What’s so great about…

1. Why do you think people say this is so great?
2. List what makes it “outstanding?”
3. What would you do differently?

This is post that shows a range of things that can be embedded or inserted.

A Web link / URL

An image

A video

Here’s Hans

A Google Map

A document

Another doc – a pdf

A podcast

Look to Learn – Review and Feedback

• Look to Learn Strategy
• Example: JabberRumpus
• Did you use with students? Response? Comments link used by students, parents, grandparents, cross-age mentors?
• We Add a comment about use – surf to activities

ClassPortals

• Great “ClassBlog“, more profound “ClassPortal“
• Explore more info and inspiration?
• Getting started with WordPress, PBWorks or?
• Link to or copy the Early Years Pageflake
• http://www.pageflakes.com/tom40/27718220
• Consider using the IWB Blog’s Resource Panel (handout)
• Get the AISV Toolbar?

Ideas for ClassPortals

• Chris Jordan for inspiration (Albatrosses at Midway)

• Grannies read to kids in India (50 more Ideas for Skype)
• Creating a Podcast
• PodBean for Hosting Podcasts
• Review content from the Early Years Pageflake

Where to from Here?

• Professional ICT Self-assessment (doc)
• CEQALL Rubric (pdf) for student self-managed learning
• WebQuests?

Review

Conceptual Questions:

• What makes web 2.0 good for learning?
• What makes Web 2.0 difficult for “schools?”
• Add to Stixyboard?
• What does Rene say?

Strategies

Look to Learn

• How can we use Web 2? – a New 3Rs + Scaffolding = Look to Learn
• Examples: Water Buffalo Gift
• Example: JabberRumpus MonsterBumpus!?

Social Bookmarking

1. Join the Diigo Early Years Booking Group
2. Download the Diigo Toolbar
3. Add a couple sites you like

Social Bookmarking explained by Common Craft

Create your Own Look to Learn

1. Register to make a Look to Learn activity
2. Consider your links or others – choose one that is Real, Rich and / or Relevant (all three is best!) Maybe the Scootle learning objects (list)? Test link – Mt Scopus
3. Look through the Prompts and copy and paste or make up your own.
4. Work with others, get feedback, have fun, then Post your Look to Learn activity.

Use our Early Years AISV page for more links

Our activities can be found on the Early Years tab above or the link on the right sidebar.

Then enter your Geek Speak as a comment below.

Suppose students eagerly adopt opinions, argue positions and debate solutions to challenging problems. Now imagine that they have even built up a body of evidence from which to launch their case?  So what’s the problem?  What happens when students might be willing, even eager, just not able? WebQuests began in 1995 as one of the first good ways to use the Web for learning.  Even as technologies have changed solid pedagogies endure.

Challenge:

Set up a scaffolded learning activity (AKA “WebQuest”) that uses an authentic scenario, open-ended questions, a range of perspectives and rich resources to help students transform information into understanding. You can do this with a Web page template or an “unfolded” process using Web 2 tools.

But before we get to this, let’s check the Agenda

Imagine that your students develop a sense of mastery and
enthusiasm for Learning to Look but want more.  Participating in
and even facilitating the activities themselves works, but too often
the pressures of an ongoing curriculum curtail pursuing further
inquiry.  What if you had a facility to support ongoing, sporadic
investigations on main interests and themes that have emerged
through Learning to Look activities?

Challenge:

By using a Weblog as a platform, you could empower students as authors to post, comment on and track how topics might evolve over time.  Hey, this sounds like this could develop some good Habits (of Mind)…

But before we get to this, let’s check the Agenda