Digital Tool for Presenting Learning - Interactive Digital Map This week I had a play again, and again it is evident I will need a lot more practice! My prezi is a bit 'below par' and well my powerpoint could sure use some bedazzling. I did however get the free app in weebly to embed a powerpoint. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the sound from my powerpoint to play in the weebly. I imagine that capability comes with the $$$$ upgrade version of the app. This week more than ever before, I am thinking of my teaching areas, especially in relation to the Australian Curriculum. This is mostly due to an assignment on that exact matter due for another course we are doing. But this has fired up the belly for ICT use according to the Australian Curriculum and I am pretty excited. During my exploring I have ended up choosing the alternate of this week's embedded task options - that's right I chose what was behind door number three: "new and different tools". Doesn't that just sound FABULOUS! And the new and different tool I am elaborating on is the Interactive Digital Map. Does this already have an allocated acronym in this amazing ICT world we inhabit I wonder? IDM.....IDM.....'today class we will be creating our own IDM'..... I like the sound of that. In regard to my pedagogy, as I have mentioned before, I want to be a facilitator not a dictator. I want to see kids have their lightbulb moment. This history teacher in the clip below is truly inspirational. He talks about if we don't adapt to technology there is a huge risk we will be left behind. I too want to use ICTs to make teaching better. In his case he says history is simply telling stories and anything that can make telling the stories better, he wants to use it. He wants the students to feel the story, see the story, be a part of it. And google maps, using Tour Builder has allowed him to do that. So so exciting! Below is a link to a google tour used with Tour Builder. It is a "tour" of this young soldiers career and where it has taken him around the world. The concept for use in the classroom has so much potential for high order learning. The student could tell their own story, or create their own interpretation of someone from history or a current social or political figure. I really like some of the ideas for interactive maps in the geography learning area. In particular, using tour builder to create an interative map and story. I looked at some of the resources in scootle and found this fabulous unit of work: Mapping Diversity. The Australian Curriculum content this particular unit of work for year 8 Geography links to: Factors that influence the decisions people make about where to live and their perceptions of the liveability of places. Link to ACARA page here. I imagine using an interactive map such as Tour Builder to tell the stories of the unit; either why the student lives where they live or looking historically from the perspective of a migrant to Australia at a particular time in history. This is certainly analysing and evaluating according to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Take it to the next level, where creating a class wiki and sharing the tours and possibly even with students from a different Australian city with other cultures. The powerful message of multiculturalism, sharing stories, understanding I believe falls in to high level pedagogy.
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Gary Holmes
4/8/2017 12:48:25 am
Nice post. 3+1+2= 6
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Erin Rook
4/8/2017 11:40:21 pm
Hi Belinda,
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Belinda
4/14/2017 03:48:36 pm
Thanks Erin. Happy Easter to you too!
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Rhi
4/9/2017 05:25:21 pm
BEL!!! Your confidence in yourself progressing through the blog business is really shining through on these post. What I loved about this post was not only its interesting content (seriously, such a groovy idea) but the way you structure it. It was so easy to read, and so personable that I could actually hear your voice reading it in my head. A simple thing, but a great teaching tool as it doesn't feel like I'm ready from a textbook but the thoughts of a real person. You are killing this, keep in going!
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Belinda Moore
4/14/2017 04:09:18 pm
Thanks so much Rhi! Your positivity is contagious and I take so much confidence from your support. Thank you.
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Jeannette
4/9/2017 06:54:20 pm
Wow! On so many different levels! I love the video of Bobby Lake--what an inspiration he is. And I really love the Tour Builder tool as well. There are so many different ways it could be used. I've got a project, outside of my studies, that I think that Tour Builder would be a brilliant way to present it.
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Belinda Moore
4/14/2017 04:13:26 pm
Thanks so much Jeanette! Your enthusiasm for this teaching journey is such an inspiration. Thank you.
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Thanks so much for introducing me to tour builder. I focused on the google my maps tool last week which looks quite similar. I was getting quite frustrated though, as I couldn't find an easy way to route across the ocean without dropping all these pins. Tour builder looks like it has that sorted. Yay!
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Annette Sercombe
4/20/2017 09:09:58 pm
Hi Belinda
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