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Oct 29, 2022

Kuula 360 gallery

I have been using Panoraven but recently it had become chargeable so I have switched over to Kuula. Love that it is able show a few 360 videos within a single iframe with the selection of the photo from the thumbnail bar at the bottom.

My earlier post on Panoraven, momento360 and Instavr

http://ezitnew.blogspot.com/2019/03/momento360.html

Kuula is equally user friendly and you can easily create a tour with multiple photo uploads, similar to that of Panoraven.

Select create tour from the menu.

Add the title and click on select images and choose from your files the 360 images to upload.

You can choose the transition type. Remember to click on post.

To get the link or code to embed on your site, click on share under my tour.

With a free plan, you can build a complete walk-through tour. However, hotspots will not be visible to anyone except yourself using the free plan.

You are able to see the photos and move between them using the thumbnail bar with the free plan.

On the free account you can upload a maximum of 25 images at one time and a total of 100 images each month.

The following are 360 photos taken by the students taken by the students during the Sustainable Singapore Gallery Learning Journey.

https://kuula.co/share/collection/79FTK?logo=1&info=1&fs=1&vr=0&zoom=1&sd=1&autop=10&thumbs=1

Sep 21, 2022

Google Site

I was wowed by Boon Lay Sec's use of Google site to allow the students to know more about the school through an adventure themed navigation.

https://sites.google.com/moe.edu.sg/blsadventure

As I am already onboard in the use of Google Suite and Google Classroom, Google sites have been my choice of platform for the e-resources for Geography other than my blog.

Geography E-lessons on Google Sites

Much easier with the older version of Google Site as I could duplicate sites and the attachment of files is at the bottom of the page.

It's easy to create Google Site and it helps the students to be self-motivated in self-paced e-learning from the resources. I could also park my teaching resources on the sites for easy access too. Videos from youtube can be embedded into the site and this help as I could not play them direct from youtube on my ipad when projected through apple TV.

May 13, 2022

Wordwall

Wordwall provides teachers with a variety of templates, ranging from the common multiple-choice quizto matching pairs, anagram, sorting out, or cloze questions. Teachers can create resources and host activities by sharing an assignment link with students. Students can do the activities as an interactive in-class part or as homework. Teachers can track students’ activity result when they finish.
https://wordwall.net/

Love that it is gamified and there is even a leadership board.

Creating the activity is easy too.
Just select a template and scroll below the examples of the chosen template and click create. You can see the list of templates available below.

An example of one which I created in 5 mins using the match up template.

I just input the instrument name and under definition I clicked on the picture icon for image. You can upload the image or search as shown below.

The following image is what the students will see. The keywords ie the weather element which the weather instrument measures are displayed on top and they can simply drag it to match with the picture of the weather instrument.

You can easily switch template by clicking from the menu on the right. I have chosen the gameshow quiz template.

I love that it can be assigned directly to Google Classroom. Differentiated instructions can be practised by assigning a particular activity to selected students too.

You can try out the match up game below I have embedded below.

Or try the gameshow quiz which was generated so quickly with just a click on the switch template menu on the right.

Do organise your activities by adding New Folder and renaming the folders.

Apr 1, 2022

Wheelofnames

I have been using the name picker from classtools and I am so happy to learn this as Wheelofnames.com can do so much more!

You can insert pictures, customise the wheel, save and also share it!

Instead of entering a list of names, select add image. You will be prompted to browse your folders for the images you want to attach in the wheel. You can attach pictures of people instead of name to be selected. Or you can use it as a roulette in which a person or object is selected and the students have to provide some information on it. I see a lot of opportunities to engage the students using this.

You can customise the wheel such as changing the pop-up message.

You can change the colour theme and the image to be displayed in the centre of the wheel.

You can share the link and the person can make a copy.

The above link to my conure wheelofnames:

https://wheelofnames.com/stp-9wf

Updated with contributions from SGLDC members

Siew Ting used the name picker as a way to practise multiplication factual fluency with her class.

Mar 13, 2022

FilmoraGo video editor

I was very impressed with Clive Foo sharing of the video in SLS.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sglearningdesigners/permalink/1294610207693487/

He had used AR emoji (memoji in his iPhone and AR emoji camera for my Android) to create the emoji animation which you can see at the bottom right corner. Upon checking with him, I found out that he had used Wondershare Filmora to integrate the emoji into video using green screen to remove the background.

I managed to find a video editor FilmoraGo which has a picture in picture function too.

After I have clicked on new project, I added the main video.

After that I selected the PIP (picture in picture) icon.

I added the AR emoji which I have recorded earlier

You can move it to the bottom right corner and adjust the size.

I used the circle mask to blend the emoji into the video.

I wanted to use the Chroma matting to remove the background (I have selected green background in my AR emoji recording). Just drag the centre point in the circle to the color to be removed. It worked on dashboard but when I tried to export and save, the emoji was not clear. The circle mask worked better.

You can select animation to insert the various transition effects.

The free version has a watermark. You have to subscribe to the Pro version if you want it removed.

Mar 10, 2022

Image slider

Sharing this again as I love this image slider which can show the before and after image by dragging the slider. Definitely great in getting the students to observe the changes of the environment overtime.

I screenshot the image of the area using Google Earth. You just need to click on the year at the bottom left corner to bring up the time slider. I then capture the image in 2010 and another from 2020. Both are uploaded to my blog (you can upload to your drive too)

Using https://juxtapose.knightlab.com/ you can just input the two image URL and the image slider is created.

You can then give the URL of the slider to your students or copy the HTML code and embed it.

Extremely useful in Geography as the students observe the changes in the environment using images.

https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=1f1a08da-a069-11ec-b5bb-6595d9b17862

Image screenshot from Google Earth for 2010 below

Image screenshot from Google Earth 2020 below

Image screenshot from Google Earth 2010 compared with 2020 image using image slider below. The students can compare the differences showing the development of the area.

Mar 8, 2022

Feedback using ITT in SLS

I like the Interactive Thinking Tool in SLS as it provides an opportunity for me to see the work of the students at one glance and to address any learning gap immediately. As I provide the feedback to the students from the ITT class view, I feel that the feedback was more effective as the students could view their peers' works and take note of areas they can improve on.

I projected the class view from SLS and highlighted weak and stronger exemplars of the students' work. From the activity they could better unpack the criteria of drawing to illustrate the formation of a geographical feature as they compare their diagrams with that of their peers. I gotten them to tell me which is a better diagram illustrating the formation of bay and headland and eventually I concluded by highlighting them on the whiteboard the essential components needed to present a diagram to illustrate a geographical concept.

Grateful to learn that from 'Designing quality assessment feedback practices in schools' by Rachel Goh. "Feedback as practice moves from the act of the teacher telling the students all their mistakes, towards the co-construction of knowledge through acts of showing and concluding."

The ones which I added in red are some of the comments the students were able to pick up in class. "The key to effective feedback is making students want and be good enough to fix their gap." By looking at the weak and stronger exemplars from their peer, it will help to motivate them and work on the feedback to better their performance. They could better understand the success criteria needed to produce a better piece of work.

Setting routine and varying tasks in Google Classroom

I have been using the RISE framework to give instructions in Google classroom to set up the routine.
Resources
Instructions
Submission
Extension of Learning

By setting up the routine in Google Classroom, the students are clearer on what to expect and are better engaged. They are also more self-directed and motivated to extend their learning beyond the textbook.

I did a quick survey using Google Form at the start of the term to find out more about what the students already knew about the subject and how they would like to learn. I had then acted on it and created a variety of tasks - reflection on current geographical issues, response to a video, interactive game, written response to structural questions, interpreting diagrams, mind mapping, Kahoot etc

Students are more engaged and see the relevance and authenticity of their learning.

At the end of the chapter, I would get them to fill in another form which they self-evaluate on whether they have fulfilled the learning objectives as well as giving me feedback whether the strategies I used are effective for their learning. It also helped me to identify learning gaps and I would address them during revision as well as better plan for the next topic.

Through the self evaluation, the students are also more critical of their learning and would be more motivated to close their own learning gaps. The ability to assess their own learning also motivate them to move forward upon knowing they are able to achieve the learning objectives.

Each of them will also get a certificate emailed upon completion as I have added them using the certify'em extension in Google form.
You can read more about the use here
http://ezitnew.blogspot.com/2019/03/google-form-add-on.html