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Today in our tutorial most of the groups presented their Assignment 3. It was great to see the final products and the different ideas everyone had come up wih.
We presented our Wiki first, I thought our video came across really well. The sound was a little quiet which possibly made it a little harder for the class members to really enagage in our video, but over all I was really happy with it! The other videos that were presented were also really great!
Some of the other groups we saw today in...
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We've had a tutorial and lecture free week this week so we've been able to focus on completing our group assignment. I think we've done a really great job on it. Our group has met up a couple more times over the last week to work through it together and then we worked on separate pages and our references while at home and then edited them together. We broadened our age group from year 5-7's as we decided with a little more guidance from the teacher younger age groups would definately be able ...

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Todays lecture was all about teaching in the 21st century. We spoke about the importance of technology in the classroom but how it isn't able to replace teachers. I understand this as technology alone not being enough to teach students, we still need teachers in the classroom to plan authentic tasks and that the technology will be used to aid teachers rather than replace them.
We also spoke about the use of mobile phones in the classroom. I found this very interesting as it is not something I ...
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We've had another group meeting to work on assignment 3 today. We're making lots of progress on it now, we have decided to change our topic a little so we are teaching our students to create digital storybooks.
We have decided our lesson plans will be for year seven students, under the subject of English.
Today I researched the Australian curriculum and provided links on our Wiki space to the scope and sequence reading and writing. Over the next few days we will research some more links to ad...
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Im finding myself getting very frustrated with the Yola website. Iv been trying to make my website more visually appealing by adding some page snaps, unfortunately Iv been having endless problems with this! My site is continually freezing everytime I load a new picture, resulting in me having to shut down the page and therefore losing any new data I hadn't yet saved! Iv been onto the discussion board and it appears as though I'm not the only person experiencing this problem with Yola. It's be...
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So I'v just finished off my task two. I feel I've learnt a lot more from this assignment than the last two that will be helpful to me, not only as a uni student but also as a teacher. My research has really opened my eyes to the importance of technology within the classroom. It is clear technology is becoming a major part of all classrooms, from interactive white boards, online lessons, connecting with experts, online educational games and so much more.
I'm really beginning to understand the ...
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So I've had to put our work on assignment three on hold so I'm able to finish up on my assignment two.
Our task here is to chose a topic of interest to us and research how technology would be useful in teaching this subject in the classroom. Initially I decided on the Solar System, however I was having difficulty finding certain articles on this specific subject so I decided to broaden my topic a little and I have gone with Science.
We needed to include at least one each of these references: ...
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Group assignment three is creating a great deal of confusion for us all. We've now spent a lot of time as a group just trying to work out exactly what is required of us for this assignment! Our group has spent hours researching the LMS, companion website, unit guide and other sample assingments and it still isn't clear!
We've chosen to do our assignment on Water conservation, so under the subject of Society and environment and for year seven students. Our final assignment plan is for the stud...

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My social resources site is complete and ready to upload! I’ve had a few things to work on since our peer review. My review made me realise I didn’t have nearly enough information on how to set up Netvibes and I needed to be clearer about the social side of the site.

I was just going to put this all up on my page but after talking with peers about it in our workshop this week I decided to put it all in a word document and upload the link to my site. Many of my peers have done videos or ...

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