Anne Mirtschin, Hawkesdale P12 College A presentation for the Victorian

A presentation for the Victorian
Home Economics Teachers
Association, Dec, 2008
Anne Mirtschin, Hawkesdale P12 College
Conceptual Age
Communicate
Connect
Creativity
Cybersafety
 Usernames eg rose, meatballs
 Avatars
 No last names/addresses/phone numbers/other
identifying details
 Joint administration rights
 Other staff(including principal)
regularly comment
 RSS feeds to student blogs
Tips for Keeping them cybersafe
Delicious http://delicious.com
•Social bookmarking site
•Develops networks
Great comments on use of delicious
What a delicious
idea!
Wordle – www.wordle.net
• Building word clouds
Reflecting on the holidays
Toondoo for cartoon making
Skype (www.skype.com)
 VOiP
 Live chat
 Audio
 conferencing
 Videoconferencing
 Bookmark and save chats
Why I love skype - Why I love skype by Jeremy Wright
(www.voicethread.com)
•User friendly
•Digital storytelling
Uses for Voicethread
Storytelling
Reflections
Reporting on extracurricula
activities
Global projects
Slideshare - www.slideshare.net
Uploads powerpoint presentations
 Groups and networks
Resources
Slideshare for home economics
 http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscienceslibraries/
food-20-part-1-presentation with lots of great sites and
recommendations, games, recipe sites etc videos
.....Blogging.....
http:://murch.globalteacher.org.au
http://murcha.wordpress.com
Most popular blogging platforms
 http://globalstudent.org.au and
http://globalteacher.org.au a campus set up especially
for Victorian teachers with edublogs
 http://edublogs.org
 Blogger
 Blogmeister
Sections to a blog
 Posts
 Pages
 Categories
 Tags
 Widgets – clustr maps, delicious links
 Blogroll
 comments
Leecie – year 10
http://leecie.globalstudent.org.au
Comments on post
Interactivity - polls
Natalie
POLL DADDY See site
why should students blog
 A tool for reading and writing
 Authentic audience
 Highly motivational
 Powerful learning
 Students want to share etc
20 reasons
What do I use a blog for?
Online journal
Digital portfolios
Lesson plans
bulletin board
Reflections
Global student/teacher
 Register for a globalteacher blog
 Adding in students = easy now
 Give some thought to username or url (cannot be
changed)
 blog title can be changed
hints
 Start blogging – it will find a direction over time
 Blog until you feel comfortable before starting
with students
 Blog regularly
 Establish a social network (links, comments,
trackbacks, teacher lists, nings etc)
 Do not worry about initial appearance – just start.
Flickr
 Online photo storage and management
 Search for and use creative commons license photos
 Networks (global)
 Crop, share, edit
 Slideshows
 Videos (pro account)
 networking
Wikis
Uses of.....
 Group projects
 Assignments
 Resource collections
 Peer review
 Parent involvement
www.ejourneys.wikispaces.com
Global projects http://corbettsm.wikispaces.com/
Some food blogs
 Is My blog burning
 Food and cookery blogs
http://homecooking.about.com/od/foodblogs/Food_a
nd_Cooking_Blogs.htm
 Cooking with Amy
http://cookingwithamy.blogspot.com/
 Simply Recipes http://www.elise.com/recipes/
Videoconferencing
discoverE virtual classroom
Hear Lorraine Leo
teach my grade 4 and 5s about the
Vendee Globe
Podcasting and podcasts
•Audacity + lame codec to convert to mp3
files
•Podomatic for storage online
Google apps
 igoogle
Google Sheet
Forms
google docs – processor, sheet, presentation
•Calendar
•Reader
•Alert
•Notes
•Igoogle
•Google maps and earth
Online videos
Teacher Tube
Teachers TV
Youtube
Google video
Contact Me
mirtschin.anne.a@edumail.vic.gov.au
mirtschin@gmail.com
Twitter id = murcha
Skype = anne.mirtschin