Module 5 - Digital Storytelling

For me Digital Storytelling is the pedagogy behind Podcasts. Last year there was lots of training around Garageband and Photostory but only when this was given the context of the genre of Digital Storytelling did it really make sense as to the value of creating podacsts in the classroom. The whole creation aspect of making a digital story is accessing the highest order of Bloom's Digital Taxonomy and allows for very personal reflections.

There are some great Digital Storytelling resources at:

http://www.storycenter.org/resources.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/about/pages/introduction.shtml
and of course
http://delicious.com/EvertonPom/digitalstorytelling

There are great free podcasts at iTunesU (and soon some content will come from Southern Region schools) and ABC. Students can be listening/viewing relevant podcasts whilst on the bus or at the gym etc.

To kids and many of us, YouTube is king. I particularly like how one can make their own playlists of favourites and subscribe to good channels. For educational content check out:

http://www.youtube.com/edu

Module 4 - Flickr

I find Flickr a fantastic tool, not least to share pictures with family abroad


Creative Commons is extremely important for responsible use of images. A good website to use for any creative commons (image, video etc.) is http://search.creativecommons.org

Module 3 - Google Docs

Ok, so I've been away for a while, sorry :)

I've been using Google Docs for a while, mostly thanks to Mick Prest's insistence and usage. It is a great way share documents and collaborate. If you want to allow for multiple editors its excellent. 'Forms' are fantastic for evaluations, monitoring responses immediately in tests and surveys. If you simply want to upload and share documents with no editing I prefer 'Scribd' which can then be embedded in a Wiki or Blog



Science Centres for 21st Century Schools

My little lad

Module 2 - Blogs

There are lots of excellent blogs out there, Chris Betcher's 'Betchablog' is one of my favourites, particularly for eLearning (read about mobile phones in the classroom): http://betch.edublogs.org/

I also think there will be a lot of great blogs to come out of this course.

Blogs are particularly good for journalling with students e.g. for a TAS project

xtranormal Animation

Ok so I'm not following the order again but I found xtranormal and thought it was great! Here's my first attempt.

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