When I was researching some sites I came across http://www.seussville.com
Great site to use and would recommend it for boys who may be disengaged from the creative writing processes of the class room.
Monday 30 July 2012
A little story -
I had fun using this create a story site -few problems with editing but on the whole a quick and easy tool to use for story writing. This little story I wrote aimed at Prep : title "Plop the Raindrop"
http://www.storyjumper.com/book/edit/6285272.
http://www.storyjumper.com/book/edit/6285272.
Condensing resources and managing time
Topic Marks - Top Marks for trying!
It is always the way in this ever changing era of technology that as soon as you source a great site to help you to manage time it folds. And so was the case with a great Little site called Topicmarks - I would have thought something this easy would have been heavily utilised however it will unfortunately stop July 25th 2012.
Become the New Rupert Murdoch!
I have always thought that it should be easy to create an on line Newspaper with articles and information that you are specifically interested in. But not being a Journalist myself it seems a huge task sorting the right amount of relevant information required. How great that Paper. Li has created a simple way to link your ideas and others together. I have linked my sight to twitter however you could do it to Face book as well. Here is what my simple paper looks like and I look forward to updates as I link sites to them. http://paper.li/hopsonk/1343695705
Other sites that I looked at were Strawberry Jam which in my case was a bit sticky! wouldn't let me log on -I did try several times, Myebook and Wibbitz. All great sites and for the budding entrepreneur to help promote your own published material I can see great benefits, for linking your own existing websites to them. My own experiences with these sites and something to watch out for is the hidden costs that sometimes you find later down the track, even though it is advertised as Free etc sometimes these extra costs come in later and in your excitement to use them you may not read the fine print - always a user beware policy should be applied.
What I use.
For the time poor I believe that email summaries are a great way to quickly evaluate the relevance of a site or in my work a program - one site that I use in my work is a site called TV4eduation.http://www.tv4education.com/ this site lists programs and gives a very brief synopsis as well as a visual still slide show of program content. To help evaluate this site further another site that supports TV program content and gives you just that little more information is called Enhance TV http://www.enhancetv.com.au/
Vtv is linked with my Twitter account and Facebook site this allows me to further get a brief outline of the newest educational programs that has just been aired. It allows me time to view and make an informed choice as to what programs I would refer to the Teacher Librarian to consider downloading for our catalogue.
It is always the way in this ever changing era of technology that as soon as you source a great site to help you to manage time it folds. And so was the case with a great Little site called Topicmarks - I would have thought something this easy would have been heavily utilised however it will unfortunately stop July 25th 2012.
Become the New Rupert Murdoch!
I have always thought that it should be easy to create an on line Newspaper with articles and information that you are specifically interested in. But not being a Journalist myself it seems a huge task sorting the right amount of relevant information required. How great that Paper. Li has created a simple way to link your ideas and others together. I have linked my sight to twitter however you could do it to Face book as well. Here is what my simple paper looks like and I look forward to updates as I link sites to them. http://paper.li/hopsonk/1343695705
Other sites that I looked at were Strawberry Jam which in my case was a bit sticky! wouldn't let me log on -I did try several times, Myebook and Wibbitz. All great sites and for the budding entrepreneur to help promote your own published material I can see great benefits, for linking your own existing websites to them. My own experiences with these sites and something to watch out for is the hidden costs that sometimes you find later down the track, even though it is advertised as Free etc sometimes these extra costs come in later and in your excitement to use them you may not read the fine print - always a user beware policy should be applied.
What I use.
For the time poor I believe that email summaries are a great way to quickly evaluate the relevance of a site or in my work a program - one site that I use in my work is a site called TV4eduation.http://www.tv4education.com/ this site lists programs and gives a very brief synopsis as well as a visual still slide show of program content. To help evaluate this site further another site that supports TV program content and gives you just that little more information is called Enhance TV http://www.enhancetv.com.au/
Vtv is linked with my Twitter account and Facebook site this allows me to further get a brief outline of the newest educational programs that has just been aired. It allows me time to view and make an informed choice as to what programs I would refer to the Teacher Librarian to consider downloading for our catalogue.
Saturday 28 July 2012
Creating with PicLits
I designed this poster with PicLits
http://www.piclits.com/viewpoem.aspx?PoemId=170945
This was a cartoon I enjoyed creating with another site: makebeliefscomix.com
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/?comix_id=5645289C754707
http://www.piclits.com/viewpoem.aspx?PoemId=170945
This was a cartoon I enjoyed creating with another site: makebeliefscomix.com
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/?comix_id=5645289C754707
Top search results not ending in oogle
To be very honest I am quite comfortable typing in google for a quick answer to a question, in a time pressed world it is just so easy. However it does make sense to also remember there are many search engines out there to help us find and source information more accurately and to stop that time wasting -"Surfing"of the net that a lot of us do when we don't get the answer to our question.
So- "Surfs Up" - As a Library Technician I would happily show users of the Internet especially in Public Libraries how to search efficiently and yes in schools I show High School students as well. Over the years a lot of the sites I used have now completely gone, however there are still a few old favourites such as Dog Pile www.dogpile.com that I still use.
While looking at Dewey Digger www.deweydigger.com I have to say I saved this to my Face book page as I know a lot of my fellow library workers use Linked In and perhaps have not see their front page- Great to use on an Interactive white board for a visual display to remind students what the Dewey Classifications are!
I have used Wolfram Mathematica - wolfram mathematica.com on many occasions for that difficult mathematical problem - great for High school and University students doing calculus etc.
I enjoy surfing the web looking for that great site and while each site has their strengths not all of them answer that difficult question you are looking for. I also use the Ask.com site but for even greater help Librarians can be contacted through Ask a Librarian sites in Public, State and National Libraries.www.sl.nsw.gov.au/services/ask/
We seem to have come full circle, using our computers we go online and ask our professionals such as our Librarians and Library Technicians in Libraries all over the world. For personal help in answering our questions and happily waiting for an answer, there is a certain amount of irony to that. .
So- "Surfs Up" - As a Library Technician I would happily show users of the Internet especially in Public Libraries how to search efficiently and yes in schools I show High School students as well. Over the years a lot of the sites I used have now completely gone, however there are still a few old favourites such as Dog Pile www.dogpile.com that I still use.
While looking at Dewey Digger www.deweydigger.com I have to say I saved this to my Face book page as I know a lot of my fellow library workers use Linked In and perhaps have not see their front page- Great to use on an Interactive white board for a visual display to remind students what the Dewey Classifications are!
I have used Wolfram Mathematica - wolfram mathematica.com on many occasions for that difficult mathematical problem - great for High school and University students doing calculus etc.
I enjoy surfing the web looking for that great site and while each site has their strengths not all of them answer that difficult question you are looking for. I also use the Ask.com site but for even greater help Librarians can be contacted through Ask a Librarian sites in Public, State and National Libraries.www.sl.nsw.gov.au/services/ask/
We seem to have come full circle, using our computers we go online and ask our professionals such as our Librarians and Library Technicians in Libraries all over the world. For personal help in answering our questions and happily waiting for an answer, there is a certain amount of irony to that. .
Flickr
Signing up for Flickr was easy and yes I could upload a photo and search it using the map - However as I have found with this site the next time you go in you cannot easily find yourself again. This could be because of network problems with living in an area such as Bribie Island. In any case I can see the value of quickly uploading your photographs and mapping them - Great for Real Estate sites.
Picture Pop : The Image Culture
However I have enjoyed creating a very simple album with Picmonkey -www.picmonkey.com a site I have not used before and found it a very simple program for designing a simple album. I would use it for when a specific theme is asked for in pictures such as when I have an Easter Program for Prep. I could then use my favourite Bunnie pictures for example as seen above.
The other site I would use is taggalaxy.de I really enjoyed the visuals and a huge amount of choice. for ease of visual choice I would also use morguefile.com for free photos.
Sourcing video content:
On Looking at various useful sites for Visual content to aid with education I looked at three.
The first I chose because I am always interested in sourcing great content on cooking techniques for Teachers in High School teaching Home Science. The site that Harvard University has devised for sharing lectures- http://www.youtube.com Harvard Science and Cooking series: The many faces of chocolate/Lecture 3 2011 speaker Ramon Marato. While the content is informative it is a higher level than for High School students and is designed for University students. When it first commences you see there are a lot of acknowledgements to various groups for their contributions to the making of the lecture which makes it a little dry before you get to the science of making a great eating chocolate.
The second Video site: Khan academy http://khanacademy.org "Why dividing by Zero is undefined: Thinking about why dividing by zero is left undefined. I really enjoyed the visual presentation of this site and could see this as a useful site teaching Higher School Mathematics. Why? simply the clear communication of the presenter and the great way the old "Black Board" comes alive writing as you watch!
Finally the EDU site entitled: The Olympic Altitude Advantage - http://www.youtube.com/education
I really enjoyed this site and would probably refer teachers who were not familiar with it to have a look at the program content. I also like how you can post a comment and tweet it as well. A very clear and concise site very informative and suitable for High school students.
The first I chose because I am always interested in sourcing great content on cooking techniques for Teachers in High School teaching Home Science. The site that Harvard University has devised for sharing lectures- http://www.youtube.com Harvard Science and Cooking series: The many faces of chocolate/Lecture 3 2011 speaker Ramon Marato. While the content is informative it is a higher level than for High School students and is designed for University students. When it first commences you see there are a lot of acknowledgements to various groups for their contributions to the making of the lecture which makes it a little dry before you get to the science of making a great eating chocolate.
The second Video site: Khan academy http://khanacademy.org "Why dividing by Zero is undefined: Thinking about why dividing by zero is left undefined. I really enjoyed the visual presentation of this site and could see this as a useful site teaching Higher School Mathematics. Why? simply the clear communication of the presenter and the great way the old "Black Board" comes alive writing as you watch!
Finally the EDU site entitled: The Olympic Altitude Advantage - http://www.youtube.com/education
I really enjoyed this site and would probably refer teachers who were not familiar with it to have a look at the program content. I also like how you can post a comment and tweet it as well. A very clear and concise site very informative and suitable for High school students.
Twitter versus Face Book
When ever first started to use twitter I always find that you could so easily get confused with sending a twit message to a comment you have read. I also find it really exciting when someone who is quite famous starts to follow you - Not me necessarily but I do have a couple of twitter accounts and one of them is followed by Sir Richard Branson! here is my twitter account Kathryn Hopson @ twitter.com
I always find it really interesting when people from your past find you - for example an old boss of mine who is a Librarian in the State Library has just asked me to allow her to follow me on twitter - how nice.
I always find it really interesting when people from your past find you - for example an old boss of mine who is a Librarian in the State Library has just asked me to allow her to follow me on twitter - how nice.
Monday 23 July 2012
Choosing between Prezi and slideRocket
When I chose to use slide rocket it was because of the ease of the use of the function buttons, although clicking on the back arrow did take you completely out of what you were doing, however it instantly saves! bonus!. I have to say if I was a primary school teacher I would look at Prezi- although all that movement and imbedding items is a difficult one to focus on, but with practise you could achieve great results.
Here is a brief presentation on My book
This is the site called SlideRocket - creating a brief presentation on my book Published in 2008
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<iframe src="http://app.sliderocket.com:80/app/fullplayer.aspx?id=F4538C7B-E2B4-316E-2610-B75514A29EFD" width="500" height="401" scrolling=no frameBorder="0"></iframe>
Learning mathematics today
Dyscalculia affects 4-7% of the world population, recognised for decades by the World Health Organisation - WHO and the DSM - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disabilities. Yet in Australian schools today, while we recognise a child may not be able to read and can be diagnosed as Dyslexic, there is no specific testing for children who cannot grasp mathematical concepts easily. The term Dyscalculia is not well known or even recognised by our educators. https://sites.google.com/site/mathdyslexia/
A well known quote by Albert Einstein sums up a lot of how a Dyscalculia sufferers feel it comes from Famous Quote on Quotations Book - "Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count." - by Einstein, Albert
Albert Einstein himself many believe suffered from Dyslexia and Dyscalculia.
A well known quote by Albert Einstein sums up a lot of how a Dyscalculia sufferers feel it comes from Famous Quote on Quotations Book - "Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count." - by Einstein, Albert
Albert Einstein himself many believe suffered from Dyslexia and Dyscalculia.
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