Year 12’s First Impressions of Twitter.

Posted onJune 17, 2009
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Testing Notaland.com

Posted onJune 17, 2009
Filed under Assessment & Evaluation and tagged Collaboration, collaborativetools, notaland, notetaking, summarising | 1 Comment

I’m thinking of using Notaland.com in my Year 11 History class this semester. It lets you put together scrap-book like pages, where you can add videos from YouTube or pictures from Flickr and lots of other things. You can also leave comment on people’s pages.

My thoughts are that my students could create a page for each week of the semester to summarise what they have learnt. They can find relevant videos etc and I can comment on their pages each week, as well as get them to comment on their classmates pages. A different and much more interactive way of ‘taking notes’ and keeping summaries that might help with end of term assessment.

This is a page I put together for tomorrow’s lesson as a way of presenting to them and showing them to application. I’m not known for my graphic design skills

Let me know what you think of the ideas and if you’ve used this application before. Thanks!

P.S – Hmm, it seems that the embedding code is not working for the moment so here is a screen shot of what my page looks like – and here is the link to the actual page: http://notaland.com/jessmcculloch/26192

How Could A Mass Class Mobile Project Work?

Posted onJune 17, 2009
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I’m keen to use mobile phones much much more in my Year 10 Humanities class, so I went in the other day and asked them for ideas. One kid piped up and said "What about some big class project where we all use our phones?" Awesome idea I thought! What exactly would we do? So, my question is what do you think we could do as an extended project – maybe covering a week or two of classes. Bluetoothing files, and sending stuff to the internet via email is great. We’ve got plenty of capability to do that, also, voice and video recording of course. our topic is going to be history of crime, death, punishment, human rights etc. I’m also going to have at least a week of class where we use nothing other than our phones, but I’m not as yet sure exactly what that will look like.

Ideas that I’d like to incorporate:
*sending files via bluetooth
*sending audio and video instructions
*get the kids to bluetooth or SMS quiz questions to each other
*uploading their work to our ning site by sending stuff to the special movile email address that ning creates for each user
*using QR codes around the school to move kids on to the next clue for the unit or something like that.

But as for a mass class project that they could all contribute to…

Well our class ning could be the central place for their work and the project could be broken in to sections and each student or group has to contribute their own section to a common product but only using their phones.

I also want them to do mobile diaries, so maybe using 12seconds.tv or something like that to show what they are learning bit by bit and what they think of the doing most of it by phone.

Anyway, that’s just a few thoughts going on in my head. See how it takes shape. Comments and further ideas more than welcome!

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