Using+ICTs+in+English.

am@eggs.school.nz
 * Welcome to the 'Using ICTS in English' workshop page! **
 * A workshop by Claire Amos **

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**Do Now:** Before we start today's session I would like you to have a wiki ready to go! If you have a wiki already, you will simply need to create a new page called 'ICTs in English'. If you do not have a wiki, click here and follow the instructions! Give me a yell if you need a hand.

**Introduction** = = =Part One: The importance of e-learning = **Why e-learning is important?** **From the NZC:** **E-learning and pedagogy** Information and communication technology (ICT) has a major impact on the world in which young people live. Similarly, e-learning (that is, learning supported by or facilitated by ICT) has considerable potential to support the teaching approaches outlined in the above section. For instance, e-learning may: Schools should explore not only how ICT can supplement traditional ways of teaching but also how it can open up new and different ways of learning. media type="youtube" key="Fnh9q_cQcUE" height="349" width="425"
 * Introductions
 * Burning issues
 * Outline of day
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">assist the making of //connections// by enabling students to enter and explore new learning environments, overcoming barriers of distance and time
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">facilitate //shared learning// by enabling students to join or create communities of learners that extend well beyond the classroom
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">assist in the creation of //supportive learning environments// by offering resources that take account of individual, cultural, or developmental differences
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">enhance //opportunities to learn// by offering students virtual experiences and tools that save them time, allowing them to take their learning further.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Discussion Questions:** How well is your present classroom providing for your students' future? With limited resources, how might we address this?

media type="youtube" key="-P2PGGeTOA4" height="349" width="560" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Discussion Questions:** Do you agree? Why? Why not?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Considering the evidence <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**e-Learning and implications for New Zealand schools: a literature review** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> ** __@http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/ict/77614/__ ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> **Author:** Noeline Wright <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> **Published:** July 2010 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">** Jigsaw Reading Activity: ** Each group will be given a section to read and then will extract what you see to be the most important key messages. You will then share your findings here. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Also worth a read! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Literacy Teaching and Learning in e –Learning Contexts** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> __@http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/ict/77144__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> **Author:** Sue McDowall for CORE Education and New Zealand Council for Educational Research <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> **Published:** June 2010

=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Part Two: Developing a Virtual Classroom for your students =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Using Blogs and Wikis** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">media type="custom" key="9072658" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Blog and Wiki Ulearn presentation PowerPoint <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Beyond the virtual classroom** – Developing literacy through the use of online communities in English - Check out my project here <span style="color: #339966; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Activity:** What might I include in a wiki and how will it support my students? Participate online here = = =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Part Three: Using the technology in their pockets = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Strategies for using mobile phones to support the teaching of visual and oral texts, presentation and speaking skills.

<span style="color: #339966; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Activity:** In pairs, you will have 15 minutes to complete the following: <span style="color: #339966; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Using your phone's voice recorder you will record a dramatic reading of 1-2 stanza's from the poem ' GRAFTON BRIDGE<span style="color: #339966; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">' by Yang Lian.

<span style="color: #339966; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Using your mobile phone you will then take still shots of (or film) a part of UoA or views of Grafton Bridge. Try to capture the feeling of the poem. Feel free to use your partner in the shots as well. Try to include a range of the following shot types: establishing shot, extreme close up, close up, low angle, high angle, long shot, extreme long shot. <span style="color: #339966; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">NB. Unsure of the film terms? Check out this handy reference here

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media type="youtube" key="eRqUE6IHTEA" height="349" width="425" [|Introduction to Google Sites] [|Introduction to Google Forms]

[|Introduction to Google Docs]

<span style="color: #339966; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Activity:** How will I use Google Sites, Google Presentations and Google docs and how will it support my students? Participate online here

=**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Part Five: Working with Facebook, Twitter and other great software and sites **= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Working with Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Facebook in education - Facebook's own education page
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">How might I use Facebook and what do I need to consider when using social networking sites?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ideas and strategies

[|Introduction to Facebook Groups]

media type="custom" key="9072630" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Activity** - Read this article about how Facebook was used to support teaching and learning in a history class. How do you think this could transfer to an English class? Discuss.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">A 100 ways to teach with Twitter - an interesting article! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Check out a recent internet debate aired on TVNZ7 here. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Other great sites and software:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Delicious
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Google docs
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Voicethread
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Wordle
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Wallwisher
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Answergarden

<span style="color: #339966; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Activity:** On __your__ 'ICTs in English' wiki create links to any new sites you may want to use in the future. Then you might like to make a personal e-learning action plan! What can I use next week (and why and how will I use it) and what will I aim to use either later in the year or next year ( and what do I need to do to make it happen).

<span style="color: #339966; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Activity:** Share your ideas on Wallwisher! <span style="color: #339966; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Share the ideas you have taken away from today's session here.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Keep up to date and join the English Online ICT English forum here. =