Creative commons

What is it?
Creative Commons Home
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Great site to explore.

Anne Maree and Jenny Assignment Two

After seeing many of your proposals on your blogs and uni blog. Here's a link to Anne Maree's and Jenny's Assigmnent Two.

Living and Learning in an Online World

Assignment involves cross collaboration between two Primary Schools.

Bitstrips Fun

Wow. The children loved this yestereday was able to trial will a few students finally!!! Logged in as me. Thinking about allowing the students to login or creating a generic password for the school. However as one student pointed out. "That's not fair, because then we would have to go through everyone's comics"

Other teachers in my level could see the benefits. It's fun

Learning Objects

These thoughts are referring to Learning fedeartion objects (Australain and New Zealand intiative)
http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/default.asp
Learning objects can tend to be used without planning and thought in classrooms. Children access and play!!! Things to consider.

A checklist we use when using Learning Federtion objects.

•What is the purpose of the learning object?
•What is the format of the learning activity?
•What skills are required of students?
•What skills are the students developing?
•How does the digital medium (eg: visual, animation, audio) assist the presentation?
•How is feedback given?
•What VELS interdisciplinary dimensions might it support?
•Ideas for the classroom - How would I use this object?

When planning consider

•Why this object? How can using it enhance student learning?
•Where might it fit in the learning sequence?
•What skills will students require?
•What skills will they learn?
•What do I want students to do/learn while using this object?
•What scaffolding is required?

Have more thoughts on my edublog which am trying out.
http://jennyr7.edublogs.org/

Podcasting

One of the main benefits of podcasting is not only catering for different children, different learnnig styles, ict skills, engaging children in a fun and purposeful way, literacy skills etc ...........but also being able to link home and school.

Children uploading podcasts to a space (maybe schools lms, intranet) and then being able to download their podcasts for friends and family to hear creates a sense of achievement and postive affirmation for the children. Sharing their learnings at school at home and possibly to the wider communityhas many benefits.


A fun website to link to cool podcasts. A bit different.
cool podcasts

del.icio.us jenny

Can definitely see the usefulness of del.icio.us. The ability to share websites forteachers is fantastic.
http://del.icio.us/jenny123

Linking to my comments others students' blogs

Have learnt heaps and heaps of things from other students FLE blogs. Thanks to all for sharing

Here are some comment links
Annne Maree
Betina's
Frances
Sues' comments
Bill's
Matt's
Frances
Sarah's