Are you a ‘networked teacher’? Would like to become more ‘networked’? Would you like more ideas about using ICT both in the classroom and in your own preparation and organisation?
I am leading a course in central London on Saturday 10th October titled ‘ICT for Humanities’. The outline of the workshop is included below – go to the InThinking website to sign up.
Objectives
To gain an overview of the online ICT opportunities available to Humanities educators.
To promote the use of ICT as a tool for sharing Humanities resources.
To gain an understanding of ways online tools/services can be used to make the life of a Humanities educator
easier.
To facilitate an evaluation of the use of wikis and blogs.
To review existing Google Earth and Google Map resources and their use in the Humanities classroom.
Agenda Session 1
30 ICT Ideas in 30 Minutes and Using ICT to Share. Starting with a ‘30 ICT ideas in 30 minutes’ presentation to give an overview of opportunities available leading onto a ‘Using ICT to Share’ workshop focusing upon social bookmarking and using online services such as Twitter, Slideshare and YouTube to share resources with your students and fellow educators. Session 2
Online Tools to Make your Life Easier. A workshop session looking at Google Documents and Spreadsheets, Google Forms and online mind mapping among other online tools. The focus of this workshop is using these online services and tools effectively for teaching and learning in a Humanities classroom. Session 3
Blogs, Wikis and RSS Feeds. A workshop session looking at the use of teacher and student created blogs and wikis. We will also cover the value of RSS feeds as a source of subject-based and ‘edtech’ information. Session 4
Google Earth isn’t just for Geographers! Workshop focused on making the most of existing geographical and historical visualization resources in Google Earth and Google Maps. What resources are available and how best could they be used?
I recently co-lead a three day workshop for Experienced IB Geography Teachers with Natasha Winnard of ibgeog.net, IB Geography 2009-2017 Wiki and OCC fame. We were running the course for InThinking in a hotel in central Paris. We had 26 participants from 9 different countries and the feedback we received was excellent. The main purpose of the workshop was to prepare for the new IB Geography syllabus – teaching of which starts this summer but sharing teaching strategies and new approaches was also a key theme.
For the penultimate session I gave a presentation called ‘60 Slides, 60 Ideas for IB Geography Teachers in 60 Minutes’ as a summary of 60 ideas that teacher could use in the Geography classroom to benefit themselves (by making their lives easier) or to benefit their students. The rationale is not that every participant tries to implement all 60 ideas – I just hope that everybody learnt something new and now has plans to have a go at a couple of ‘new’ things over the next couple of months. I have embedded the presentation below – obviously it’s better when seen ‘live’!
It’s great to have some fantastic weather and great location to have a play with such things – this was a small tester – maybe I’ll start planning a Toulouse version of ‘Urban Earth‘.
Resources for a 5 minute ICT input at Curriculum Leaders Meeting, International School of Toulouse, 16th September 2008.
What is it?
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. Because it is web-based you can easily share your bookmarks between the different computers that you may use.
You can then combine tags when searching. For example: my tags (geographyalltheway) ib+population+mortality
Tags are very powerful as you can also view RSS feeds from individual tags etc – just ask if you would like to know more about this.
Networks
Having a network allows you to share resources. When you tag a site you are also given the opportunity to tag that site for a member of your network. Members of the IST staff with delicious accounts include:
