Resources

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This is a page for you teachers! On this page you will find Web 2.0 tools, educational documents as well as links to The Learning Federation and The Learning Place where you will find useful resources to use in your classrooms.

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Free and educational Web 2.0 software for both teachers and students found on the Learning Place Thinking Digitally Website. This page has links to over 30 different applications a brief description is provided of each and are labeled with being suitable for either teachers, students or both. It is definitely worthwhile having a look if you are thinking about incorporating ICT's into your classroom learning. Click on this link to visit the site: http://www.learningplace.com.au/deliver/content.asp?pid=38760. Below is a description of the three Web 2.0 tools that have been used in this unit on the human body. ======



The first Web 2.0 tool is called Bubbl Us which essentially allows students to brainstorm and create mind maps. In this unit it will be used in the beginning to find out what students already know. Towards the end of the unit students can use it as a reflection tool to establish how much they have learnt over the unit by creating another one.

__ Blogger __


The second Web 2.0 tool that I will be incorporating into my unit is Blogger. Blogger is a tool that allows you to create your own blog and post texts and images as well as receive feedback from readers. Blogger will be used to post a weekly question on which students then are required to research and post their answers as a comment. This will allow students to view others answers and discuss these by using Blogger.

__ Prezi __
Prezi is a presentation tool that is used for much the same reason as power point is. However, prezi differs from power point because instead of creating several separate slides, prezi is all done on the one interactive slide. In this unit prezi is used in a final presentation by students on a system of their choice which will be presented to the class.

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The Big 6  The Big 6 is a developed by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz that can be used for teaching information and technology skills. This framework mainly targets the upper primary years from grade 5 onwards.Click on this link to visit the site: http://www.big6.com/.  ======

The Learning Federation

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The Learning Federation is a free website that contains a wide variety of digital curriculum resources for teaching and learning. The resources come in many formats and across all the subject areas. Click on the link to visit the site: @http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/default.asp?id=1691

The Learning Place The Learning Place is an online learning environment that supports teachers in four areas: Click on the link to visit the site: @http://education.qld.gov.au/learningplace/
 * Online learning
 * Online communication
 * Communities
 * Curriculum exchange (teaching resources)

Thinking Digitally The Thinking Digitally website is an Education Queensland website that provides you with all the information you need to know about Information Communication Technologies and is a helpful resource to use when implementing ICT's into your classrooms. Click on this link to visit the site: @http://www.learningplace.com.au/defaulteqa2.asp?orgid=35&suborgid=697