by Mike -
Below is Darren Frank's award winning Iso Grifo - he won another Best In Show Award this weekend in Old Salem, North Carolina.
This is becoming a regular habit for Darren and this very special Iso Grifo. To top it off Darren drives his car to and from the shows. In this case it was a 170 mile round trip drive.
Yes, that is a snowmobile below made by Iso too, which Darren restored.
I've just been brainstorming digital skills that I believe are required by teachers in the 21st Century. So far I've come up with 45 of them.
What's striking for me about this is:
At the end of 2010 I published the first 5 tasks in a series to help teacher learn how to use technology with their students. Now I would like to add 3 more tasks to that collection. The first few tasks are all quite simple to lay the ground work and get teachers started. As the series progresses I hope to get on to more adventurous tasks. Please feel free to use these tasks yourself or to share or use them for teacher training.
Task 6: Creating a video review activity
In this task you’ll learn how to create a film trailer review activity using film trailers from YouTube and an online notice board called Wallwisher. Here’s an example to look at before you start: http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/nikstrailers
Wallwisher is a really useful tool for giving students a semi restricted choice of online videos or links to other resources from around the Internet.
This can be really useful for creating instruction sheets like the ones used in this series and helps you to grab images to add into websites or other documents.
In this task you will create your own YouTube channel. It’s very useful to have your own channel even if you never create your own videos. It enable you to subscribe to other channels, share videos with groups of your students and even annotate and add subtitles to videos. We’ll be doing all those things in future tasks, but in this task you will create your channel and subscribe to some other useful channels.For the last few days I've been playing with WallWisher a handy tool for creating online noticeboards that you can add sticky notes to.
Once you have done this you just click the big 'Done' button and you are almost ready to start adding content to your wall. Before you start to add content you'll need to check your email account where you should find your password. Then you just log in to your wall and double click on the wall to start adding the sticky notes.
The sticky notes are quite simple, you just add some text and you can either link to an image, a video or a web page.
The nice thing about this is that when users click on the link it opens in a pop up browser over the wall. This means that you can use your wall to focus students access to sites like flickr or Youtube and stop them drifting into other content. It also means that you can use the wall to set up specific activities and get your students to post their responses on the wall (as long as you have selected 'Everyone' to allow others to post to the wall)
