Collective+wisdom

New sharings 10 April

John's video about Vygotsky

We then shared the Edutech Group's 6 literacies document. See Google Docs

During the presentations add your own ideas, tools and how you use them - share the love then we can all learn from each other

TED ED Education talks from TED

Howard Gardner on Digital Youth and edutopia not an edunightmare

Tom sharing about Netvibes Can create tabs to folow blogs as well as having a front page portal. Can show twitter, hotmail, facebook, all the things you want to show on the front page. Can include a tab to follow student blogs. One password to Netvibes opens all the accounts you want to add to it. Can create content and send from it as well. Supports every webmail and social network tool. One way to use it with your class is to set up a Netvibe page on a topic and then have information pushed to the page on that topic. Useful on mobile devices as well. Netnewswire and igoogle are similar

Karl uses a programme called yojimbo encrypted way to keep information. Pay to use programme. Off line - can download things into to it and read later. This is an apple programme and fixed price. Evernote is similar and web based. You pay a monthly fee for pay for Evernote.

Karl is creating a website wanderingguru to help teachers find jobs on the International market. It is not live yet. Karl will add the link to it when it is live. Karl would sell the server space and the support for it. Can create pages to connect with prospective employers.

Ash shared about how to use Googledocs. Can create a new doc using Googledocs or upload a word doc into Google docs. If uploading Google doc then it will ask how you want to share and use the doc. Can hide docs from window by ticking it then go to more and select don't show in home. If you want to share click more and then go to share. Follow the directions on the screen. You can set rights to the doc as well. Owner and non owner. Owner is the only one who can delete the doc. Share a rubric and colour code what the students have and haven't done and they can see how to improve. You tube ideas onhow to use docs in the classroom