem-Solving Local Issues
- Experimenting with Edistorm: Local Issues Influencing Use (requires sign-up)
Reflection and Consolidation
Review your Tumblr site and personal notes to reflect what you want to take away from this refresher on what we have learned. What do you want to continue using, pursuing and trialling?
Online Spaces
WordPress Blog
- Examples: iDesign, International Studies, OurSpace
- WordPress
- Get a WordPress Blog
- Change the theme
- Make a Post
- Embed YouTube (remember &rel=0)?
- Try TubeChop.com (see the Tubechop Update tutorial)
- Get Firefox for extensions like the video downloader?
- Embed all kinds of media in WordPress (maps, images, documents or polls?)
- Customising your Menu
- Getting Started Tutorials from WordPress.com or WordPress Lessons or Overall WordPress Support Tutorials
- WordPress Shortcodes – sample
- Copy / Paste Look to Learn Prompts into a page on your blog
- Use the About Page to capture your goals for using the Blog
Participants’ Developing Blogs
3Rs Series:
AGQTP:
Other Possible Online Environments (for Day 3 mostly)
- Edmodo (example: Mr. V’s Psych Class)
- ClassBubbles (example: Next Era Ed – code: nexteraed)
- Ning / Elgg / Groups
Web 2.0 Tools
- Download the Web 2 Tools Overview handout
- Explore the Tools Panel
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