60 Slides, 60 Ideas for IB Geography Teachers in 60 Minutes

60 Slides, 60 Ideas for IB Geography
Teachers in 60 Minutes

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Making Your Life Easier!


RSS


RSS
Sharing


RSS
Sharing
Tools


RSS
Sharing
Tools

Why not try something new?


RSS
Sharing
Tools

Projects


RSS
Sharing
Tools

Projects
Tools and Cool Sites


RSS
Sharing
Tools

Projects
Tools and Cool Sites

A Suggested Students Toolkit


1 minute maximum per slide!

so ... questions at the end please




No apologises for the ICT focus ...




No apologises for the ICT focus ...

You will get an electronic copy of this
presentation so you can follow the links
etc.


Idea 1: Making Your Life Easier > RSS Feeds



RSS is a format for delivering regularly
changing web content.




The content is delivered to you. You don’t
need to keep revisiting sites.





Common from blogs, news sites etc.





Common from blogs, news sites etc.

All read, in one place, with an ‘aggregator’
or ‘reader’


Idea 2: Making Your Life Easier > RSS Readers



Online
www.google.com/reader

http://www.bloglines.com/

http://www.newsgator.com/



Online



Desktop

NetNewsWire [Mac] http://www.newsgator.com/

FeedDemon [PC] http://www.newsgator.com/


Idea 3: Making Your Life Easier > RSS Feeds from Teaching
Sites


Sites

http://sacibgeography.blogspot.com/


Sites

http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/


Sites


http://livinggeography.blogspot.com/


Sites


http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/


Sites



http://daviderogers.blogspot.com/


Sites



http://daviderogers.blogspot.com/ http://olliebray.typepad.com/


Sites




http://ictacrossthecurriculum.wordpress.com/


Sites




http://geodonn.blogspot.com/
http://ictacrossthecurriculum.wordpress.com/


Idea 4: Making Your Life Easier > RSS Feeds from
‘Geography’ Sites



http://www.treehugger.com/




http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/





http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/






http://www.gearthblog.com/



http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/population








http://www.economist.com/rss/







http://www.economist.com/rss/

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_freevideo.rss
http://edition.cnn.com/video/



Idea 5: Making Your Life Easier > RSS Feeds from Student’s
Work (wikis, blogs and forums)



Situation



Situation

Your students have been set a homework task to write a blog post, comment
upon a blog post, create a wiki page or edit an existing wiki page ..



Situation


You want to monitor their progress and what they are writing ...



Situation


You want to monitor their progress and what they are writing ...

Use the RSS Feeds from the sites to notify you when changes are made.


Idea 6: Making Your Life Easier > RSS from Social
Bookmarking


Idea 7: Making Your Life Easier > Why Should I Share?


Idea 7: Making Your Life Easier > Why Should I Share?

There is no need to reinvent
the wheel every lesson ...


Idea 8: Making Your Life Easier > Social Bookmarking


Idea 9: Making Your Life Easier > Diigo



A social bookmarking service



It’s like Delicious - but better



“A Personal Research Tool” - bookmarking, tagging,
highlight and add sticky notes



“A Collaborative Research Platform” - Diigo groups and
group sticky notes



group sticky notes
“A Social Content Site” - recommended content



group sticky notes
“A Knowledge-Sharing Community” - find like minded
people



group sticky notes
people

Bookmarks can be private



group sticky notes
people

Bookmarks can be private
Works best with a toolbar added to your browser


Idea 10: Making Your Life Easier > It’s all about tagging!



ib



ib igcse



ib igcse population



ib igcse population migration



ib igcse population migration consequences



ib igcse population migration consequences negative



ib igcse population migration consequences negative italy



ib igcse population migration consequences negative italy africa


Idea 11: Making Your Life Easier > Social Bookmarking with
students

Situation


students

Situation
Research tasks


students

Situation
Research tasks
Resource evaluation


Idea 12: Making Your Life Easier > Using Images



Napoleon Bonaparte, said quot;Un bon croquis vaut mieux
qu'un long discours,quot;



Napoleon Bonaparte, said quot;Un bon croquis vaut mieux
qu'un long discours,quot;

or quot;A good sketch is better than a long speechquot;


Idea 13: Making Your Life Easier > Flickr


An image and video hosting web 2.0 service


Free account - you can upload 100MB worth of
photos each calendar month


‘Pro’ account - US$24.95 a year - unlimited uploads


Organised by sets, maps and tags


Slideshows - generate by set, tag etc.


Geography Teacher Resource Group


Geography Teacher Resource Group

http://www.flickr.com/groups/geography_teachers_resources/


Idea 14: Making Your Life Easier > Searching Flickr with
compfight.com

http://www.compfight.com/


Idea 15: Making Your Life Easier > YouTube



A video sharing website where users can upload,
view and share video clips.



Clip Culture



Clip Culture
There is a lot of ‘rubbish’ on YouTube but there are
also some gems!



Clip Culture
There is a lot of ‘rubbish’ on YouTube but there are
also some gems!
Materials gets taken down so be prepared for that.


Idea 16: Making Your Life Easier > Taking YouTube offline


Situation


Situation
YouTube is blocked by the school network. Your connection is slow and
unreliable. You need to have an off-line copy of a video clip.


Situation

http://keepvid.com/


Situation

http://keepvid.com/

http://www.zamzar.com/


Idea 17: Making Your Life Easier > YouTube subscriptions
and playlists


Idea 18: Making Your Life Easier > Twitter


A micro-blogging service


140 characters


140 characters
You ‘follow’ people to build a network


140 characters
You ‘follow’ people to build a network
Access it online, mobile, TweetDeck


Idea 19: Making Your Life Easier > Suggesting a resource to
the IB Geography 2009-2017 Wiki


Idea 20: Making Your Life Easier > Discussing resources on
the IB Geography 2009-2017 Wiki


Idea 21: Making Your Life Easier > Use the OCC!


Idea 22: Making Your Life Easier > Google



Not just a search engine



Suite of online applications: Documents,
Spreadsheets, Maps, Reader etc




Improving your searching




Phrase search (quot;Population Policyquot;)




Search within a specific website (site:)
urbanisation site:news.bbc.co.uk




Words you want to exclude (hurricane -
katrina)




Words you want to exclude (hurricane -
katrina)
Definitions (“define: geopolitical)


Idea 23: Making Your Life Easier > Google Documents


Idea 24: Making Your Life Easier > Google Spreadsheets


Idea 25: Making Your Life Easier > Google Forms


Idea 25: Making Your Life Easier > Google Forms
Situation
Students are giving presentations and you want to give whole class feedback.
Provide the students with a Google Form and a mark scheme. A form can be
filled in after each presentation. The results arrive in an Google Spreadsheet
from which you can produce averages etc.


Idea 26: Making Your Life Easier > Google Maps


Idea 27: Making Your Life Easier > Slideshare.net


YouTube for PowerPoints


Feedback


Feedback
Groups: Geography
Presentations with 391
presentations and 255
members


Feedback
Groups: Geography
members
Download


Feedback
Groups: Geography
members
Download
Fullscreen


Feedback
Groups: Geography
members
Download
Fullscreen
Embeddable


Idea 28: Why not try something new? > The uses of Wikis


Collaborative projects


Within classes, between classes, between schools


Easy way to generate a website


‘Open’ or private (cost)


Revision


Revision
Extended Essays


Revision
Extended Essays
The ‘history’ tab


Revision
Extended Essays
The ‘history’ tab

http://istgeography.wikispaces.com/


Idea 29: Why not try something new? > The different Wikis
available


available
Adverts vs cost


available
Adverts vs cost
Open and private


available
Adverts vs cost
Open and private
Educational Schemes


available
Adverts vs cost
Open and private
Educational Schemes

http://www.wikispaces.com/


available
Adverts vs cost
Open and private
Educational Schemes


http://www.wetpaint.com/


available
Adverts vs cost
Open and private
Educational Schemes



http://pbwiki.com/


available
Adverts vs cost
Open and private
Educational Schemes



http://pbwiki.com/

http://www.mediawiki.org/


Idea 30: Why not try something new? > Nings


A Ning is an online platform for people to create their own social
networks


networks
It’s like producing and controlling you own version of Facebook


networks
Photos, forum, blog, chats, videos, RSS Feeds


networks
Photos, forum, blog, chats, videos, RSS Feeds

http://geographyningalltheway.ning.com/


Questions: so far ...


Idea 31: Why not try something new? > Start a blog



A blog is a website that has regular entries of commentary,
descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.



Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.



Blog is a contraction of the term quot;Web logquot;



Think about your audience - fellow educators, students etc


Idea 32: Why not try something new? > Which blog service
to use?


to use?

http://www.blogger.com/


to use?


http://wordpress.com/


to use?


http://wordpress.com/

http://wordpress.org/


Idea 33: Why not try something new? > posterous.com



Once you do a very simple
set up you have your own
address.



address.
Just email a given address.



address.
Just email a given address.
Homework blog?


Idea 34: Why not try something new? > Get students
blogging


blogging

Check with Senior Management - discuss internet safety etc


blogging

Purpose - discussion, revision ...


blogging

Students having their own blogs.


blogging

Students commenting upon a class blog.


blogging

Students commenting upon a class blog.

Which is the best platform?


Idea 35: Why not try something new? > iPods


How many of students have iPods?


They are always carrying them
around ... so lets get some
geographical content onto them


tooble.tv - YouTube clips onto an iPod
via iTunes.


via iTunes.
iTunes U


via iTunes.
iTunes U
iQuiz - iquizmaker.com [Video iPods]


via iTunes.
iTunes U
iQuiz - iquizmaker.com [Video iPods]
gFlash+ - flashcards and quizes on
iPhones and iPod Touch via a Google
Spreadsheet.


Idea 36: Why not try something new? > Timers in the
classroom


classroom

http://www.teachit.co.uk/custom_content/timer/clock3.html


classroom

http://classtools.net/main_area/template_loader.php?timer
http://www.teachit.co.uk/custom_content/timer/clock3.html


Idea 37: Why not try something new? > lexipedia.com


Idea 38: Why not try something new? > wordle.net

Patterns and Change [Core]

http://www.wordle.net/


Idea 39: Why not try something new? > Content Generator


Idea 39: Why not try something new? > Content Generator

http://www.contentgenerator.net/


Idea 40: Why not try something new? > ClassTools.net
games


games

http://classtools.net/


games

http://classtools.net/ http://classtools.net/my/quiz3626.htm


Idea 41: Why not try something new? > ClassTools.net Tools


Idea 41: Why not try something new? > ClassTools.net Tools

http://classtools.net/


Idea 42: Why not try something new? > Google Earth


Idea 43: Why not try something new? > no comment TV

http://www.youtube.com/user/nocommenttv


Idea 44: Why not try something new? > Mind Mapping /
Concept Mapping
Mind Mapping


Concept Mapping
Mind Mapping

http://mind42.com/


Concept Mapping
Mind Mapping Concept Mapping

http://mind42.com/


Concept Mapping
Mind Mapping Concept Mapping

http://mind42.com/

http://cmap.ihmc.us/conceptmap.html


Idea 45: Why not try something new? > bubbl.us


Idea 46: Why not try something new? > Audacity


A free, easy-to-use audio editor
and recorder.


A free, easy-to-use audio editor
and recorder.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/


Idea 47: Why not try something new? > pixton.com
Online comic creator.


Idea 48: Why not try something new? > Big Huge Labs


Idea 49: Why not try something new? >
geographyalltheway.com


Idea 50: A suggested students toolkit > An RSS Reader


Idea 50: A suggested students toolkit > An RSS Reader

Online




Idea 51: A suggested students toolkit > Suggested RSS
Reading


Reading



Idea 52: A suggested students toolkit > Social Bookmarking


Idea 53: A suggested students toolkit > Help Searching

http://www.geographyalltheway.com/ib_geography/ib_geography_induction/ib_geog_induct_search.htm


Idea 54: A suggested students toolkit > Help Referencing


Idea 54: A suggested students toolkit > Help Referencing

http://www.bibme.org/


Idea 55: A suggested students toolkit > 5 Countries for
Dummies


Idea 56: A suggested students toolkit > Textbook


Idea 57: A suggested students toolkit > Weekly Tasks


Idea 58: A suggested students toolkit > Increase World
Knowledge


Idea 58: A suggested students toolkit > Increase World
Knowledge

http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq/game1


Idea 59: A suggested students toolkit > Communication


Idea 60: Seek help and support ... any questions?


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