Two links to effective blogs... enjoy

Indigenous Art

Maths Blog

National Parks... no pets!

This is a little podcat about national parks... enjoy.

National Parks Podcast - Turn it right UP!
National Parks Worksheet - So apparently this doesn't work!

A few random notebook slides about Shelter and HSIE

GET THE FILE HERE! Although it won't work and all you'll have is a zip folder with a few thumbnails and useless XML files... Good luck!

The first slide is a game where students drag the picture of shelter to categorise as man-made or natural shelter.

The second slide is a shelter cline where students drag images of shelter to rank them from oldest to newest, in their opinion. There is no exact perfect answer.

The third slide is a bit of information about Indigenous Australians and their link to the land. It as a brief text of this relationship and a link to a video below. Ask students to pay attention to the types of shelter and how people were living. The video has images of Aboriginal shelter prior to the arrival or white settlers. Pause video and ask students to describe what they saw and how they think the lived. Play video, it shows the arrival of white setttlers. What happened, what changed, how do we live now that was different to then?

Copy this

If material taken from the world wide weberverse is used for study or research purposes and no specified copyright is ignored, then all is well.

Fair use of material is considered 10% of the number of pages or 1 chapter for hard copy material and 10% of the number of words or 1 chapter for electronic material. Exciting.

Students may use music in videos made for their learning. eg, research, study, private use. As long as it isn't shown outside of the classroom context. Don't even think about making a profit from it.

Blogs and stuff

Reading:
Pericles, K. (2008). Happily blogging @ Belmore South. SCAN, 27(2), 4-6  View Reading

- Blogging can fit into all key learning areas and provides a place for students to display their creativity and demonstrate their understanding of new modes of communication. Many students already use the internet for social and personal reasons at home. Blogging allows students to transfer something that is somewhat a hobby into their an interactive and engaging way of expanding and consolidating their learning.

- Access to blogs can be made global and opens up channels of communication beyond the classroom. This sharing aspect of knowledge enhances student engagement and learning. Being able to publish a class experiment and share with students interstate, across the road or even overseas allows access to first-hand information, ie sharing history of Australia with a school in China, or cooperating with an English school to learn more about the British monarchy.

- Information about the class, including assignment details, due dates, class/peer achievements, special dates in the term and much more can be made available on a class blog for students and parents to be aware of. No excuses for late assignments...

Have some slides

Octopi Are Fun

Octopi have always lived in trees, they didn't need to photoshop it.

Dropshots

Dropshots provides an easy to use free space for people to archive and display their photos online. Friends and family can view the photos and comment on them.

Check it out here

New Literacies

New Literacies: (as defined by my brain space) Methods and approaches to sharing content that move beyond the physicality of paper and text. This can include interactive web pages that incorporate dialogic mediums of communication across the globe such as blogs. Access to music, movies, pictures and information beyond an encyclopaedia, travel book, record shop etc. The digitisation of multimedia and information opens it up to a  widened audience of sharing and understanding. Yay.

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