Images are a great way to enhance a lesson by adding them to your presentation, your students' presentations, worksheets and posters around the classroom wall. There are a number of purposes for images to be used online. 'Teachers can present learning materials to the student with the purpose of engaging thinking (knowledge, understanding, analysis, evaluation); influencing feelings, or supporting skills development' (CQUniversity, 2010).
A lesson idea might be to ask students to walk around the school and take photos with a digital camera. They will then need to upload these images onto the computer and insert them into a presentation.
The above picture of our solar system is an example of a useful image for a learning resource in the classroom. It is from a great free digital photo website called Free Digital Photos.net
References:
CQUniversity. (2010). Managing e-learning: Digital tool 2 images. Retrieved on 22 August, 2010 from http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=91805
Freedigitalphotos.net. (2010). Free photos: Science and technology. Retrieved on 22 August, 2010 from http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/Space_and_Science_Fi_g289-Solar_System_p17565.html
I have been watching some of the videos we have been referred to through Moodle, and it is interesting to see how we are using ICT in remote areas to engage the Aboriginal children. Every effort is been made to have the children attend school. There is a bus service run by the elders and they drive the children to school. Signs are up in the local shop advertising that children will not be served during school hours. ICT is also been used to record stories using Storyboard, so that the future generations have information to reflect back on. Elders get together to assist in producing these.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for your comment. That is really interesting how they use ICT's in remote areas to engage Aboriginal learners. It is great to hear so much is being done to help our young Australians.
ReplyDeleteThat was an excellent suggestion about the children taking photos with the digital camera and uploading them into a PowerPoint. By doing this you are using many digital tools without realising it and the children will see the benefits of using both.
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