Podcasts

I will put a bit more on this post, but heres a start:

Dan Schmit gave a masterclass on podcasting this month:

http://www.tsof.edu.au/events/masterclass/dschmit/

 A great reason to (or an example of) a podcast with purpose:

http://www.nhavenr7.sa.edu.au/StudentWork/semaphore/download.htm

Juli and Bev’s Podcast Competetion entry is here: 

Click here to get your own player.

You can host your own podcasts or post here as well.

Blogging – Online Journals

Here is great resource on Blogging, read, hear and see from the experts. Blogging Masater Class

Al Upton - CEGSA Computer Educator of the Year had this to say about Blogging. Al_Web2.mp3 

Graham Wegner with Al also presented at this Years CEGSA Conference.

Check out their presentation. PDF File

Blog PD

PD this week was Blogs.  On Wednesday night, we were looking at:

• setting up a ‘Blog’ 
• ‘posting’ a message
• adding an image /mp3 to a ‘post’

How to Start a Blog

• Go to www.edublogs.org
• Create your own blog name – title – create 
• Print or write your password down
• When in Admin section, go to:
• Users – update password 
• Change Presentation / Theme

Adding a Post  

• ‘wp-admin’ added to blog address 
• Dashboard  – Write a post – Save or Publish
• Some Themes let you add admin options   
• NB: To be able to make a quick post, at the bottom, right click on “Press It” to put a link in favourites

Adding an Image

The image must be uploaded first, then added to a post  “send to editor”  

Same for Podcasts – songbird.mp3 (Do you like the song?)

If you set up a blog let me know, I will comment and count time towards PD.

Evaluation, Reflecting and and Sharing Students’ Work

Need a reason to start a blog, and now you have one. A blog is a great place to share what your students are learning, how they feel about what they are doing, and a collection of their knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences. What they did, who with, how it was done and what outcomes are evident.  Podcasts, PowerPoints, Pictures, Plus more can all be included. 

Webquests

To support Julie’s outstanding presentstion on WebQuests, I though I might put a few links together fror staff to look at.

http://www.coromandps.sa.edu.au/edweb/mike.shaw/WebQuests 

If these inspire you to learn more, perhaps we can get Juli to do her presentation again (or a PodCast?) and we can show her examples.

Here is the template she started with: webquest_index.htm

What do you think? 

StartPages

StartPages are simply that – the page you start on when you go on the Internet that contains sections or modules that you want.  Graham Wegner in his presentation at the Web 2.0 Showcase talked about Start Pages.  Attached is a brief version of what he spoke about and documented.  Thank you Graham.

startpage.doc

Let me (or Graham) know what you think.