RUConnected

In this episode Jenny interviews Zoe Brannigan-Pipe, Camille Rutherford and Kyle Tuck at Brock University Ontario Canada. Jenny has recently become a virtual associate teacher and so decided to see how the project with trainee teachers was developing via an interview. Apologies to our listeners - there was an error in the podcast when it was first posted.Thi.s version is now correct Here are some links that are referred to in the interview. http://www.youtube.com/user/edtechteachers2011 http://www.edtechteachers.ca/ EdTech Cohort Twitter & blog feeds http://www.edtechteachers.ca/community/cohort-tweets-blogs http://www.ed.brocku.ca/techshowcase

In this episode Lois interviews Adam Brice and Jenny Ashby who are both at Victorian Government schools and are in the DEECD(Department of Education and Early Childhood Development)  iPad trial.  There are 10 institutions in the government intiated trial. Evaluations of the trial are happening as we speak so the results will be available later this year.  Hear what Jenny and Adam have to say.

Jenny and Lois chat about the iOS5 update and the current happenings in their schools, plus a few app recommendations.

PLP Photoblogs -

Our stories - grade 5 & Our stories grade 4

New Apps to Share

1. Knowtes for ipad
2. 500scorer
3. VoiceThread
4. Yahtzee notepad

Upcoming Dates FtoF or online

• SLAV conf Oct 17th
• S2L Dec 3rd Hobart, Melbourne July 2012

Jenny and Lois have a chat with Brette Lockyer and discuss her use of technology and the daily5 in her literacy program. You can listen in the player or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes

Links

The Daily Cafe http://www.thedailycafe.com/ http://daily5cafechat.wikispaces.com/ Brette's blog http://ecoradio.wordpress.com/ Twitter hash tag #daily5 Sat morning 10-11am Melb time iPad tip - Saving files using webdav, oh there’s an app for that. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/webdav-navigator/id382551345?mt=8

Brette's Apps to Share ( and ours)

1. Book creator - expensive but nice ($7.50)
2. ebook magic $3.99 lots of features and more page layouts
3. indicommons app free
4. photo pad free
5. strip designer $2.99 an old but goodie although some now use comic life ($7.99) on the iPad
6. vimeo free for iphone
7. sonic pics $2.99 - navigate a slide show and add audio. Others that also allow writing or drawing include showme (free) and explain everything $2.99 (allows you to crop photos in the app also and sharing has endless possiblities.)
8. doodle buddy free
9. magic slate free
10. puppet pals free or $2.99 directors version

RUConnected #37 The Asian Connection or "The Mystery Snorer"

Whats News 1. Jenny's Jakarta trip to the Australian International School http://www.ais-indonesia.com/kemangwelcome.html 2. Lois' Singapore Trip 12 students, 4 teachers visit to our sister school and celebrated National Day - The National Day of Singapore is celebrated every year on 9 August, in commemoration of Singapore's independence from Malaysia in 1965- The incredible proud of their country and obvious in the National Pride - songs, & celebrations. Holiday for National Day and rest day afterwards. Students went to school for celebrations and then a normal work day and then home with some families. (v.short Homestay) http://berwicklodge2singapore.global2.vic.edu.au SKYPE 3. Mystery Skype with Mitch Hughes and Watsonia PS - Structured- animals, next numbers and skype with New York school - Nancy Sharoff WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN LEARNING 4.Jenny Ultranet school - weekly lessons with just one or to skills Adding bling to the ultranet and vokis using embed codes. 5. LOIS - New way to think about online learning for example blogging from the “Ideas Lab” Move away from the “Show and Tell” blogs to “There are four strategies that influence how we learn and the way we behave online, that this white paper explores: Connecting, Communicating, Collaborating and Learning Collectively. 6. Jenny presented at GTAV- iGeography - Here is jenny's presentation https://files.me.com/jenashby/t0giup MULTIMEDIA 7. How are your movies going? - Just finishing up, very pleased with them so far. Learnt heaps about filming with a blue screen ( mobile white board with blue paper pinned to it) 8. Animations of eggs hatching as we have eggs in the classroom http://eps12lc.global2.vic.edu.au/ - Grade ½ Learning community Something for Teachers to try - 9. Symmetry Work flow - for Ipad Use the Kaleidic Lite (FREE) to create a shape, capture it, add it to Doodle Buddy to draw the lines of Symmetry. Or use PhotoBooth with a mirror or mirro paint app on iphones and iPad Maths - Stories in addition 10. Stamping addition problems and recording voices in Kidpix to tell and addition story and then adding to a slide show of addition stories in KidPix. 11. Good chats on twitter #elemchat Sunday morning 8am Melb time for early starters http://elemchat.wikispaces.com/ #daily5 Sat morn 10am-11am Melb time http://www.thedailycafe.com/public/department104.cfm 12. New Apps to Share 1 Maths Party - ordering but starts with simple numbers and moves onto equations - one or two player (FREE) http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/math-party-free-multiplayer/id435296908?mt=8 Free app 2 Explain Everything app - sonic pics and showme- record voice draw and add pics- shares in many ways very nice - includes a cropper http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/explain-everything/id431493086?mt=8 $2.99 3. Glow draw, skywrite, fireworks http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/glow-draw!/id364873934?mt=8 skywrite http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/skywrite/id374044969?mt=8 5. Sock puppets..free App http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/sock-puppets/id394504903?mt=8 6. Writepad convert handwriting to text - nice $10.49 http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/writepad-for-ipad/id363618389?mt=8 Conferences this week VITTA - Mon 29th Aug & Tues 30th Aug http://www.vitta.org.au/conferenceinfo IWB Digital Leaders Sep 1-3 Thurs, Fri, Sat http://www.iwb.net.au/conferences/digital/default.htm

HAPPY 2ND ANNIVERSARY wow it is too. Time flies.

You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes

QRcodes for links to text, self and world.

Playing4Real ...in the making. Collections, tasks, missions working with Brette Lockyer, Jenny Luca, Donna Benjamin and others #P4R

Film making, Experimenting with blue screen techniques, - 60 Second Science Competition

Looking at: similarities and differences between PBL- Just What Does It Stand For?

• Project based learning,
• Problem based learning
• Passion Learning
• Challenge based learning
• Inquiry learning

Why use one approach over another?

Apps to Share

1. Plain text...no frills but shares nicely from the app to dropbox 21stC handing in work.
2. IA Writer -no frills also - purposely designed so that writers concentrate on writing 4.99 also available on Mac but at 17.99 (http://www.iawriter.com/ )
3. Evernote Peak
4. WhiteNote - another writing app Makes notebooks, for different projects

Up and Coming Events

Vitta - Leading and Learning From the Edge

IWBnet Fifth National Leading a Digital School Conference

What does the Winter Solstice bring? Jenny and Lois discuss their latest conference experience and the new format that the team at IWBNet were trialling. They talk about the latest apps they have found and about their most recent successes in their schools. You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes ITL Masterclass National Conference 2011

Cohorts x4 sessions
Cohort 1: The Shift to Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning - Jonathan Nalder
Cohort 2: Reflecting on Teaching and Learning to Improve - Jenny Ashby
Different role as a facilitator......changes of program
Use of web 2.0 tools for eportfolios - twitter
Cohort 3: 21st Century Teaching and Learning - Bruce Fuda
Cohort 4: What is Peak Performance in Terms of Curriculum and Pedagogy - Peter Kent
Cohort 5: ITL with Digital Technology: the dynamic classroom/a vision of best practice - Jodie Riek
Cohort 7: Lessons from Leonardo: dealing with little da Vincis - Chris Betcher

Mind Mapping by Jason Zagami - Educational Theora

Keynote by Chris Betcher

App Recommendations

My Spelling Test

Leaf Snap

Qwiki

Field Guide to Victoria Fauna

Edmodo

Jenny and Lois discuss the recent ICTEV2011 Conference where Jenny was awarded "Educator of the Year". They talk about the ICT related activities in their schools including Elluminate and Edmodo and Jenny has a list of iPad Apps that you might like to try as well.

Do you have a class set of iPads that you need to set up? Jenny helps Lois with her new iPads and explains the tips and tricks that she has developed over the last two years of being part of the DEECD's iPad trial.

This is the Slide2Learn special. The 2 day, conference was held at the Sunshine University, on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Jenny and Lois chat about some of the highlights and resources from the conference. The  experience of being at Slide2Learn - mobile immersion- workshops put  you in the position of being a student. The buzz of learning everywhere.   Imagine a class like that everyday. Collaboration and many :1 not always 1:1

For a great list of apps for education visit the Slide2Learn Ning

http://slidetolearn.ning.com/page/s2l-2011-session-details

Fantastic Films by Tony Vincent

http://learninginhand.com/ff

http://learninginhand.com/blog/

http://learninginhand.com/pbl/

Adam Brice, - AppleforKids

Holiday Apps SmackDown - Time to Play

AudioBoo for ipods/iphones http://audioboo.fm/

HT Recorder

Now Hear This NowHearThis on the iPad/iphone (great for sending a running tweet/facebook message likes in facebook come as cheers gr8 motivation

Prizmo - OCR scanner & translator 10 languages

Prezi app - looked great

ABC Foodi Scvngr

ToonPaint - free today- Make a photo into a cartoon.

Pac-man Pearl diver Changes in google....just noticed action buttons what have you noticed? Is it just me or am I slow to see this....drag and drop pics..

Ultranet. Book Boxes are a great resource for DEECD teachers

Jenny's Mobile2011 - presentation in Phoenix Arizona Lit and Numeracy using idevices. https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2011-04-06.1326.M.ACE02B5F35AA7E7975F015AAC6F794.vcr&sid=2008350

Digital story books review (Our Favourite is Pop Up Peter Rabbit) http://ds-ti.me/

Text edit - Sticky notes / use for fast word processing and to paste content into blogs

Slide2Learn http://slidetolearn.ning.com/ Twitter hashtag....#slide2learn or #S2L2011 (better for searching conference tweets rather than s2L tweets in general)

Jenny and Lois discuss iPad 2 release, some great apps, PLP, and the Ultranet

Tony Vincent on Mirroring for iPad2

EdtechCrew #154 debate - Netbooks or iPads

E-bookchat on Edmodo

iPad Apps We've Used

• Keynote App - Presentation Tool
• Auryn Ink App - water colour painting
• PhotostudioH - photo editing app
• Dropbox- & SendtoDropBox http://www.sendtodropbox.com
• Garage Band

PLP link

Will Richardson TEDxNYED Presentation

Angela Maier’s Book on Passion Learning

Conference Links?

• IWB Masters Conference
• ICTEV
• Slide2Learn

Jenny and Lois discuss Elluminate Coaching (Jenny's new part-time job) and E-BookChats (Lois's new Edmodo book discussions project) as well as tips and tricks to updating your I-devices and the upcoming ICTEV conference.

Elluminate coaching

E-BookChats IOS 4.3 updating 600mb upload (ipads, iphones and ipods)

ICTEV In Touch Conference - May 21st, Melb Grammar

A little bit about IPad 2, Jen's new job and an Interview with John Pearce about the Global2 the Victorian Education Departments (DEECD) supported blogging site for teachers and students.

http://global2.vic.edu.au

Staying legal with mobile devices and iTunes isn't as easy as it used to be. Jenny talks about the issues with synchronizing a class of iPads according to the iTunes terms and conditions. Lois discusses OnDemand testing and how you might use it in your classroom.

Being Legal on Itunes

Global2

Twitter

IWB Masters Conference

LEEP Lodger's Elearning Extension Program

On Demand Testing

365 Photo Challenge - Lois's Photos - Jenny's Photos

IWeeks App

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