Teaching a digital based activity in your class and want a nice introduction?
Have you looked on you tube? There are so many free resources and they are relevant to the 21st century learning.
Can't find a yout ube clip on a digital activity you are doing in class? What about cre
It's the National Year of Reading and the theme for May is Escape.
What does Escape mean to you?
You can escape from somewhere or to somewhere. You could ask your class to write story based on the idea of escaping. They could type these stories up and then add them to your class blog.
What year do you teach? If you teach year 6/7 or 8 then maybe your students could handle doing a Blair Witch style video documentation of their escape from somewhere or something?
Doesn't Escape tie in nicely with studying The Hunger Games? What about doing a book trailer on The Hunger Games?
Does your school have an electronic newsletter? Some of the outstanding book trailers could be embedded in your newsletter for the school community to share.
Or does your school have scrolling television screen in the front office? What about having the book trailers shown on this screen?
How about setting up a blog for your class...
This could even be something that you share the password with parents so they can view it as well.
Students could put creative writing pieces on the blog as well as blogs in the language they study at school.
Have you ever thought about using skype in your classroom?
Do you have a student who is going on a family trip during the school term? Have you thought about contacting their parents to see if they are taking a computer with them.
Imagine... the travelling student is in the NT standing near Uluru and the rest of the class can share the experience. This could be the starter for creative writing work or research tasks.
How would this fit in to your History and Hummanities programs for learning?
This would be relevant and beneficial to the students.
What about when the senior students go on an excursion they could skype one of the lower years to show them where they are and what they are doing. It would help create to build positiv
Just visitied East of the Web.
What a great resource! Full of digital literacy activities.
Students can do these activities individually on classroom computers and compete against eachother.
Also some of the activities can be done on the Interactive Whiteboard making it a class effort.
There are also some links on this website for iPhone versions of the activities for those schools experimenting with iPhones and Ipods for learning.
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