FDPS ICT News & Info
Term 3 - 2013
Below are some highlights, useful websites and general information from this term's ICT Sydney region conference. Many of the websites contain a large number of links and despite looking at many of them I cannot guarentee that all links work or that all of it will be relevant to us.
Some of you may have heard of all of them, some not so much whereas I hope none of you ran away and hid under a table when you read 'ICT' in the title.
New English Curriculum
Visual Literacy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM
Syllabus BITES
http://lrrpublic.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/lrrSecure/Sites/LRRView/14117/
English for the Australian Curriculum
Warning: Outcomes may not match with the NSW version!
TaLe
These recordings (getting on a bit now) of authors discussing their books would be an interesting way of combining IT and English as well as promoting and modelling 'book talk' amongst your children.
Simply head to TaLe, select Primary Teachers then Browse Resources and search for "Talk Series."
National Digital Resources Network
Inferring - How do we read between the lines?
I'll be honest, I haven't really explored this site so feel free to have a look around and take from it what you will.
http://inferringwithimages.weebly.com/index.htmlUseful... stuff!
Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything
This has apparently been around for ages. Worth a look as it is full of good stuff that is relevant to technology.
http://www.schrockguide.net/index.html
Infographics
This is an interesting and visual (visual literacy aspects?) way to present all manner of data and information. Here are links to two sites that allow you to create them however, there are many more.
Here is an example...
http://kaplaninternational.com/blog/how-to-learn-english/
... and here is a link to a Pinterest page with a multitude of infographics.
http://pinterest.com/officialascd/education-infographics/
Storyboarding
Blog-Ed Sidebar Widgets
These are widgets, such as visitor counters, avatars etc. that you can add to your class blog should you so wish. Everyone loves a widget! If you aren't sure how to add them let me know and I can talk you through it.
http://edublogs.org/2010/10/21/the-top-widgets-to-embed-in-your-blog/
Amazing teachers and their web-based creations
These websites were created by teachers and maintained in their spare time. They contain an amazing number of reasources, links and information on using technology, effectively, in the classroom.
Get Smart
Another site from Glenys Goffett. This one contains links, links, more links and other things as well.
Copacabana PS website
Glenys Goffett is from Copacabana PS spoke about how she runs technology at her school. Take a look around, it's really quite impressive.
Get EduCreative
Glenys Goffett strikes again, this time with pages focusing on creativity.
And... that's it for now.
If you have got this far, well done. Go and have a cup of tea, think about all the new and exciting ways you are going to incorporate technology into your teaching and be forever thankful that other people spend their time putting amazing websites together.