Module 10 - Learning Communities, Constructing Knowledge Together in Wikis

How can Web 2.0 assist in improving learning outcomes for all students?

By using all the tools shown to me in the Web 2.0 course and through my own technology experiences, I, and we, can help improve the learning outcomes of all studnets. I have seen it for myself withing my own classroom this year! Using blogs, Podcasts, Vodcasts, iTunes and bubbl.us helped the children understand the content better, and there final work samples were stupendous!

By using technology and the internet, studnets respond to the activities and the curriculum in such a way that you cannot achieve with just pen and paper! There these kinds of learners. You can also use the Blooms Digital Taxonomy to enforce the learning and help the children achieve the outcomes stated by the DET and IofT.

I have had a blast doing these courses and my world has been exposed to so many new and interesting things!

Things I plan to use: Blogs, Glogster, iTunes, Google Docs, bubbl.us, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and so many others. I can use all these tools across all the KLA's.

They are AWESOME because the students can relate to these tools because most of them are all ready using them! Sometimes I feel like its us, the teachers, who are behind in using technology and keeping up with the kids!

That's why this course, the Web 2.0 course was so AWESOME, because it helped teach teachers about the endless possibilities out there using web based tools for the children to share their knowledge, be inspired by it and create some amazing work samples in a way not possible 1, 3, 5 or even 10 years ago!

Thanks to all the people who created this Web 2.0 course! It was a great eye opener and much appreciated learning!

Regards

George Bounos

AwEsOmE Georgie

Module 9 - Networks on the web, professional and social

Using networks on the Web to socialise and communciate!

AwEsOmE!

I have beeb a user of Scootle, Facebook and Twitter for many months now and the possibilities are endless. When I did my Edna course I was exposed to the limitless possibilities of social networks, but using them in a professional manner was something new to me!

Scootle leaves you with possibilities to elarn, teach and share collaborative with others. Possibilites are endless. I have been using Scootle at school as well to share videos, images and documentaries, with the children to enforce some of the learning in the classroom.

I am also a huge fan of Twitter and Facebook. You can socialise with your friends and also communciate with peers by posting questions and thoughts and almost getting a instant response. Its so amazing what technology now days has to offer.

The limits are endless!

Networks on the web, both professional and social = aWeSoMe

Module 8 - Managing your flow of information on the Internet

RSS feeds!

one word peepls,

AwEsOmE!

I'm still trying to accomplish loading all my favourite sites and blogs onto my RSS feeds, but when I do, watch out world! So much better than the boring, monotous, repetitive actions of checking each individual sites one at a time, daily, just to see if anything new has happened!

Gotta say, Gen Y love this, and now I'm hooked! Wait a sec, I am Gen Y! Y din't anyone tell me about this a long time ago! My students can probably benefit with this too, using the iPhone and all that jazz will certainly help manage and be posted on twitter better by using RSS feeds!

Anyways peepls, Google Reader and RSS feeds = aWeSoMe

Module 7 - Building Online Communities

So, using del.icio.us sounds like a delicious idea... yes, yes, yes I know! Soooooo unoriginal!
But I do think its a delicious idea!

Social bookmarking and dealing with teachers and students online to share your most precious and tresured bookmarks, instead of going to school and going, Oh FUDGE!, I forgot to save that bookmark to that totally awesome website on my USB and now I can't even do the lesson I wanted to do, and then you get all upset and throw something onto the table and it bounces of and it kinda is coming back towards you and you kinds get smacked in the face and the children all see this happen and you know that you know that they saw you do this!!!!!

Anyways, Social bookmarking, blogs, sharing things and ideas on the web and communicating online by building bridges between people, TOTALLY AWESOME!!!

Peepls,

totally love delicious.... and blogging of course, through my own personal experiences.....

Read Module 2 blog!!!

Module 6 - Creating and Communicating Online

So Peepls,

How AWESOME was this module.
I can so see myself getting the kids to use Glogster to complete their research activites. Looking forwards to doing it next year with my Year 6 class and all the research projects that they will need to do. Plus, it's so user friendly. Even I got into it quickly!

Oh, and bubbl.us! Fantabulous! Ive used it before in my classroom on the Smartboard! Kids loved it to mindmap our thoughts about topics. And when you make a mistake and the bubble blows up (i'll let you guess) = AWESOME!

Check out my Glog peepls, link below

Byes

http://mrbounos.glogster.com/web-20-ideas/

Module 5 - Digital Storytelling Example :-)

So Peepls,

Here is an example of a Digital Storytelling compiled by someone in my class!

One with sound, and the other with out! The sound was used with audacity and iTunes!

How AwEsOmE!!!

Module 5 - Digital Storytelling

Hey Peepls,

So, not to toot my own horn, I have to admit that I'm totally awesome at Digital Storytelling!
Last term the kids like totally used storyboarding, podcasts, vodcasts, audacity, movie maker and props to compile these totally AwEsOmE Digital Claymation Stories for our Narrative Unit!

They were so cool and, frankly, awesome! The kids loved it and they got so much out of it! I feel like they really learned to be totally awesome with technology and creative with their writing!

Ill try to show you an example by posting it on this blog!

Love Digital Storytelling! Huge Fan!

P.S also totally loves iTunes

Pyjama Day

Pyjama Day 022
Originally uploaded by awesomegeorgie

So this is me trying to be CrEaTiVe on Flickr!

Totally awesome!

Sunny Day
Sweepin' the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet

Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sesame Street

Come and play
Everything's A-OK
Friendly neighbors there
That's where we meet

Can you tell me how to get
How to get to Sesame Street

Mad Hat Day

Mad Hat Day 091
Originally uploaded by awesomegeorgie

We are in Year 4!
We've been held back for over 15 years!
I think its about time we graduated!

Module 4 - Exploring Photos and Videos on the Web

Hey guys,

What an amazing Module. I knew things about uploading photos and videos through other websites such as Facebook and Twitter, but how amazing was using Flicker!

You can add images and videos, distort them, fix them up, adapt them and even be CrEaTiVe with them!

Using this in the classroom can expland the children's creativity! Take a photo and go with it! Upload and share with the world! (ofcourse always sticking within copyright)

Love to try this in the future!
Awesome out!

Module 3 - Google Docs

What an amazing tool to use in the classroom. After watching those videos on how others teachers use Google Docs to share work and communicate their ideas with other teachers and their students than just sending the odd occasional email, made me feel inspired to do the same with my students.

Here is the presentation I made to help other teachers understand the wonderful components of Google Docs. It can also assist my students in understanding why Google Docs is a great tool to use to share and upload your homework or other school documents. I incorporated some of the videos from You Tube from the Module 3 Unit because i found them so handy and it helped clarify things for me.

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ASP14WmTpTFHZGd2cDdnZnBfMjYyMjdrY2cy&hl=en

Looking forward to it!

Module 2

Blogs Blogs Blogs, Can't get Blog's of my mind!

Wow, another way to sue blogs in the classroom. I was looking at the blog site ''Boys Blogging Books' and thought to myself as I was stuffing more bitefulls of banana chips into my mouth

'What an excellent idea to get boys (oh, and girls) interested in reading books (not to say that their not already interested in reading books)! Stop it George and get back to the point

It was interesting to see that by using blogs can help expose the students to a wider community to work in. Being that I worked on the Multimodal Literacy Project and completed a ''Cooperating Communities'' project where my studnets spoke to another school in Korea via the use of Edublogs, I can confidently say that I am quite familiar about how blogs can help educate students and make them motivated as a multimodal twenty first century learner.

Module 1

Hey everyone,

My name is George Bounos (a.k.a Georgie Porgie). Yeah I know, it's just stuck with me from primary school. Go figure that I'm back in primary school and I'm still referring to myself as Georgie Porgie! I teach Year 4 at St. Mel's in Campsie. This is my 3rd year as a teacher.

Anyways, I'm here to comment on Module 1 of the Web 2.0 course. I found it really easy to complete the module because of all the help provided on the my classes page. I found it bothersome to have to create another internet account, but I took the advice of a friend and just kept making my username and password as universal as I could so that I wouldn't keep forgetting them! And trust me, that did help not having to remember different usernames and passwords all the time.

I found it fun creating my very own gadget and personalising my igoogle homepage. I chose the theme of the day so that everyday I have some new great images and themes to keep me interested and motivated.

It was a great Module

Thanks

George Bounos