Week 2 - missing information.

Belmore Blogging:

3 ideas that came out of the reading were:

Experimenting:
The Belmore blog is used for a number of things, one of which is science related. Students report findings from experiments conducted in class time and discuss these with other students who have access to their blog, some of which come from all over the world. This discussion encourages students to think deeply and reflect upon scientific concepts while at the same time as refining their communication skills.

Creative writing: 
Similar to the discussion on experiments, students at Belmore South have the opportunity to provide feedback upon one another on their creative writing tasks while it is in the draft format. Furthermore, the feedback is not limited to those in their own class and school but any other student around the world.

Global Connections:
This is one of my favorite ideas from the reading.
It investigates how students from an Australian school were able to share knowledge of their countries history with students from Scotland. I thought this was great because it gave the chance for the students to become the experts as they were able to provide specific answers to questions posed by the overseas students. I particularly liked this is as it is well known that teaching is one of the best ways to both learn and consolidate knowledge.

Reference:
Pericles, K. (2008). Happily blogging @ Belmore South. SCAN, 27(2), 4-6 available at:http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/schoollibraries/






Links to other Blogs:


Huzzah


2010 Allstars

Happily Blogging

http://allstars.edublogs.org/

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Collect & create

My text innovation utilised the book Possum Magic by Mem Fox. It concentrated on the general verb - noun relationship and location in a sentence. This powerpoint template would be used after reading the book with the class in a guided reading format and pointing out the pattern of the different locations of the verb and noun.

Copyright at university and schools

Can I copy material from the internet for research? Yes you can. If the purpose is for research or study, it will not infringe copyright.
What constitutes research and fair use?
The Macquarie Dictionary states that research means: "diligent and systematic enquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover facts or principles...”
Research can be for personal use and you do not need to be enroled in a course.
Fair: The concept of fair generally implies approximately 10% or one chapter of a publication.
Can students use music in videos that they make? Generally copyright rules apply when copying or  using another personals material, unless permisson from that person is given. Schools have a licenceing agreement that allows the use of some recorded music. As with the previous questions, copyright laws allow the use of material for study and research is used fairly. An example of fair dealing for research or study may be using music in a film which is to be submitted for a school or university project, but which you do not intend to show outside the classroom or distribute further.

7 min video

this video is basically how some people set up a fake video pretending that a tree octopus exists. It's purpose is to show that teachers need to teach kids that the should not believe everything on the internet.

Working Well - website review

Teacher Tube

The website teacher tube basically provides online teaching resources in many formant, including video, audio and photos.

Definition of 'new literacies'

The basic idea behind the concept of 'new literacies' refers to the changing and growing digital and technological environment that allows the development of new literacies to evolve. Examples of these literacies include Fliker, tweeting and facebook. Knobel and Lankshear (2006) have broken this concept down into two basic components, 'technical stuff' and 'ethos stuff' basic components. '