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P2120062, originally uploaded by Beanie76.

Art by Beans [That's me.]

Who Took the Cookie? - Teaching Tips

You tube is great for researching an area of interest and seeing what's out there. The clips could be shown to children to learn a game for example. Or to learn from yourself. They could also be inserted into a safe learning area such as onto your own blog, wiki, Mahara sight etc to aid learning about a specific topic.

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horsing around 140, originally uploaded by Beanie76.

Picnik is an online photo editing tool. You can get photos from other places like your computer or Facebook etc. then work on them. It wont store your photos though so you have to send them to Flikr or Facebook, Twitter, Myspace etc. or back onto your computer.
It would be usefull in a pedagogic sense as it allows students to be more creative with their photos or slideshows then send them onto other areas for storage and input into discussions or group work.

I can see how flikr could help with teaching and learning in that you can create private groups and moderate the content. Students could add their own photos and videos to this group to create a project. Teachers could have input and make sure it was all appropriate input. You can also add a photo from flikr into a discussion elsewhere.

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Voki

Well that was interesting! I didn't realise I could be so extremely GOOD looking! Ha ha. I'd have to say, this is probably a better way of reaching a more receptive audience. I would apply this technology in early childhood teaching in most areas and especially when the subject was particularly boring to the students. Or if the children were like me and started falling asleep reading text after text. That is of course, if I can get it to speak for longer..

What I think I've learnt.

What I think I've learnt about blogs, aggregators and wikis so far is;

-A blog is a way to keep a diary of what's been going on.

-An aggregator is a way of keeping on top of updates from people or web sites of interest.

-A Wiki is a way to communicate with an interest group, be it small or large. also giving the opportunity to edit information to achieve a common goal.

I would love to use these newly learnt [by me ] ICTs to help my future students by having them set up their own blogs for reflective learning and sharing what they have learnt with followers, me as their teacher and their caregivers. I would also get them to set up an aggregator to keep in touch with updates from others in their class so they have a collaborative approach to their learning. Their aggregators would also allow only specific web sites in, providing internet security. I would encourage the use of wikis to share and add to information within specific groups, allowing collaborative learning once again. There will be more on this subject as I myself learn more about it all.

Bye for now,

Coreena