Engaging+Teachers,+Engaging+Students

This is the page where you can access all the resources we talk about during the practicum. Ready for taking back to your teams and students.




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 * Wallwisher PMI activity:**



Inquiry and Thinking
Questioning resources:
 * @http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/support/domainsupport/thinking/graphic/question.html || Question Matix Resources ||

Graphic Organisers:
 * A range of graphic organisers and examples || @http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/Graphic%20Org/graphic.htm ||
 * A Huge range of templates, organised to suit year groups. || @http://www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizers/printable/6293.html ||
 * Interactive and editable templates || @http://www.exploratree.org.uk/ ||
 * Large set of templates || @http://edhelper.com/teachers/graphic_organizers.htm ||
 * ...and some more! || @http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/ ||

Mind-mapping Tools:
 * Bubble.us || @https://bubbl.us/ ||
 * Scribblar || @http://www.scribblar.com/ ||

Thinking Tools: Covers all thinking tool areas Blooms, Hats, Multiple Intelligences, Thinkers Keys || @http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/thinking.htm ||
 * The Kurwongbah Way
 * THE MUST HAVE RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS**
 * Digital literacy and Bloom's Taxonomy || http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+and+ICT+tools ||
 * Gardener's Multiple Intelligences || @http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/MI%20Smarts/smarts.htm

@http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/ict/multiple_int/index.htm Visual Student M.I Test ||
 * De Bono's Hats || @http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/Hats/hats.htm ||
 * SOLO || @http://hooked-on-thinking.com/ ||



Empowered Digital Citizens
Click here to go to the Google Doc created for todays session: CLICK HERE


 * Resources can be downloaded from there***



Connected Teachers = Connected Students
Twitter: @http://twitter.com

Create your own account and a PLN (Professional Learning Network)

//Our Twitter Accounts for collaboration:// It could be a piece of art work, a poem, a joke, a funny moment, a proud achievement (teacher or student!)
 * **The Port Hills Classroom Daily Project** .................................................... || **The Port Hills Twitter Tale** ............................................. ||
 * This is our general twitter account. Regulare updates from excellent sources and a great place for us to share something awesome each day.

Username: porthillsonline password: porthills || Our attempt to get a story written entriely in twitter. 140 characters max ensures short and sweet entries. DO one as a whole class or assign a student per day. Could be a really powerful experience for teachers and students.

Username: porthillsC password: porthills || Twitter Tips and advice:
 * @http://theedublogger.com/2010/07/08/a-twitteraholics-guide-to-tweets-hashtags-and-all-things-twitter/ || A basic how to do everything in Twitter and what it all means. ||
 * @http://lauradoggett.com/2009/03/nine-great-reasons-why-teachers-should-use-twitter/ || Excellent article on why teachers should use Twitter. ||

Time to Explore Random/Useless/Enjoyable Websites we explored: @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDlaJlb1ezg
 * Unecessary Knowledge || @http://www.unnecessaryknowledge.com ||
 * Cleverbot || [] ||
 * You Tube commericals || Skittles

Hunter Shoots Bear @http://www.youtube.com/user/tippexperience ||

Allows you to visually organise key websites or tools into one easy to navigate page. Just brilliant for junior/ school students who get lost quickly (or sidetracked!) || Delicious Get Your School Web bookmarked for more efficient research and professional needs with Delcious. "Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking." || Tagul is a web service that enables you to create gorgeous tag clouds that are fully interactive with Google search engine. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Able to embed in a wiki, website etc... media type="custom" key="10521430" || Wordle Wordle is a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. @https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_157dpbsg9c5
 * ===New Web-tools for you to engage with today and beyond=== || **Inquiry Stage** ||
 * **Organising Information** || Immersion ||
 * Only 2 Clicks
 * **Word Clouds** || Immersion, Presenting ||
 * Tagul

|| Perfect for students (or teachers as you've experienced today) working together. Create documents, presentations and forms (a great surveying tool for inquiry). || Mind-mapping Tools (See above) || Fotobabble brings the power and emotion of human voice to social media across web, mobile and social networks. Talking Photos, Fotobabble’s first mobile/web application, lets users add voice to images in seconds, and share their voice-powered Talking Photos through Wikis, Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, email etc.... media type="custom" key="10521406" || AudioBoo I have used a few podcasting styled websites over the last few years and i have found none to be as quick and straight forward as AUDIOBOO. Either create your podcast directly from their site or upload your podcast in mp3 form. Then embed the podcast directly into your LMS or website as below: media type="custom" key="10521372" || Oral language at its most interactive and powerful. media type="custom" key="10416666" ||  || Stories are created, using uploaded artwork or drawn with the paint function (or both - photo with digital art added) and then text is added. What makes it so great is the option to add voice to each page. Digital literacy to the full! Can be linked nicely to your website (embedded). media type="custom" key="10521320" || Story Bird Using premade artistic resources to help kids tell their stories. Beautifully presented and fully printable or embeddable. media type="custom" key="10521354" ||
 * **Collaborative Planning** || Planning ||
 * Google Docs and Forms
 * **Student Voice** || Questioning, Presenting, Reflecting ||
 * Fotobabble
 * Voicethread
 * **Student Creativity** || Presenting ||
 * Little Bird Tales