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Online Teaching Tools
Beginners’ Guide to Using ICT for learning
Kerensa Robertson
What Makes Sense?o We learned how to
create a voki and embed one into our moodle courses.
o A voki is a type of avatar that you can customise and record a voice message.
o http://www.voki.com/
Is Your Classroom ready for ICT?
Many of us do not have access to computer labs, so are limited to our classrooms.
In your classroom, you will need:• Computer• broadband, • speakers, • projector, • screen • curtains.
But you can do it with less….
What you need from your IT guru
o Broadband that works
o Unblocked access to you tube etc
o VLC media player (free) instead of Windows Media Player (Shift ‘s’ for still image)
Reasons for using it
1. source of free texts2. short and sharp
snippets3. student engagement4. focus on the thinking,
not the texts 5. enrichment of the
learning experience6. to raise achievement
and understanding
Ideas for learning activitiesThese are basic (and possibly familiar) ideas that can be
adapted easily for class work using ICTo Graphic organisers o Critical Literacy and other thinking questions o Online puzzles
Photocopiers Copy
Students Think
o About English - Critical Literacy
What can we use You-tube for?
1. Complementing learning - poetry 2. As text: advertising 3. Aid understanding: speeches and Film4. Make something exciting and
memorable: grammar
Complementing Existing Learning
o Particularly with poetry or comprehension worksheets.
o Helps students develop their ability to analyse different versions of the same text
o E.g. War Poets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9U0rVjpUWU&feature=related
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVMFB7mHVaI&feature=related
Useful Strategies
o Comparing different versions of the same texts e.g. Double Bubble (comparison)
o Thinking Questionso Group SummariesPresentation\Poetry as Truth.doc
Double Bubble
Text 1 Text 2
Same
Group Summary
o Titleo 4 key ideas or important eventso Relatonship Summary – How are these ideas/characters
connected?
o The most important thing I learned was …. because
As Text
o For film and visual language you-tube is a great source of texts.
o Students tend to be poor at close reading moving images for meaning
o Students do not realise that texts have complex messages
Advantages of You-tubeo You-tube works better as they hear it from
‘experts’o Focused on purpose rather than techniques
or story (Critical Literacy)o Allows close reading of textso non-verbal storytellingo Audience and manipulation by creators
easier to identify and discuss
Womens’ Image in Advertisingo YouTube - Media's Influence on Women's Imageo YouTube - Media, how we perceive ourselveso YouTube - Dove – Evolutiono YouTube - dove onslaught
Fast Food Advertising•YouTube - Food Ad Tricks: Helping Kids Understand Food Ads on TV
•YouTube - Advertising - What psychological tricks do they use?
•YouTube - fast food advertising
•YouTube - Fast food restaurants TV ads target kids
Strategies
o Comment Codeso 4-squareo Concept circleo Cause and effecto Presentation\Media's influence on body Image.doc
4 Squareo Questions about the
texto Three statements about
the text
o Draw a visual representation of a key idea
o Find six key words and their meanings
Cause and Effect
Event
Cause (Reasons something happened)
Cause
Cause
Effect (What happened as a result)
Effect
Effect
Aid Understanding
o Allows for conversation about meanings and themes as ‘misrepresented messages’
o Looking at the Trailer of a film texto Looking at a clip of something unfamiliar
e.g. sumo wrestlers before answering comprehension questions
o Viewing speeches so the delivered speech rather than the transcript becomes the text.
Useful Strategies
o 4 squareo T-charto Yet More thinking Questions!
T-Chart
Similarities Differences
Aid Understanding:
o The Lovely Bones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUWKi0W5_g
o SpeechesYouTube - hillary clinton - women's rights are human's rights
Make the learning Memorable
o easier to teach a ‘boring’ topico Students remember it bettero Useful to link with other ideaso New Ideas for Us
Grammar Rocks!o YouTube - The Grammar Police: Why Learning Gramm
ar Matters (Funnier for us than them)
o YouTube - Grammar Policeo YouTube - Mad Tv - Public School House Rock - Nounso YouTube - Conjunction Junctiono YouTube - Lolly Lolly Lolly get your adverbs hereo YouTube - Grammar Rock Verbo YouTube - Grammar Rock Pronouno YouTube - Schoolhouse Rock "Interjections!"
Activities
o Word Mapso Clozeo Personal Pronouns Bingoo Grammar Worksheets (bbc)o Thinking Chart
Getting the most out of GoogleAdvanced features
Google Advanced Features - Google Guide
n Searching for power points
n Good search questions (treat it like an idiot)
n Activities using maps, images, news (Under the Mountain research)
PB Wiki- student access
1. Setting up a PB wiki
2. Possible uses missrobertsonsonlineclassroom / FrontPage
3. Blogspot links and uses
Useful websites for resources
n Slideshare Upload & Share PowerPoint presentations and documents
n Puzzlemaker http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/favicon.ico
n Grammar http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words
n metromag, : : m e t r o m a g a z i n e : :
n Film Education http://filmeducation.org.uk/favicon.ico
n Colour in motion http://www.mariaclaudiacortes.com/favicon.ico
n Online dictionaries and visual thesaurus OneLook Dictionary Search Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map. Word Spy
Word: Using Tables to create worksheets
n Mix and marchn Character chartn Reading square (MMilford)n Poetry w/sheet
Pitfalls
n Overcomplicating it (K.I.S.S!)
n Overconfidence (Check the whole text)
n Forgetting the funn Substituting
technology for learning
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