the connected classroom
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The Connected Classroom
Safety/Netiquette
• Emoticons
• Backchannel
• Recording
• Capacity to send files
• Interactive whiteboard
• Polling feature
• Videoconferencing feature
• Breakout rooms for group work
Virtual classrooms can be recorded for those who are ill etc
The Bats• Cara hawk: his wing looks like it's going to brake
• 4B DGPS: what age do the bats learn to fly?
• Billy-Jo Hawk: Did it try to escape from you?
• Grade 2/3 Woodford: How many teeth do bats have?
• Trevo hawk: what happen to it eye
• Cara hawk: how easy is it to brake a bats wing
• smithy: arent they posisoness
• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats feel like?
• jasmine .j: do they hurt
• scottinea: are the bats dead or did u catch them alive?
• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats eat?
• 4B DGPS: are they really blind?
• Billy-Jo Hawk: Is there black bats, like full black?
• Moderator (Miss Iro, Mrs Gow and year 6/7): do bats carry any diseases
• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What sort of fauna and flora live in the sinkholes?
Virtual Easter Hat Parade
I enjoy doing linkups like this one as it is a easy way to learn about other cultures. They say there is no better way to learn than to learn from your peers. Using a virtual classroom and talking to students in other countries is more interesting and more valuable than any textbook!
Georgia Year 10
Safer Internet Use Day
The stats
• 1 classroom (virtual in Blackboard Collaborate)
• up to 17,000 students
• 170 physical classes
• A class of deaf students from Furlong Park School
• 1 teacher (or presenter)
Hands on Literacy through Pottery
With Ms Delightful!
Anzac Day
Mark Wilson - artist
The artist’s sketch using electroboard/document camera/polycom with Year 5/6
Student engagement
Student Outcomes
Student Election ForumHosted by Gungahlin College, Canberra
How it looked - #gcf2013!
Twitterfall -
• What will you do to help with the costs for rural students of moving away from home to attend higher education in the city.
What Students Liked
• Much better learning from someone like Wisteria than through a textbook• How she showed the actual objects• All of it was really good – Wysteria was a really good presenter, asked
questions and got everyone involved.• Different time zone and it was interesting to know that she was in my
yesterday and there was a night time concert outside while she spoke to us.• Lady pirate Chin commanded 500 pirate ships, made me interested in old
history• Liked how she was actually at the museum, and showed us the actual objects
from the ship• To see the things they used – photos and objects
World Read Aloud Day
International Peace Day with a Special School
Sprites for World Friends project on World Museum site
You can’t ask questions of a
textbook!
Issues with Water in Rural Areas
• http://rasant.alfahosting.org/Podcast
• The German food day will be on next Wednesday. There will be three dishes on this day they are;
• Pork Schnitzel and gravy rolls $4.50
• German pasta Bake $4.50
• Beef goulash with spritzla & German noodles $4.50
Ghangout
Topics studied
Australia’s engagement with Asia
Thai Linkup
Backchannel - backchannelchat
Mystery Skype
• Our questions of Dave:-are you on earth
• Are you in the northern hemisphere? Yes
• are you in france
• Are you on a island near Australia
5 . are you in a communist country? no6. Are you in a heavy populated area?7Are you in a country where British had established colony?8 are you in europe10are you in africa
9 are in in asiaDo you play any sports?yesdo you like to play basketball? yes
Are you in Europe? NoDo you live in South America? NoDo you live on a coast line? NoDo you live in the capital city of your state? NoDo you have 52 stars on your flag? No See full document
Do you teach or have any knowledge of the native wars between the americans, seminoles, iroquois, cherokeeetc, in the times of george washington?
Mystery Skype
In one of our ICT lessons, Mrs.
Murch set up a mystery Skype.
We had no idea who we were
linking up with, so we asked
questions about where we
thought she was from.
We found out that her name
was Mariko Eguchi. She lives
in the Shimane Prefecture,
Japan.
We found out that the
school she was at only served
one dish at their canteen-
Curried Rice
Curiousity –
• the masked students
• blanket
Breakfast with Taiwan
Kaohsiung city.
Shannon Huang:
School located in Liuguai. Liuguai in Chinese character has the meaning of "six turtles"
We started off with mystery Skype, once we had figured where they were, we started showing each other what we eat for breakfast.
International friendship day
International friendship day a special United Nations day on the first Sunday of August. The lesson was aimed to make new friends in other countries. We connected up with students from Ipoh, Perak in Malaysia. There were 35, 16 year old student in the class that we talked with. We used the chat and comments area to talk to each other.
Some of the things we talked about
How many subjects do you have in Malaysia?
We have 10 subjects here in Malaysia
We have English, Bahasa Melayu(our national language),Chinese, Additional Math, Modern
Math, Science(Biology, Chemistry, Physics), History(very boring T^T) and Moral Education
We shared a minute of silence with Malaysia for MH17 and created a wall of sympathy
(created using www.padlet.com)
What I liked…………
• I liked that they were from a different country. It was very interesting to learn a little about them and their culture.
What we have learnt
We have also leant how to use Skype safely.
We have added as many posts to our blogs a possible.
When using Skype, we have leant how to communicate with a web camera. We have also learnt that when talking on Skype you have to speak clearly and loudly so the people on the other end can hear.
What next????
We would love to continue doing this sort of thing, we love linking up with people from all over the globe.
We are always interested in where people are from and their way of life. We love comparing what we do with other countries.
Blogging - student blogs
Skype video messages
Our clues
9-10 clues from Portugal
1. North of equator2. 18 districts3. In Europe4. Borders Atlantic Ocna5. Famous sport = football6. Flag has red7. Famous food = sardines8. Famous music = funk, folk or was it
fado???9. Famous river through it10.Western part of Europe
Global apps
Favourite tools
Global2 Blogs
Enable further learning/conversations
● Blogs/electronic journals● Time to search further online● Collaborative global projects● Share it out - twitter, facebook, instagram
etc● Work on collaborative projecs● Connect the students beyond school
Challenges
• time zones• school year differences/extra curricular activities• different languages/cultures - different meaning of words in cultures!• overcoming cultural/language differences• accents• bandwidth• confidence of students• Confidence and access to technology
The future!
• Interpreter
• Non-synchronous connections
• Skype video messages
• Mobile apps
Essentials
• Membership of social networking sites
• Communication
• An online site (for connection) – blogs, wiki, webpage
• A strong profile
• Sharing via blogs, other online sites
Requirements for success
• Passion
• Ownership of ideas and projects
• Connections - networking
• Communication
• Willingness to take risks
• Determination
• Necessity of pre-testing
• A sense of humour!
• Work through all issues and do not judge!
Impact – some thoughts!
• Increased engagement
• Reduced racism
• Empathy
• No barriers to learning
• Understanding of cultures
• Greater awareness of own culture
• Netiquette, digital citizenship
• 21st Century Digital and Communication Skills
• Increased confidence
• Awareness beyond the textbook
• Variety of communication skills etc
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