Die Schüler müssen – genau wie der Lehrer – über das grundlegende Know How in der Benutzung der Computer, der Software und des Internets verfügen. Dazu gehören beispielsweise: |
Wissen, wie und wo Ergebnisse gespeichert werden - lokal (auf dem eigenen Computer) oder online (persönliche oder gemeinsame Online-Dateiablagen).Erweiterte Kenntnisse des Strukturierens, Benennens und Zippens von Dateien und OrdnernGrundkenntnisse der wichtigsten Funktionen von Textbearbeitung, Tabellenkalkulation, Präsentationsprogrammen mit geeigneten Office-Anwendungen (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, GoogleDocs…)Grundkenntnisse der Bildbearbeitung und geeigneter ProgrammeErweiterte Kenntnisse der Arbeit mit Netzwerken, Plattformen, Wikis, Blogs.Kenntnis der Funktionen und Möglichkeiten sozialer Netzwerke („Web 2.0“)Kenntnis professioneller Suchfunktionen (lokal und online) Kenntnisse der in der Schule verwendeten Lern-, Übungs- und ggf. Simulationsprogramme. Read more at www.guterunterricht.de |
Image Reading
Welcome to the first etwinning Workshop – we hope you will enjoy the experience.
The global village in which we live is 'visually closer' to us than ever before, due to the internet and mobile phone technology and websites such as Flickr provide opportunities to share our personal responses to the 'visual' with others, exchanging ideas and learning together.
Digital images and photographs provide opportunities for teaching and learning in the classroom. The process of responding to images, discussing images ,interpreting images and sharing viewpoints about the meaning of images, provide opportunities to learn together and develop new intercultural perspectives.
Workshop Stages
Stage 1
Flickr is an image and video hosting website and online community platform. We have created an image reading set of images on Flickr for you to use
There are 69 images with titles, but no other information. We would like you to save six (6) images and for each image write down: Your first response to the picture – meaning, interpretation, issues. |
| If you have a flicker or Yahoo account you can post responses to the images in flicker! |
| You can save the 6 images to our Image Gallery's Image reading folder. It is in this same page. Use the classic image loader. You can post the responses to the images description field also after uploading. You just need to open the image from the folder and click the edit button at the bottom. If you want to make your own folder to Image Gallery, first create a folder with you name, no description info, save your folder. Then open your folder to upload images. Use the classic image uploader. |
| Third option is to come back to learning lab site and post responses to >> Message Boards >> Category: Image reading, responses to flicker images. In the message you can include the URL (hyperlink to the image) to each image in flicker (activate the image in flicker and copy the URL from URL window) and write your responses. There is and example posting by Jukka (Jukka's example). |
Stage 2
Using Flickr we would like you to search for 6 different images you would use for a project in school and begin by writing your responses, these images could be about any topic relevant to you, global warming, sport, history.
http://www.flickr.com/search/ |
| If you write the idea into the flicker image then just copy the images URL and paste it to your wall >> My places >> Wall |
| Or you can save these images to the Image Gallery's Image reading 2 folder and insert the writing to the description field. |
Or you can come back to learning lab site and post responses to >> Message Boards >> Category: Image reading, images that I found. In the message you can include the URL (hyperlink to the image) to each image in flicker (activate the image in flicker and copy the URL from URL window) and write your idea of how to use this image in school.
There is an example post by Jukka (Jukka's example) |
Have a look at the flicker images comments in flicker and in Image Gallery's Image reading and posts to Message Board's Image reading. Reflect and share ideas with others by commenting. Pay attention especially to those who have chosen the same images as you have and then have a look what is said about the other images. Comment in a positive but constructive way, give something to build on. |
| Comment on what others have responded, positively. |
| After commenting and thinking about stages 1 to 3 go back to your 6 images for school. Develop the ideas a bit further and have another look at what others have produced. Reflect, share ideas and give constructive and positive comments. |
It is time to look back at the entire process and think about what we all did together and each one individualy. This we can share with others by posting messages to Message Board or by giving feedback directly to our fellow members. |
At the end of the day we should have a collection of images in the Image Gallery or Message Board acompanied with a set of ideas how to use them in educational context and we might have comments and feedback from members of this community. We might have 6 URL's in our own profile wall or blog. And we might have a bran new flicker account and lots of new ideas for getting responses to images! Read more at learninglab.etwinning.net |
Each learning event day has a different set of learning themes. A learning theme or learning event consists of stages (6) that follow the Progressive Inquiry process (I Setting up the context, II Setting the learning goal, III Creating working theories, IV Searching deepening knowledge, V New Theory and VI Distributed Expertise) |
Each learning event starts with a setting up the context, example, idea, experience or question.
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Second step is about setting the research problem (learning goal), which in our case is always more or less the same: Is this (example or idea presented) creative use of media? How is it creative? Why is it creative? What is creative and what is media? Etc. |
Third step is to realize and become aware of our own intuitive conceptions and prior knowledge (how do I understand this?) and to create working theories to test them (How can I find out if I am right or wrong?). |
Fourth step is to search and create new information by experimenting and collaborating - Search for deepening knowledge. This is the fun part where we try things our selves and find out what others have done and why. For this we also use commenting and discussions so that we have something to build on stage 5. |
Fith step is the one for Creation of new knowledge and new theory. New and fresh experiences and interactions produce new interpretations and shared knowledge. These new theories and experiences are formed and shared and reflected on forums and blogs, sometimes accompanied with web forms and pols.
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| Sixth step is not actually the sixth and last step. In reality it takes place between and inside all other stages .Core function in Progressive Inquiry is Distributed expertise. Sharing and reflecting our experiences and explanations help us create ground and structure for new knowledge. Distributed expertise can take place at any point of the working model, it can happen between each step or stage depending on the problem at hand. In our learning events we use blogs, forums, Skype etc. and web forms as tools to distribute expertise among participants, but we also utilize the expertise in different web resources in the form of video, sound, articles etc. Distributed expertize can have many forms but when it is interactive and real time it works the best. |
Progressive inquiry is a pedagogical model which aims at facilitating the same kind of productive knowledge practices of working with knowledge in education that characterize scientific research communities. It was developed as a pedagogical and epistemological framework to support teachers and students in organizing their activities for facilitating expert-like working with knowledge. It emphasizes shared expertise and collaborative work for knowledge building and inquiry by setting up the context, using questions, explanations, theories, and scientific information in the cycle of deepening inquiry. It is often used with computer-supported collaborative learning. The model has evolved from the initial cognitively oriented one toward versions that highlight pragmatic and socio-cultural aspects of inquiry. |
n a progressive inquiry process, the teacher creates a context for inquiry by presenting a multidisciplinary approach to a theoretical or real-life phenomenon, after which the students start defining their own questions and intuitive working theories about it. Students’ questions and explanations are shared and evaluated together, which directs the utilization of authoritative information sources and iterative elaboration of subordinate study questions and more advanced theories, explanations and writings. The model is not meant prescriptively, as an ideal path to be followed rigidly; rather it offers conceptual tools to describe, understand and take into account the critical elements in collaborative knowledge-advancing inquiry. (Wikipedia) The progressive inquiry model is introduced in a Finnish book, Progressive Inquiry: Overcoming Limitations of Human Intelligent Activity (Hakkarainen, Lonka & Lipponen, 1999) as well as in a Finnish teacher guide Information and Communication Technologies at Tools of Progressive Inquiry (Hakkarainen et al., 1999). |
About us This workshop is presented by Jukka Orava and Pete Worrall who have collaborative background dating back to 1999 when they started working together in the European Schoolnet Virtual School. Jukka Orava is eLearning specialist currently working as eLearning special planner for City of Helsinki Education departments Media Center. He worked over 12 years as teacher trainer and researcher in the University of Art and Design Helsinki and the Open  University. He has been teaching and researching media education, eLearning, ePedagogy and new media. Jukka has designed and conducted numerous multiform art and media education courses. He has also worked in upper secondary and secondary school. On International level Jukka has worked as coordinator for Art Department in the European Schoolnet Virtual School project (1999-2005) and as steering committee member in EU Prometheus Initiative. He has a decade long experience in international collaboration and curriculum development. He is working on doctoral thesis about developing media education and eLearning. Peter Worrall is currently working as Client Support Manager at Uniservity. For most of his professional career he has taught Art  and Design at school and university levels.
In addition to his role as a teacher, he is a practising artist, freelance educational consultant and writer, who has been using a range of technologies including computers since 1988. His publications include ‘Electric Studio’ (postgraduate students workshop practice), ‘Cultural Identity, Digital Media and Art’ (a project developed in Brazil) and ‘Art through IT’ which presents a range of projects for the 5 – 11 age range.
His specific research area is in ‘new media studio practice’. During the last 12 years he has coordinated and published both offline, online and onsite media projects in Brazil, France, Holland, Finland, Portugal, Estonia and USA.
From 1999 until 2005, he developed material and projects for the Virtual School Art Department with colleagues in Finland, Sweden and Brazil. More recently he has gained experience exploring new creative approaches using ICT with special needs pupils and hard to reach groups, through developing links with art galleries and museums.
In the United Kingdom he has worked with National Agencies including The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTa) and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA).
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Read more at learninglab.etwinning.net |
Welcome to the Classroom Google Earth wiki. |
Welcome to the Classroom Google Earth wiki. |
Welcome to the Classroom Google Earth wiki. |
| Photo Mixing and Slideshows |
| Photo Printing/Book Creation |
iStockPhoto - royalty-free images for low prices; there aren’t any completely free photos here, but photo quality is above average
Fotolia - Another cheap royalty-free image provider, with nearly 2 million photos in stock
SXC.hu - one of the best (and biggest) repositories of completely free stock photography on the net.
MorgueFile - provides completely free photos; no registration required to download.
PixelPerfectDigital - 5000+ free stock photos
StockXpert - the commercial arm of Stock Xchange; offers cheap but quality royalty-free material
Alamy - Alamy is a search engine for stock photos which boasts millions of images from thousands of photographers, picture agencies and national collections. The site does the editing and classification of the images. |
PicSearch - image search with some interesting options; for example, you can choose to search only black and white or color photos.
YotoFoto - a search engine which claims to be indexing over a quarter million Creative Commons, Public Domain, GNU FDL, and various other ‘copyleft’ images.
Google Image Search - a resource so commonly used it doesn’t need a special explanation; still one of the best ways to find images of any kind on the web.
Pixsy - Image search engine that’s striking a lot of partnerships. Also provides PixsyPower, a custom video and photo search for your own site.
StockPhotoFinder - a search engine specialized in finding stock photos.
EveryStockPhoto - this site is indexing over 1 million completely free photos from various sources. |
Snapfish - Snapfish is run by HP, they let you store and share your photos for free, and prints are cheap with highest quality at 12¢ each. You can also have things like mugs and cards made with your pictures on them.
Fotki - A photo-sharing and hosting site, you can share you photos with others or use it with your blog. It has some unique features like FTP access, and users can choose to sell their photos. There is an integrated printing service that lets you print at many different sizes at good prices.
KodakGallery - Kodak Gallery is owned by Kodak (no surprise there), like the other they let you store and share photos and then make prints and have custom gifts made.
Shutterfly - Shutterfly not only lets you store and share photos and then have them printed, you can also pic up your prints right at Target stores.
Moo - Moo currently has partnerships with many social networks including Flickr, VoxVox reviews , and Bebo, you can print small minicards and notecards with the photos you have uploaded to these sites. |
Slide - create slideshows easily and embed them on your site or social networking profile.
RockYou - offers several free services, including slideshow creation, photo hosting, photo enhancement and more.
Scrapblog - An online service that lets you upload your photos from many of the popular photo sharing websites and mash them up with hundreds of stickers, shapes, text and YouTube videos to create a digital scrapbook
Vuvox - Vuvox lets you create online animated and interactive slideshows using a range of effects, theme templates and designs
Mixercast - Mixercast lets you mashup your photos and movies into animated, interactive slide shows and throws in ag ood library of stock photo, video and licensed music to use as a soundtrack
Flektor - Flektor has a great set of tools for adding transitions, text, stickers, effects and overlays into movies made out of your photos and online videos |
SnapZone - An online service that lets you upload your photos directly from your mobile via a wireless connection. Snapzone allows you to free up space on your phone”s memory while also giving you an instantaneous way to share your images with friends. SnapZone is also a community site, so if your friends join you can use it to share your pictures easily in one place.
Fotochatter - network that enables you to share mobile pictures with your friends, as well as receive images from your buddies on your phone
Radar - creates picture conversations - you send your pictures to Radar and your friends can instantly see them and comment on them
Shozu - Mobile uploading to photo sites including Flickr. |
Digital-Photography-School - Darren Rowse’s photo tips.
Thomas Hawk - Zooomr’s Thomas Hawk on photography, Zooomr, Flickr and general tech news.
PhotoCritic - A site for photography criticism, with the intention of allowing photographers to critique each others’ work and share opinions, suggestions, and professional tips.
FlickrBlog - While it’s not exclusively a photo blog, but from time to time the Flickr staff will pick a few photos and feature them on the blog and the users see this as a big honor.
DPreview - practically the only resource you’ll ever need for digital cameras; incredibly in-depth and timely reviews of most models available on the market
Shutterlog - some great photos here with attention to detail.
Chromasia - no words, only great photos
Stuck In Customs - blog by one of the greatest HDR photographers on the net
Black and White Photography - great photo blog focusing on B&W photos. |
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