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So we had another session during the July break. A huge thanks to the dedicated folk who made it in to share ideas and resources. We talked about useful sites online, how to share resources better, ideas for student and teacher wikis and more. I’ll put up some brief notes here.. if you want more details on anything, get in touch or leave a comment.
Great suggestions:
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Use the teacher wiki for sharing resources focussed on a theme, rather than each teacher! We tossed up some themes people have in common, decided to focus on FOOD.. and that’s our task for the month. More on this very soon.
- Wiki: put a link to the staff wiki on the new website, for easy access.
Can you help? people are searching for:
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internet resources focussing on numeracy (Paula)
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video quiz tool (Michael).
Useful sites people have used in the classroom:
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Betty rates these ones highly: rong-chang for low-level ESL stories, Behind the News (BTN on the ABC), English guide dot org for reviewed collections and links,
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Michael likes this one: languageguide has a “picture-dictionary” approach with audio.. you can choose between UK English or US English,
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Shruti talked about using google forms for evaluation & assessment (we explored this in an earlier post)
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…and Shruti also told us about using Edmodo for an online classroom environment.
Other topics we talked about:
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We also looked at digital signatures (..can anyone remember why?)
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“NAS drives” (A NAS drive is an electronic box for storing & sharing files. You can have one at home or at the office. NAS: network attached storage.)
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.. and cloud storage (microsoft, apple, google, dropbox) as well as web-based office suites.
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Student drive – when and how? Word is that Ninad has replaced and updated the student server. This should mean that you can once more set up a class folder on the network drive to share documents with your students.
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Shruti & michael spoke briefly about different kind of file manager with “dual pane” folder. (eg this one called 2xExplorer – let me know Shruti if you want more information.)