IGoogle presentation

…warming up…
1. What is today’s CNN top news?2. What is your last received e-mail ?3. Open three of your favorite sites..

How can I be so fast doing that???

The using of igoogle homepage for educational purposes
Suhendri
2092094
Educ 9701
2011

Workshop Agenda
Warming up (5’)
Description of iGoogle (5’)
Introductory Video (7’)
Fun Activity (15’)
Learning Issue about iGoogle (10’)
Conclusion and discussion (5’)

General purpose for participants
To know what iGoogle is
To be able to create iGoogle account
To customize iGoogle’s gadgets and tabs
To apply iGoogle as a homepage for easy and effective surfing, for social interaction and other opportunities in learning/teaching.

iGoogle
is a customizable homepage that lets you create a personalized homepage that contains a Google search box at the top, and your choice of any number of gadgets below.
is public and allows anyone to develop a gadget for ANY NEED including educational purposes.
is always FREE for everyone
See my Igooglefor overview…

Video Tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB_ZbdaE7Do&NR=1
Activity 1 - 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONkiX8mBGLU&feature=related
Activity 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RgZXh3VguA&feature=related
Activity 6

Fun Activity
Create an account on Google homepage
Sign in to iGoogle: www.google.com/ig
Add my contact to your chat tab
suhe.kaizen@gmail.com
Have fun to customize and to add and/or delete gadgets
Add “Education” Tab and insert “Edublogs” in it.
Share your tabs/gadgets with me/others.
Try to visit this site: www.google.com/igsocial
and add some useful social gadgets fit on you to interact with other gmail users.

Potential Benefits for Student Learning
Create more alive learning
Provide opportunities for independent student practice (student centered learning)
Present new content skills (updated social learning games)
Personally meaningful and challenging
Opportunities for social interaction
Helpful feedback and choices and a sense of control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7cPSjS0L1A&feature=related

The connection between iGoogleand Learning Theory
By looking at Cognitive Theory, iGoogle concerns with how learners receive and manipulate information during learning and the function of iGoogle itself is almost the same with cognitive theory where the information is subsequently processed, organized, stored and retrieved when needed.
By looking at Constructivist Theory, iGoogle can build social interactions which are considered critically important in the construction of knowledge.

Curriculum and assessment
From South Australian Curriculum, Standards and Accountability Framework (2001), it states that:
Learners develop:
A sense of power and potential of literacy, numeracy and information and communication technologies.
This include:
Making effective use of language, mathematical and information and communication technology tools.

How if
Language
Mathematical
Information
Communication
“live” in ONE TOOL

…assessment
iGoogle through its social learning games and stored gadgets can be used by teachers to asses students using curriculum-based assessments/formative assessment method.
Considerable methods are work samples (games) and rating scale (pay attention to agenda or not), conferences (chat room), observation (update educational gadgets or not), and performance assessments (on line quiz)

Tip
To add more gadgets in one gadget:
Try to add Google News and modify its setting and contents
to meet your needs (Thanks Robin)
Useful Videos and Links
Full Tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Tl3Ch51QU
Make your own gadgets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5GfQaAtDa4&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SPF0A089737A30E8B1
Tools in iGoogle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gi5rtvfJBs&feature=relmfu
Igoogle for kids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypjzgWbWCnM&feature=relmfu
Technology tools in igoogle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_6iuP-uy8I&feature=relmfu

Limitations
When not signing in on Google home page, the modified iGoogle page cannot be opened on other computers
Make the connection slower???

A thought…
I imagine that over time users will have their own dashboard iGoogle type and pull or let the relevant content be fired at them and that the sort of static sites we have been used to in the past have a limited past, i.e. agree with above – of course (One day, all this will be blogs at Helpful Technology).

THANK YOU CLASSFOR SHARING AND FOR BEING A SMART TEACHER WHO SELECTS A SMART WEB 2 TOOL

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