Module 5

Have this year challenge myself to explore both Prezi and Glogster.

With Year 9 Religion and the iLearn project we completed at DLSA, students had to complete various tasks related to the 10 Commandments and Beatitudes. All their work in groups was recorded on wikipages. At the end of th project, students had to complete a Glog as a reflection on what they had learned in the unit...students had to include one video upload, one audio upload, and document what they had learnt about how the unit helped them develop better understanding of their relationships with themselves, others, their God and their world.

Lessons learned - not all kids had their work previewed before Glogs were saved and linked to the wiki...one group had a great cartoon video uploaded about the 10 Commandments - but as I viewed it, realised it wasn't exactly kosher - was actually a critique of 10 Commandments by an atheist group!

Lessons learned - generate passwords for kids and then issue them yourself - for wikis and for Glogster. Double check everything that goes up - before final save. Keep copies of the kids passwords for yourself. Ensure kids do all the "learning work" or foundational learning before giving them access to Glogster or they will spend far too long on the look of their glog than on the substance...

Used Prezi as well - haven't saved it public as need to check that the photos I uploaded are okay re: copyright - so have used it in meetings at school in draft form - was on Northern Beaches Christian School and their approach to 21st century learning.