Flicker in Education Presentation

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Flickr Activity No. 1

Objective: To discover and or enhance the talent of the learners in taking photos.
                 To improve their capacity or ability to criticize constructively.

Activity: Student will be going to search for different scenery of the world in Flickr and make his or her own description.

Flickr

 

Flickr is, as we can say, is almost the best online photo management and sharing application of the world. Most people use flicker to showcase their talent in taking photos or to share their most favorite scenes or images.

We can also say that through Flickr, users can easily find pictures of their desires. It can be also use for educational purposes by means of education related pictures or images. It is really a great tool, for sharing and for learning.

Classtools.net

Classtool.net lets you create fun quiz games using your own questions or word lists. Practice your skill in any subject playing Flash arcade games such as Manic, Miner and Word Shoot.

The games can be created by a parent or a teacher, and then saved and played by a student. The games can even be hosted on your own blog, web site or intranet.

The games are basic, retro-style games, but the fact that they can be used with any set of questions still makes this a site worth having a look at. It is very useful for learning languages, or any other subject.

Classtools.net Example Activity

Classtools.net Activity No. 1

Objective: To introduce students on more advanced way of learning through modern web tools.
                 To innovate the way of learning through games.

Teacher: Create a shooting game through classtools.net. Mode of game is to let the student shoot or hit the correct answer of the given questions.

Students: Open a given site and play the game created the teacher created.

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Wikis Activity No. 1

Day 1:

Objective: To improve students’ skills on making web pages through Wikis.

Students: Create an e-portfolio through your Wiki sites about the “Worlds Common Problems”.

Day 2:

Objective: To enhance students’ freedom of expressing thoughts and ideas by use of useful online sites.

Students: Visit a given wiki site, watch the documentary film posted and make a reaction essay and post it on the given site.

Wikis

           Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has simple text syntax for creating new pages and cross links between internal pages on the fly.
           Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.
Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.

Activity Guides Using Twitter on Learning

1. Answering questions: In a similar strategy to the aforementioned information gathering, some educators streamline the process by allowing students to answer questions via Twitter rather than raising their hands. This greatly aids studying, too, as they can easily refer back via dedicated classroom hash tags.
2. Enabling discussion outside of class: Create a topic and post it online and students are going to make discussion about the given topic on Twitter.
3. Announcements: Rather than sending out a mass e-mail, many education professionals find it far easier to tweet changes, cancellations and other important announcements. Definitely avoids the dreaded spam filter that oftentimes prevents students from receiving time-sensitive messages.
4. Notifications about completed assignments: Conversely, many students use Twitter now to alert their teachers about when they’ve finished their work. This strategy works especially well for online courses or classrooms taking advantage of internet-based technologies.
5. Follow conferences: Some educators may want their students to follow certain professionals and keep track of the various happenings at relevant industry conferences. The more active feeds might even provide links to streaming video or audio!
6. Communicate with professionals: Instead of asking students to merely follow industry insiders, ask them to actually tweet a response and open a discussion — or at least try to, anyways. For high schoolers and the college crowd, this assignment might very well help them discover some personal career goals.
7. Take notes: Similar to the example about facilitating extracurricular discussion, Twitter also provides a quick way for students and teachers alike to take notes. Keeping everyone organized in a list makes it easier than ever to supplement (not replace) reviews for tests, quizzes and assignments.
8. Share a story: Put a social media twist on an old classroom favorite by asking students to play some fun story-go-round games on the famous microblogging site. The first tweets a sentence, the next builds off of it and so forth; try assigning a hashtag to make reading everything faster.
9. Map trends: Combine social media and geotracking with Twittermap, which allows users a chance to plug in and track what people are talking about where. For sociology and marketing students, such technology helps them better understand demographic needs and wants.
10. Keep parents informed: When teaching the younger set, parents may like to follow along with what’s going on in their children’s day. Keep a Twitter feed updating them about the different lessons and activities as they happen for greater engagement between the home and the classroom.
11. Set up a poll: Teachers might want to set up a Twitter poll for either their students or the broader microblogging community. The applications are limited only by one’s own creativity; for an added bonus, combine the poll with some sort of geotracker.
12. Word of the day: No matter the class, a vocabulary word, book, song, quote or something else “of the day” might very well make an excellent supplement to the day’s lesson. When teaching younger kids, tell their parents about the Twitter feed and encourage them to talk about postings at home.