[Yr7-10it] Searching year 8 material 2009

Mon Jun 23 14:15:30 EST 2008

Hello Caterina
These links may help with ideas for Year 8. You could also get them to use
Audacity (free download) sound recording software to create a voice or music
file that can be exported as an .mp3 file so they could put revision notes
onto their iPods. I keep pushing the girls at my school to do that ... not
much luck so far though.

http://www.actden.com/skills2k/www.htm - explanation of the internet and www
using Flash. I think it could be good as the basis of a multiple choice
test. 

http://www.teach-ict.com/index.html - English site that has links to lots of
things including video tutorials and ICT quizzes where the student builds
something as they answer a question correctly. It's corny ... but it's fun
for them.

With Year 7 this year, I broke them into groups of four/five and each group
was given an 'ICT challenge' - one group had to take a group of two teachers
and five students to Sydney for three days on a historical tour; one was to
arrange a fashion parade for three year olds; one was to create a new
chocolate bar and wrapper, etc. This meant that they had to learn to work as
a team, make decisions on who would research and who would do tasks. The
tasks included things like invitations, letters, budgets, flights,
itineraries, seating, accommodation, etc. They used the Office products
along with Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Audacity and a few others. If
you didn't have all those, there are Open Source downloads you could use
instead (eg. Gimp, etc). It has helped develop their responsibility,
confidence and independent thinking and has been a great learning exercise
for them. My only gripe is that I wasn't timetabled for it; rather, I had to
steal classes from faculties and this didn't help continuity.

I found the girls needed to 'do' something - listening to a teacher explain
things wasn't successful - they just want to get in and do! And they love to
have something to show at the end of the sessions; it gives them a sense of
achievement and time well spent. 

I'm happy to provide more info if you email me directly
(dpeat at firbank.vic.edu.au) but I'm leaving tomorrow for NSW and won't be
back until after the weekend, so I may take a few days to reply. 

Good luck

Diane Peat
Firbank Grammar School
BRIGHTON

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[mailto:yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Caterina Garwoli
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Subject: [Yr7-10it] Searching year 8 material 2009

>
Caterina Garwoli is my name so hello to all.  I am a part time IT teacher
at Sacred Heart girls college Oakleigh and have been there for 1.5 yrs. 
Prior to that (and 3 kids and Dip Ed) I worked in IT Development/Support
at ANZ, Orica & Ansett before it went under...

Anyhow I am looking for new material for Year 8 to replace an entire term
of powerpoint which I beleive is out of date.

Don't know if Gamemaker would be interesting for girls?  Would appreciated
any ideas.  We have 2x 45 minute periods each week with 30 girls in a
computer lab. Already we cover excel, Flash and Access.

Feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks Caterina

 Hi Caterina
>
> For gamemaking - Use Game Maker http://www.yoyogames.com/make free
> download, tutorials etc Lots of have been using it for a number of
> years. I can personally recommend it. Kids love it.
>
> For 3D - try Google SketchUp http://sketchup.google.com/ also free. On
> the bottom right hand side of this link is information about using it
> for education and also links to tutorials. Kids also really enjoy this
> too. And you can challenge them to put 3D images of your school
> buildings onto google maps too!
>
> I find it very hard to justify paying for site licenses for software
> when there are such excellent free resources. Save your money for new
> hardware :-)
>
> Good luck with whatever you choose, let us know how you go.
> By the way we have a policy here to identify yourself in terms of
> position and school, I presume you are from Sacred Heart in Oakleigh?
>
> Cheers
> Ros
>
> Roslyn Meadows
> Head of ICT Implementation
> Head of Assessment and Reporting
> Bentleigh Secondary College
> | 9579 1044 | 0412 614 062 |
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> [mailto:yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Caterina Garwoli
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> Subject: [Yr7-10it] 3ds max 9 software
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> Currently Im' looking at material for next year...
>
> Was wondering since the gaming market is so strong out there, should we
> be
> look at 3sd max software in classroom?  has anyone had a play with this?
> C
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