© Paul Hopkins MMVII A dozen of embedding ICT into T&L

© Paul Hopkins MMVII - reaching the impossible Developing Ideas 1 e.g. Access to people and places that would be difficult or impossible to bring into the classroom virtual visitors experts parents other children virtual visits impossible experiments

© Paul Hopkins MMVII All newspapers are now created on computers, and you have the possibility to add sound, animation and video to your newspapers. - big Books - AV newspapers - links to S&L - voice narrations - making movies as well as texts - blogs and forums - websites - what skills / equipment do they already have? - Digital Literacy Developing Ideas 2

© Paul Hopkins MMVII Can your students be involved in projects with children in another: class school country synchronous and asynchronous learning Forums and discussions - Communicating and Collaborating Developing Ideas 3

© Paul Hopkins MMVII Allowing students to show achievement need not be limited to text it can also include audio and video. These can then be saved and posted e.g. on the school’s internet or intranet sites and then made accessible to a wider audience. - Podcasting and Vodcasting Developing Ideas

© Paul Hopkins MMVII Much of the good work in school is discursive, kinesthetic or visual. Are you capturing this and developing e- portfolios of students work as well as paper portfolios. Use digital cameras, digital video and audio recorders to capture achievement. - Capturing the ethereal Developing Ideas 5

© Paul Hopkins MMVII Storyboarding or making movies are great ways for students to produce materials expressing their ideas. Use digital still or video cameras to produce the materials for a narrative in images as well as words - Digital storytelling Developing Ideas 6

© Paul Hopkins MMVII Stories do not always have a neat beginning middle and end. Use the action buttons in Powerpoint to explore branching out and helping students explore the many possible routes to truth as well as the liner model. - Multipath Narratives Developing Ideas 7

© Paul Hopkins MMVII Searching the internet for information is often a fruitless task. Set up a webquest, a series of websites linked by clues or through which students need to navigate in order to find the required information. - Webquests Developing Ideas 8

© Paul Hopkins MMVII Data collection Developing Ideas 9 How do your students collect data for work, class or projects? Are they “limited” to words on a page or can they use: video audio images web pages

© Paul Hopkins MMVII Virtual Learning Environments Developing Ideas 10 Anywhere anytime learning. How can students access resources / materials and support to help them with their learning when they are not in your classroom? How can they contact you? How can they submit assessable work?

© Paul Hopkins MMVII Mediascapes Developing Ideas 11 Mediascapes are a potentially powerful way of engaging with the world around us. Using PDAs they offer new opportunities to explore and interact with the landscape in exciting and varied ways. The Create-A-Scape website project aims to offer the inspiration for teachers and pupils to start using mediascapes, and to provide easy-to-use guides and free software to help make mediascape creation as simple and accessible as possible

© Paul Hopkins MMVII Reinforcing learning with interactive opportunities Developing Ideas 12 Quizzes and Games Interactive Teaching Programmes