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Martin Plussm.pluss@staff.tara.nsw.edu.au

M- 0402824959W- 88382617

Generation Gap

• Peter Ellyard• Ryan Heath• Keith Austin• New/young Teachers• Boomer Teacher

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Types of Technologies to use

• Traditional Learning Technologies– Basic computer software– Subject specific software– Web browsing software

How to use the technology you have

• Integration of ICT– long term project approach. So I started to think through a second approach.

• Integration of ICT directly related to class work. This linking of ICT activities to class work I thought could be brought together though an ICT activity related to the syllabus

• Integration of ICT linked to the syllabus ICT work.

Emerging Learning Techology• Blogging-

Blogger.com• V and Mo Blogging• LMS Moodle• Wikis –

wikispaces.com• Podcasting• Online photo galleries

- Flickr• Enhancements for

Browsers- Del.icio.us, Bloglines

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Why do some ELTs catch on and others don’t?

• Don’t try and find the customer for the product find the product for your customer.

• Do you know your choices?

• How useful is the emerging learning technolgy for you? Will you use it?

• What new teaching strategies need to be employed?

ICT as a Classroom Teacher

5A3 Issues in Australian Environments

• Geographical issues: air quality, coastal management, land and water management, spatial inequality, urban growth and decline, waste management

• In depth study of two issues

• Research Action Plan (RAP)

Use of Podcasts

Sometimes I give audio or podcast instructions to students

Click here to listen to a talk about the RAP.

ICT Workshop Blog

• Access to the workshop blog. http://ictworkshops.blogspot.com

• Ability to edit ICT Workshops Blog – Address: http://www.blogger.com– Username: ictworkshops – Password: ictworkshop

ICT in your Department

• Programmes

• Scope and sequence

• Assessments

Plu go to Web Page

• Assessment for Learning– Media Assessment Task

There has been shift from a World Wide Web that is “read only” to a Web that is being

described as the “Read Write Web.”

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Three C’s

My definition• Communication• Collaboration• Connectedness

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Top 131. www.bloglines.com rss feeder2. www.del.icio.us online favourites3. www.flickr.com online photos4. www.wikispaces.com collaborative learning5. www.youtube.com online videos6. www.43things.com goals organiser7. spreadsheets.google.com online spreadsheets8. podomatic.com host your own podcasts9. www.rollyo.com/ roll your own search engine10. www.digg.com collaborative favourites 11. www.ning.com/ social networking12. www.secondlife.com 3d online digital world13. www.gliffy.com/ draw /share diagrams on the web

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Learning 2.0

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Personal Learning Environment

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What’s Next

A Student Survey

“Why do I have to watch a teacher struggle to use yesterday’s technology?”

The Next Curve Mick Waters 2006

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Creating Passionate Usershttp://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/08/are_your_users_.html

You should try new things and…

…sometimes things go a cropper…and

…then you live to tell the story