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== How do you use ICT effectively? ==
 
Review of found resources.
 
{{activity|discuss}} Last time you were asked to come to the lab to find resources. Did you manage to find resources for an ICT-based lesson? How did you find them? What did you find? Was it easy? What do you think can be done with them?
 
{{activity|small group activity}} Last time you were asked to prepare a simple activity using ICT, and to develop a lesson plan around this. Share your lesson plans in your group.
 
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Discuss the use of ICT. Does it support interactive teaching? How?
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[[Image:Eness with student.jpg|thumb|300px]]
 
If you need additional ideas for creating ICT-based lessons, here are some examples, all to do with photos.
 
Digital technology allows you to create (as well as re-use) images.
A '''Digital Photo Story''' combines different media. It is a story made up of images, accompanied with written text, voice, motions, transitions and music, resulting in a rich product that can be used to express, share, describe, present, … to tell a story. Photo Story Telling can be used to:
* Present: Learners can use a Photo Story to report on a trip, a visit or a meeting, to describe a phenomenon, a person or an event. Students can describe for example a normal day in their life, or the place where they live with a story of pictures and narrated with voice.
* Introduce: Teachers and learners can make an overall introduction of an object or a word by using images.
* Explain: Teachers and learners can use a sequence of pictures to explain a phenomenon or a certain process.
* Tell a story: Teachers and learners can tell the story of a character or an event by pictures.
* Create a learning situation: Teachers can engage learners in a visual story and encourage learners to solve presented problems.
 
Teachers can use Photo Story Telling at different stages of a lesson:
* To introduce new concepts, ideas and background information, as a warm-up to engage learners in the learning process, to illustrate a problem.
* For learners to attain new knowledge: Learners can be asked to develop a Digital Photo Story to describe what they have learnt, synthesising their knowledge, etc...
* To review and evaluate learning outcomes: The teacher can produce a Digital Photo Story as a visual summary of main concepts of the lesson, to revise and conclude a lesson.
 
Digital Photo Story Telling can be used in different subjects, for example:
* History: To tell the story of a people in history, achievements or events.
* Geography: To describe local environmental problems, to report on a fieldtrip, to illustrate a study on natural and social phenomena.
* Literature: To describe and summarise a story (characters, context, climax, actions...).
* Civil education: To tell stories of contemporary people in the society.
* Science: To record an experiment; to present the growth process of a tree, report a fieldtrip, create stories about animals under water and on land.
 
Another way to use photos is to prepare a set of digital photos for classroom use by students on computers, such as for classification tasks, as in the Eness lesson on vertebrates that we watched earlier. You can remind yourself of the video [[OER4Schools/1.4_Effective_use_of_ICT_and_collaborative_writing/Vertebrate photo use|here]].
 
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The above material derives from the VVOB ''ICT for Active Teaching and Learning toolkit'' which is available on the server for reading in your own time if you are interested. See pages 57-63 for information on how to create a Photo Story and more detailed examples of use. The VVOB toolkit is also available online:
* PDF file: http://www.vvob.be/vietnam/?q=toolkit-ict-atl
* Website: http://www.ict4atl.org
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== An ICT-based collaborative writing activity ==
 
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The following activity uses an internet-based application called EtherPad which allows everyone to see - in real time - what others are writing, and to build on that.
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{{activity|practical activity}} Choose a broad topic that you want your class to write about in a forthcoming lesson – it can be a factual topic (eg healthy foods, diseases, hobbies, weddings or buying food in the market) or a creative story. However this is an '''open-ended''' writing activity so children are free to '''devise their own sentences''' around the topic without feeling there are right and wrong answers. Thus a topic asking them to list short responses won't work well.
 
Devise a title to give them, e.g. “The magic stone” for a story. Discuss the choice with a partner if you like.
 
{{activity|practical activity}} Now open all the netbooks, take one per workshop participant. Go to EtherPad and try out the collaborative writing task below.
 
{{oinc|OER4Schools/Collaborative writing with EtherPad}}
 
'''To help your students type faster, before or after this lesson:''' play games on typing under “Edubuntu Applications > Education”, such as TuxType.
 
'''Activities you could do with Etherpad later on when your students can type faster:'''
* Writing a story together (each student in each group writes a sentence that follows on from the previous sentence)
* Students type a question they are curious about, and other students respond. (eg “Why is the moon only out at night?”)
 
{{activity|whole group discussion}} Discuss the issues and any pitfalls you anticipate. What are the outcomes you would like – what should the students be writing? '''Change the plan a bit if necessary, to suit your own learners.'''
 
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You may want to make a note of the topics the teachers each choose for use in class with EtherPad, and to include these in your educator reflections.
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= Notes =
* This page reuses materials from [[OER4Schools/1.4_Effective_use_of_ICT_and_collaborative_writing]]
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