Online Teaching Tools

Beginners’ Guide to Using ICT for learning

Kerensa Robertson

What Makes Sense?o We learned how to

create a voki and embed one into our moodle courses.

o A voki is a type of avatar that you can customise and record a voice message.

o http://www.voki.com/

Is Your Classroom ready for ICT?

Many of us do not have access to computer labs, so are limited to our classrooms.

In your classroom, you will need:• Computer• broadband, • speakers, • projector, • screen • curtains.

But you can do it with less….

What you need from your IT guru

o Broadband that works

o Unblocked access to you tube etc

o VLC media player (free) instead of Windows Media Player (Shift ‘s’ for still image)

Reasons for using it

1. source of free texts2. short and sharp

snippets3. student engagement4. focus on the thinking,

not the texts 5. enrichment of the

learning experience6. to raise achievement

and understanding

Ideas for learning activitiesThese are basic (and possibly familiar) ideas that can be

adapted easily for class work using ICTo Graphic organisers o Critical Literacy and other thinking questions o Online puzzles

Photocopiers Copy

Students Think

o About English - Critical Literacy

What can we use You-tube for?

1. Complementing learning - poetry 2. As text: advertising 3. Aid understanding: speeches and Film4. Make something exciting and

memorable: grammar

Complementing Existing Learning

o Particularly with poetry or comprehension worksheets.

o Helps students develop their ability to analyse different versions of the same text

o E.g. War Poets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9U0rVjpUWU&feature=related

o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVMFB7mHVaI&feature=related

Useful Strategies

o Comparing different versions of the same texts e.g. Double Bubble (comparison)

o Thinking Questionso Group SummariesPresentation\Poetry as Truth.doc

Double Bubble

Text 1 Text 2

Same

Group Summary

o Titleo 4 key ideas or important eventso Relatonship Summary – How are these ideas/characters

connected?

o The most important thing I learned was …. because

As Text

o For film and visual language you-tube is a great source of texts.

o Students tend to be poor at close reading moving images for meaning

o Students do not realise that texts have complex messages

Advantages of You-tubeo You-tube works better as they hear it from

‘experts’o Focused on purpose rather than techniques

or story (Critical Literacy)o Allows close reading of textso non-verbal storytellingo Audience and manipulation by creators

easier to identify and discuss

Womens’ Image in Advertisingo YouTube - Media's Influence on Women's Imageo YouTube - Media, how we perceive ourselveso YouTube - Dove – Evolutiono YouTube - dove onslaught

Fast Food Advertising•YouTube - Food Ad Tricks: Helping Kids Understand Food Ads on TV

•YouTube - Advertising - What psychological tricks do they use?

•YouTube - fast food advertising

•YouTube - Fast food restaurants TV ads target kids

Strategies

o Comment Codeso 4-squareo Concept circleo Cause and effecto Presentation\Media's influence on body Image.doc

4 Squareo Questions about the

texto Three statements about

the text

o Draw a visual representation of a key idea

o Find six key words and their meanings

Cause and Effect

Event

Cause (Reasons something happened)

Cause

Cause

Effect (What happened as a result)

Effect

Effect

Aid Understanding

o Allows for conversation about meanings and themes as ‘misrepresented messages’

o Looking at the Trailer of a film texto Looking at a clip of something unfamiliar

e.g. sumo wrestlers before answering comprehension questions

o Viewing speeches so the delivered speech rather than the transcript becomes the text.

Useful Strategies

o 4 squareo T-charto Yet More thinking Questions!

T-Chart

Similarities Differences

Aid Understanding:

o The Lovely Bones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUWKi0W5_g

o SpeechesYouTube - hillary clinton - women's rights are human's rights

Make the learning Memorable

o easier to teach a ‘boring’ topico Students remember it bettero Useful to link with other ideaso New Ideas for Us

Grammar Rocks!o YouTube - The Grammar Police: Why Learning Gramm

ar Matters (Funnier for us than them)

o YouTube - Grammar Policeo YouTube - Mad Tv - Public School House Rock - Nounso YouTube - Conjunction Junctiono YouTube - Lolly Lolly Lolly get your adverbs hereo YouTube - Grammar Rock Verbo YouTube - Grammar Rock Pronouno YouTube - Schoolhouse Rock "Interjections!"

Activities

o Word Mapso Clozeo Personal Pronouns Bingoo Grammar Worksheets (bbc)o Thinking Chart

Getting the most out of GoogleAdvanced features

Google Advanced Features - Google Guide

n Searching for power points

n Good search questions (treat it like an idiot)

n Activities using maps, images, news (Under the Mountain research)

PB Wiki- student access

1. Setting up a PB wiki

2. Possible uses missrobertsonsonlineclassroom / FrontPage

3. Blogspot links and uses

Useful websites for resources

n Slideshare Upload & Share PowerPoint presentations and documents

n Puzzlemaker http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/favicon.ico

n Grammar http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words

n metromag, : : m e t r o m a g a z i n e : :

n Film Education http://filmeducation.org.uk/favicon.ico

n Colour in motion http://www.mariaclaudiacortes.com/favicon.ico

n Online dictionaries and visual thesaurus OneLook Dictionary Search Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map. Word Spy

Word: Using Tables to create worksheets

n Mix and marchn Character chartn Reading square (MMilford)n Poetry w/sheet

Pitfalls

n Overcomplicating it (K.I.S.S!)

n Overconfidence (Check the whole text)

n Forgetting the funn Substituting

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