ICT School Vision Plan
We're at the stage where we want to put an ICT 5-year vision plan in place in our school (high school). Does anyone have anything they can share about their school ICT Plan? Many thanks!
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Heidi Siwak replied to Marie's discussion 'strategies to make learning fun and relevant'
Another idea I've seen is to mimic posting. Put up a large sheet of paper. Give students sticky notes. Put a provocative statement on the paper and have students post comments. This is a great way to generate discussion and can lead…
Marie replied to Marie's discussion 'strategies to make learning fun and relevant'
Hi Liz, thank you for your response! I have started to think of ways like this - and group activities to make the learning more interesting. We tried an activity on Friday which worked well. Students were placed in colour coded groups…
Liz Dunovsky replied to Marie's discussion 'strategies to make learning fun and relevant'
Hello Marie-
I have a very similar situation with my seventh graders. I try to find articles for the students to read that have some sort of relevance for them/relate to the subject we are learning. I find that there are many resources online that I…
Marie replied to Marie's discussion 'strategies to make learning fun and relevant'
Thanks for your responses - very helpful. Was thinking along the lines of co-operative activities so will do some exploring here.
Heidi Siwak replied to Marie's discussion 'strategies to make learning fun and relevant'
I had no idea that you could do this with old cellphones. What a great idea!
Heidi Siwak replied to Marie's discussion 'strategies to make learning fun and relevant'
Hi Marie,
I suggest you begin with an inquiry rather than worksheets and notetaking.
1. Start with small discussions in groups. Where are they at in their learning? What do they actually know about this topic, what do they bring…
Katy Scott replied to Marie's discussion 'strategies to make learning fun and relevant'
Wow. I certainly don't envy you -- it sounds like you're facing quite a challenge.
Obviously, technology integration is always a great way to engage students but it can also help them develop higher-level thinking skills. Without…
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- I'm adult educator and have recently moved into school teaching (business education/ICT) as well as some work in the primary sector. Currently working as a relief teacher so covering the whole spectrum of K-12. I love emerging technologies, Web 2.0 tools and the potential they have for learning.
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Music and learning
Posted on May 3, 2008 at 5:48pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Does anyone else incorporate music in their classes? Research has identified that it has so many benefits for learning such as improved attention, concentration, motivates. Using music to welcome students to the class, during movement (get them up and moving rather than sitting at desks), during group time etc: Make learning fun: music and movement
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- At 11:42pm on December 29, 2008,
Mark Cruthers said… - Hi Marie,
With your interest in Emerging Technology and Web 2.0, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.
- At 8:23pm on December 27, 2008,
Alyshia Olsen said… - Hi Marie,
I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'connecting content and technology' groun, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.
Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975 . We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.
Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!
Thanks,
Alyshia Olsen
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- At 5:37pm on May 3, 2008,
Marie said…
- Well done. What program did you create it in? By the way, love the pIcturetrail one you had on your page.
Marie
- At 12:41am on April 13, 2008,
Hans Feldmeier said… - Hi Marie, welcome and thanks for joining my group DigiSkills.
I´ld like to recommend my new video about m-learning in my notebook-class.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15FwYPwsvbE
Greetings
Hans
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