Presented by Laura Brown from CCIS. Demo’d some example of student’s work.
SAM animation is the app to use. It has a heap of examples of student work on the site. icreatetoeducate website also has examples of student work. We got to have a go using the software and some modelling putty. Medium that can be used include whiteboard, modelling magic, paper… Here’s what I came up with:
This workshop was presented by Samuel Chen. Demo of WolframAlpha website – data is already curated from the Wolfram database. There is a useful intro video on the website and has a mobile app (although you can access the website through a mobile browser). Some examples of what it can do:
You can also download as .pdf files (Wolfram|Alpha-mooreslaw) and images:
Moore's Law from wolframalpha
Mathematica is application software. This can call data from the WA website. In this software you can manipulate graphs and variable. Also there is a WA demonstration site. This allows students to interact with the data/graphs/whatever. Sam showed an Economics text he had put in Mathematica and had inserted dynamic graphs to show supply/demand relationships etc.
Hosted by Michael Boll, this workshop explored uses and development of a WordPress site. Learned how to manipulate themes and was able to upload a new header image! There is also a .css editor to make changes to font styles etc.
Look! You can insert images in a post!!
Developed some more skills such as inserting and aligning images (check out Jeff to the right!) Also managed to get some sub-pages working (quite simple really…) and played around with users and comments.
I have been signed up to an ECIS ICT forum for the last few years and sometimes it produces some real gems. Here’s a post with links to some resources on ICT curriculum scope and sequence (re-posted with permission from author-Jennifer Janesko of Dresden International School):
I have looked at many, and here are some resources that I have found most helpful:
http://memotech.ning.com/page/memo-information-and
Minnesota’s updated Information and Technology Literacy curriculum. This is one that I have been using to help refine some of our benchmarks.
http://www.ncrel.org/tech/nets/rubrics.htm
This is one that I started with because it is linked directly to the ISTE. I thought that it was a bit outdated, and for our context a little too agressive some areas a little to lax in other areas.
http://www.iste.org/store/product.aspx?ID=653
Kelly M. G., Haber Jon. Resources for Student Assessment. Oregon: International Society for Technology in Education, 2006.This book has an updated version of the scope and sequence found on the NCREL website. It also provides practical tips on how to integrate assessment of technology.
http://www.kusd.edu/media/pdf/standards_benchmarks/instructional_technology/itl–k-12.pdf
South Dakota curriculum. Used for ideas on different items to add to our curriculum.http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/standard/content.shtm
North Dakota curriculum. Used for ideas on different items to add to our curriculum.
Well, a moment of serendipity as I sit in an auditorium waiting for Peter Hessler to give a presentation. Time to kill? Why not do some marking….
Connected to the school’s wi fi network, I logged in to the wiki server where students had been creating a wiki each on a selected human right. I was able to look up the rubric, go to each students page, mark and record in Evernote for later syncing with school lap top, and post a comment to each student!
The Apple wiki server has a cool feature that makes it look great for a small screen like on my phone. And I posted this from my WordPress app!! The wonders of technology….
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