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Do Now: Before we start today's session I would like you to have a wiki ready to go!
If you have a wiki already, you will simply need to create a new page called 'ICTs in English'. If you do not have a wiki, click here and follow the instructions! Give me a yell if you need a hand.
Introduction
Introductions
Burning issues
Outline of day
Session One: The importance of e-learning and ways to use blogs and wikis
Information and communication technology (ICT) has a major impact on the world in which young people live. Similarly, e-learning (that is, learning supported by or facilitated by ICT) has considerable potential to support the teaching approaches outlined in the above section.
For instance, e-learning may:
assist the making of connections by enabling students to enter and explore new learning environments, overcoming barriers of distance and time
facilitate shared learning by enabling students to join or create communities of learners that extend well beyond the classroom
assist in the creation of supportive learning environments by offering resources that take account of individual, cultural, or developmental differences
enhance opportunities to learn by offering students virtual experiences and tools that save them time, allowing them to take their learning further.
Schools should explore not only how ICT can supplement traditional ways of teaching but also how it can open up new and different ways of learning.
Discussion Questions: How well is your present classroom providing for your students' future? With limited resources, how might we address this?
Discussion Questions: Do you agree? Why? Why not?
(Check out some of the responses online...or even add you own!)
Jigsaw Reading Activity: Each group will be given a section to read and then will extract what you see to be the most important key messages. You will then share your findings here.
Strategies for using mobile phones to support the teaching of visual and oral texts, presentation and speaking skills.
Activity: In pairs, you will have 15 minutes to complete the following:
Using your phone's voice recorder you will record a dramatic reading of 1-2 stanza's from the poem 'The Tree'.
Using your mobile phone you will then take still shots of (or film) a tree of your choice. Try to capture the feeling of the poem. Feel free to use your partner in the shots as well. Try to include a range of the following shot types: establishing shot, extreme close up, close up, low angle, high angle, long shot, extreme long shot.
NB. Unsure of the film terms? Check out this handy reference here
Extension Activity - Uploading your files to your laptop - One you have completed the task you will have another 10 minutes to attempt to upload your files to your and your partner's laptop using bluetooth. First turn on bluetooth on your phone and your laptop. Then locate your file on your phone, when you choose to send your file, an option should come up to send via bluetooth (not available on iphone). If your laptop doesn't have bluetooth you will need a bluetooth USB device.
Need more advice? Check out a handy tutorial here.
Bright idea - You can also use bluetooth to transfer files to your students' mobiles - imagine the possibilities!
Activity - Read this article about how Facebook was used to support teaching and learning in a history class. How do you think this could transfer to an English class? Discuss.
Activity: On your 'ICTs in English' wiki create links to any new sites you may want to use in the future. Then you might like to make a personal e-learning action plan! What can I use next week (and why and how will I use it) and what will I aim to use either later in the year or next year ( and what do I need to do to make it happen).
Activity: Share your ideas on Wallwisher!
Share the ideas you have taken away from today's session here.
Resources and reflection
Answering burning issues that have not been addressed
Fill in a workshop feedback survey here.
Keep up to date and join the English Online ICT English forum here.
Bio Claire Amos resides in Auckland, New Zealand. She is married and has two young daughters. She is the Director of e-learning at Epsom Girls Grammar School. She is also the facilitator of the ICTs in English community on English Online. In 2010 Claire held the position of Auckland Secondary English Facilitator at Team Solutions at the University of Auckland. Claire has taught English for 13 years in a range of secondary schools, most recently holding the position of Head of English Faculty at Auckland Girl’s Grammar School. She has worked at a national level in assessment and curriculum in English as a part of the writing team for the redevelopment of the NCEA standards and as a marker for NCEA external standards. In 2009 Claire was a Ministry of Education e-fellow for which she undertook a study of how ICTs can be used to support literacy in and beyond the English classroom.
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