Scribble Map

I had a try at Scribble Maps is was quite easy, the icons were easy to understand and to embed the map in my blog was easy - the instructions were there on the Scribble Map site. If you put your cursor on the map you can move it around.

Learners could use this type of tool in SOSE. Middle to upper primary.

Bloom's Taxonomy

 Bloom (1956)  proposed that learning fitted into one of three psychological domains:

Ø  the Cognitive domain – processing information, knowledge and mental skills

Ø  the Affective domain – Attitudes and feelings  

Ø  the Psychomotor domain – manipulative, manual or physical skills

In the 1990's, a former student of Bloom, Lorin Anderson and David Krathwohl, revised Bloom's Taxonomy

Each of the categories or taxonomic elements has a number of key verbs associated with it
Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS)

Ø  Remembering - Recognising, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding

Ø  Understanding - Interpreting, Summarising, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying

Ø  Applying - Implementing, carrying out, using, executing

Ø  Analysing - Comparing, organising, deconstructing, Attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating

Ø  Evaluating - Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, Experimenting, judging, testing, Detecting, Monitoring

Ø  Creating - designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making

Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)

This revised taxonomy does not take into account the emerging use of Information and Communication Technologies.

Blooms as a learning process.

Before we can understand a concept we have to remember it
Before we can apply the concept we must understand it
Before we analyse it we must be able to apply it
Before we can evaluate its impact we must have analysed it
Before we can create we must have remembered, understood, applied, analysed, and evaluated.

Information retrieved from http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+-+Introduction

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Summary Map and to view video with Andrew Churches click here.

Group 3 Technologies - Presentation Tools - PREZI - Reflection

Please click on Prezi if you would like to have a look at my second attempt at a Prezi. A very basic Prezi but I'm proud of it.

I can not wait to try another Prezi and make it really exciting with pictures and Youtube links etc. I really thought it was going to be alot harder. If I can do it anyone can.

The Prezi tool would be great for upper primary with a guiding Learner Manager, together they would be able to make some incredible Prezi's.

Prezi's are not linear like PowerPoint. Learners who learn best with simple clear straightforward sequenced presentations may prefer PowerPoint. However, Prezi can make you feel like you are actually travelling on a journey as the presentation moves around the screen taking you with it.  A Prezi is engaging due to the movement and the ability to display minute details. A Prezi feels a little spontaneous as as a viewer you do not know where you are going next and you wait in anticipation.

As a creator of a Prezi one thing to consider is how much movement you incorporate into your presentation, sometimes to much movement and viewers feel they are on a rollcoaster.

A Prezi may take a little longer to learn than PowerPoint for some learners. However if the learners follow the instructions and guidance from their learner manager creation of a basic Prezi is not too hard.  As a learner becomes more confident in their abilities in creating a Prezi the design opportunities are endless.

A Prezi needs to be viewed on-line which may not be possible all the time. This has to be taken into consideration when lesson planning for a Teacher's Prezi and the location of the learnes when they want to present their Prezi to others.
Thank you for your help Jackie, the HTML is needed to link.

Photo Story - it's finally here

Thank you Debbie L. for helping me link a quick Photo Story.  I have tried so many times over the last 24 hours to link this example of Photo Story.  The one thing I was doing wrong was not saving it as a 320x240. I have included a link to Photo Story, on how to create one, this link also includes the information on 320x240 (whatever that is), if you follow the instructions it is very easy. 

I think Photo Story is a great tool, especially now that I know how to link it. Typing text, adding music is easy. It is great because it is really easy (trust me it is), the step by step instructions are easy to follow.  Students can take photos of investigations, inventions from first draft to the final piece (science), a drama (The Arts), SOSE explorations and history. They can take photos of group work, showing hands on real life learning.  The students can then timeline the photos and present a Photo Story presentation sharing knowledge with the whole class.

Photo Story can be a little bit different from a PowerPoint. The photos used in this Photo Story are ones I took while I was creating my Visual Art piece for last years elective.

Photostory - image technology

An example of Photostory,  an image technology.  The link does not work, I have not been able to work out how to attach my photostory.Becoming a running problem, first my Prezi and now the photostory.I Will keep trying.

 A work in progress of continual learning.

My first Prezi

Today I tried to make a Prezi, this is my first attempt (I have included the Prezi down the right hand side of my blog).  I look forward to having the time to really work out how everything works with texts and visual pictures. You can create your own at www. prezi.com
                A little while later...............I can not attached my Prezi, I'll keep trying.
                                  I had the Prezi attached and then I lost it.

Fodey

WOW, I love it.  I would need to learn how to slow the text down so learners would have a chance to read all the words - the text in my flower picture moves too quickly.  The learners could learn how to make their own, even in collaborative groups. Love it!