Archive forNovember, 2009

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As part of the Australian Government Quality Teachers program, I investigated digital storytelling in 2006. My activity was designed to take only a few lessons, but students achieved some wonderful stories in a short space of time, learnt skills they could apply to the many powerpoints they construct for assessment and had lots of fun. [...]

Here is the last of the examples of digital storytelling commenced in preceding posts. DinoNap View more presentations or Upload your own.

Here is another example of telling stories with p.owerpoint The Awesome Stack View more presentations or Upload your own.

Here is a choose your own adventure type digital story example. Escape from Devil's Island View more presentations or Upload your own.

Here is another example of using Powerpoint for digital storytelling which will test slideboom as it is quite a large file. Snowboarding View more presentations or Upload your own.

From 2003-2006, I used powerpoint with groups of students over a couple of lessons and we had fun and learnt a lot about digital storytelling, inlcuding choose your own adventure stories. I have now discovered slideboom http://www.slideboom.com , which allows sharing of these stories on this blog while retaining the animation. I will inlcude some [...]

The Potter Library has a display on “Making A Difference” about giving to charity this Christmas For example, All Hallows’ is donating wage savings from the recent industrial action to the Sr. Mary Ronan Fund that supports All Hallows’ students and families in need. So be a bit M.A.D. this Christmas. More at: http://www.everydayhero.com.au/ http://today.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=176601 [...]

Hopefully, this blog is encouraging you to try blogging. If you would like to share a file, as in the previous post, googledocs can help with this http: //docs.google.com/ You may need to sign up with google. Then, login to google docs, and click upload in the right corner. Browse for the file/s you want [...]

Making life size posters

November 23, 2009 | 2 Comments

To encourage holiday reading, Elizabeth in our Library made a life size poster. This has been a huge hit. The instructions can be found at http://tinyurl.com/displaypeople The image is being used under copyright for the curriculum purpose of reading promotion. The instructions explain using the site www.blockposters.com . This method could be used for assessment [...]

Hi All Teachers and Teacher Librarians, You are invited to register for the Jamie McKenzie Workshop at All Hallows’ School, Brisbane, on Saturday, 23rd January 2010 – Managing the Hands – On Laptop Classroom. This should be a very worthwhile professional development workshop with many schools moving to laptop/netbook classrooms. Details are below and at [...]

(An article written by Anne Weaver, published recently in Access) Web 2 technologies offer great opportunities for teacher librarians to promote learning outcomes. Book trailers were introduced as a competition category in the QIEU, Courier Mail, ETAQ Book Review Competition in QLD in 2009. Armed with this incentive and also a PD session promoted by [...]

(Recent article I wrote, published in Access regarding potential use of vidoeconferencing in education.) Recently, I attended 2 fantastic conferences. The National Education and Computer Conference in Washington DC was held in July, 2009. In June this year, I participated in an Eluminate Panel Discussion: “Is There a Place for Media Specialists Who Don’t Know [...]

Nov 09 Useful

November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Useful site – http://marynabadenhorst.globalteacher.org.au/ such as where to download graph paper and where to locate royalty free audio sites plus other answers to life’s perplexing questions http://marynabadenhorst.globalteacher.org.au/royalty-free-stuff/ There have been some wonderful philosophers in the history of the planet and then there was Darth Vader – here you will find an audio response you can [...]

While it is wise to consider the need and ways to protect privacy on the internet and to consider carefully what is published; on the other hand many seek to use the internet to reach more people. What if you want more google fame for you and your edublog? Here are some ideas • List [...]

Sign up to http://www.slideshare.net/ Click the upload tab, and upload your powerpoint Once uploaded, choose wordpress (for edublogs), copy the embed code, go to edublogs and your post, click html and paste

Blogs Online C View more presentations from Anne Weaver.

Blogging is an easy way for anyone to publish on the internet. Below are 2 sites to help those who would like to get started using edublogs. Edublogs is free and easy to use. Just remember that once published publicly on the internet, material may be available forever – others can copy it – so [...]

Photo attributed to adored Today I held a new kindle and wondered if this device will replace the thousands of books in our Libraries? This is happening in some schools already. In Cushing Academy in Massachusetts, they are removing 20,000 books; half their library collection, and replacing them with an entirely digital infrastructure. They have [...]

 At the recent Celebration of Excellence, issues were raised about the impact of media. These concerns included underpinning values that promote the commercialization of people as products, and emphasis on celebrity, appearance possessions and money. The book, The Butterfly Effect, by Danielle Miller, focuses on issues surrounding poor body image and the pressure girls face [...]

Hi, I have added the ability for readers to be able to receive RSS feeds or email subscription from this blog. If you would like to know how to do this for your own edublog, the instructions are below.  http://theedublogger.com/2008/03/12/redirecting-your-blog-feed-to-feedburner/ http://theedublogger.com/2008/02/06/how-to-add-an-email-subscription-to-your-blog/

Hi, I have added clustrmaps to this blog which as you can see counts how many people access the blog and where they are located- quite fun. If you would like to add clustrmaps to your edublog, the instructions are below. http://theedublogger.com/2009/02/08/adding-clustrmaps-to-your-blog-sidebar-using-a-text-widget/ http://clustrmaps.com/admin/action.php