Digital Technologies for

Teaching

Active engagementParticipation in groupsFrequent interaction and feedbackConnection to real-world experts

Technology can provide:

The resources of the online world provide each teacher and class with more interesting, diverse, and current learning materials

Mobile Technologies

iPad and iPhone

Android Tablet & Smartphone

Laptop

Apple TV

Wirelessly project to the class any App using Airplay. Collaboration flows much more freely when the presenter can change instantaneously from student to teacher and back.

EZ Cast

HDMI Media player / TV Receiver

Mirror your Android screen

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All about Apps

Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.Use Airplay, Apple TV or EZ Cast to project onto TV

Educreations

• Record and replay your voice, handwriting, and drawings"• Snap a photo or import images from Photos, Dropbox, Google

Drive"• Add typed text in a variety of colours and sizes"• Draw on top of everything with brilliant colours"• Animate images and text by tapping and dragging while recording"• Scroll pages up or down when you need extra space"• Store your lessons securely in the cloud "• Create and manage classes that students can join"• Share your lessons with your classes"• Embed your lessons on your blog or website

Researching

Social BookmarkingSocial bookmarking is the process of storing your bookmarks or favourite links together, in a web space. This gives you access to your bookmarks anytime, anywhere you have internet connectivity. "

You can share your collection of links and find popular websites bookmarked by other people.

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• Find popular websites for your class topic. • Collaborate with others and use a shared account to

collect and organise bookmarks that are relevant to a specific interest or curriculum area.

• Find useful websites for a particular topic. Tag the resources and then share these with your students

• Encourage students to set up their own social bookmarks to share resources.

Using Social Bookmarks

Diigo App & Extension

iOS and Android

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Visual Bookmarking

RSS FeedsRSS is an acronym that appears on many websites – it stands for Really Simple Syndication "

Easy way to keep up with information without having to constantly visit websites. "

When information in a website is updated, the site’s RSS feed will notify you.

• Subscribe to sites of interest e.g. news from the Melbourne Zoo, podcasts for language learning, world news headlines, state news, etc

• Use RSS feeds to receive the latest data & news

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RSS Readers for Mobile

Information graphics: the visual representation of data is known as info graphics

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Using the CloudOff Site storage (Backups)Share filesCollaborate on documentsStore your class preparationAvailable On Demand Link, embed, download

Teaching & Presenting

Microsoft’s PowerPoint has almost become the default standard tool when presenting to an audience. "

Apple’s Keynote is a similar, slideshow-based tool for the Mac platform. "

A digital process for preparing, presenting, and

sharing information

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Why share your lesson?Students have a copySave paperEmbed it on a class websiteAn archive of lessons and notes

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• Pitch an idea

• Tell a story• Explain concepts

• Brainstorming ideas into notes

Using Presentation Software in Class

• Teach a lesson

• Showcase a lesson or topic• Present a portfolio

• Give a report

Upload and share to Youtube

Still want to use Powerpoint?

Save as a movie

Record a narration of your file

Video SharingVideo-sharing is the practice of distributing video clips online, using a website that offers a video-sharing service.

Capture some video footage using a smartphone digital camera, camcorder or other device that records digital video

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WikiA A wiki is an interactive web space that enables visitors to contribute. Live collaboration enables people to share knowledge and to build on it. A wiki is constantly under review, as users add, delete or modify content. You can create or edit a wiki without any particular technical tools or skills"

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Where can you find free tech tools?

http://elearningindustry.com/321-free-tools-for-teachers-free-educational-technology

321 free tools for teachers: Free educational technology

A list of 321 tools arranged in 18 categories

Just try something, anything. It only takes once to get you

on the digital way

Presentation Notes

http://technologyfueled.com

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