Essential Learning > ICT Domain
September upload 2009
In this fourth upload for 2009 we are continuing the series of ICT tips that will help you in the classroom. In this upload there are two more Excel tips and two general software tips. Three ICT tools are explored with ideas and activities for your VELS classroom
Excel tips
General software tip
ICT Tools and Activities
June upload 2009
In this third upload for 2009 we are continuing the series of ICT tips that will help you in the classroom. In this upload there are two more Excel tips and one general software tip. Two ICT tools are explored with ideas and activities for your VELS classroom – Electronic Folios and Bluetooth with Mobile Phones. There is an activity that is focused on the VELS ICT dimension – ICT for communicating.
Excel tips
General software tip
Electronic Folios
We are all used to using exercise books, workbooks and folios filled with paper. Explore the world of electronic folios – click to find out more … [Word file]
Bluetooth and Mobile Phones
The Bluetooth technology that comes with today’s mobile phones can be useful. This document will give you some ideas on how you can use this technology in your VELS classroom – click to find out more … [Word file]
Communicating with ICT
Standards in the Information and Communications Technology domain are organised in three dimensions.
Source: http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/interdisciplinary/ict/index.html
This activity is based on the third dimension, ICT for communicating.
April upload 2009
In this second upload for 2009 we are continuing the series of ICT tips that will help you in the classroom. In this upload there are two more Excel tips and one general software tip. Two ICT tools – Wikis and Twitter and explored with ideas and activities for your VELS classroom. Consider subscribing to the Microsoft Office Insider Newsletter.
Excel tips
General software tip
Wikis and the Wikipedia Game
What are they?
The Wikipedia Game (how could I use this in the classroom?)
Click to find out … [word file]
Twitter
Resources and links that may answer your questions about Twitter, and give you some ideas on how you could use it in your VELS classroom.
Click to find out more … [word file]
Microsoft Office Insider Newsletter
This is a monthly newsletter from Microsoft with tips and ideas on how to get the best out of your Microsoft Office products. In this months newsletter there is an interesting link to Community clips. These clips are made by users and contain many great ideas and tips.
Community Clips from Microsoft® Office Labs lets you find HELP videos created by other Microsoft Office users. You can search the site for a particular issue or browse by product.
And if you have something to share, you can download the screen-recording application, record your video, and post it. Learn the latest or share your expertise with Community Clips.
Check out the top-rated Community Clips today!
Click to find out how to subscribe to the Microsoft Office Insider Newsletter.
February upload 2009
In this first upload for 2009 we continue the series of ICT tips to help you in the classroom. There are two more Excel tips and one general software tip.
Excel tips
General software tip
RSS Feeds
What are they [Word file] and how could I use them in the classroom? [Word file]
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Earlier in 2008 an article was written by Jason Dowling in the AGE newspaper called Ban P-plate mates. In the article is was stated that “FIRST-YEAR drivers would not be allowed to have more than one passenger of their own age under a controversial proposal to be put to the State Government. To read the whole article go to … |
Your Multimedia Scrapbook will help you and your group to enter the Make a film. Make a difference competition run by the TAC. You can use your multimedia scrapbook to give you ideas to prepare a storyboard for a movie you could enter.
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VELS Humanities – Economics Level 5 and 6
Go to – Labels Multimedia Scrapbook
Labels – Being an effective consumer. This one set of Internet resources is used for two different multimedia scrapbooking activities.
(a) “A label helps us to make an effective economic decision. Or does it?”
This is the question for the Year 7 and 8 students at Level 5.
(b) “A label is a camel built by a committee – supply side factors, demand side factors and government intervention. Or is it?”
This is the question for the Year 9 and 10 students at Level 6.
VELS Humanities – Economics Level 6
Keep this question in mind as you work: What are the costs and benefits to governments, public transport providers, employees, employers, the economy and the environment? What is your opinion and why?
Scrapbook: If you want to expose learners to a variety of media on a specific topic, you might want their first web-based activity to be the exploration of a Multimedia Scrapbook. A Scrapbook lets learners dig through a collection of sites you've selected and categorized. Links can include photographs, maps, stories, facts, quotations, sound clips, videos, virtual reality tours, whatever! Learners use the Scrapbook to find aspects of the topic that's important to them. They then download or copy and paste these scraps into a newsletter, desktop slide show, collage, bulletin board, new web page, digital story, etc.. The Multimedia Scrapbook offers an open, student-centered approach based on what appeals to them.
VELS specific Multimedia Scrapbooks …
Coming in future uploads 2008 …
3. Labels – Being an effective Consumer
4. Flex in the City
5. Make a film. Make a difference - TAC
VELS Civics and Citizenship Levels 5 or 6
Indigenous Australians play a prominent role in political and community life. They have also contributed in similar ways in the past. The women and men you will meet through this activity come from different parts of and have different skills and interests. They have been and are still involved in a wide range of activities of importance to all Australians, as well as to Indigenous Australians.
You now have the opportunity to get to know some of these women and men by collecting a scrapbook of materials that introduce them to you and illustrate their achievements in political and community life.
VELS Humanities – Economics Level 6
Go to – Vocational Pathways Multimedia Scrapbook
February 2008 Classroom Upload
VELS ICT made easy
At Comview in 2007 Anne-Marie Parry and Richard Armitage gave a session on VELS ICT made easy. The resource rich resource for this session is the link above.
Hotlists and Samplers
Hotlists and Samplers are interesting ways to link students to resources on the Internet. This link above takes you to an explanation of what they are.
These links below are an example of both and how you can use them in VELS Economics at Years 9 and 10:
• Sampler – Green shopping and greenwashing – Being a Smart Consumer
• Hotlist – Fruit Hotlist – Managing the Australian Economy
What VELS ICT can I use in my class tomorrow?
From the VELS ICT made easy session at Comview this link will give you some basic ideas on how easy it is to link VELS ICT into your VELS Economics or VELS Civics and Citizenship
Double Bubble
A Double Bubble is a method of comparing and analysing two terms or two concepts. The resource can be photocopied for students to complete, however, Paula's resource allows the students to complete the double bubble using the computer. This is a template that can be adapted according to the topic you are studying.
Integrating ICT
Paula Christophersen, ICT Curriculum Manager, VCAA, prepared a fantastic presentation titled ICT and learning in Economics. Her presentation covered the integration not only of ICT methods of learning but also thinking skills. Select the link below to her PowerPoint presentation (note: this is quite a large file) (vels60202.ppt, 3MB) and a copy of a 4D pro-forma on globalisation (vels60203.doc, 25k), and a blank memory meaning node (vels60204.doc, 28k)