1. © Paul Hopkins MMVII A dozen ways of embedding ICT in RE

2. © Paul Hopkins MMVII - reaching the impossible Developing Ideas 1 Educhurch Monasteries online Golden Temple of Amritsar Jagad Mandir Mandir Ask a Rabbi People of faith More Virtual Visits e.g. Access to people and places that would be difficult or impossible to bring into the classroom

3. © Paul Hopkins MMVII All newspapers are now created on computers, and you have the possibility to add sound, animation and video to your newspapers. Make the “Jerusalem Times” for the morning after the crucifixion or the Buddhism Bugle for the events of the life of the Buddha. Use the techniques of spin, angle and re-telling as well as the tools of editing and re-editing. - Digital Literacy Developing Ideas 2

4. © Paul Hopkins MMVII Remember that Religious Education is about “learning from” as well as “learning about”. Blogs allow students to keep a record of events, or respond to events that have occurred - this could include recording for assessed work. Forums allow students to exchange ideas, develop arguments and respond to others. Anonymity is also a possibility as well as accessing the debate out of lesson time. - Blogging and Forums Developing Ideas 3

5. © 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 4 http://www.ukpodcasts.info/Culture/Religion www.audacity.com www.quicktime.com http://www.itunes.com/

6. © Paul Hopkins MMVII Much of the good work in RE 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

7. © 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 www.bigmyth.com www.thebricktestament.com Video Hanukkah http://www.flickr.com/ http://www.youtube.com/

8. © 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 Hopkins’ Sample Downloads Freemind - OS mapping software - Multipath Narratives Developing Ideas 7

9. © 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. http://www.redbridgerenet.co.uk/wq/ wqformat.html - Webquests Developing Ideas 8

10. © Paul Hopkins MMVII Accessing an online database to explore authentic voice Developing Ideas 9 Using materials that exist to help pupils explore the beliefs and values of others, and contribute their own responses. Listening to young people talking (database) www.pcfre.org.uk/db http://pof.reonline.org.uk

11. © 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? www.gcsere.org.uk www.re-course.com www.moodle.com

12. © 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. www.futurelab.org.uk www.createascape.org.uk www.multimap.org.uk www.googleearth.com

13. © Paul Hopkins MMVII Reinforcing learning with interactive opportunities Developing Ideas 12 Using wordsearches / crosswords / missing words / hangman etc… www.eclipsecrossword.com www.halfbakedsoftware.com/ www.contentgenerator.net/multiplechoice/

14. © Paul Hopkins MMVII For more on these ideas www.mmiweb.org.uk/tenideas/Questions?

15. © Paul Hopkins MMVII A dozen ways of embedding ICT in RE