Monthly Archives: August 2012
Visual Literacy, iPhone app, iPad resources, and Glean
Literacy and Visual Literacy in particular are key areas in the Australian Curriculum and General Capabilities.
Recently I presented about some ways to incorporate Visual Literacy with an iPad at the recent Apps Galore joint Mini-Conference (BCE and Lutheran Education).
These resources can be found here.
iPhone App for the session
Visual Literacy resources (JSSALC wikispaces)
Additionally, the Glean website has some excellent resources to support the development of literacy skills in its various forms.
Glean Learning Tools are free information literacy, data literacy and math teaching tools produced by Public Learning Media, Inc.
See http://www.glean.org/information-literacy
Hipcast and blogger
In order to compile students and teacher reflections about iDevice use, I have created a podcast to post these.
This hosting is using the service Hipcast.
Podcast title
Conversations with teachers & students about iDevices
Support blog LEQICT Blog
Horizon Report 2012 and a useful livebinder for teachers
The Horizon Report 2012 is out!
The NMC Horizon Report for 2013 identifies mobile devices & apps and tablet computing as technologies expected to enter mainstream use in the first horizon of one year or less.
Then within two to three year we sill be seeing Game-based learning and personal learning environments are seen in the second horizon and then augmented reality and natural user interfaces in four to five years.
This livebinder is an excellent resource for teachers to begin to understand the implications of these developments.
