VLE Jenny & Anne Maree

Living and Learning in an Online World

Children communicating using Online Environments to share their knowledge & understandings of Sustainability

Jenny Rohan & Anne Maree Jones

AUDIENCE & PURPOSE
St.Joseph's and Holy Saviour are endeavouring to teach their students Sustainable practices. Our project is designed for both schools to learn, collaborate and share their knowledge through the use of a variety of web 2.0 tools. The children participating in this online project are primary school children in Grades 4, 5 and 6 who are approximately aged between 9-12 years of age and have daily access to computers and the internet at their respective schools. Our responsibility as educators is to provide learning opportunities for students to utilise these tools which prepare them with the skills for contributing to a world where “they will spend their lives in a multi tasking, technology driven, diverse, vibrant world’ http://www.thegateway.org/teaching-learning).

This blog is designed for fellow Flexible Learning Environment students to access and trial and explore our online activites designed for our children as directed in Assignment 2. The two tasks that we want Flexible Learning Environments peers to complete is to watch tutorial video Voki and Bitstrip and respond through Praze software. We have created two tutorial videos using Camtasia software to demonstrate how to use these online tools. Please find links to the tutorials below.Don't forget to click on Sustainable Sally to hear what the children need to do to complete tasks.

Voki
An online tool that allows student to create a character and add text or voice and publish on the web.

Bitstrips
Is an online comic strips allows students to create a comics and publish them on the web.

Both these tasks are being used as web 2 tools that assist children in investigating and responding to Sustainability Practices.

Please feel free to peruse and provide feedback on other elements of our cross collaborative project which includes use of a variety of web 2.0 tools:

myclasses (Learning Management System) called Sustainability (This LMS contains a variety of tools including forums, discussion room, journals as well as weblinks and documents).
blogs - both edublog (St.Joseph's) and blogger (Holy Saviour)
wikis - using wikispaces

(all these sites are a work in progress and will be developed over time)

EVALUATION QUESTIONS

Please click on link below where Jenny and Anne Maree have posted their Evaluation questions.

Evaluation Questions using Wiki Spaces

Your feedback can be posted on the above Wikispaces link using the discussion tab at the top. Thank You