Why do you use technology with your students? How do connect with other teachers to do this better? Read on.
Richard Newsome – visiting author 2011
This term we are lucky to have Richard Newsome visiting us!
Meet him here!
Watch the trailer for his book “The Billionaire’s Curse”.
Read about Richard and a chapter of his latest book “The Emerald Casket” here.
CYBERSAFETY and CYBERBULLYING
Where do you start?
asafeplace@standrews
Well…. there are so many resources for students on the internet that it can seem a little overwhelming. It is important to be aware that cybersafety includes a range of issues: passwords, security & viruses to name a few. Cyberbullying is a form of bullying that confronts us in this electronic age as ‘being connected’ becomes integral to our daily life.
The resources below are some starting places for you to consider:
RESOURCES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS (from the Cybersafety wiki).
FEATURE BOOKS TERM 1 2011
As a part of the Tem 1 Library focus “Read Around the Planet” the following books are just some of the feature books in the JS Library this term.
Don’t forget to add your comments about these books and the other books on display in the centre of the library.
Happy reading!
FEATURE BOOKS TM1 2011 (using Google Books)
Global citizenship: a critical introduction
Nigel Dower, John Williams – 2002 – Political Science
A central tenet of globalization is that we now have all become “citizens of the world.”
We Are the Earth
Bobbie Kalman – 2009 – Nature
How are we the same and different?
Magnetic Flags of the World
Parragon Book Service Limited – 2007
Ten Things I Can Do to Help My World
Melanie Walsh – 2009
Mirror
Jeannie Baker – 2010
In Sydney, Australia, and in Morocco, two boys and their families have a day of shopping.
Prezi – thoughts on using prezi as a teaching tool…
Using prezi – tips
Andrew David from Tipping Point Labs has posted about PREZI and user tips for creating and using prezi.
Read the post here or view the You-tube video below (for teachers).
HOOVER your sites
Sitehoover is the top 2010 tool (Web 2.0) from Larry Ferlazzo’s The Best Lists on Technology in 2010.
It is great tool for sharing websites. A possible use for students would be compiling their recommended researched sites with annotations highlighting the reasons for the selection of each specific site (being critical evaluators).
This is a link to my library and ICT resources SITE HOOVER page (blog, wikis, twitter) that I created to evaluate just how simple it is to use.
Easy! Highly recommend it.
(Student email address required)
Connecting the dots…and the Global Education Conference
The prezi below is a fantastic resource for teachers of art. It is one of the presentations at the upcoming Global Education Conference (see Bright Ideas blog post). If you are looking at connecting globally with your students or wanting to explore and expand your PLN this is the conference for you.
Whylio and images – Why? Because it is easy!
I have searched the term ‘web2.0’ and selected my image using Whylio.
Whylio is a clever tool that will not only search flickrcreative commons databases but will also create the attribution data for you to copy and paste into your blog.
Great!
Daily Newspaper from twitter tweets
Read Twitter as a daily newspaper. Paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag.A great way to stay on top of all that is shared by the people you follow – even if you are not connected 24/7!”
Source
http://paper.li/?name=%23PYP
This is the daily twitter newspaper that is created by paper.ly for my JSSALC twitter tweets and the ones that I am following.
If you wish to subscribe, select the subscribe link and it will come to you daily!
