Opening the Doors to
Contemporary
Learning
Jo McLeay
VITTA office

Journey of discovery
Our students need?
Our students use?

Therefore
• Teachers need:
• in order to:

It’s not just skills but a way of thinking and learning
We can model what students do and what we want
students to do:
Planning,
creating,
sharing with community,
feedback,
review,
collaboration

Networking
• Creating a community
• VAGTC
• Twitter
• blogs
• lots of other tools Diigo, delicious

Twitter.com
• a community of like minded educators
sharing what they’re learning in real time on
a daily basis

This morning I
tweeted...

Start a personal/professional learning network on
twitter. Join and get followers.
Start with:
http://twitter.com/courosa
http://twitter.com/sujokat
http://twitter.com/jennyluca
http://twitter.com/mrrobbo
http://twitter.com/coolcatteacher
http://twitter.com/larryferlazzo

GOOGLE
Google custom search: Make a custom
search engine to guide students in
searching with more academic rigour
http://www.google.com/cse/manage/all

Google sketchup
http://sketchup.google.com/
Google SketchUp is software that you can use to
create 3D models of anything you like. You can build
models from scratch, or you can download what you
need. People all over the world share what they've
made on the Google 3D Warehouse. It's a huge,
searchable repository of models, and it's free.

Google Earth
Google Earth: http://earth.google.com/
Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view
satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from
galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean.
You can explore rich geographical content, save your
toured places, and share with others.

Google docs
Google docs: http://docs.google.com
Create and share your work online
# Upload from and save to your desktop
# Edit anytime, from anywhere
# Pick who can access your documents
# Share changes in real time
# Files are stored securely online

Bubbl.us Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that
lets you brainstorm online. One of the top 100 tools
•
Create colorful mind maps online
•
Share and work with friends
•
Embed your mind map in your blog or website
•
Email and print your mind map
•
Save your mind map as an image

Teaching with TED
http:teachingwithted.pbworks.com

Quest atlantis
http://atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/
Quest Atlantis is an international learning and
teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user
environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in
educational tasks.

“Activity in Quest Atlantis is designed to sit at the
intersection of education, social commitment and
entertainment. Students are involved in activities,
communication and collaboration based around
quests (like those in web quests). These quests draw
students into research and the 'development of,
wisdom' to be shared with the mythical people of
Atlantis. Unlike many other online "games" students
do not gain stature of points from killing things, quite
the opposite. Points are gained from completing and
collaborating on quests.”

Spore: http://www.spore.com/ftl
“How will you create the universe?”

Hi Mrs McLeay, Just letting you know that my
blog is up and running again. Its new URL is
http://freetothink.edublogs.org/ I’m so glad
the posts could be retreived. Thanks so much
for your help =) Would you be able to pass
the URL onto the teacher from the US who
has been using my blog for his presentations?
Thanks, Zoe

Diigo: social bookmarks
http://diigo.com/user/jomcleay

Google Lit Trips
http://www.googlelittrips.org

Some examples
http://learninghub.ning.com
http://studyguidesecretlifeofbees.wikispaces.com

Creating your digital
footprint
Filtering and blocking