ICT+Resources

=50 Ways to use Wikis - Catherine McMahon u3025770= ====I have been investigating ways to integrate the use of wikis into the classroom and came across this list which has some very interesting ideas. So many of the suggestions have links to SOSE and effective pedaogy.====

=__The Learning Federation- by Sophie Andriolo, Ashlyn Keane, Youn-Ju You__ The Learning Federation is a great resource to support teaching and learning. All resources are available free of charge to teachers and students in Australia and New Zealand. It offers Interactive multimedia resources, Interactive assessment resources, Digital curriculum resources from partner organisations, Collections of digital curriculum resources and Teacher ideas. There are also a variety of online activities called ‘digital curriculum resources’ which allow you to be put in to different situations/simulations. This can make students more aware of what they are doing to the environment and how it is affecting different aspects of our world. An example of an interactive game from The Learning Federation: __[| Gold Rush Level 1.]__ (You need to be logged in to The Learning Federation to view this). This is aimed at students in year 3/4. It examines life on the gold fields in Ballarat in 1865. It is a game in which students take on a character and solve problems related to life on the gold fields. Students are required to earn money and buy tools to mine for gold. They must make decisions in times of crisis (floods, food shortage etc) and decide which things are more important to buy at various points in time. The game is also available in a more complex form for year 5/6 students. **Check this site out at:** http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/default.asp = = = = = = =

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Podcasts for use in teaching By Emma, Katie, James and Jo
[] Kid-cast.com is a website for kids to publish their own Podcasts so that other kids can listen. [] The Education Podcast Network – a large database of podcasts on a wide range of educational topics [] Educational podcasts for teaching and learning – UK based database

Xtimeline Suitable for: Upper primary Xtimeline is an free online timeline builder that could easily be used in the classroom as it works similarly to a wiki. Users are required to sign up (it's free and all you need is an email address) and then multiple contributors can be 'editors' on the one timeline project. Events are easily added through a simple interface and are organised into a clear and easy to navigate timeline. Timelines are saved online and are accessible through a url but can also be embedded into websites or printed.

=SoSE Online Teaching Resource - //An Inquiry based Self-discovery website// (Jillian Hosking) = This website is a great way for students to explore and discover incredible facts about people, places, different cultures, environmental issues and also touches on a number of other areas that are linked to SOSE Curriculum. Essentially students can read and watch primary sourced online blogs and videos that children from different countries have written and recorded. Students can begin to form different cultural perspectives and understandings of what it would be like to live in that country in comparsion to their own country. Videos, photographs, interviews, narratives are also available to be used as good self discovery learning tools

[|National Geographic for Kids]

Gliffy Suitable for: Upper primary Requires registration (free. Although if it was going to be used frequently upgrading to the premium account may be useful) Gliffy is an online program which allows users to create a variety of diagrams similar to professional software (it is quite similar to Microsoft Visio). Although the interface looks a little complex, it is very easy to use as everything is 'drag & drop'. The application has a collaboration feature which would enable students to work together, and completed diagrams can be embedded or shared graphically.