powerpoint

PowerPoint has a number of uses which can be used by students and in a classroom. You can edit images in power point by changing shapes and colours. You can create a sideshow that can showcase information found in assignments. You can use a sideshow as a backing for a speech in which images flutter across the screen whilst you say your speech. Power point can also be used as a mind mapping page. Simply by adding shapes and lines onto a document in power point will allow you to create a mind map?
In my experience in a school students have been using PowerPoint in music lesson. You may be wondering how PowerPoint can be used in a music lesson of all lessons. Well in this lesson they have to create an animation using PowerPoint and then after it is created they must then make the sound effects to go with their slideshow. Many of the students are enjoying the hands on feel of using a computer in a music lesson and many spend their free time in class on the computers making their slideshows more entertaining. This new and innovative way of adding ICT into a lesson that would not normally use computers has helped motivate the students to want to create and learn in class.

Weebly

Weebly is a website in which you can create your own web page. In a classroom you can create an assignment in which student have to create and design their own web page on any topic in which they choose. Creating your own website can be a daunting challenge for some students but for others it can be an opportunity to explore their ICT skills and create a page that is individual. Many students relish the opportunity to use computers in a classroom environment. It breaks up the day to day workings of using textbooks and being talked at by teachers. In creating an activity or assignment that allows the students to contribute their individual thoughts and ideas into the creation of a webpage will enhance their learning.
My weebly page can be found at courtneys weebly

Wikispaces

In this lesson we created a Wiki space. To me a wiki space is like an online forum mixed with a website. I can upload all my thoughts and information I wish to share onto my wiki but it can also be edited and changed by people viewing it. Wikipedia is a massive online wiki space in which online information is added and continually updated by users around the globe. A wiki is different to a blog in that a blog is your own individual learning and thoughts while a wiki space can be updated and changed by multiple users.
You can view my wiki space at Courtneys Wiki

Using wiki spaces in a classroom can help motivate students to investigate topics. By creating their own wiki in their own personal style the student is able to set out their work in a way that suits their learning style. The students work can then reflect what they have learnt on a topic and also delve into what they would like to learn from topics studied.

Students collaborate online to get eefective learning results. they are able to comment and collaborate on any thought posted onto the wikispace. students enjoy any activities in which they are able to collaboarte and gain feedback from their peers.

the Big6

Basically the Big6 is a model in which the thinking of people of all ages is broken down into 6 stages which 2 sub levels per stage.
In a learning environment the Big6 or elements of the big6 is used in every problem and every activity a student is given. Every assignment at school requires you to define the problem and identify what information you will need to continue on in solving the problem. All activities will require you to find sources for the information needed in problem solving. Engaging of information is needed to continue in the problem solving process. Presenting the information found is used not only in English and Sose assignment but also in the setting out of problems in maths. Evaluation of all problems and assignments is necessary.
The Big6 thinking process is used in everyday thinking process of everyone.
I found all this information on the Big6 at Big6™ Skills Overview

functionality of a blog

In the first lesson of term we discussed the concept of blogging. To me blogging is simply writing a journal online. It is an easy and useful method of making notations of your thoughts that can be used again for future reference. I have always had trouble recounting and analysing past things that I have done so blogging and journaling is a new concept for me but I admit there is a magnitude of uses in which online journaling can be helpful to teachers.
When getting students to journal their work you are allowing them the opportunity to reflect back on what they have previously learnt. This will help the information learnt pass from short term memory to long term memory storage. Blogging also helps student think more critically about the work they are undertaking and gives them the opportunity both be responsible for their own thoughts and work.
Blogs also allow students the chance to be individual and make their work completely relate to themselves. Online bloggers can change the fonts of texts, the size and also the colour of chosen texts. Students can add background pictures or artwork and change the layout of their chosen blogs.
Blogging as an online tool helps students gain many ICT skills. Students will have to create log in and passwords, will be able to change settings and also can learn to format in HTML.
Cheers, Courtney

e learning

Managing E-Learning

Lesson 1 with Wendy Fasso

To start the room was freezing and i'm definitely going to bring a jumper from now on.

Notes:

• Wiki space used for this course is http://today5.wikispaces.com/
• Online bookmarking site so that you will never loose your bookmarks even whilst on different computers = http://delicious.com
• Mind mapping website = bubbl.us
• create a blog and regularly update it in and out of class using blogger