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ICT for Humanities One Day Workshop – Saturday 10th October – Central London

I am running a one day workshop titled ‘ICT for Humanities‘ for InThinking on Saturday 10th October 2009 at Southbank School, Central London.

The course outline can be read below and downloaded from the InThinking website where you also find an information pack and registration form.

It will great to see fellow educators on the workshop – if you have any questions please get in contact with me.  All questions regarding booking etc need to be directed towards InThinking.

Workshop 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.

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?

To fully access the opportunities this ICT focused workshop provides you will need to bring a wifi enabled laptop.
The laptop should run a browser such as Internet Explorer or Firefox and have the latest version of Google Earth
installed. The ‘Humanities’ element of this workshop comes from the focus of the examples that will be used as
central themes.

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Deliciously delicious

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.

Sign up?

Sign up page.

Buttons and Toolbars

These are worth installing as they make your life much easier.

Tags

It is very important to tag the sites that you bookmark – the more tags the better.

Example website: BBC News: Huge split in child death rate

Tags: ib igcse population mortality news_feed

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:

Richard Allaway

Russel Tarr

James Palmer

David Faure

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