Resources

On this page you will find many of the useful resources used and created by the Talk to Learn Cluster. [|This link is for principals who want to facilitate a professional learning session with teaching staff.] This includes the B reeze presentation by Dr Graeme Aitken that John Channer discussed at the Principals meeting on the 28th April at Trentham School. [|Voicethread] is a web-based communications network for K-12 students and educators. Simple, powerful and safe, Ed.VoiceThread is a place for creating and collaborating on digital stories and documentaries, practicing and documenting language skills, exploring geography and culture, solving math problems, or simply finding and honing student voices. You can find a useful tutorial on Voicethread [|HERE] and an example of how it could be used in the classroom [|HERE] If you sign up you can [|upgrade] to an educators account- which allows you more storage and unlimited Voicethreads rather than the 3 that the free standard account offers.

John Hattie is THE assessment guru in NZ and I found this downloadable powerpoint about the findings and recommendations of John Hattie. One of his major points is about providing challenge for students. You can get a PDF copy of his powerpoint by [|clicking here.] In this presentation, he has rubrics for teachers to assess themselves such as the one for challenge that you can see in the screenshot to the side.  [|This link] is to a case study on Literacy Online- using Digital Objects (DLO's) to explore how you can integrate the use of digital content, software, and other e-learning tools and contexts into your literacy teaching and learning. It provides a useful model of Teacher Inquiry.

[|Plotbot] web-based screenwriting software. You can write your script with as many or as few people as you want—there's nothing to install, it's free, and it's easy to use.

The DLO's or Digital Learning Objects are a fantastic resource. This Slideshare presentation describes them in more detail- media type="custom" key="3845783" code

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