ICT in the Senior School

These are the things I wouldn’t do without!

Flip Video

Laptops

Mac

Wacom Drawing Tablet

Webcam

InteractiveWhiteboard

Mimio Pad

Mimio PDA

Midi Keyboard

Wii gameconsole

PSP

iTouch ($389)

iPod Classic ($399)

Nanos ($249)

iPod Splitter ($20)

iPhone Amplifier ($45)

Composite AVCable ($75)

Microphone ($119.95)

http://ipodsiphonesineducation.wikispaces.com/

iKaraoke ($109.95)

Speaker Systems (from $99.00)

WordprocessingGraphic Organisers, Drawing, Recording and Reporting

Multimedia (Music, MoviesPicture Editing)

Browsers

Mac only Win only

Artragehttp://www.artrage.com/

Photofiltre (Win)http://photofiltre.en.softonic.com/download

Firefoxhttp://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Hot Potatoeshttp://hotpot.uvic.ca/

Skypehttp://www.skype.com/intl/en/

Photo Story 3 (Win)http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx

Audacityhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net//

iTuneshttp://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Picasahttp://picasa.google.com/

Maths only

•What is Delicious?

• It is a social book marking site. It is for storing, sharing and discovering internet bookmarks/favourites with other users

http://jacquiscourses.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-create-delicious-account.html

Create an account in Delicious

http://delicious.com/sharpjacqui

• Set up a bundle• Under the bundle name

of Social Studies (or perhaps the name of the topic

Set up a class del.icio.us pagewith links to different curriculumareas, games and resources

Bookmark suitable sites for children to go to

Fotoflexer is a photo editing programme with a lot of features. You can upload a photo from your computer (resize it so it is less then 500kb) to the website, autofix the photo or make the adjustments yourself using the Red eye, crop, adust, flip or rotate. Then comes the fun part, click on the other tabs to make changes to your photo

Photoshow example

Slideboom – Animated PowerPoints

Set up an account, upload animated PowerPoints with sounds, video, links, buttons and transitions to SlideBoom. Embed in blogs and wikis. Students will need to critique their PowerPoints before uploading, remind them that 'less is more' when adding effects to their slideshows.

Create comics with characters, panel prompts and talk balloons with MakebeliefsComix. Make 2, 3 or 4 page comics. You can't save or download the comics but you can Email or print (or take a screen capture and paste into Word or PowerPoint).If you are taking a screen capture for showing in a PowerPoint then make sure that you only do a 2 page comic at a time, that way you will get a better image when you make it bigger on the screen.

Mixbook example

Dipity Example

Dipity is an online application that allows you to make and share interactive timelines. There is a search feature to look at other timelines under a wide range topics i.e. History, Literacy, Social Science etc. These timelines can be embedded into wikis, blogs and webpages. This is an example of a timeline about Sir Edmund Hillary.

Voicethread is a collaborative space of group conversations.The example below is created by a student called Zoe in America, she designed it around her interest in Global Warming. Zoe's Global Warming Voicethread A VoiceThread can be created using documents, videos and photos. Comments can be added by registered users by text or voice.

They can be exported to your computer as a widescreen movie and to wikis, blogs and webpages. You can use a variety of images: JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG; docs: PPT, PPS, PDF, DOC, XLS; and videos. If you've got a Flickr account, you can import from those as well.It has a 'doodle' feature which means you can draw over the images to make a point while you are recording your voice.Classroom Application:a way for children within the class to collaboratively present an investigation, book reportany writing genre (recounts, reports, explanations, descriptions, procedural etc) technology Challenge or for children as in Zoe's example to invite experts outside of the classroom environment to comment or answer questions

Jacqui Sharp 2009 Adapted from Cuban, L. (2001). Oversold and underused. Computers in the classroom. Harvard University Press