Audrey Harvey is an ICT Facilitator. In this talk from Learning@School12 Audrey offers some resources and tips for getting started with ICT in the classroom.
I would just like to talk to you about some of the things I think teachers should be able to use in their classrooms very effectively in order to energise students but not spend a lot of time for themselves because teachers are very busy people.
First of all I would think they need to look, teachers need to look at what they've already got on their computers. Because there are so many programmes there of which we use just a fraction really. And there are so many good things that they can use with their students, still getting them to do a lot of learning and just making their work more effective and ready for presenting to an audience and things like that.
And then getting a lot of things off the Internet. Now I believe, they've got to be educationally sound, and there are so many sites out there now and they are free. And free is good as teachers all know. I would suggest they go and look at making word clouds. Now there are three good sites that I know of those (wordle.net, tagxedo.com, tagcrowd.com) and if you look at each of them you can decide which one is best for you. Wallwisher is another favourite that I like because it is like putting a sticky on the wall where you add your information, your pictures, your videos, and a whole classroom can go into a suite together and they can all be working on the same page.
I also think you need to set up a blog, either for your own classroom or the students can have their own blogs as well if they want to. Because then you can put on a voki which will be your voice speaking the information, but you look like an animal or a person all dressed up just speaking the information.
Because teachers, particularly primary teachers, want something set up that just goes, I get them to set up their home page where they have activities for each of their groups. And the students then, because if they save it on powerpoint it is locked in there and they just go there and there is the activities all prepared for them. And they don't need to change those every day. If they change them once or maybe twice in the term it cuts their workload down. So that's sort of what I'm advocating for busy teachers.
My challenge would be don't try to do everything at once because it won't work. Choose one maybe two things that you are going to go out of your comfort zone and try, and work with those for at least a term maybe two terms and then try something else. But start somewhere do one or two things and do them well.
Audrey Harvey is an ICT Facilitator. In this talk from Learning@School12 Audrey offers some resources and tips for getting started with ICT in the classroom.
I would just like to talk to you about some of the things I think teachers should be able to use in their classrooms very effectively in order to energise students but not spend a lot of time for themselves because teachers are very busy people.
First of all I would think they need to look, teachers need to look at what they've already got on their computers. Because there are so many programmes there of which we use just a fraction really. And there are so many good things that they can use with their students, still getting them to do a lot of learning and just making their work more effective and ready for presenting to an audience and things like that.
And then getting a lot of things off the Internet. Now I believe, they've got to be educationally sound, and there are so many sites out there now and they are free. And free is good as teachers all know. I would suggest they go and look at making word clouds. Now there are three good sites that I know of those (wordle.net, tagxedo.com, tagcrowd.com) and if you look at each of them you can decide which one is best for you. Wallwisher is another favourite that I like because it is like putting a sticky on the wall where you add your information, your pictures, your videos, and a whole classroom can go into a suite together and they can all be working on the same page.
I also think you need to set up a blog, either for your own classroom or the students can have their own blogs as well if they want to. Because then you can put on a voki which will be your voice speaking the information, but you look like an animal or a person all dressed up just speaking the information.
Because teachers, particularly primary teachers, want something set up that just goes, I get them to set up their home page where they have activities for each of their groups. And the students then, because if they save it on powerpoint it is locked in there and they just go there and there is the activities all prepared for them. And they don't need to change those every day. If they change them once or maybe twice in the term it cuts their workload down. So that's sort of what I'm advocating for busy teachers.
My challenge would be don't try to do everything at once because it won't work. Choose one maybe two things that you are going to go out of your comfort zone and try, and work with those for at least a term maybe two terms and then try something else. But start somewhere do one or two things and do them well.
Audrey Harvey is an ICT Facilitator. In this talk from Learning@School12 Audrey offers some resources and tips for getting started with ICT in the classroom.
I would just like to talk to you about some of the things I think teachers should be able to use in their classrooms very effectively in order to energise students but not spend a lot of time for themselves because teachers are very busy people.
First of all I would think they need to look, teachers need to look at what they've already got on their computers. Because there are so many programmes there of which we use just a fraction really. And there are so many good things that they can use with their students, still getting them to do a lot of learning and just making their work more effective and ready for presenting to an audience and things like that.
And then getting a lot of things off the Internet. Now I believe, they've got to be educationally sound, and there are so many sites out there now and they are free. And free is good as teachers all know. I would suggest they go and look at making word clouds. Now there are three good sites that I know of those (wordle.net, tagxedo.com, tagcrowd.com) and if you look at each of them you can decide which one is best for you. Wallwisher is another favourite that I like because it is like putting a sticky on the wall where you add your information, your pictures, your videos, and a whole classroom can go into a suite together and they can all be working on the same page.
I also think you need to set up a blog, either for your own classroom or the students can have their own blogs as well if they want to. Because then you can put on a voki which will be your voice speaking the information, but you look like an animal or a person all dressed up just speaking the information.
Because teachers, particularly primary teachers, want something set up that just goes, I get them to set up their home page where they have activities for each of their groups. And the students then, because if they save it on powerpoint it is locked in there and they just go there and there is the activities all prepared for them. And they don't need to change those every day. If they change them once or maybe twice in the term it cuts their workload down. So that's sort of what I'm advocating for busy teachers.
My challenge would be don't try to do everything at once because it won't work. Choose one maybe two things that you are going to go out of your comfort zone and try, and work with those for at least a term maybe two terms and then try something else. But start somewhere do one or two things and do them well.
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