Yaron Overeem - ICT in Education

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2010-10-24T14:29:00.001+13:00

www.yaron.overeem.co.nz

birthday wish

2009-11-27T11:50:00.002+13:00

2009-10-30T17:10:00.002+13:00

Just downloaded a blogger app
cool
Yaron

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Juniors can do it!

2009-03-13T11:09:00.001+13:00

Juniors can do "IT" - Ideas for the Implementation of ICT with Juniors

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2009-02-27T10:04:00.006+13:00

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What Leads to Success

2009-02-13T12:09:00.001+13:00

2009-02-12T13:40:00.006+13:00

We all know this is a picturetrail but did you notice that it has no ad on the bottom.

to do this is you add your picture trail. then you can simply click on the ad buttons and delete them. great for integrating into your site with out ads or doing you own coding.

In Wonder: Sqirlz Morph

2008-12-09T09:02:00.005+13:00

This last few weeks I have been using In Sqirlz Morph to put together a movie video for church. Sqirlz Morph allows you to take one picture and morph it into another.
Watch this whole video. It has flowers, eyes, animals, and insects morphing.
I have also done this with a small group of kids. They morphed their faces. They each took a normal plain face picture and then a funny face. They combined the group photos and morphed them. Lots of fun!!

Microsoft PhotoSynth

2008-11-20T09:15:00.002+13:00

Hi All just looking at Microsoft Synth today. It is a kind of 3d photo maker thing. You basically take a series of photos eg of your bedroom and photosynth reads them all and makes them into a 3d environment you can navigate around.
go to http://photosynth.net/ to download the program.
once you download it then you can view the examples.
Check out the demo below
http://photosynth.net/learn.aspx

Go to photosynth

Embedding Website into your Blog

2008-11-10T12:35:00.006+13:00

If you want to embed a website into your Blog or wiki try using this code. Click here copy code.

Just replace the two HTTP:// address and paste into your Blog or wiki.
This is great if you want kids to embed information from a website with out copy and pasting or if you want to provide info without kids leaving your Blog or wiki.

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Marvin

2008-10-19T12:47:00.004+13:00

Well this is not really freeware but is heavily subsidised by the mined. there is just a admin fee of $200 for 5years i think. you can install it on all teacher, classroom, personal computer and it can be sent come home with kids to install at home.
Marvin is a 3D presentation tool supported by Microsoft.
you have a variety of characters to choose from. People through to cartoon characters. in all about 100.
You can animate these characters with there preset animations. Have a look at my demo that i did for church.
It was introduced at Learning@schools as a kids friendly program. But it is actually more for year 6 up. It is not as easy as they make out.
one plus with this software is once you are done you can export it as a AVI file so it will run on any machine. One problem with this is that not all computers support the AI codec that it uses.

In all, a neat program to play with but I'm not convinced it is usable to a large extent in the classroom.
One of the niggles is that the character all have different animations. Some of the basic functions like walk, point, wave... are not included in each character.
the other is that it takes a grunty machine to publish it as a decent AVI. Even my teacher lap top struggled on the lowest quality setting.

If you want to know more go to Mavin's website http://www.marvin.com.au/ look for the education section.

SmartNotebook

2008-10-13T14:09:00.005+13:00

One of my favorite bits of software is Smart notebook. This software is meant to be used with a Smart Board but can be used with just a projector. You just don't get the touch interactiveness. The new version (10) is not free but the older version (9) is. there is not much difference so is worth a download. It is a big file so be patient. Click here
basic tutorial.

Basics Click here 1
Gallery Basics Click Here

My own basic demo. comming soon

101 free learning tools.

2008-10-13T11:42:00.001+13:00

Great little slide show.

101 Free Learning Tools

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: thinking tools)

My Favorite Freeware!

2008-09-30T19:34:00.007+13:00

Over the next few weeks I will show you some of my favorite freeware. As you may know i like to pay nothing for my software. Often I am surprised with the amount and quality of Freeware out there.

My first set of freeware are audio related programs.

1) Audacity. Many people have heard of and been using audacity for a long time. It is worth a mention because of its flexibility and ease of use.

Audacity is basically a audio recording program but it does much more. You can use its effects to do some great tricks to your recording or audio that you have.

Audacity is great if you are a pod caster or are in to movie making. It can export to both Wav and MP3 which is a very handy trick. If you are doing the dreaded School Production and need to cut out that extra chorus or unwanted verse Audacity is great. Just zoom in to where you want to cut and simply highlight and delete.

2) Kristal: Kristal is not so well known but is a great bit of software. It is a step up from Audacity. It is more of a Music creator than a recorder. For you Mac people is similar to Garage Band but no where as good.

Basically you are able to record multiple stands of audio. You could have a drum strand, guitar strand, vocal... You can copy and paste parts or repeat bits as you need. It also have an Equalizer and effects so you can do all sorts of things to each strand (audio) this allowing you to balance everything so it will sound just as you want.

I have posted on this program so if you want to see an example look here

Ideas for using this software are:

-Making audio books with sound effects and more.

-pod casting

-movie making. If you know movie maker it only allows you one line of audio. This is a pain when it comes to adding vocal if you already have background music. Using Kristal you can mix the vocal and music plus more together before importing it into movie maker.

One con to Kristal is that it does not export to MP3. So I use either Audacity or mp3-2-wav converter which is also freeware.

Here is a screen shot.

Audio Recorder for Free : If you don't want to do anything but record a simple bit of audio then this is the freeware for you. If you have tried using Windows Sound recorder and find it only records 60 seconds of audio then use this. It has unlimited recording time. It will also record in either Wav, Mp3 or WMA.

Fairgo Ad Awards

2008-09-26T09:43:00.005+12:00

Well done Waipu Primary School for taking out Second spot in the FairGo ad awards.
I worked with this group of kids for 5 sessions to pull this ad together. They did a wonderful job along with their teacher Anne Green. This is the first year they entered and they won $1000 and a flash Canon Video recorder.

Animation in Power Point

2008-09-18T20:20:00.003+12:00

This is a Power Point animation I did with 8 kids last year.
We used power point to draw the characters, then worked on individual slides to animate the characters.
Once we had done the animation and automated the slide transitions we captured the slide show using "Freez Screen Video Capture"
Once all is captured we put it all into Movie Maker and narrated it.
Easy!!

GoAnimate

2008-09-16T20:18:00.006+12:00

Have a look at this. I have been playing with GoAnimate.
Well worth looking into with your senior class. Great for reading response or follow up.
Also great for those boys who struggle to keep motivated when it comes to doing things on paper.
You could use it for kids who have written a narrative or play to take it to the next level and come up with a neat end product.
You could use it as an introduction of characters for kid to use in a narrative.
A great way for kids to present a message. E.g fire safety, road safety, bullying...

Here is another Example from Laura D'Elia's
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/980032898.html

ICT in the Classroom Ideas.

2008-09-15T11:52:00.004+12:00

Click here to see a list of Ideas for ICT in the typical Classroom. PDF File.

Reflections - letting the reigns go

2008-09-11T18:34:00.003+12:00

Something I have been thinking about this year is, "does our current education systems allowe for change?".
My thinking is that skills and technology is no longer the major issue in bringing ICT in to schools. The real issue is how, or if, schools will make the "change" happen.
The theme of "letting the reigns go".
When you put inquiry, ICT, and integration together you can no longer work within the parameters of "normal" planning and management systems.

There are two key areas to "letting the reigns go".
1) Teachers need to let go. Teachers need to allow students to take more responsibility in how they communicate their learning. Differentiating the content, process, product and learning environment.
2) The school needs to be more flexible with how individuals plan and manage their classrooms. There seemed to be a consensus between presenters that having too much emphasis school wide focuses can actually stifle creativity and the use of ICT.

Audio books in Kristal

2008-09-10T14:34:00.012+12:00

I have been playing around with making some simple audio books in Kristal (Kristal: Click Here to download),

We record each page separately then add sound effects for turn page, and then a bit of music at the beginning and end.

This is what it looks like in Kristal.

One thing you do need to remember to do with Kristal is add "Tabs" from where the recording begins and where it ends. You do this by holding Ctrl and right click on the time line. This allows you to then export as wave.

Waipu TV Add Awards

2008-09-10T14:12:00.007+12:00

This year Room 2 at Waipu Primary School, just outside Whangarei (New Zealand), entered a competition to make an add about their local town. It was not to show the "normal" attractions of the area.
Their concept was very original and plays on the towns name.
Why Poo in Waipu.
Worth a look!
What is always interesting about this type of projects is the amount of other skills the kids and teacher learns while completing the task. In this project they learned about google earth, how to capture google earth to AVI (Click here to download Freez Screen Video Capture Software)
combining music and narration using (Kristal: Click Here), editing move, taking good video, capturing video, and so much more.
Along with the technical come the language activities like script writing, story boarding, presenting...

Thanks Allanah!

2008-09-10T12:13:00.005+12:00

My first post is a heart felt thank you to Allanah King for coming up to Whangarei to talk to a group of ICT lead teachers and then a staff meeting of "normal" teachers.

Poor Allanah had every single one of her flights up here cancelled or delayed.

Allanah took my lead teachers on a session of podcasting. It was greatfully recived. Infact I have just spent the last 45 minutes with one of the teachers finding some podcasting sites for her kids to listen to in the classroom via itunes.

It was fantasic to work with someone who not just uses podcasts personaly but who also knows how to get kids to make them and sustain a realistic classroom program at he same time.

Here are a few Pic from our day.

Thanks again Allanah!