Aug 2, 2011

Using Mind42

Sign up for a new account at http://mind42.com/mindmaps
You can invite members of your group to add on to the mindmap – collaborative learning.




ICT Face to face session 2 Aug

Learnt a useful tool for webquest today. Trackstar - Outline some links to articles and feed into the trackstar to create a thread no.
Customized search - List with the recommended articles and comments on top
http://trackstar.4teachers.org/

e.g. Volcano - Mt St Helen
http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/ts/viewTrackMembersFrames.do?org.apache.struts.taglib.html.TOKEN=ae4cdb41915891eb997897d9762b2371&number=234811&password=







alternate social working website:

Togetherville – social networking
Edmodo – social networking

https://sites.google.com/a/moe.gov.sg/humanities-face-to-face-meeting-online-discussion/home

Some other ideas by the teachers:
Glogster - eposter

SS- Governance
Group work – each group work on getting a source related to a selected issue
Scaffold for students’ learning

Fieldwork – videotape the hypothesis and others comment on it
Collate data using Microsoft Excel
Fieldwork – google site – upload photo, video – open up coveritlive for discussion.
Goanimate and Xtranormal
Diigo – webquest on project, process of research more visible – 2 page handout on migration – critical thoughts shown on their research.

Voicetthread
Google maps on coast – input on the pictures/map- coastal protection

http://www.mind42.com/

Tagxedo - a form of word cloud, however need to install silverlight

Pixton – comic strips to create storyboard

Newsmaker
Photostory