Remember, you can use the web + show options to open up additional search function on the left hand side of your screen.
** Wonder wheel --> Groupings related to your search
** Time Line --> Reference with respect to time lines.
** Images (remember to note copyright permissions and citing exact websites for referencing.)
With Google, remember you can:
Do ordinary searches: gold
Exact Phrase Searches: "gold in australia" (note use of "quotation marks" only links to sites inside quotation marks not in combinations and patterns like a normal search.)
Excluded Words: gold -california (there is a space after gold and any reference to california will be excluded)
* Builds content, not links
* Good to teach being critical to information that is found on the web
* Use as a base and then validate from "3" other sites!
Google.docs (one document, easily shared, interactive between many)
There are many tutorials available online for you to learn more about google docs. as well as video presentations on u-tube. Do take the time to further your learning and understanding in this area. I will add some links to these on our links site.
3 Simple rules to take with you when you do CRT WORK * RESPECT YOURSELF * RESPECT OTHERS * RESPECT YOUR ENVIRONMENT
Based on a survey by Year 11 Students, they found that their TOP 10 MOTIVATING FACTORS were:
* Make Lessons FUN
* Make Lessons INTERESTING
* Give POSITIVE comments
* Understand the student as an INDIVIDUAL
* Be FRIENDLY
* LISTEN to Students (as in "Active Listening")
* Always give HELP
* BELIEVE in the students
* Be in a GOOD MOOD
* Vary Lesson Strategies
Influences on Achievement:
* Reducing disruptive behaviour in class
* Feedback
* Acceleration of the Gifted
* Reading Recovery
* Integrated Curriculum
* Homework
* Individualized Instruction
* Ability Grouping
* Open versus Traditional Classrooms
* Rentention (hold back a year)
* Shifting Schools
* Management Practice - Building Social Capital
* Emotional Intelligence Skills in the Classrooms
--> Relationships.
Incorporating ICT into Planning and Classroom Delivery
Glen McMahon - EO Curriculum & Learning Technologies
Good Rule of Thumb to follow if you are using lap tops in a class is the "45 RULE" (putting screens down to an angle of 45 degrees.)
ICT for Visualising Thinking
ICT for Creating
ICT for Communicating
Some simple facts ...
** By the end of Grade 2 , students will know how to email, how to search the internet, how to format documents such as word, excel, power-point.
** By the end of Grade 4, students are publishing video tutorials etc., using email to gain information from a wide array of sources, and they are understanding how search engines work.
** By the end of Grade 6, students regularly publish material "online."
** By Secondary School, social tools including Face Book, My Space, Twitter etc are embedded into the Curriculum Program.
Find out what your School's Acceptable User Policy is!!
Google- Efficient Search Tips& Web 2.0 - Tools for Teachers
Glen provided us with some very valuable insight into working with Google and some fantastic web links which you will be able to find summarised on our links blog HERE
Habits of the Mind
Click on the logo to go to the Institute for Habits of the Mind to read more.
