Wairarapa

18th November 2010 toc Thanks for allowing me to come to your workshop on Thursday everyone. I hope I didn't overwhelm you too much. Here are the key things that I talked about. you may want to follow them up when you have time (yeah right)

**Voicethread**
You have voicethread educator accounts now so can create up to 50 of these at no cost. If you missed out on those instructions, go to the How To page on this wiki for pictorial help. I suggest you have a look at the instructional VTs that are in your account and see what you can do with these. The help page is great.

**Skype**
Step this up from contacting your children or grandchildren to allowing your students to communicate outside of your four walls. I realise that some of you are in bigger schools and may not think this necessary, but are you thinking from your own perspective or your students? How stimulating would it be to Skype in an expert when they are doing some research for example? Here's a Skype explained video media type="youtube" key="m1mflr-kQlk?fs=1" height="385" width="640"

**Wikispaces**
These are great ways to get your class to learn and share their work. Each child can have access, you can monitor their input, and if you want to, you can open them up to allow parents and caregivers to see the work as well. If your students use voicethreads,etc, these can be put into a wiki so others can find them easily. Blogs are great too, but tend to be more teacher owned and one directional - giving information rather than encouraging collaboration. Here's the wikis in plain english video from YouTube media type="youtube" key="-dnL00TdmLY?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

**Googledocs**
These are web based documents that multiple owners/writers can contribute to if you want. Great for collaborative work. Because you can see what each child has written, you can more easily assess group work.

Here's the google doc you created on Thursday. Literacy Leaders

Here's googledocs in plain english media type="youtube" key="eRqUE6IHTEA?fs=1" height="385" width="480"