By Suzie VesperBy Suzie Vesper

A Little Bit About My Background I’m a facilitator for nine schools (110 teachers) I work for the Petone Foreshore cluster in Lower

Hutt

A Little Bit About My Background I’m a facilitator for nine schools (110 teachers) I work for the Petone Foreshore cluster in Lower

Hutt I have recently really begun to explore Web 2.0

tools and online publishing options My knowledge is still rather theoretical at this

point as I don’t have a class to try it with and the cluster schools that have tried out some of these tools are only just getting going

Why Bother? Online publishing allows children to share their

learning with the community and extends their learning outside the classroom walls

Parents can see instantly what children are doing rather than waiting for a formal report

Why Bother? Online publishing allows children to share their

learning with the community and extends their learning outside the classroom walls

Parents can see instantly what children are doing rather than waiting for a formal report

Children are motivated as they are aware of having a wider audience and they can see that the activity is meaningful

The Tools We will be looking at a couple of key

favourite tools for online publishing

The Tools We will be looking at a couple of key

favourite tools for online publishing Zentation is the mashup tool being used to

publish this presentation It is a mashup tool because it is combining

two other tools in order to create the content - Google Video and SlideShare

So how could I use this? Coming up is one possible way this tool

could be used. There are many others. My challenge to you is to use either this tool

or one of the others covered in this session to do your own online publishing telling me about yourself as a teacher and one way that you could see yourself using one of these tools

Instructional Writing - A Cooking Show!

Imagine that the children viewed this cooking video and then wrote instructions on making the omelet

The video shows the cooking while the powerpoint has the instructions.

The children can narrate the instructions over the movie if oral language is a focus

Step One - Preparing Ingredients Cut an onion in half Chop the onion finely (be careful of fingers!) Wash two tomatoes Roughly chop up the tomatoes into small

pieces Crack open one egg into a large mixing bowl Whisk the egg for 30 seconds Grind some pepper into the egg mixture.

Step Two - Cooking Pan fry the onion in a little olive oil until softened. Tip in the tomatoes Add the egg Lift up the edge of the egg as it cooks with a

spatula and tip the uncooked egg to the sides. Fold egg in half and serve Enjoy your delicious omelet!

Other Ideas and final thoughts There are many, many possibilities The children could use it as an assessment

tool. They can be performing a PE skill in the video and have their thoughts on how they did in the slideshow.

Other Ideas and final thoughts There are many, many possibilities The children could use it as an assessment

tool. They can be performing a PE skill in the video and have their thoughts on how they did in the slideshow.

The program is completely free It is easy to share your completed mashup

by emailing a link or embedding in a wiki