Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010

Joy, Annette and myself have just completed our 12 week online SLAV Personal Learning Network where we discovered a range of Web2.0 tools for

• Professional Learning
• Research
• Presentation
• Teaching and Learning

A Personal Learning Network is a collection of people with whom you engage with and share ideas online. They can be made up of colleagues,experts,students or like minded people. In this instance our PLN consisted of teacher libarians from Victoria.

It has been an amazing PD opportunity for us with many challenges and large learning curves occurring.It has filled our minds and conversations, invigorated us and definitely set us on a path to share our knowledge of these tools with other staff in the future. Below is Jane Hart's 100 Tools for learning list for 2010.Many of the ISC's favourites are high up on this list.Jane Hart is the CEO of the UK Centre for Learning and Performance Technology and she compiles this list yearly.It's based on 500 plus contributors top 10 lists of their favourite tools. Last year Jane's presentation on Slideshare was viwed over 90,000 times and I'm sure this year's will be as popular.Her Winners and Losers page is also worth looking at as it shows new tools that have made the list,those that have gone up or down and those that have completely dropped off the perch.

Over the next few weeks I will review the ISC's favourite tools so stay tuned!

Top100 Tools for Learning 2010

View more presentations from Jane Hart.

Year 7 Geography

ISC staff have collaborated with Year 7 Geography teachers this year to ensure that all Year 7's are familiar with using Inspiration and Moviemaker.In Geography this year their investigation of an Asian country required them to upload a movie,a mindmap and a PMI chart to their Geography VLA Discussion Board. This allowed them to then view and assess each others ' work.It was an inquiry project that involved many skills and steep learning curves for both students and their teachers.It was great to see students helping one another out and the excitement and satisfaction gained when students finally uploaded their tasks in the correct format.
Hopefully this cohort will now be encouraged to use Moviemaker as a presentation tool as like most programs lots of practice is needed before you become an expert.A tutorial on how to use Moviemaker can be found in the document section in the ISC VLA as well as below
Also below is a copy of the Year 7 Asia Assignment and a student movie.