Joe Christie - Reporting Environmental Problems
May 1
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Joe's First Lego Movie
Mar 13
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Joe Christie, Education, eLearning
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Remember when your children left lego pieces laying around to be stepped on panfully or to be sucked up by the vacuum cleaner? There is an alternaitive... Lego Digital Designer.
Schools have been investing in the robotic mindstorms components of Lego to teach robotic programming, but LDD provides a low cost (free) tool for design. You do need a computer that has the latest software for your graphics card and in some schools, the program may be blocked as it tries to go to the Internet to update it's brick palettes.
I posted previously on Lego Digital Designer and now present Joe's first movie on a creation he made yesterday.
I know it's not Chinese new year, but...
Aug 1
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Joe was interested in why the animals were chosen to represent the 12 positions of the zodiac. His story is paraphrased from the following website which contains a wealth of education resources for use at home or in the classroom. http://www.topmarks.co.uk
Joe's Story
This is about the Chinese zodiac. The link to the story is on http://www.topmarks.co.uk/chinesenewyear/ZodiacStory.aspx You can also find out your Chinese zodiac sign on this site.
The story takes place in olden day China where the jade emperor wanted to make the animals compete against each other so he set up a race and said that the animal who wins will be named the first zodiac. There were thirteen competitors but there was only room for twelve zodiacs.
They all raced in an epic battle to win first prize. The Rat came first (by tricking the ox) and by pushing the cat over into the river. The second place went to the ox then the tiger came third. Rabbit came fourth. Then the humble dragon came fifth. The snake came sixth. Then the horse came seventh. After him came the goat, the monkey and the rooster. Then the dog came eleventh and after quite a while the fat pig came last.
A short time after the cat came to shore he asked what place he came but the jade emperor said that there was no more places and from that day cats and rats have hated each other ever since.
One Thousand and one photo albums
Mar 20
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Or pretty close to it. I have created a little program that randomly selects a random album from my twenty or so album repositories up on the Internet and presents the viewer with a slide show. To view a new album, just press F5 to refresh with a new album.
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic - What others are doing
Mar 15
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I read in the Australian today with some dismay and then reflection the following:
BARACK Obama is proposing a new blueprint for the US public school system that would overturn a heavy emphasis on standardised testing favoured by his predecessor, George W. Bush, to identify failing schools.
In the 41-page blueprint, the President declares that he wants to overhaul "flawed law" promoted by Mr Bush in 2002 under a policy known as No Child Left Behind.
The Obama White House wants to end a pass-or-fail approach to judging schools.
Standardised testing of students would remain but would steer away from the current focus on reading and maths.
Joe's reading
Feb 1
posted by Mark Christie in
Joe Christie, Essington, eportfolio, Education, eLearning
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Joe has to read to his parents for 15 minutes. I thought this would be a good chance to show what an eportfolio example is. Joe is not being formally assessed on this work, but by placing a recording of his work here - it proves that he has done his homework and provides an example of his standard of reading at this point in time. So, if you are interested, here are the first three chapters of Roald Dahl's book Fantastic Mr Fox as recorded by Joe Christie - 8 years old.
Words to work on - Orchard, Pot Bellied and probably a couple of others of I missed.
TV Stations to train our pilots
Dec 2
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Education, TEFC, Safety, Top End Flying Club, RAAus, Video, Training and Assessment, Safety, CASA, Computer Related
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I have written in my eLearning blog about livestream and the aviademy tv channel that I have set up. Apart from being an experiement to see how useful this would be in our traditional education context (although a TV channel on the internet is probably not that traditional)... I expanded the idea of having live video coverage at Natfly next year where we could capture the quality content from the workshops and the flightline and play that back live and as a repeat for those who didn't make it to the event.
http://www.xsymetrix.com.au/Share/index.cfm/2009/12/2/I-bought-a-TV-channel--for-free?adminview=true
Let's do what they do on the Discovery Channel
Nov 29
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Joe Christie, Education, Training and Assessment, eLearning
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Hopefully an interesting lead in to what they actually do which is educate. I was looking for educationally useful streaming media sites and stumbled across the Discovery Education site which has content for home schoolers as well as a wealth of free and paid resources for viewing.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/homeworkhelp/math/math_homework_help.html Don't just check out the mathematics section, English Science and many others are also covered.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/ contains lesson plans from K - 12 and of course suggest that you purchase resources from Discovery which you may choose to do but the foundaton resources available free here for the beginning or seasoned educator is certainly worth bookmarking.
A couple of links to Adobe Presenter information
Jun 19
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If you don't know what Adobe Presenter is, it is an add-in for Powerpoint that turns it into a multimedia eLearning tool complete with quizes and the ability to be embedded within a Learning Management System.
Adobe will tell you more at this link http://www.adobe.com/products/presenter/ and there are some Adobe specific resources that covers selecting a microphone https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/microphones
Do you want to add a quiz to your presentation? https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a227210/presenterquizzes/
When you are rolling out courseware across a school or a number of schools, it is best to have some standard PowerPoint templates that subject areas can quickly modify to deliver their lessons. Additionally the PowerPoint templates can include pages that use instructional design frameworks for computer based training or eLearning as we call it today. The following templates are example of how the University of Southern Queensland has created a library of PowerPoint templates for use by staff. Check them out.
http://www.usq.edu.au/Dec/courseprep/presenter/pp_essentials.htm
Cool education site - up to grade three
Jun 4
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Joe Christie, Work, Education
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Click on the green student or teacher button - or better still let your transition to grade three give it a go... American accents but lots of good educational fun.
