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Making an Arcade Game in a Minute using Free Web Tools

You don't believe it.  It's true.
This arcade game took no longer to make than the time needed to type the words.

 Find out how to do it in this free webinar:
Creating Review Games with Free Web Tools

Presented by David Faure

Friday, June 15, 2012 @ 3:00 PM Eastern Time, USA   @  8pm BST, @ 9pm CET.

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Introduction to Voicethread


Introduction to Voicethread in 5-minutes

Examples of Educational uses of Voicethread

• Personal Introductions for online courses
• Presentations with slides and audio, or even video.
• Digital story telling
• Support for ESL students / alternative for 
• Language learning
• Collaborating between schools
• Engaging students in dialogue on an issue
• Brainstorming
• Problem Solving
• Explaining Scientific processes
• Commentry on a Poem
• Student e-portfolios
• Assessment tasks using text and audio commentaries

Extra Resources

VoiceThread - Digital Library:  Good examples with teacher notes.

This Livebinder is a good place to start looking for resources too http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=3680

Voicethread and SEN - Article
http://voicethread.com/media/misc/support/JTECVoiceThread.pdf

and of coure Tom Barrett's Crowd source
 







Voicethread Challenge for Science Teachers and Students.

Voicethread is a wonderful tool for student interaction.  It is intuitive to use, and lets students comment in a variety of ways to suit their confidence.  With little training a whole class can all participate in the creation of a multimedia gem which will capture the key concepts, support less confident students and allow the most able to shine. See my introductory Voicethread post if you don't know VT is!  

Voicethread Challenge for Science Teachers and Students.

"Write up" your next lab experiment with a whole class on the Interactive Whiteboard, using Voicethread.

Image: Phoebe Oreilly

Depending on your class size you may prefer to ask students to write up the experiment in your usual way, and call up groups of students to participate at the whiteboard in turn.

Have the following four files ready to upload.

1. A Photo of the experiment apparatus
2. Word document - results table
3. Excel graph of the results
4. Conclusion / Evaluation questions - as a PowerPoint slide.

The Challenge  (PDF - "Handout" )

1. Upload the four different file types about the experiment into a new Voicethread (VT).
2. Comment on the new VT as a whole class at the interactive whiteboard using one account and different Identities.
1. Type or record with a microphone comments to describe the method on the first slide,
2. Use comments to describe the results in the table on slide two.
3. Doodle on the graph while recording with the microphone to show trends in the results, outliers, scatter of data, reliability of data etc.
4. Give answers to the conclusion / evaluation questions on slide 4
5. Set a homework for the class to add further comments.
6. Please leave a link to the finished project and a few words in the comment box below.

Top Tips for success.

1. Check your Network & Security settings allow website access to microphone and webcam
   look at the VT Network Requirements, or pass them to your network administrator.
2. Test your volume settings before recording comments. (right click over VT- choose settings)
3. Avoid overlaps between Powerpoint images and words ( or use pdf )
4. Students copying and pasting vast blocks of text as a comment
5. Student shyness about talking into a microphone
6. Upgrade to free "educator VT" to get 50 free Voicethreads.
7. Join in conversations at the beginning.
8. Give students chance to plan their contributions before speaking. (nice handout)
9. If you want to avoid risks yourself let the students upload the images for you.

Advantages: Lino-it & Wallwisher - lino wins

Advantages: Lino-it & Wallwisher - lino:

Having spent twenty minutes playing with Lino-it I'm convinced it is a better sticky note tool.  However the two main disadvantages are:

1. It takes a little longer to get used to Lino-it than Wallwisher
2. It has a sticky note Google ad on every canvas.

Otherwise I'm pretty positive that I can use this in lessons with students for all of the following:

• Brainstorming previous knowledge
• Collating information / images / videos on a topic
• Collaborative project work
• Getting students to respond to a text or a graph or a video.
• Book Reviews - Vocabulary exercises
• Collecting Web-links
• Plenary activities

In fact all of the things I suggested Wallwisher might be used for on this Wallwisher wall

Here is a Lino "Canvas" I made in 20 minutes...

 Lino-it would be a nice notice board for a project which lasted a few lessons.
The ability post sticky notes with attachements of files and to set due dates seems pretty useful.

'via Blog this'

ICT workshop on Wallwisher and Voicethread

Online Collaboration  - Wallwisher & Voicethread -  Friday 30th April,

A student asked me yesterday, 'Can we do that cool thing on the computer - wall wishing again.'
As humans we are motivated by collaboration but we don't get so excited about sitting quietly waiting to collaborate.


Teacher centered questions and answers is only slightly collaborative , students are passive most of the time.

I got interested in Wallwisher because I wanted to find a way to get all the students participating actively at the same time.


If we can organise collaboration in the classroom where everyone participates at the same time (not easy) and harness this motivation to collaborate it could lead to really effective learning.

There are some other spin-offs too:

1. There is more time to work with the weakest students to help them participate.
2. Students can see the comments after the lesson, useful for support.
3. It's easier to spot misconceptions
4. Students learn from each other.

Wallwisher
Wall one, - a few ideas for wall wisher.
Ideas of  Creative uses of Wallwisher in the classroom
The sticky notes on this wall are ideas about using wallwisher - a brief introduction to possibilities



Wall two - posting on the wall - try it - it is easy.
What might you use Wallwisher for yourself ?
Double click and post a sticky note - could you use Wallwisher? first as a student might.






Wall three - make your own, and Showcase it on this wall. http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/Showcase-of-walls
Showcase your wall here
Make a wall of your own - then put a sticky on this wall with a few words, and a URL link to your own wall.



See Magzinr links below for more ideas, extra resources and some alternatives for advanced Wall builders.




Voicethread




Wallwisher is simple, reliable and easy to use, but there is a whole world of new possibilities for simultaneous online collaboration using Voicethread.



What's a VoiceThread? 5-minutes




Examples of Voicethreads

• Introductions for online courses
• Presentations with slides and audio, or even video.
• Digital story telling
• Support for ESL students / alternative for 
• Language learning
• Collaborating between schools
• Engaging students in dialogue on an issue
• Brainstorming
• Problem Solving
• Explaining Scientific processes
• Commentry on a Poem
• Student e-portfolios
• Assessment tasks using text and audio commentaries

VoiceThread - Digital Library:  Good examples with teacher notes.

This Livebinder is a good place to start looking for resources too http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=3680

Voicethread and SEN - Article
http://voicethread.com/media/misc/support/JTECVoiceThread.pdf

and of coure Tom Barrett's Crowd source

To Do

1. Build a Voicethread together on the IWB 
1. Try Uploading images
2. Word document - a poem?
3. A pdf
4. A powerpoint
5. A video
2. Comment on the new VT using my account as a whole class might.
1. Try Typing,
2. Use the Microphone
3. Use the webcam (change the microphone settings)
4. Experiment with doodling
3. Create your own VT & share the link on the Wallwisher, or on the Voicethread. (Handout)

Pitfalls to avoid.

1. Network & Security settings - for access to microphones and webcams.
2. look at the Network Requirements, and pass them on to your network administrator.
3. Volume settings, test them before recording lots of comments.
4. Students copying and pasting text as a comment
5. Student shyness about talking into a microphone
6. Powerpoint images and words overlapping (leave gaps or use pdfs that don't to this)
7. The free account only allows 3 voicethreads, upgrade to free "educator VT" to get 50.
8. Publishing options - you must allow anyone to view, and comment, otherwise students can't comment. - you can choose to moderate all comments at this stage
9. Adjust the playback options at the bottom of the page (if you want students to have a copy 
10. The free account only allows 3 voicethreads, upgrade to free "educator VT" to get 50.
11. The Teacher should join in conversations at the beginning
12. Give students chance to plan their contributions before speaking (nice handout)
13. Let the students upload the images.

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