Zentation Show

Slide 1: By Suzie Vesper

Slide 2: A Little Bit About My Background I’m a facilitator for nine schools (110 teachers)  I work for the Petone Foreshore cluster in Lower  Hutt

Slide 3: A Little Bit About My Background I’m a facilitator for nine schools (110 teachers)  I work for the Petone Foreshore cluster in Lower  Hutt I have recently really begun to explore Web 2.0  tools and online publishing options My knowledge is still rather theoretical at this point  as I don’t have a class to try it with and the cluster schools that have tried out some of these tools are only just getting going

Slide 4: Why Bother? Online publishing allows children to share their  learning with the community and extends their learning outside the classroom walls Parents can see instantly what children are doing  rather than waiting for a formal report

Slide 5: Why Bother? Online publishing allows children to share their  learning with the community and extends their learning outside the classroom walls Parents can see instantly what children are doing  rather than waiting for a formal report Children are motivated as they are aware of having  a wider audience and they can see that the activity is meaningful

Slide 6: The Tools We will be looking at a couple of key  favourite tools for online publishing

Slide 7: The Tools We will be looking at a couple of key  favourite tools for online publishing Zentation is the mashup tool being used to  publish this presentation It is a mashup tool because it is combining  two other tools in order to create the content - Google Video and SlideShare

Slide 8: So how could I use this? Coming up is one possible way this tool  could be used. There are many others. My challenge to you is to use either this tool  or one of the others covered in this session to do your own online publishing telling me about yourself as a teacher and one way that you could see yourself using one of these tools

Slide 9: Instructional Writing - A Cooking Show! Imagine that the children viewed this  cooking video and then wrote instructions on making the omelet The video shows the cooking while the  powerpoint has the instructions. The children can narrate the instructions  over the movie if oral language is a focus

Slide 10: Step One - Preparing Ingredients Cut an onion in half  Chop the onion finely (be careful of fingers!)  Wash two tomatoes  Roughly chop up the tomatoes into small  pieces Crack open one egg into a large mixing bowl  Whisk the egg for 30 seconds  Grind some pepper into the egg mixture. 

Slide 11: Step Two - Cooking Pan fry the onion in a little olive oil until softened.  Tip in the tomatoes  Add the egg  Lift up the edge of the egg as it cooks with a  spatula and tip the uncooked egg to the sides. Fold egg in half and serve  Enjoy your delicious omelet! 

Slide 12: Other Ideas and final thoughts There are many, many possibilities  The children could use it as an assessment  tool. They can be performing a PE skill in the video and have their thoughts on how they did in the slideshow.

Slide 13: Other Ideas and final thoughts There are many, many possibilities  The children could use it as an assessment  tool. They can be performing a PE skill in the video and have their thoughts on how they did in the slideshow. The program is completely free  It is easy to share your completed mashup  by emailing a link or embedding in a wiki