BSW+Sept08

=Connecting Learning= toc

media type="custom" key="2023026" .................. I need to prepare my students for lifelong learning and, as an educator; this means that I, too, must develop new ways of teaching. Information is reaching us in ways that hadn't been invented as little as fifteen years ago and, as students are swamped by masses of information from sources across the globe, it is my responsibility to prepare them for this real world.
 * Barwon South Western eLearning Conference presentation Sept 2008**
 * My beliefs**

Young people today have learnt very little digital literacy from schools. The scaling up of digital literacy is left largely to entertainment and software providers and those that want to compete on the general retail market.

Over the last 10 years we have moved to a position in which a literacy curriculum that ignores on-screen writing is an impoverished one, so rapid has been the pace of change.

Globalisation has placed new demands on the kinds of literacies needed in the workplace and in everyday life.

More resources and information on 21st Century Learning can be found at: http://criticalliteracyandcreativity.wikispaces.com/ - As part of a project with 3 other educators we developed this site

http://theconnectedclassroom.wikispaces.com/Classroom - 21st century classroom

2007
I took leave during 2007 and taught ESL in Uijeongbu, South Korea (Northern outskirts of Seoul).

A diary of my experience can be found at http://gcasey.edublogs.org/ My classroom work in South Korea can be found in the earlier published areas of http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=97161&new_display_count=1000 - I have continued to use this blog during 2008.

While overseas I tested out first hand the "Globalised World" theory - can we really communicate world wide simply, easily, anywhere and anytime - YES it is really TRUE!

Through my desire to work globally and my lack of technical support at my overseas school (due to my lack of Korean Language) I was forced to look at Web2 resources and found them wonderfully engaging, thought provoking and educational.

Much of my Web 2 work can be found at Portaportal 2007 - http://guest.portaportal.com/gailatschool Below is a cut and paste of a wide range of online resources that I used- many of these resources are on my classblog at http://tinyurl.com/gcasey

In 2007 I also did my first global classroom wiki project at http://thefourcornersclassroom.wikispaces.com/. I also tampered with online calendars and google pages through global classroom projects.


 * Online Photo and Video Resources:**
 * **[|Picasa - online photo album]Gail & Johns Korean Photoshttp://picasaweb.google.com/home?tab=mq//**
 * **//[|Teachertube]////Gails class videos - gcaseyhttp://www.teachertube.com/my_video.php**
 * **[|Vi.sualize.us]Internet Photo bookmarkinghttp://vi.sualize.us/gcasey///**
 * **//[|Cyworld]////Korean online picture album - gcaseyhttp://us.cyworld.com/ps/ps_index.php?mh_id=8000185109**
 * **[|Bubbleshare]photo & video albums - gaila.caseyhttp://www.bubbleshare.com/users/my_albums//**
 * **//[|rockyou]////Class slideshows - gaila.caseyhttp://www.rockyou.com/my_stuff.php**
 * **[|Slideshare]Online photo & video albumshttp://www.slideshare.net/gcasey//**
 * **//[|Slide]////Develop slideshow & pictures-gaila.caseyhttp://2226161168.slide.com/**
 * **[|Keepvid]downloader for youtubehttp://keepvid.com///**
 * **//[|Downloadthisvideo]////downloader for youtubehttp://downthisvideo.com/**
 * **[|flickr]online photo albumhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/20899433@N04///**
 * **//[|Voicethread]////digitalstories with voice commentshttp://voicethread.com/#u23845**
 * [|Google images]http://images.google.com/


 * Other Online resources**
 * **[|del.icio.us]Gail's dumping ground for laterhttp://del.icio.us/gailcasey//**
 * **//[|Help group for classblogmeister]//****//Yahoo help group-gl_caseyhttp://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/classblogmeister/**
 * **[|Pageflakes]****Personalised homepagehttp://www.pageflakes.com/Default.aspx//**
 * **//[|facebook]//****//Social site-gaila.caseyhttp://www.facebook.com**
 * **[|Evoca]****online voice recorder-gaila.caseyhttp://www.evoca.com/gcasey//**
 * **//[|My Space]//****//Social site-gaila.caseyhttp://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user&MyToken=309254cd-a108-4a21-8e17-e0258f5e9dc9**
 * **[|Gabcast]****Online calling software-gaila.caseyhttp://gabcast.com/index.php//**
 * **//[|Google Docs]//****//used for sharing with othershttp://docs.google.com/?pli=1**
 * **[|Google Calendar]****Used for sharing project dateshttp://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=aDJ2amVzb2pndnJhY2l1amx1ajAzYXZ1bGNAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ&invEmailKey=gaila.casey%40gmail.com%3Ab803ecd45821784751a1c2d5ceb616b7fdcd39d7&pli=1&gsessionid=pIxpAF07rs4//**
 * **//[|Yackpack]//****//group meeting place-gaila.caseyhttp://www.yackpack.net/yackpack/index.jsp**
 * **[|Our Media site]****used for podcastinghttp://ourmedia.org///**
 * **//[|Podcastpeople]//****//Students can log in and uploadhttp://gcasey.podcastpeople.com/**
 * **[|Google page creator]****Make websiteshttp://pages.google.com/?pli=1//**
 * **//[|Google reader]//****//collects subscriptions to feedshttp://www.google.com/reader/view/#directory-page**
 * **[|Youtube Downloader]****freehttp://mobi.web.id/youtube///**
 * **//[|Cluster Map]//****//Blog visitor maphttp://www3.clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=97161******************************
 * [|Citation machine]Helps cite referenceshttp://citationmachine.net/index.php?callstyle=1&all=//

//Free Software://
 * //[|Stoik Video Converter]Reduces file size & connects files easilyhttp://www.stoik.com/products/svc/index.html
 * [|Stoik Capturer]DV video capturehttp://www.stoik.com/Morphman/index.html//
 * //[|Skype]////internet phonehttp://www.skype.com/download/
 * [|Powergramo]Free skype recorderhttp://www.powergramo.com///
 * //[|VLC media player]////free player-many formatshttp://www.videolan.org/
 * [|FLV portable player]freehttp://mobi.web.id/flv-player///
 * //[|Powergramo]////Skype recorderhttp://www.powergramo.com/index.htm
 * [|MonkeyJam]Animationhttp://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com/monkeyjam/download.html//
 * //[|Free Stop Motion]////Animationhttp://www.clayanimator.com/english/stop_motion_animator.html

2008
In Feb 2008 I returned to Geelong High School. __Semester one:__ 1. I continued to use my 2007 blog but called it 2007/2008 once back at Geelong High School - every class during semester one had a blog. My challenge was to explore - how could I use blogs in every class I had: http://tinyurl.com/gcasey

2. Developed classroom wikis for a number of my classes - http://ghs2008.wikispaces.com/ this included taking part in the global "Horizon" project as peer mentors.

3. I continue to have trouble using web 2 resources through the educache and hence trialed a "Ning" to upload student work and publish - initially only using my ning as a holding ground for student published work ready to be uploaded to student blogs.

4. I craved a richer professional development for myself (during 2007 I was continually challenged and in a state of learning) and found that once I was back in Australia my needs had changed - I discovered"Twitter" - www.twitter.com or www.twitter.com/gcasey Twitter gives me connections to global communication and learning in a different way.

__Semester two:__ Developed a second ning for my 2 year 7 classes to share. Students make avatars to use as their picture on the ning - it is a social network were students can upload video, pictures and sound. They can request friends wthin the network, leave comments and develop their own pages. Note: Teachers can click "BAN" at any time and the student will be removed and all reference to work comments etc - they can also be easily unband. Term 4 I will be invovled in my own Action Research on using online environments to improve critical literacy and encourage creativity.

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