Saturday 23 August 2014

Module 3 - Hi all Module 3 is all about Atomic Learning. Just imagine yourselves doing the same task with your students each year...that would be less interesting for yourself and your students. 

Questions to ponder??

How do we get children to get more excited to go to school? 
How can we reenergise instruction?
The solution we need to Personalise instruction

Atomic mobilize –resources and tools

P21 framework – 21st century skills - Collaborative learning. I have used Google docs over the last two years at my school.  

1.The Know and Need to know at the start of a project is done on "Google Docs" as a class. It has worked extremely well with my Y8 students for Science where I know the pulse of the class in minutes. Planning further instruction is easier as I know what prior knowledge and questions students have.
2. End of project reflections by students are done in google forms.
3. Students create collaborative presentations on google presentations.
4. All student progress in projects are monitored on google docs as teams manage Team Logs on them.
5.google excel spreadsheets help me to see results of all students when working on quizzes.


Saturday 9 August 2014

Module 1 of Web 2.0

Module 1 gives an overview of google+ and great ways to connect to people

  • Would be great to connect through google hangouts-
  •  to connect to people in new ways, click on green speech icon- 
  • to chat with an individual/group and video calls….., screen chat, capture take a picture, you tube- while chatting,
  •  google drive app allows you to bring files into hangout and work on them.- control people talking, when 2-3 people talk we can mute when you are talking., 
  • settings for audio and video,  click on video of person and takes you to their profile, 
  • blue boxing –bringing person in the centre of the screen- jump back and forth,to end call click exit button, 
  • save hang out, multiple hangout parties at one time