First report on the Internet

I have just found this great video via @dudeneyge and couldn´t resist sharing it with you. It is really worth taking a look at!!

  
First Report On The Internet – CBC Prime Time News – Watch today’s top amazing videos here

Schools around the world

Join our wiki in this new adventure to show “Schools around the world“. Students through exchanges and discussions will learn about different schools worldwide.

The idea is to create a visual school network in order to sustain an on-going dialogue about how schools differ worldwide. Students must prepare a voicethread, youtube video or simply add pictures giving and sharing all the information they require relevant for other students to know about their school. The rest of the participants can ask questions about their school.

You can check school calendars around the world thanks to the wonderful work done by Tom Robb.

Teachers interested in joining this project please add yourself to the following chart: Participating Schools.

Objectives

By the end of this project student will have:

* learned about the educational system in several countries
* learned different cultures worldwide
* introduced themselves to the participants
* added themselves to the Schools around the world map
* gotten familiar with the features on our wiki
* gotten familiar with voicethread and you tube

Sharing our School with the world

Please take a look at the You Tube video created by St.Matthew´s College students

Another group of students created a voicethread

I am sorry not to be able to embed it. These are some of the limitations with WordPresss http://voicethread.com/share/1049056/

Talking Avatars

What is an Avatar?

An avatar is a computer user’s representation of himself/herself or alter ego,^{[citation needed]} whether in the form of a three-dimensional model used in computer games,a two-dimensional icon (picture). Source: Wikipedia

• GIZMOZ

I would use it with Middle 1 students. These are 3D Avatars. I have just created a postcard where the avatars can speak. You can add video, sound, text to speech and even animate our text. Students can create a character, digital you , 3D Greeting cards, slideshows, vacation postcards, commentaries and animated shows. It is easy to embed your productions. Take a look at my first 3D animated postcard

• Blabberize (manipulate the mouth on any photo and make it talk!) Using this tool to make students talk about their daily routines. http://blabberize.com/view/id/203699

• Voki (create a talking avatar)

My students love to create their talking Voki. Unfortunately the computers at school are slow therefore we can`t save their work. Voki is one of the favourite tools for my students. Their imagination is the limit!!!

Widen your classroom with blogs

Online workshops for Language teacher development

For all Essarp members , I am proud to announce  the first international online blogging course.

We will be offering a completely on-line four-week course on how to integrate blogs in your teaching. Since the internet is the perfect media for connecting with others, it will be a joint venture with teachers in Argentina from the ESSARP, a partner of Cambridge International ESOL.

You can register at the Essarp website directly.

Here are the course details:

This is a four-week completely on-line course starting on May 3rd where you will learn how to integrate blogging and different Web 2.0 tools in your teaching in order to enhance your daily teaching activities using blogs. You follow the course from your own PC – no travel involved.

During the course we want to unite English teachers from different backgrounds and continents and show them the benefits of learning online and collaborating by joining participants from Argentina and Switzerland and encouraging interaction through the blogs.

You will be able to work at your own pace, completing weekly tasks and reflecting on what you have done and learned so far. Live on-line sessions will also be offered – times to be agreed once the course begins.

Basic knowledge of the internet is required, but no previous experience with blogs is assumed.

Upon successful completion of course tasks (80% successful completion of the set tasks), participants will be given a certificate.

This course is sponsored by ESSARP in Argentina and ETAS in Switzerland.
Course moderators

Jennifer Verschoor: ARCALL founder member http://jenverschoor.wordpress.com/

Illya Arnet-Clark: ETAS Learning Technologies SIG coordinator http://etasblog.wordpress.com

Course duration: 03.5.2010 – 31.5.2010

This is a closed course only offered to ESSARP and ETAS members.

Arcall: Web 2.0 tools to enhance learning

Last month we discussed how to use Word clouds in our daily teaching. This month be ready to explore different Web 2.0 tools to enhance our learning. The idea is to explore how to use Voki, Glogster and Fotobabble in our classroom.

Week 1: Exploring Web 2.0 tools for Visual Learners

Voki:

Objectives

By the end of this week you will have:

• • explored how to create your personal avatar
  • created your own avatar
  • commented on the different Voki´s created by other participants
  • explored the pegagocial benefits of using this tool in your classroom.

Activities

• Create your o wn Voki following the instruction in the following slideshare and explore all the different features available.

• Read these very interesting posts on how to use Voki in our classrooms

Voki – Avatars in Education

Using Voki and a blog in a sequence of three lessons

• Share your Voki with the rest of the members.
• Have fun integrating Web 2.0 tools in your classroom.

Week 2 and 3: Exploring Web 2.0 for Kinesthetic learners

EduGlogster

As there are so many different possibilities and features to explore we will devote 2 weeks to learn how to use EduGlogster in our classrooms.

Objectives

By the end of third week you will have:

• • explored the different features availible in Eduglogster.
  • created your own Eduglogter.
  • Add voice and videos to your Eduglogster.
  • commented on the different Eduglogster´s created by other participants
  • explored the pegagocial benefits of using this tool in your classroom.

Activities

• Take a look at the different Tutorials to create your own Eduglogster

Glogster EDU step by step

Detailed instructions on Glogster EDU

How to use Glogster EDU with Macs

Adding extra features to Glogster EDU

Glogster EDU Product Presentation

Source: http://edu.glogster.com/#why-glogster-edu

• Explore the different way teachers are using this tool in their classroom

- Promote students and school events, fundraisers etc. Example:Our school blogs

- After class reflection activity. Example: ICT class reflection

- Introduce new concepts in a fun and attractive way. Example: Web 2.0

- Record the different songs seen in class. Example: My favourite nursery songs

• Choose a suggested reading to expand  your knowledge

Teacher’s Guide to Using Glogster in the Classroom

Glogster in 90 Seconds

• Create your own Eduglogter based on all the information above
• Have fun creating your Eduglogster.

Week 4: Exploring Web 2.0 tools for Auditory learners

Fotobabble

Objectives

By the end of third week you will have:

• • created your own Fotobabble.
  • commented on the different Fotobabble´s created by other participants
  • explored the pegagocial benefits of using this tool in your classroom

Activities

• Create your own Fotobabble. No tutorials are needed. On the website, simply upload a photo, and then click the record button to record your voice.
• Readings: Check the links below to learn how teacher are intergrating Fotobabble in their classroom

Fotobabble – You can now do something “instructive” with class trip photos…and much more

Fotobabble