Welcome to the Podcast blog for "Are You Connected" all about ideas, links and more to do with Technology in Education. Jenny Ashby and Lois Smethurst are Leading Teachers for ICT in Victorian Primary Schools in Australia.
The idea for this podcast series came about after Jenny and Lois attended NECC09 in Washington DC and decided they had lots to share.
Jenny and Lois discuss what’s happening lately. Lois has been away to Tonga and jenny attended Slide2learn in Perth.You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes
Lois’ students are busy creating Movies for their Inquiry based Unit around inventions and Movies for the 60 second science competition. The grade 5 & 6 students are also participating in the Student Blogging Challenge . They are building up some great skills. The grade 3 & 4 students are doing their research on the ipads using the Internet, Explain Everything and Google Drive. Google Drive is great for shared iPads because students can access Google Drive from Explain Everything to save or open documents.
Printing…..does anyone print? Fingerprint for the Mac allows idevices to print through the Mac to non airprint printers.
Meraki – web interface runs alongside and in conjunction with configurator. It can send notifications to iPads and check battery charging, push updates and more.
Jenny is using Book Creator and adding pics/video from gallery via dropbox sharing. Sending the book to dropbox so all can then download to their ibooks shelf.
In this episode Jenny interviews Wes Fryer about his wealth of experience in blogging and podcasting. Thanks to Wes for the interview. (@wfryer is Wes’s twitter handle)
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In this episode Lois talks about her Science blogging and inquiry work and Jenny interviews Rodney Turner from Phoenix Arizona about the Skype and Voicethread project. Thanks to Rodney for the interview. (@techyturner is Rodney’s twitter handle)
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Jenny and Lois have a chat about the setting up for the school year and recommend some conferences and apps.
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In this episode Jenny interviews Zoe Brannigan-Pipe, Camille Rutherford and Kyle Tuck at Brock University Ontario Canada. Jenny has recently become a virtual associate teacher and so decided to see how the project with trainee teachers was developing via an interview.
Apologies to our listeners – there was an error in the podcast when it was first posted.Thi.s version is now correct
Jenny and Lois chat about the iOS5 update and the current happenings in their schools, plus a few app recommendations.
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2. Lois’ Singapore Trip
12 students, 4 teachers visit to our sister school and celebrated National Day – The National Day of Singapore is celebrated every year on 9 August, in commemoration of Singapore’s independence from Malaysia in 1965- The incredible proud of their country and obvious in the National Pride – songs, & celebrations. Holiday for National Day and rest day afterwards.
Students went to school for celebrations and then a normal work day and then home with some families. (v.short Homestay) http://berwicklodge2singapore.global2.vic.edu.au
SKYPE
3. Mystery Skype with Mitch Hughes and Watsonia PS – Structured- animals, next numbers and skype with New York school – Nancy Sharoff
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN LEARNING
4.Jenny Ultranet school – weekly lessons with just one or to skills
Adding bling to the ultranet and vokis using embed codes.
5. LOIS – New way to think about online learning for example blogging from the “Ideas Lab”
Move away from the “Show and Tell” blogs to: Collective Knowledge Construction
“There are four strategies that influence how we learn and the way we behave online, that this white paper explores: Connecting, Communicating, Collaborating and Learning Collectively.”
Download the White Paper written by Richard Olsen – very interesting reading.
7. How are your movies going? – Just finishing up, very pleased with them so far. Learnt heaps about filming with a blue screen ( mobile white board with blue paper pinned to it)
8. Animations of eggs hatching as we have eggs in the classroom
http://eps12lc.global2.vic.edu.au/ – Grade ½ Learning community Something for Teachers to try -
9. Symmetry Work flow – for Ipad Use the Kaleidic Lite (FREE) to create a shape, capture it, add it to Doodle Buddy to draw the lines of Symmetry. Or use PhotoBooth with a mirror or mirro paint app on iphones and iPad
Maths – Stories in addition
10. Stamping addition problems and recording voices in Kidpix to tell and addition story and then adding to a slide show of addition stories in KidPix.
The first RUConnected for 2011 recorded in Jenny’s kitchen. Jenny and Lois talk about being connected Globally in real life and virtually through blogging. Jenny explains where the iPad trial is up to and more.
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Its the end of term 4 and we are all snowed under with lots of end of year organising and finishing off (not to mention reports).
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Jenny and Lois in their last podcast for 2010 talk about:
The new google docs for the iPad
New operating system for the iPad iOS4.2
Movies Movies Movies – Common Craft videos – easy to make – computer or by hand.
Wiki - search for resources or add your own Mentor Program – become a mentor or find partners for collaborative projects Social Network – keep the conversations going Facebook - become a fan Map – add your location to this Google Map
InaWorld -Drama Create movie trailers InaWorld Cmedy is also available
MirrorPaint Create with Logo programming and use mirrors.
Spoken Motion Draw and record audio then share via email or to a computer. Needs an app on the computer that converts the file then emails to the address you have added. (sends a .mov file)