English-ICTPD+Cluster+day

=Web 2.0 Internet Tools Day=

English Departments: Hamilton Girls and Hillcrest High School

 * When**: Tuesday 2 June 9.00am - 3.00pm
 * Where**: Wintec Campus Hamilton
 * Meet:** 8.45am The Hub building (New building at front of Wintec)

Parking: Parking is limited at Wintec due to our central city location. The teachers from Hillcrest High School will enter via Gate 5 and turn left at the top by the Hub and park in the designated area.

**Theme for the day: Fantasy/Myths and Legends**
Logins: A temporary login will be provided for every teacher. You will be given a login cob001 etc.. and a password. Please do not loose this piece of paper as you will need to login on the computer each time we change computer suites.

9.00am - 10.00am: Room N 106 An Introduction to Web 2.0. What is it and how can it suppport learning? (10 min)

[|Shahi: a visual dictionary] that Wikitonary content with Fickr images and more: Try it.

[|VocabGrabber] VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.

Task: Find a myth/legend on the internet, select text, copy and paste into the VocabGrabber window: wait then analyse the text.

[|Wordle] Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. media type="custom" key="3923825" media type="custom" key="3928653"

Task: Make your own wordle in pairs by typing on Myths/Legends words and create your own Wordle. Do a screen grab and save the jpg to your memory stick.

Wikis Page editing (in www.wikispaces.com) To edit a page in the Cobham Connections Wiki click the "Edit this page" button. An Editor tool bar will appear at the top of your page. If you hold your mouse pointer over the button it will tell you what action occurs by clicking on the button. The first four buttons are for editing text, then you can select the font size by clicking in the dropdown arrrow. The next buttons are to do with bullets and inserting a line. The chain link is for inserting a link to another wiki page or more commonly an external web page link. The other buttons are for inserting a picture, and a widget of your choice. (a widget is a specialised application like liking to a youtube video) Today we wont be all editing the page at the same time: otherwise the wiki server gets all confused. Feel free in the future to add to your English wiki page to share resources and ideas between the schools.

Task: After the PD day find some Myths/Legends/Fantasy sites and add to the Cobham Connections English page. Also add some resources to the English Page. (see navigation bar to the left)

[|Etherpad] Etherpad lets people collaborate on written text in real time. (Google docs does not allow this)
 * No account required
 * The only realtime collaborative editor on the web
 * Edits highlighted in author's color
 * Infinite undo history
 * Syntax highlighting for editing code
 * Every keystroke backed up

Task: In a group of four teachers: share your webaddress, then collaborate on writing a Myth/legend on "The legend of the Cobham Bridge Monster", copy text and paste into word and save on your memory stick. Everyone must make an equal contribution to your Myth/Legend. BREAK: We now need to move up to the third floor to Computer Suite: N305

10.15am-12.45pm Room N 305

[|Youtube]: (how to download short movies) Malcolm to demonstrate. When your are in youtube: insert the word kick in the webaddress before the word youtube then press enter. This will take you to the kickyoutube site where you will be able to download the video if you wish onto your computer or memory stick. Example: [|Shakespeare's Henry V Act IV] Click the MP4 button, then click the GO button, then right click the DOWN button and click on "save target as" (Internet Explorer) and choose a location to download the movie file to. (If in doubt choose desktop and move file later).

Task: Browse Youtube for videos that would be suitable to support a Myths and Legends theme. Donot attempt to download any videos as due to restricted bandwidth you will be waiting hours for your video to download: try kick youtube at home or school.

[|Voicethread]Voicethread is a website where you can upload a series of images on which students could comment either by text boxes or voice (need microphone). You can also use an electronic whiteboard to draw on the images.The series of images could tell a story or they could be centered around a theme. (eg fantasy/myths/legends). To get an idea of what Voicethread is about you need to register and logon. Your students would need to register also if they were to use the site.

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Task: [|Spooky Tree Poetry:] Here I have made an activity with Voice thread. Click on the link and take part in the activity.

[|Twitter]: (demonstration) Twitter is the most popular microblogging application, with almost one million users called twitterers, who can send and receive messages via the web, SMS,instant messaging clients, and by third party applications. Posts are limited to 140 text characters in length. When New Zealand education gets brave enough to let students have web enabled cellphones in class then applications such as Twitter will be able to be used in class for exploring collaborative writing, instant communication with anyone in the world, to send out questions linked to inquiry, communication with teachers/mentors and networking with experts. For this to be successful students will need to be information literate and get the mindset that tools such as twitter can be used for learning in school hours instead of social gossip. Toni Twiss is an expert in the use of mLearning using cellphones.

[|The use of twitter in a classroom]

Mindmapping [|Mindmeister] Collaborative Online Mind Mapping Task for all teachers:
 * Basic account is free
 * Brainstorm and share ideas
 * Plan inquiry/learning
 * Save mindmaps online
 * Work simultaneously with other users (from anywhere in the world!)
 * 1) Sign up and register
 * 2) Create mindmap (on a myth/legend/fantasy)
 * 3) Share with friends

[|Wallwisher] Task: click on link above and view the demo wall. Then create your own wall with your partner: Theme a Myth/Legend/Fantasy Board. Share your board with others.
 * An online Notice Board maker.
 * Ideal for making announcements, notes, group collaboration.
 * No registration required.
 * Use text, images, music, video and pages.
 * Drag, drop and re-arrange posts.

An example [|Wallwisher] [|Slideshare] Upload and share your PowerPoints or Word documents on Slideshare. Sign up and browse for documents that may help with your lessons. Remember this is a sharing community so it is good to share and receive.

[|Click here to view the Wordle PowerPoint on Slideshare]

Bored? Check out [|the most amazing photographs]

1.30pm- 3.00pm Room L101A

Podcasting

A podcast is a digital media file (usually a mp3 file). A podcast can be either a audio or video file, however the audio file is the most common. A podcast once created in an audio editor such as [|audacity] (PC) or garageband (Apple) is then uploaded to a website that can either stream the podcast or make it available for download where users can transfer the file to a computer or mp3 player to listen in their own time. [|Podomatic] is a popular Podcasting site where users can create and upload podcasts to be shared with others. Task: to create a 30-60 second podcast about a myth/legend based in your school local area.
 * 1) Write a script (plan for both of you to have a turn with the microphone.
 * 2) Your podcast should have a short introduction to set the scene, the story and end with the a conclusion/ending. Keep it simple.
 * 3) Use audacity to record your podcast. We will be using audacity from a memory stick. (malcolm will help you with set up)
 * 4) Add a music track into the background by adding it to the second track in audacity. Adjust the volume level.
 * 5) Save the track to your memory stick and listen.
 * 6) Upload your podcast to Podomatic. Other people (parents or other students can listen to the podcast and make comments).

Education Podcasting sites: [|Grade 7/8 Virtual Classroom]

Extras if time..... [|Exploratree] An online library of thinking guides. Build up a personal profile of useful thinking guides. Use the available templates or design your own. Register and save the templates and thinking guides. Print the thinking guides out. Useful for both teachers and students to develop thinking skills.

[|Nota] Nota is a free, open canvas. You can simultaneously create and collaborate on fun interactive webpages. Nota is a unique cutting edge collaborative web platform that allows users to create, share and collaborate on presentations and virtually any other kind of online material. Integrate text, video, maps, clipart and photos together. Make your presentations available for others to view. Has an embed function for displaying Nota creation in websites. [|Scribd] Scribd began with a simple observation — that the desire for self-expression through the written word is as old as humanity itself. But even with the proliferation of blogs and other self-publishing tools, there was no easy way for average people to publish to a readership of millions. Today, Scribd is the largest social publishing company in the world — the website where more than 60 million people each month discover and share original writings and documents. Scribd’s vision is to liberate the written word — to turn everyone into a publisher and create the best possible reading experience on the web and mobile platforms.

[|Doodlewall] lets you create a virtual wall that you can, well doodle on. You can draw on your own and keep it private, or provide the password to others so they can join you in a collaborative effort. You can also chat with others.

[|Bloglines] Bloglines is a free online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing newsfeeds and blogs. No software to download and install. Simply register and add the bloglines page to your favourites in your laptop web browser.

[|Portable applications] Run a whole host of applications from a memory stick from Open Office to audacity for podcasting. No need to load the program on your computer, it is run from the memory stick.

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To bring: Memory Stick Laptop (charged) Music CD or music mp3 files for podcasts Small collection of images on memory stick that could be linked to the Fantasy/Myths and Legends theme Computer microphone if you have one (most of your laptops should have a microphone built in)

Myths and Legends Links: Please load some links below: After the course: these could be shared between the schools.

New Zealand [|Maori Legends] A basic legend site with short Maori legends siutable as starters.

Great Britain [|Myths and Legends] Create your own legend/myth using the online software. Register your school and create and share your own legends. Terrific site.

[|TelescopicText]An interesting site: useful for english teachers: click and expand the text....