This month I am leading a workshop at the British Council National Conference and a presentation for a group of schools involved in a QCA pilot project. The theme of my talk is how to bring the real world into the classroom using ICT. Click on the links to view my Keep IT Real presentation, Wombat’s video and Global Quotes presentation.
There are lots of basic, easy to use web tools to enable students to communicate safely with a real audience. Here are some examples:
Online Survey - Our students wrote survey questions and we put them online using surveyatschool. This year we got 1328 replies!
Blogging - We recently invited students at our school and our link school in the USA to post comments on the question ‘what is the most serious issue in the world today?’. We did this using a free edublog.
Etwinning - With our link schools in Ariège, France we have created a virtual space to share resources. We did this using Elanguages.
Global ICT - I have adapted some of the KS3 ICT units with a global dimension. The lesson plans and activities are all accessable online.
Monk-e-mail - Speaks for itself!
Other useful sites
Global Messenger - My website on elanguages.org with free downloadable resources
Global Gateway - Etwinning
Global Dimension - Links to the best global education resources
Oxfam Cool Planet - Excellent online resources based Oxfam’s work
UN Cyberschool bus - Great for UN MDGs and in lots of languages
BBC Newsround - Best site for internation current affairs in child speak
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Comment by John
6 December 5, 2006, 4:26 pm o'clock |
Hi Alex,
JapanLiveUK is also useful:
Comment by Liz Hitchcock
5 November 22, 2006, 8:59 pm o'clock |
Hi Alex
Here goes:
www.globalgateway.org/projects - lots of online project sites to join with databases of projects sortable by theme all networks of schools to join online - especially
www.schoolnetglobal.org ages mainly 7-11; also 11-14
www.globalschoolnet.org (direct to ‘projects registry’ http://www.globalschoolnet.org/GSH/pr/index.cfm ages mainly 7-11; also 11-14 and 14-16
www.iearn.org/projects
http://www.scienceacross.org
www.globalgateway.org/tools - great ICT sites for schools with all the products explained for you - email accounts for students, webpages, audiofiles (podcasting), virtual conferences, chat, learning environments and websites.
Best for primary www.superclubsplus.com
Best for secondary www.gemin-i.org/gemin-iplus/
Best for teachers (especially just starting) www.elanguages.org
Best for EU (thinking about starting Comenius) www.etwinning.net
Other sites
www.radiowaves.co.uk/
Comment by Chris
4 November 22, 2006, 11:48 am o'clock |
Hi Alex, - Here are some more useful links
Cheers
Chris
eTwinning homepage
http://www.etwinning.net/ww/en/pub/etwinning/index2006.htm
eTwinning UK site
http://www.britishcouncil.org/etwinning.htm
Comment by Denise
3 November 21, 2006, 4:32 pm o'clock |
good fun,but v. frustrating when errors occur!! needs a technician at this end - especially of you had 30 students all trying to follow at once -appreciate the tips and shortcuts though
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