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Providing students with opportunities to work online, whether it be for simultaneous collaboration or for presentation, is vital in today's world as it:
Check out the following ideas for sharing student work online in your school today:
- can have drastic impact on student engagement
- empowers students and teachers to participate as citizens in a global classroom
- serves as an online collection/portfolio of student work
- models for good behaviour as digital citizenship must start in primary schools
- teaches students the different between social and academic commenting
- can be very successful in promoting a school in the local, state, national and global arenas.
Check out the following ideas for sharing student work online in your school today:
Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that enables people to digitally manipulate/augment a version of reality and replace it with a virtual one, essentially using the power of technology to present users with a modified view/version of reality. Artificial information about the environment and its objects can be overlaid on the real world and the surrounding environment can be digitally manipulated and made to be interactive. Learn how schools are using AR here.
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Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that enables people to digitally manipulate/augment a version of reality and replace it with a virtual one, essentially using the power of technology to present users with a modified view/version of reality. Artificial information about the environment and its objects can be overlaid on the real world and the surrounding environment can be digitally manipulated and made to be interactive. Learn how schools are using AR here.
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Blogs & Wikis
Blogs and wikis are effective ways for students, teachers, parents and other family members to access online work, connect and collaborate.
Visit this section for examples and resources to help set up blogs, particularly in an educational setting.
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Blogs and wikis are effective ways for students, teachers, parents and other family members to access online work, connect and collaborate.
Visit this section for examples and resources to help set up blogs, particularly in an educational setting.
Image: Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano CC BY-SA 3.0 (Disclosure)
Google Apps
Google Apps and Google Apps for Education provides schools and students with the workspace and opportunity for people to work simultaneously and collaboratively online.
Visit this section to discover how you can harness the power of Google in your classroom or school today.
Google Apps and Google Apps for Education provides schools and students with the workspace and opportunity for people to work simultaneously and collaboratively online.
Visit this section to discover how you can harness the power of Google in your classroom or school today.
Google Chrome Apps
Much like Chromebook users (who use the Chrome Web Store to download apps), Windows, Mac & Linux users can also harness the power of Chrome by downloading and purchasing apps from the Chrome Web Store for use in conjunction with the Google Chrome browser! Visit this section to learn more.
Much like Chromebook users (who use the Chrome Web Store to download apps), Windows, Mac & Linux users can also harness the power of Chrome by downloading and purchasing apps from the Chrome Web Store for use in conjunction with the Google Chrome browser! Visit this section to learn more.
Interactive ePortfolios
Excite your students to embrace selecting, collecting, collating, reflecting, evaluating and presenting their work in the form of fabulous Interactive ePortfolios.
Visit the interactive ePortfolios section to discover how to harness the interactive power of ICT and learn how family members can access and interact with student interactive ePortfolios throughout the year.
Excite your students to embrace selecting, collecting, collating, reflecting, evaluating and presenting their work in the form of fabulous Interactive ePortfolios.
Visit the interactive ePortfolios section to discover how to harness the interactive power of ICT and learn how family members can access and interact with student interactive ePortfolios throughout the year.
Learning & Obeying Copyright Laws
Creating powerful presentations, websites and blogs are now a common reality for both teachers and students. But is it being done so legally?
Visit this section to learn via entertaining videos, infographics, learning objectives and success criteria, how it can copyright can be respected.
Creating powerful presentations, websites and blogs are now a common reality for both teachers and students. But is it being done so legally?
Visit this section to learn via entertaining videos, infographics, learning objectives and success criteria, how it can copyright can be respected.
Online "Cloud" Storage Solutions
Schools should be making the move to storing and presenting work online.
By using online solutions, students can access their work from any where on any device and family members can then easily access and interact with student multi-modal work throughout the year, no matter where they are in the world.
Visit this section to discover how.
Schools should be making the move to storing and presenting work online.
By using online solutions, students can access their work from any where on any device and family members can then easily access and interact with student multi-modal work throughout the year, no matter where they are in the world.
Visit this section to discover how.
Online Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Schools are now moving towards embracing online learning management systems as they are ideal tools to provide teachers with a centralised solution to disseminate, collate and assess learning and at the same time promote student engagement and collaboration.
Check out this section to learn more.
Schools are now moving towards embracing online learning management systems as they are ideal tools to provide teachers with a centralised solution to disseminate, collate and assess learning and at the same time promote student engagement and collaboration.
Check out this section to learn more.
Online Meeting Tools
When students work in groups for projects outside of school times, they need to be able to collaborate and communicate online simultaneously with all members of the group. Today's technology makes this quite easy.
Visit this section to find the video and text-based apps that best suit your needs.
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When students work in groups for projects outside of school times, they need to be able to collaborate and communicate online simultaneously with all members of the group. Today's technology makes this quite easy.
Visit this section to find the video and text-based apps that best suit your needs.
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QR Codes in Literacy and Art
QR Codes are no longer being utilised just by marketing companies. As they have entered the mainstream, a wide variety of bodies have adopted their use, including schools.
Visit this section to discover how you can use QR codes to bring student literacy and art alive.
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QR Codes are no longer being utilised just by marketing companies. As they have entered the mainstream, a wide variety of bodies have adopted their use, including schools.
Visit this section to discover how you can use QR codes to bring student literacy and art alive.
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Social Networking in Education
Social networking apps used within an educational setting can have drastic impact on student engagement. Social network is not just for secondary school students, as the models for good behaviour and digital citizenship must start in primary schools.
Check out this section for implementing social networking in your school.
Social networking apps used within an educational setting can have drastic impact on student engagement. Social network is not just for secondary school students, as the models for good behaviour and digital citizenship must start in primary schools.
Check out this section for implementing social networking in your school.
Websites
Websites are perfect avenues for students to collate, organise, present and share their work with a wider audience, making their school work readily accessible to their extended family and potentially to a global audience.
Visit this section to view examples of student-made websites and to learn how easy they are to create.
Websites are perfect avenues for students to collate, organise, present and share their work with a wider audience, making their school work readily accessible to their extended family and potentially to a global audience.
Visit this section to view examples of student-made websites and to learn how easy they are to create.
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