Using Technology.

you should know which syllabus outcome and 21

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Century Student Skill (21CSS) that you are trying to teach before choosing which
technological tool you might use.
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# # # 1. Answer garden
http://answergarden.ch/
Create a question. Share link. Everyone enter
answers (words). People can click on other
answer and then submit, or add their own. The
answers with the most votes get bigger and
bigger.
In a one-to-one situation (lab or mobile) ask a question.
Students respond as the lesson progresses. For example
while your reading a book ask students to answer with
their favourite character, or the best adjective they
heard.

# # # 2. Poll Everyone
www.polleveryone.com
Go to Poll Everyone make a question. Users go to
www.pollev.com and use the number to enter
responses. You can have multiple choice poll or
polls where user enter word responses.
In a one-to-one situation (lab or mobile). Put poll on
projector and ask all students to respond (Take a screen
shot) read a controversial articles then ask student to
vote again compare response.
Eg climate change read one article pro carbon tax and
one article anti carbon tax.
Student post anonymous ideas to the board to suggest
why the answer did or didnt change.
# # # 3.Collaborative Text Editors
(online)

Titianpad
https://titanpad.com/

Collaborative Editor
http://collabedit.com/
Opens an instant chat page, that can be freely
accessed by lots of people.

A Collaborative Text Editor basically an open
document where anyone can log on and add or
edit the work.
Used for students to group edit a text document, or write
something together all working at the same time from
different machines. Handy for brainstorming in group
work set up one Titanpad per group and get them to
open add either ideas or fact they are research, copy and
printer final brainstorm for the group to work from next
lesson to prepare a presentation.

Create a document, you write the first line of the
narrative or poem, students log on to add a line each.
Post a longer piece in two or three documents. Allow
several students to edit it each one after each other in a
Chinese whispers style. Compare the finish products after
several editors.
# # # 3. Use cameras! Get a set of cheap digital camera (or just get the
kids to bring them). Cameras are great for
everything. Remember all digital camera can
take still photos and videos.
Kids record each other explaining a concept assessment
for English and Maths/Science/HSIE similtanously.
Photograph for example of anything (eg healthy living)
put photos together to present to class.
Take photos of a practical lesson so they can write about
it later; as a reflection or a writing task.
# # # 4. Windows Live Movie Maker Really, really simple video editor built into
Windows. Can put together still photos or video
or a combination.
Make a stop motion with lego(or similar).
Tell a story with cardboard cutouts and narrate.
Write messages chalk on concrete(or whiteboard) take
photo, combine with images and music for persuasive
video.
# # 5. Comic strip creators

Pixton Comics
http://www.pixton.com/

Toondoo
www.toondoo.com

Bitstrips
http://bitstrips.com/create/comic
/
Great free comic strip makers, need to create an
account with valid email in all of them.
Make a comic strip where you develop a round character,
who changes their opinion in the story.
A comic strip that feature a character you have been
studying literary or historical in an unusual situation.
A comic strip that teaches a lesson or moral.
# 6. Glogster
www.glogster.com
Create an account (free). Make
digital/interaction posters. You can add pictures,
links, youtube etc.
Posters of your topic eg Antarctic. Each groups does a
different aspect of a topic (eg Antarctic Flora, Antarctic
Treaty, Antarctic Science experiments, Antarctic
Stations), share the links, everyone has to read and write
down three interesting thing about each poster.
7. Infographics
Easel.ly
http://www.easel.ly/

Canva
https://www.canva.com/

Visual.ly
http://visual.ly/



Create infographics. That look really professional.
(CANVA REQUIRES GOOGLE CHROME OR
FIREFOX DOESNT WORK ON IE10)
I used this tool link of examples what someone did with
it.
8. Info graphs.

Infogr.am
https://infogr.am
Implement accurate graphs and spreadsheets
into accurate infographics

(free version cant export but can share a link)

# # # 8. Google docs presentation
(Powerpoint)
https://docs.google.com/

This is Powerpoint on online. But several people
can edit simultaneously in real time. Log on to
create a presentation, make it public and email
the link to a group. (or use www.tiny.cc to
simplify link and tell them).
A group of students create a Powerpoint but they are all
working on different machines editing different slides of
the same presentation and can see what each other is
doing.
9. Prezi
www.prezi.com
Create account and verify (free). Create new
Prezi, Frame at the top are new slides. Slides are
listed in order on the left. Zoom is the new scroll;
start with a large picture and have a paragraph of
text in each eye, or text with another letter etc.
You can add link, images, youtube etc.
You can click share at the top right to share allow
other to edit or view your Prezi.
Make presentations (way better than Powerpoint).
Share with two of three friends and work together in real
time, editing the same presentation.
# # # 10. Powerpoint Is it really that bad? Think outside the box.
Everyone know how to use it, so that can be a
big advantage in some cases.
Write a choose your own adventure story in powerpoint.
Focus on your English concept for the term eg,
descriptive language, building suspense etc

# # # # 11. Popplet
www.Popplet.com
Create an account (free). No email verification.
Crate a popplet. Click to add popples(boxes) you
type or add images into each popple, then link
them with lines. You can click share at the top
right to share allow other to edit or view your
popplet. Instructions

Used for brainstorming
Or fact collation.
Share with two of three friends and work together in real
time.
http://www.yearfiveclasspage.com/computer-lab-
tasks.html
# # Word Clouds in shapes.
12. Tagxedo
http://www.tagxedo.com/

Word Mosiac
http://www.imagechef.com/i
c/word_mosaic/
Word Clouds in shapes.
Enter words, choose shape, change colours etc.
Word cloud in creative shapes.
Students brainstorm words on a topic, eg assessment at
the end of a HSIE topic.
Word clouds (common words
larger)
13. Word it Out
http://worditout.com/
Word clouds (common words larger) ones that
most make the most common words the largest.
Paste in a students English writing, to see which word
they use the most.
On Smartboard get students to brainstorm words on a
topic (eg adjectives, CAPA word that describe texture),

Wordle
http://www.wordle.net/
students vote and copy and paste word in the number of
votes each word gets.
# # # # 14. Bubbl.us
https://bubbl.us/
Create small bubbles which can be colour coded
and linked with arrows.
English, learning paragraphing. Put a box at the top with
a topic, link it to three boxes below with macro
sentences, and link those to three boxes below each one
with three specific details.
# # # 15. Weebly
www.weebly.com
Make free and easy websites super easy to use,
can have all the features of a website. Is easy for
multiple user to be able to edit the same website
Make a website about Antarctica and give student a list
of thing they must include; maps, science being
conducted there current, a summary of the treaty etc.
http://mrdeedsclass.weebly.com/hsie-antarctica.html
# # 16. Smore
www.smore.com
Easy to create on flyers Student create a flyer encourage scientist to apply for a
job in Antarctica
Student create a flyer encourage tourist to visit a
historical temple in Tibet.
# # 17. Blog
(there are a million free blog
websites; blogger, wordpress,
blogspot etc. I use a blog on my class
website made in weebly.)
Create a teacher blog, where you write a post
and others can comment about your post.
Create a post about wedding around the world with
some websites to get students started. Each student has
to post a comment on your blog with information about
wedding in a different country.
Get students to start a blog at the start of the term and
each week add a new post to explain what they have
learnt in that week on your topic.
# # # 18. Powtoon
http://www.powtoon.com/
Make great short videos (kind of like Powerpoint
but heaps better) put pictures, animations,
videos all together in a great way to make short
video for presenting information.

Make a short video for example the difference between a
round character and a flat character.
# # # 19. Photo Collage
http://www.photocollage.net/
Collage using photos you have taken, images
from the internet and text.
Make a collage on a topic include key words and pictures,
for example the symbols and rituals of the sacrament of
marriage
# # # # # 20. Survey monkey
https://www.surveymonkey.com
/
Free and easy put together surveys which can
anyone can complete and you can collate the
answers.
Put together a survey and get all students in
class/grade/school to respond. Survey could be to solve a
problem at school or comment on a social justice. For
example question about the type of charity the school
should support.
# # # # 21. Graphjam builder
http://builder.cheezburger.com/Flash
Builder/GraphJam
word and excel both make great
graphs (charts) as well
Graph stuff - easy Graph your survey results.
Graph class demographic, example how many
grandparent were born in Australia for Aussie Identity.
Etc etc.
22. Mosiac
(free downloadable program Andrea
Mosiac or there are several website
that do it)
Mosiacally.com and a few other
website do it but on all on the ones
Ive found you have to pay to
download the mosaic after you have
created it.
Pick one large picture, then 100+ other pictures
to mosaic it
A mosaic where the big picture is a flag of a country and
the little picture are thing from that country.
The big picture is an Aussie icon eg thongs and the little
picture are other aussie stereotypes.
23. Storybird
http://storybird.com/
Really pretty website for writing story. You
choose a theme of artworks to illustrate your
story.
Can be used for English all type of imaginative writing
focus on your key concept (eg write a story that builds
suspense).
Can also be used for other KLAs eg HSIE write a story
where the characters have to make a democratic
decision.
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Web tool/Program

Instructions/description

Examples
ISTE Standards - see below



ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) 21 century standards for student
1. Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct
knowledge, and develop innovative products and
processes using technology.
4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
Students use critical thinking skills to plan and
conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using
appropriate digital tools and resources.
2. Communication and Collaboration
Students use digital media and environments to
communicate and work collaboratively, including
at a distance, to support individual learning and
contribute to the learning of others.
5. Digital Citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal
issues related to technology and practice legal and
ethical behavior.
3. Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate,
and use information.
6. Technology Operations and Concepts
Students demonstrate a sound understanding
of technology concepts, systems, and operations.
Click on document for more information on ISTE technology for Students or go to www.ISTE.org