ICT in the nutrition classroom

1. ICT in the nutrition classroom Using online tools and resources Leanne Compton

2. Today • Discuss why we should be including ICT into our classrooms • Understanding of your use of ICT…inside and outside the classroom • Hands-on with using ICT (wiki)

3. Ways of working together • Actively listen with empathy and understanding • Adopt a shared sense of responsibility • Aim for respectful collaboration • Address problems constructively • Aim to defer judgements • Acknowledge diversity and difference • Allow for fun Formerly Australian National Schools Network Norms #No such thing as a dumb question!

4. Tell us about how you are using ICT in your classrooms?

5. How well do you know your students? • Xbox experts? • Wii experts? • Skype experts? • Online games experts? • Facebook experts?

6. What about your ICT skills? • upload to YouTube • edit a Wikipedia article • choose a safe online payments site • subscribe to a podcast and un-subscribe • turn on and off predictive text • manage a group’s Flickr photos (and spell Flickr!) • look after a community in Facebook. Heppell, 2009

7. We are teaching in different times! ‘we should not be mapping the use of new technologies onto old curricula, rather, we need to rethink our curricula and pedagogies in light of the impact that we know technologies can have on learning and meaning making in contemporary times’. Yelland (2007)

8. The unconnected classroom / learner during school time occasional expert visits school community occasional class excursions teachers school library snail mail mobiles, phones, fax machines, TV, video

9. The connected learner any where ~ any time ~ in time Primary sources Secondary sources learning objects learning communities writers world libraries and museums original artefacts and documents people’s experience online learning websites digital repositories experts organisations collectivethinking Unis/Colleges all teachers any school RSS feeds speakers peers collaborative projects original works common interest groups networks original photos, images, video, audio world news action learning groups commercial companies global groups world events Carr 2006 MOO chat forum wikis blogs LMS CMS podcast data/tele/video conferencing messaging email & listservs video cast/streaming webcasts meeting tools web authoring mobiles, phones, WAP, VOIP, PDAs, tablets, desktop, laptop, future technologies

10. Will Richardson - Things we need to ‘unlearn’ • That we are the sole experts in the class • That we know more than our kids • That learning is ‘an event’ • That collaborative work inside the classroom is enough • That every student needs to learn the same content • That our students don’t need to see and hear how we ourselves learn • Our fear of ‘putting ourselves out there’ http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/the-steep-unlearning-curve/

11. What is web 2.0? • The second generation of internet services • Emphasis is on communicating, collaborating, creating, sharing etc online • You do not have high-level IT skills

12. What resources are available for you?

13. TLF digital content • Government teachers The Le@rning Federation digital curriculum resources are available via Scootle or MyClasses. To access the resources via MyClasses, type /myclasses at the end of your school website URL. For more information or to arrange access to Scootle please email the ACT DET Learning Technologies Section (det.scootle@act.gov.au). • Catholic teachers The Le@rning Federation digital curriculum resources are available via Scootle. For more information or to arrange access to Scootle please email your Contact Liaison Officer, Kel Hathaway (kel.hathaway@cg.catholic.edu.au). • Independent teachers The Le@rning Federation digital curriculum resources are available via Scootle. For more information or to arrange access to Scootle please email your Contact Liaison Officer, Meredith Joslin (mjoslin@ais.act.edu.au).

14. Free educational resources Prezi -alternative to PowerPoint? www.prezi.com Word Clouds www.wordle.net Animoto http://animoto.com/education • Create unlimited full length videos from photos. • If you are a teacher or educator, apply for a free Animoto all-access pass for use in the classroom. Glogster http://edu.glogster.com/ • Make your interactive poster easily and share it with friends. Mix images, text, music and video.

15. Market Fresh http://www.marketfresh.com.au/main_menu.html Sydney Markets http://www.sydneymarkets.com.au/ Australian Screen http://aso.gov.au/ http://aso.gov.au/education/sport-health/ Tag Galaxy www.taggalaxy.de Screen Australia – digital resource finder http://dl.nfsa.gov.au/ http://dl.nfsa.gov.au/module/1535: Family Life in Geelong

16. Managing my logins The Age, Thursday, January 29, 2009

17. Freeware • Google Sketch Up • Drawing 3D plans – Home Economics centre, kitchen garden • Audacity • FreeMind • Gimp • Paint.NET http://epotential.education.vic.gov.au/showcase/

18. An example of web 2.0 Wikis http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers Before we start – what can we learn take from this clip?

19. Difference between a wiki and a blog? Blog A blog, or web log, shares writing and multimedia content in the form of posts (starting point entries) and comments (responses to the posts) • While commenting, and even posting, are open to the members of the blog or the general public, no one is able to change a comment or post made by another • The usual format is post-comment-comment-comment, and so on. • Often the vehicle of choice to express individual opinions. Wiki • A wiki has a far more open structure and allows others to change what one person has written • This openness may trump individual opinion with group consensus.

20. What is a wiki? • Hawaiian for quick or fast • A wiki is a web site that lets any member become a participant • Can create or edit the actual site contents without any special technical knowledge or tools • Is continuously under revision - a living collaboration • e.g. Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia.

21. A wiki is… • basically your own personal web site with an edit button. • you get to choose who can see it, and who can make changes, and you can use it to …. • Wikis in plain English

22. What can you do with a wiki? • Collaborate - post text, images, files • Embed media - video, audio, RSS (news feeds) etc • Customise your look - select from a variety of wiki themes, pick your own colours and logo. • Set privacy - ensure that only your members can access your wiki's content • Create student accounts - three step process doesn't require email addresses ->Manage Wiki > User Creator

23. Let’s create a wiki.. http://www.wikispaces.com/ http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour 1. Need to register first- only needs to do be done once Keep in mind that every Wikispaces username must be unique. Over 2 million users so Jane Smith likely to be taken! 2. Create wiki – need original name

25. Editing the home page • Click on the Edit button on the home page of your wiki. Remember to Save as you go along. • If you want a little extra guidance, check out the video tours • Cannot work it out, email at help@wikispaces.com... they answer promptly.

26. What it means to be a wiki organiser Handle the administration of the wiki such as: • setting permissions for the whole wiki • managing wiki members • changing the look and feel • locking pages so no one can edit them • deleting or renaming files and pages You can promote other members to organisers, as well.

27. Ideas for wikis in the nutrition classroom??

28. Getting to Know Your Manage Wiki Tools • The Manage Wiki link in your sidebar will take you to the nerve centre of your wiki.

29. ‘What we want for our children, we should also want for their teachers – that schools be places of learning for both of them and that such learning be suffused with excitement, engagement, passion, challenge, creativity, and joy’. Hargreaves, 1995, p. 27-28