Week 5- Learning Activities

GROUP 3 TECHNOLOGIES

Interactive PowerPoint- In nearly all presentations I use PowerPoint. It is easy to navigate and easy to add data. You can add images, sound, video and hyperlinks to the internet. It is effective in presentations when you don’t want to memorize your speech, whereby you can refer back to the PowerPoint that contains important points. I was amazed when I learnt that you could use PowerPoint like this. Check mine out- it isn’t anything exciting but the fact that you can hyperlink throughout a presentation was awesome. I am going to use it all the time now.

Interactive powerpoint

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Prezi- I have created a prezi for a presentation in English Curriculum and Pedagogy. It is a group assignment so I have to get their consent to upload it up here after we have presented it for the assignment. I will keep you posted...If you interested it is focusing on the Australian Curriculum Year 5- where students focus on multimodal and digital texts.
Check it out-

English Curriculum and Pedagogy on Prezi

Glogster- An Online poster webpage. Students can combine text, pictures, video and audio to create an interactive online poster. I explored glogster and created an example on an inventor. It's nothing special, I just wanted to see what glogster was all about...will be very usefull in the classroom. Check it out at..
http://danni2812.edu.glogster.com/example/

GROUP 4 TECHNOLOGIES

Animations and simulations- I’ve used and embedded learning objects into a website. This is the website I have embedded a learning object into. Thanks to the BBC kids website for providing the learning object so students can experiment with friction and force.

http://www.wix.com/raydanielle/danniraytech

Google Maps- I had never used Google Maps before, but had used a car GPS (thinking they were the same), so I experimented with Google maps. I wanted to get directions from my house to Gladstone. It gave me directions and a picture of my house. Students could use this in a variety of ways.

Online concept mapping- I had heard about bubbl.us before and used it for a tool for students to use but never used it myself. I was actually really good. I am a visual learner and it made it a lot clearer for me all the tools I have been engaging with over the past 6 weeks. Once I completed my brainstorm, I had to export the brainstorm to a JPG file. However, the internet was taking forever! So I screen captured (love this new tool) the brainstorm and copied to word, cropped it and saved it in paint as a image file, than inserted it as a image onto my blog.