Whole Class input:
- checking your blog progress
- collecting images, creative commons
Tasks
Blog- 3 key ideas or activities from each reading on your blog that teachers would find useful.
Here is the link to the library for the readings ( or search under Callow for the reserve)
Include the full reference so that any visitor to your blog can find them.
e.g.
Pericles, K. (2008). Happily blogging @ Belmore South. SCAN, 27(2), 4-6 http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/schoollibraries/
Barone, D., & Wright, T. E. (2008). Literacy instruction with digital and media technologies. The Reading Teacher, 62(4), 292-302
Copyright at university and schools.
Using the links to the Australian Copyright council, work together to answer these questions and post the answers on your own blogs:
Can I copy material from the internet for research?
What constitutes research and fair use?
http://www.copyright.org.au/pdf/acc/infosheets_pdf/g053.pdf/download
Can students ( university or school ) use music in videos that they make?
http://www.copyright.org.au/g038.pdf
Collect & Create
Using the listed photo sites on the main blog, collect a series of images you could use with your class to:
- create a text innovation on a picture book ( I went walking or Monkey and Me for example)
- create a powerpoint template for the text innovation
- create a jpg image of one powerpoint screen and post it on your blog.
Photo sites
Stock.xchng - one of the best free sites. Register and you can search for images, which are free to use for educational purposes. http://www.sxc.hu/index.phtml
Science Image - the CSIRO site. No fee for educational use. http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au
Morgue File - more creative commons photos to use. http://morguefile.com/
FreeFoto - free for non-commercial use. http://www.freefoto.com
FreeImages - more free to use photos. http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
Flickr - check the usage for each photo before you use, or search with the creative commons filter. www.flickr.com/ Creative Commons - http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Creative commons search - advanced options
Tick the search option as shown below:
Happily Blogging
Find 2 or 3 educational blogs you could use to model to your class as example of effective blogs. Post a link to each on your blog, with a brief review, noting age group you would use, and what content and features make it a good model for your students.
Extras
Site with large selection of Apple quicktime movies - useful for short teaching examples
http://www.esm.psu.edu/Faculty/Gray/movies.html
Buffy meets Twilight
How culture gets remixed when Buffy the Vampire slayer is mashed with the vampire movie "Twilight"
