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Set Up, Start Up, Soar!. How to Incorporate Elearning into your Classroom Programme (with some degree of sanity) VASHTI TYMKIN TwITTER : @ vishonamish EMAIL: vtymkin@westmere.school.nz Web: learningstuff11.wordpress.com Learningstuff.wordpress.com BLOG: LEARNINGMORESTUFF.WORDPRESS.COm.
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Set Up, Start Up, Soar! How to Incorporate Elearning into your Classroom Programme (with some degree of sanity) VASHTI TYMKIN TwITTER: @vishonamish EMAIL: vtymkin@westmere.school.nz Web: learningstuff11.wordpress.com Learningstuff.wordpress.com BLOG: LEARNINGMORESTUFF.WORDPRESS.COm Integrating new technologies to empower learning and transform leadership vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
WALT incorporate Elearning into our classrooms • We will know this when: • We can organise our classroom to include the equipment • We can organise our routines and planning to include activities using the equipment • We can teach our students how to use tools for learning • We can find activities that are meaningful for subjects vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
Before we begin… vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
What are our options? What can help us to stay sane? ORGANISING OUR CLASSROOM vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
Computers: Setting up a pod Option 1 Option 2 vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
OPTION 1 Using computers like this allows children to work together at separate computers. You can have two children per computer. One can be the driver, one can be the navigator. The driver works the keyboard and mouse. The navigator tells them where to click and what to type. vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
OPTION 2 More than one child can use the computer- a whole group can stand around a computer Inquiry Watching videos Publishing together vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish / learningstuff11.wordpress.com
OPTION 3 vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
OPTION 3 Permanent space for laptop so used every lesson if possible Useful for ESOL & Special needs Group work IndividualPairs Less noise vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
Tidying Up vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
SOLVING PROBLEMS SAVES SANITY vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
FINDING LOGINS BOOKS ON THE COMPUTER • Where possible, avoid logging in! • Write inside the covers of: • Maths Books • Reading Books • Homework Books • Printed off • Handwritten vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
FINDING LOG INS BOOKLETS SHEETS vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
FINDING HELP TO BEGIN WITH EXPERTS WALL HELP CENTRE vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
Not just for technology Keep pencils, pencil sharpeners and rubbers available Keep sellotape and pegs, staplers Encourage independence and group responsibility for equipment- link in with your treaty Initial experiment: Children waited on a stool at the help centre to helpChildren waited at the stool to get help Help Centre vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
FINDING HELP TO BEGIN WITH HELP CENTRE PROBLEM SOLVING WALL MONITORS IN CHARGE vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
Whatever works…. vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
STAYING SAFE My LGP/ Netsafe / Hector’s World If it’s not comfortable, get help Never give your full name Never give your location Never name a photograph unless you can protect the post vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
WIKIS AND BLOGS Using a blog or a wiki: Make one and use it yourself first Use the online tutorial Use what other people around you use, if possible BLOGGER vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
WORDPRESS.COM vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
All of these websites have tutorials Look for links and use what suits you best If someone at your school is good at Wikis, use them to help you If they have a blog, use the blog platform Use it yourself first to set it up and gain confidence vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
Set up a bookmark on the internet • Choose a program YOU DON’T NEED A BLOG vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
PLANNING FOR ELEARNING vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
PROGRESSION Show the whole class Work with a group Let them practice Get them to work with the next group vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
MODEL, SCAFFOLD, SANDBOX vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
USE GAMES FIRST Make bookmarks Use a blog to keep them in one place if you can One subject – choose your favourite vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish / learningstuff11.wordpress.com
NEXT STEP: Small groups Practice after working with teacher One group per tumble One activity, one subject Using blog for whole class reflection or LI/SC vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
Snapshot of a template vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
It’s a tumble vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
AND THE NEXT STEP Students teaching the next group Working two groups per tumble Introducing another subject Publishing Using comments to reflect or feedback regularly Using trickier tools like Voicethreadetc vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
Math tumble vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
WARNING! Always have a backup activity: DIORAMAS POSTERS OFFLINE VERSION OF THE ACTIVITY So: Step 1- Draft in your books Step 2- publish. Could be online, could be on paper FRIDAy= FINISHING DAY. Have Deadlines vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
Reading Plan vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
Reading tumble Chart vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
SCHOOL JOURNALS vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
Reading Tumble vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
YET ANOTHER STEP Using laptops in each subject Online creativity and deeper thinking skills- mind42.com, creating their own blogs, making animations with xtranormal… Making a movie for assembly or to explain things vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
SUBJECTS vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
MATH: Basic Facts Recall TUTPUP www.tutpup.com SUMDOG www.sumdog.com vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
READING: Comprehension Skills vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
COMMENTING AND POSTING http://learningstuff11.wordpress.com/category/students/leonardo/ vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
JUNIORS CBEEBIES MEEGENIUS vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
WRITING USUAL PROCESS ANIMATIONS, COMICS vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com Xtranormal.com
WRITING VOICE INSTEAD OF TYPE SPELLING www.spellingcity.com Vocaroo.com Audioboo.fm WORDQ: prediction www.goqsoftware.com/ vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
TOPICS MIND42.COM WALLWISHER.COM Online mind mapping More complex than other ideas Have to be logged in Brainstorming using online post it notes Don’t have to be logged in vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
PE YOU TUBE VIDEO OR PHOTOGRAPH Look up examples of sports skills on web to inspire or motivate them Film children, let them see what they look like Decide what their next steps are vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
THE ARTS VISUAL ART DANCING Find art works to inspire Create slide shows Get the context or information Auckland Art Gallery Ehow.com has hip hop videos Video their dance for them vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
I am in no way MJ… vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com
TEAM BUILDING Buddy Class Class DJ Share newsat the beginning of the day instead of having news by reading blog Support your buddy class by commenting Share funny links and videos Create assembly films Use iTunes to download and choose songs to dance to www.Songdrops.com vtymkin@westmere.school.nz @vishonamish learningstuff11.wordpress.com