101 Classroom Ideas for 1-to-1
ABC
www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/
Studying Australian History?
Read, watch and listen to Indigenous stories.
Animoto
http://animoto.com/
Set up a free account, upload photos to create a 30 second short 'film'
set to great music. Can be embedded in a blog or wiki or shared with a
friend.
Take a series of photos of growth of a plant. Place the photos in
Animoto for a creative way to create a flim to show the growth of your
plant.
Studying human development? Bring in a series of photos of you as an
infant, child and young person. Put them into animoto to create a movie
about development.
Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Want to create your own podcasts for presentations or revision?.
Download audacity and go from there! You can explore what sound
looks like and learn how to edit and manipulate sound files.
Australian Bureau of Statistics
http://www.abs.gov.au
Go to the education page for students to look at real statistical data on a
range of topics including projects on water, games and data analysis.
Australian Centre for Moving Image
www.acmi.net.au/video_kids.htm
Watch an animation, game or short film created by other children in
Victoria! Get inspired to create your own!
Australian Screen Online - DIY Doco
http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/learnin
g/diydoco/default.htm
Want to create a documentary? Go to DIY Doco to get some practical
skills and knowledge to create your own documentary based on a
particular person or event.
BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/bamzooki/
Studying internet safety. Discuss the issues and create a ‘zook’ as one
way of keeping your identity private on the internet. Download the free
‘zook kit’ and create your own character. Compare your ‘zook’ to those
created by others!
BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/
Watch animations, videos, take a virtual tour and play games related to
historical topics.
BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/ga
lleries/pages/schoolshoebox.shtml
What’s your favourite object? Why is it special to you? Photograph and
write about it. You could include it in a blog post. Create a short video of
you talking about your favourite object. Watch these videos from Wales
for some great ideas.
Build Yourself Wild
www.buildyourwildself.com/
Build a ‘wild’ version of yourself with human and animal components!
Send it to a friend via email.
Calorie King -McDonalds
http://www.calorieking.com.au/createame
al/?menu=1
Want to know how many kilojoules are in the food you eat? Visit the
following website and find out the nutrient content of a range of
McDonalds foods by dragging and dropping what you eat onto the tray.
What did you find out?
Calorie King-Aussie BBQ
http://www.calorieking.com.au/createameal/?menu=4
Calorie King-Pizza Hut
http://www.calorieking.com.au/createameal/?menu=2
Calorie King-Subway
http://www.calorieking.com.au/createameal/?menu=3
Comic Life
Create a comic page illustrating a topical issue such as global warming,
water saving ideas or whatever!
Communicator
Use Communicator to communicate with your peers. Communicator is a
great way to collaborate with others outside the classroom, such as
discussion of global issues.
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Concept Mapping
Read a story and select two characters from the story. Document key
issues related to each character. Use colour and images to help illustrate
your thoughts.
Use a concept map to illustrate what you have learnt about.
Creating a Calendar
Many different programs will allow you to make your own calendar
including Word and publisher. For a calendar that you can share online
with your peers go to Google Calendar.
Delicious
http://delicious.com
Use this free social bookmarking service that allows you to tag, save,
manage and share web pages from a centralised source. It is a great
way to categorise, remember and share all those great sites.
Desert USA Movie
www.desertusa.com/video_pages/food_m
ovie.html
View the video to learn about a desert food chain.
Desert USA Movie
www.desertusa.com/video_pages/food2_
movie.html
Learn more about the different types of energy by viewing the video.
Desktop publishing
Do you have the school formal, fete, open day or another event coming
up? Create a flyer about this event. Think about how you will layout
your page and what images you will use. Make sure you follow
appropriate copyright procedures and obtain permission of third-party if
necessary. What program are you going to use to create your flyer?
How are you going to distribute the flyer?
DigiLearn
Search the digital resources to find content that relates to what you are
studying. There are lots of resources available - animations, video clips,
photographs and more.
Digital cameras
Take lots of photos of your school (both inside and out) and then import
them into a multimedia application. You can also provide narration about
your school and include special effects into your movie. What a fun way
to show your family your school.
Record experiments and processes from your Science class.
Need to do a presentation? Use the digital camera to record your
presentation. You can research, practise and record your presentation,
and even re-record and share it with others. How creative can you be?
Digital Cam recorders
Use digital cam recorders in your Physical Education classes to provide
evidence of peer-assessment. Have your classmate record you doing a
triple jump and then providing advice to you as to how you can improve.
Need to do self-assessment in Physical Education? Get a classmate to
record you doing an activity such as long jump. Watch yourself and
assess how you went and provide advice to yourself for improvement.
Digital Portfolio
Create your Digital Portfolio as a blog or wiki and include images, text,
audio and more to show what you have learnt.
Use PowerPoint to create a digital portfolio and show what you have
learnt. Include photos, text, audio and more!
Doodle4Google
Have you doodled for Google. Check out what the other students have
done. Can you be just as creative?
Encarta Premium 2008
Use this encyclopaedia resource to support your understanding of
current topics, search for famous people and events or track information
on a timeline across the ages.
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Excel
Use Excel's spreadsheet to create a timeline about key events in
Australia's history. Use some of the graphic tools, and enter and format
text.
Use Excel to create a shopping list for a recipe you will prepare. Include
the ingredients and amounts of each ingredient you need, and then find
out the costs of each ingredient. Learn how to enter formulas to
calculate the cost of your recipe.
Create a spreadsheet that contains details about what homework you
have to do.
Five shot sequence
Students use cameras to take five shots in sequence to tell a story.
Encourage students to use different camera angles to express the
emotion within the story.
Free Mind
http://freemind.sourceforge.net
Create an online mind map about the fours seasons. Save it to your free
account. Send the link to friends who can also collaborate with you.
Embed the final result in your blog, website or wiki!
Game Maker
Create online games as simple or elaborate as you like to support maths
concepts including measurement and space or adventure games to
reflect a range of curriculum areas.
Global student
http://globalstudent.org
Set up a blog! Your teacher will need to set up one first and become the
administrator of your blog. Don’t use your real name or image … but
share your thoughts with the world! What’s it like in your backyard?
Studying cloning in Biology? Set up a blog on the ethical issues related
to cloning. Share your thoughts.
Studying Legal Studies? Select a current issue about responsibility and
young people such as binge drinking and create blog. Share your
thoughts with the world!
Read the latest posts created by teachers and students at Hawkesdale
P-12. Don’t forget to leave a comment!
Studying third world health? Set up a blog and share your thoughts on
how to poverty history.
Go Animate
http://goanimate.com/go/
Set up a free account and create your own online animations to share
with friends. View other examples on the site for inspiration.
Google Earth
Studying deserts around the world. Use Google Earth to explore these
deserts.
Studying countries of the world? Use Google Earth to locate specific
countries.
Google Maps
Use Google Maps to locate historical markers in your local area.
Compare what you found with your classmates.
Google Notebook
www.google.com.au/notebook
Want to collaborate on a single online document with your friends
asynchronously? This is the site for you - you can redesign research
projects to include text, video and picture and cite sources correctly.
Google Scholar
Got an assignment coming up? Use Google Scholar to undertake some
online research for journal articles, books, abstracts and technical
reports.
Google Sketchup
Create 3D designs and models for use in class projects. Redecorate your
living room. Build a volcano for the science fair. Model your school and
put it in Google Earth.
Inside a Dog
www.insideadog.com.au
Read and write book reviews at the State Library site ‘Inside a Dog’.
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Kahootz 3.0
Create amazing stories, inventions, habitats, games, movies and
soundtracks.
Kahootz and Blue Screen
Take a Kahootz expression and incorporate Blue screen techniques using
freeware like WAX .The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and
flexible in video composition and effects. By taking a short film you can
place individuals or objects into your Kahootz expression.
Kerpoof
www.kerpoof.com/create
Make a movie, draw a picture or write a story.
Save your work to the site!
Languages online
Explore languages online for their interactive lessons and games.
Licence to Cook
www.licencetocook.org.uk/
Watch the Food and Technology clips on basic cooking skills, healthy
eating, wise food cooking and food safety and hygiene.
Make Way for Baby
www.makewayforbaby.com/fetaldevelopm
ent.htm
Read, view and create a timeline showing the various stages of
pregnancy.
Map Wing
www.mapwing.com
Turn your digital photos into virtual tours that include interactive maps,
images, and comments.
Market Fresh
www.marketfresh.com.au/admin/produce/
Vid_preps/Prep_video_all.asp
Want to learn some basic techniques in Food and Technology? View the
videos to get some ideas.
Microsoft Access
Create databases.
Microsoft One Note
Use OneNote to capture your thoughts and ideas in electronic
notebooks, where you can easily organise, search, and share them.
Microsoft Photostory
Create digital stories and presentations by adding music, narration and
images.
Microsoft Student
This resource offers tools to support homework including Maths, Science
and Languages.
Monkey Jam
Create films using stop motion animation- students connect a web cam
and become animated film makers.
NASA
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting
Watch or view a NASA podcast or video.
National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpedi
tions/hall/index.html
Want to go on an adventure? Visit the interactive museum that takes
you on geography journeys. Here you’ll climb a mountain, hover over
the Earth, speed across Europe, visit an archaeological dig, and even
order sushi.
Photo Editing
Take a photo of a leaf and use the image editing features in GIMP to
crop, recolour, resize etc.
Picassa
Edit photos and share online in school intranet. Photos can be grouped
and tagged for easy indexing, slideshows or albums can be created for
projects.
Podcasting
Do you have to read poetry out loud in class? How about creating a
podcast of you narrating a piece of poetry. You could even create some
original music and an image-capture function on your computer to
enhance your poem.
Subscribe to podcasts to keep up-to-date with the latest information for
your assignments. ABC Health has some interesting topics. You will need
to use Podcasting software such as iTunes.
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Poll Daddy
www.polldaddy.com/
Create a class poll on favourite sports using ‘poll daddy’ and include it in
a blog or wiki.
PowerPoint
Create presentations using Powerpoint for assessment purposes, class
reports, debating notes etc.
Create a class PowerPoint. Each member of the class is to create a slide
about themselves. The class will need to work together to put their
individual slides into one PowerPoint. The class PowerPoint could be put
on the school intranet for the school community to look at. It also could
be used for other teachers to look at and get to know the class.
PowerPoint animation
Did you know you can use PowerPoint to animate by using automatic
transition between slides? Demonstrate a rocket taking off using
PowerPoint.
PowerPoint for Storyboarding
Are you selling something such as a car or even yourself? Create an
advertisement and use PowerPoint slides to storyboard your ideas.
Premier's Reading Challenge
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/prc/stud
ents/default.htm
Keep an up to date log on the books you have been reading and keep a
record card of all the books you have been reading.
Publisher - Class Newspaper
Use Publisher to create a class newspaper. The class could be divided
into small groups to research and report on a specific section for the
newspaper. The class will need to work together to compile each of their
sections into one document. It could be placed on the school intranet for
the school community to read.
Create a web site, invitation or poster.
Science WebQuest
www.glencoe.com/sec/science/webquest/
content/wormclass.shtml
Studying biology? Want to learn more about the different types of
worms and other invertebrates? This is the webquest for you.
Scratch
Create interactive stories and games online. Students can use Scratch to
develop narratives in English or recount historical events. Through
simple programming students can also develop Maths skills.
Screen Cast-o-Matic
www.screencast-o-matic.com/
Use this free application to create a tutorial or demo of anything on your
computer using voice and presentation software. It will upload to a
remote server automatically.
Screen Shots
Use a series of screenshots to create a 'how to use' information sheet
about a specific task such as editing a photo.
Sfett
http://sfett.com/
View the video to view some digital stories made from students in
California. How professional do they look? Model a digital storytelling
project upon one of these examples.
Skype
www.skype.com
Connect to other students via audio or video conference to find out
about global issues.
Survey monkey
This survey tool allows you to create surveys on any topic of interest
from collecting data on favourite sports to discussing nutrition and
healthy diet.
Ted
www.ted.com/
Listen to and comment on an inspiring talk by ‘the world’s greatest
thinkers and doers’!
Thesaurus
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
Doing poetry or story writing? Want to learn about alternatives words go to this site and see what you come up with.
Tux Type
Typing tutorial for students to practice touch typing skills.
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Using spreadsheets and graphs
Doing an experiment in one of your classes and collecting data. Put the
data in a spreadsheet and communicate it visually in professional
looking graphs - could be a bar, line or pie graph. It is up to you!
Voice Thread
www.voicethread.com
Upload photos and sound bytes to voice thread ,use a microphone to
add your voice and commentary. Your presentation can be shared with
others through the internet!
Voki
www.voki.com/
Create a Voki character and record your voice. You could share your
learning goals or explain a task. You can use your Voki as an ‘avatar’
(picture of ‘yourself’) and also embed a Voki in a blog or wiki.
Create two Voki characters that you can you as an 'avatar'. One that you
think your classmates will identify as you and another character that you
do not think your classmates will identify as you. Get the class to
identify who the Voki characters belong to and provide reasons for their
choice.
WebQuest
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/teacher/
Global/webquests.htm
Webquests provide opportunities for students to communicate and
collaborate online. Check out the Great wall of China webquest or create
your webquest with your class.
Widget
Search for widgets that will support your learning, online calendar,
graphic calculators, rss feeds and download them to your desktop.
Studying climate in Australia/ Insert a temperature widget into your blog
to track temperatures around Australia.
Wiki
Create a wiki to help with the organisation of a school camp and school
fete.
Windows Movie Maker
Import your own digital video footage into MovieMaker to edit and
create your own movie for posting to a blog or include in a school
production.
Word - Hyperlinking
Create a document with hyperlinks.
Word and Diagram Gallery
Use the diagram gallery to show the steps needed to reach a goal, for
example to complete an assignment.
Word and Graphic Organisers
Use Word's drawing features to present your information in a graphic
organiser. Create a sunshine wheel to show good food sources of fibre.
Word and Hierarchical Charts
Use Word's drawing features to create a hierarchical chart that shows
the classification of animals.
Word and Venn Diagrams
Use Word's drawing features to create a Venn diagram that identifies
the similarities and differences of physical development of males and
females.
Word template and storytelling
Create a simple eight page booklet. Create a suitable story that will suit
this booklet. Use a Word template to make the booklet. Experiment with
the use of text and images and add to the template. Fold the paper
according to the directions and voila, you have a booklet without
staples.
Youth Central
http://www.youthcentral.vic.gov.au/
youth central offers a range of information and advice on issues like
Zimmertwins
www.zimmertwins.com
Watch the tutorial to learn how to create animations with Evan and
Edgar. Create your own animations. Save to the site (keep settings
private and use a nickname!)
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jobs, study, travel, money and events in your local area - wherever you
live in Victoria - whilst offering opportunities for you to participate.