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.
The end of term was a busy one for both of us so we’ve put together two podcasts that we created and thought best to send out together. Before Slide2learn we had the IWB Master conference on in Adelaide. We had a great time presenting our Voices workshop over 4 sessions with our cohort.
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Greg Gebhart’s Keynote session was great as usual and full of up to date information such as The Horizon Report which provided evidence that oral skills are becoming more important than ever….search via voice, siri etc voice commands
Apps we investigate: Autodance, LegoMovie
Game based learning to be in the classroom in the next three years and personal learning environments an expectation.
The super computer will be your phone and will fit in your pocket.
1 to many will be the way we work with an estimted 1:7 devices for each person by 20something.
Augmented reality to become widly used in the classroom
Greg showed a 9 mth old using iPad and it was quite amazing to see the babay looking in folders and out to find the correct app.
Jenny and Lois have a chat with Brette Lockyer and discuss her use of technology and the daily5 in her literacy program.
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sonic pics $2.99- navigate a slide show and add audio. Others that also allow writing or drawing include showme (free) and explain everything $2.99 (allows you to crop photos in the app also and sharing has endless possiblities.)
This is the Slide2Learn special. The 2 day, conference was held at the Sunshine University, on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Jenny and Lois chat about some of the highlights and resources from the conference. The experience of being at Slide2Learn – mobile immersion- workshops put you in the position of being a student. The buzz of learning everywhere. Imagine a class like that everyday. Collaboration and many :1 not always 1:1
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Reflecting on Learning
For a great list of apps for education visit the Slide2Learn Ning
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Holiday Apps SmackDown – Time to Play
AudioBoo for ipods/iphones http://audioboo.fm/ HT Recorder Now Hear This NowHearThis on the iPad/iphone (great for sending a running tweet/facebook message likes in facebook come as cheers gr8 motivation audioboo for ipods/iphones Prizmo – OCR scanner & translator 10 languages Prezi app – looked great ABC Foodi Scvngr ToonPaint - free today Pac-man Pearl diver
Changes in google….just noticed action buttons what have you noticed? Is it just me or am I slow to see this….drag and drop pics..
Ultranet. Book Boxes are a great resource for DEECD teachers
Digital story books review (Our Favourite is Pop Up Peter Rabbit) http://ds-ti.me/
Text edit – Sticky notes / use for fast word processing and to paste content into blogs
Slide2Learn http://slidetolearn.ning.com/ Twitter hashtag….#slide2learn or #S2L2011 (better for searching conference tweets rather than s2L tweets in general)
Jenny and Lois discuss Elluminate Coaching (Jenny’s new part-time job) and E-BookChats (Lois’s new Edmodo book discussions project) as well as tips and tricks to updating your I-devices, and the upcoming ICTEV conference.
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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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Jenny interviews one of her Twitter contacts while on holiday in Queensland. Listen to the interview with @Linda_Pilko from Castaways Beach. After the Slide to Learn conference in July Jenny met Linda on twitter and has been sharing and communicating since. Linda Pilkinton teaches at Sunshine Beach Primary School and has begun to use iPods in her classroom. Also Linda is about to trial some XO Laptops.
