Easy Web 2

• Wordpress.com (Tutorial in pdf - example blog PD) (or hosted Wordpress.org or edublogs, etc.)
• Pageflakes - examples
  
• YouTube (YouTube Downloader, FLV Player, Tooble)
• Cool Tools: StumbleUpon, Clipmarks, ?

Examples

• A Looking Task, Background on Looking Tasks, Visible Thinking Team’s Thinking Routines site
• Free iTunes podvasts: KQED Quest Science, Time Magazine Video Reports, New York Times Latest Videos, Washingtonpost Videos, ABC Background Briefing, etc.)
• Subject Sampler
• WebQuests - example: Freedom Fighter or Terrorist?
• Background on Class Portals

Main Resources

• TomMarch.com / ozline.com
• OxleyLearning
• AIS Victoria - MyPlace Project
• CEQ•ALL

Links on the Princess Bride

• 10 Life Lessons from The Princess Bride - Blog Post from “Mr. Besilly”
• Princess Bride Fan Site with Introduction, Lessons Learned, Quotes, moments,
• Memorable quotes for The Princess Bride - from the IMDb
• Favorite Quotes - from “Glazed Doughnut”
• Script for the Princess Bride - in plain text
• Sparknotes Study Guide
• Filamentality Treasure Hunt on The Princess Bride (on the Factoid side)

The Hero & the Monomyth

• Campbell’s 10 Commandments for Reading Myth
• Summary of the Monomyth (+ heaps more) - Wikipedia
• Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey” monomyth by sections
• The Hero’s Journey with mouse-over interaction
• Create Your Own Interactive Monomyth - give this a try?

Modern Heroes

• Heroes of the New Millennium - one person’s view
• “Alternative Heroes” - from Creations magazine
• Modern heroes, modern slaves - Seeing Filipino nurses as heroes
• Time Magazine’s 100 Heroes
• NBC’s Smash Hit Heroes
• International Federation of Competive Eating - Eater Profiles
• Google Image Search for “Hero”

“Web 2.0 Goes to School”

Technologies in the next 10 years will equip students to supercharge or side-step classroom learning. Both will happen. You get to choose which side you’re on.

Open Source Learning

Overview for Hands-on Sessions

In the Spirit of CEQALL and open source learning, you are the best person to determine what’s good for you to learn. Below are some options. Choose what’s most interesting to you. Put Effort into the exercise and look to pursue Quality with ICT-enhanced learning this term.

Introducing C E Q A LL

(pronounced “seek all”)

• Choice
• Effort
• Quality
• Attitude
• Labour of Love
• Read an Overview
• CEQALL Profiles (pdf download)

The 2nd10 Steps

• Explore the Steps (click a step for info)
• Search Filamentality
• Peruse aNew3R’s (try “editor’s Picks“)
• Study the “Freedom Fighter or Terrorist” WebQuest

Year 9 - MyPlace.com

• MyPlace Web site
• About the MyPlace project
• Paths for Teachers
• MyPlace Bookmarks - on Del.icio.us

Learning with WebQuests

Learn as a Team by Participating in a WebQuest

• What’s Web 2.0?
• Creating your Own Social Justice ClassPortal

Background on Web 2.0 & Wikipedia

• E-learning 2.0, by Stephen Downes
• The Hive - Atlantic Monthly article about Wikipedia
• Podcast of Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales on ABC’s Big Ideas
• Know it All - New Yorker Magazine article about Wikipedia
• Wikipedia vs. Britannica - Nature Magazine.com & The Register with Britannica’s rebuttal
• The Wisdom of Crowds - Wikipedia entry, Comments from a blog
• Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog

All About Podcasts

• Workshop links for learning to podcast

Blog your Learning

Use the comments link below (or set up a blog in the next section) to share your learning from today.

Set Up your ClassPortal on WordPress


Get started on your own Blog in minutes

• Download this Tutorial
• WordPress.com

Podcasting

Tutorials & Tips

• Screencast Tutorial on Using Audacity
• Tips on Making your First Podcast
• iTunes Tags Tutorial and another
• Kirk’s Eight Rules For Effective Podcasting
• Examples from Tony Vincent

Getting the software

• Audacity download
• LAME converter download (for saving as mp3)
• Using Garageband (and iTunes FAQ)
• Download iTunes (to access Podcasts cross platforms)

Other Resources

• PodCasting logos
• Demo files from Bright Ideas: logo, intro & sample
• Hotlist of Sample Sites (from dmoz open directory project)
• Google Directory of Sample Sites
• Imagine a Walk on the Wild Side
• The George W. Bush Public Domain Audio Archive
• Bushisms Audio Gallery

Copyright Free Loops for PC Users (Mac’s have Garageband)

• Audio Loops from Looperman (requires registration)
• Free Music Loops (from Partner in Rhyme)
• Glooped (Guitar Loops)

the following is from a post by Miguel Guhlin

• Wikipedia Sounds - Classical Music
• Creative Commons Audio
• Internet Archive’s Open Source Audio
• OpSound: Open Sound Resource Pool

Uploading Podcasts

• Upload to Tom’s Server (address will be: http://tommarch.com/podcasts/upload/yourfile.mp3)
• Consider using FireFTP (Firefox Browser extension)
• Free Site for uploading: BooMP3

Possible Topics

Things you and your students might Podcast:

Primary

• Reading your favourite book for Mother’s Day
• Telling a joke
• Sharing “Your Best Day”
• Singing your favourite song
• ??

Middle

• “A Day I grew Up”
• Recite a famous speech
• “Books on Tape” for the visually impaired
• Radio Program
• ??

Secondary

• Public Service Campaign
• Music Video
• Mashup
• Museum Tour
• ??

Creating your ClassPortal

Consider a Topic for your Class Portal:

• Curriculum & Core Content
• Hobbies & Personal Interests
• Popular Culture
• World Issues

Starting your WordPress Blog

• at WordPress.com - tutorial
• or ClassPortals - tutorial

Customise it:

• Log-in to the Dashboard
  
• Options - Change Blog name? Anyone can Register? Logged in to Comment? 11 GMT = Melbourne
• Presentation - Choose another Theme, “View site” in another browser tab or window
• Links - Delete default links. Add a Link to your School or ?
• Write - Page - Use Filamentality or Google to find a good hotlist on your topic.
• Manage - Posts - Delete default post and Create a new one.

“Web 2.0 Goes to School”

Technologies in the next 10 years will equip students to supercharge or side-step classroom learning. Both will happen. You get to choose which side you’re on.

Open Source Learning

Overview for Hands-on Sessions

In the Spirit of CEQALL and open source learning, you are the best person to determine what’s good for you to learn. Below are some options. Skim through the list and see what appeals to you. The first provides a chance to go through the 2nd10 Steps on your own. Next are two are hands-on using Web 2.0 tools (blogs and social networking) and other Mac tutorials. You might also like to explore CEQALL and the project MyPlace (years 5 - 10). The last section provides some links to interesting readings. Choose what’s most interesting to you. Put Effort into the exercise and look to pursue Quality with ICT-enhanced learning this term.

WordPress Weblogs - be online in minutes!

• Have a play
• Download this Tutorial
• WordPress.com

• Get started on your own Bog
• Download this Tutorial
• Class Portals (to start your own ClassAct Portal)

The 2nd10 Steps

• Explore the Steps (click a step for info)
• Search Filamentality
• Peruse aNew3R’s (try “editor’s Picks”)
• Study the “Freedom Fighter or Terrorist” WebQuest

The MyPlace Personal Learning Environment (elgg)

• Download this Tutorial
• MyPlace Community Web site
  
• Log-in
• Complete Profile (Tagging!)
• Add RSS Feeds
• Look for Friends
• Add Photo
• Blog your learning today (you can do this in any of the blogs you may have started: WordPress, Class Portal or the MyPlace Community).

Hands-on Macintosh

• Video Tutorials for Macintosh - Atomic Learning

Introducing C E Q A LL

• (pronounced “seek all”)
• Choice
• Effort
• Quality
• Attitude
• Labour of Love
• Read an Overview
• CEQALL Profiles (pdf download)

Year 9 - MyPlace.com

• MyPlace Web site
• About the MyPlace project
• Paths for Teachers
• MyPlace Bookmarks

Readings

• E-learning 2.0, by Stephen Downes
• The Hive - Atlantic Monthly article about Wikipedia
• Know it All - New Yorker Magazine article about Wikipedia
• The Wisdom of Crowds - Wikipedia entry, Comments from a blog
• Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog

Blog your Learning

Use the comments link below to share your learning from today or make a post on your WordPress Blog or your MyPlace Community page.

Stow the togs and swap the thongs, it’s school time again.

Teachers participating in workshops with Tom March are encouraged to register their interests with a  questionnaire.  This will facilitate working together online and in future face-to-face sessions.  Thanks.

• Moss Vale High School
• Marian College
• Carey Grammar