Mindtools for Geography Teachers

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Mindtools for Geography Teachers

• Teaching for Conceptual Development

Terry Fogarty B.A (Hon1), MEd, MACE, MACS,
PCP tfogarty_at_une.edu.au
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Whats behind technology in the classroom?

• Goal 1.6 National Goals for Schooling in the
  21st Century states inter alia that when
  students leave schools they should be confident,
  creative, productive and responsible users of
  new technologies, including ICT (MCEETYA, 1999).

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Competence
Source NSW Institute of Teachers, 2004
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Virtually every secondary teacher is now expected
to teach ICT
Source NSW Board of Studies, 2002
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In teaching for conceptual development teachers
will use ICT to
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In teaching for conceptual development, teachers
use ICT to 9 simple elements for teaching
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What is a Mindtool?

• Computer applications that, when used by
  learners to represent what they know, necessarily
  engage them in critical thinking about the
  content they are studying.

David Jonassen, 1996
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Mindtools for teachers?

• Software applications (preferably free) that
  teachers can use to teach conceptual development
• Two types
• Desktop applications
• Web-based applications

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Desktop Applications

• Need to be installed at school and at home
• Sometimes difficult if school restricts downloads
  or block sites
• May need to be maintained as new versions become
  available
• Can be used even if Internet not available

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Web-based applications

• Available anywhere, anytime
• Require connection to Internet to use
• Often not as feature-rich as desktop
  alternatives

Recommendation Consider both desktop and
web-based alternatives
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Web 2.0
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Word Processing
Empower students to select applications
http//www.openoffice.org/
http//docs.google.com
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Google for Educators
http//www.google.com/educators/index.html
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Web Browser
http//www.4-free.cc/
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Empressr (Presentations)
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Empower students to select modes of communication

• Synchronous Communications
• Appears to be real time
• Asynchronous Communications
• Delay between send and receive

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SynchronousCommunications
VOIP - Voice over IP
CHAT ROOM
Video Conference
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Web 2.0 Synchronicity
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flatplanet.wkispaces.com
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Asynchronous Communications
_at_email
Discussion Board
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Web 2.0 Asynchronicity
https//www.blogger.com/start
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Web 2.0 AsynchronicityRSSReally Simple
Syndication
Automatically delivers new web content to you!
http//www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
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GTA Forum
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Web 2.0 Asynchronicity RSS
Automatically delivers new web content to you!
http//rsspopper.blogspot.com/2004/10/home.html
http//www.google.com/help/reader/tour.html
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Make electronic resources available to students
for anytime access
MOODLE
http//www.moodle.org
MyClasses
LAMS
http//www.lamsinternational.com/
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Noodle (wiki)
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EdNA Moodle/LAMS Groups
FREE FOR TEACHERS
http//www.groups.edna.edu.au/
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Wikispaces for Educators
Free for teachers Add-free for students
http//www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers
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Make electronic resources available to students
for anytime access via Web 2.0
Podcasting
http//www.teachertube.com/
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Use information from online sources
http//www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/
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IMAX - Surviving the elements
http//www.imax.com.au/content/resources/Surviving
20the20Elements20Joint20Package20Info.pdf
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Beijing - CRD
http//crd.gov.cn/en/
http//www.smh.com.au/news/web/joining-the-dots-to
-new-virtualworlds/2007/08/06/1186252627367.html
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Juicy Geography
http//www.juicygeography.co.uk/ictres.htm
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MetLink
http//www.metlink.org/intro.php
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Radley College - UK
http//atschool.eduweb.co.uk/radgeog/HMC/hmc_html/
HTML/sld002.htm
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Use Learning Objects
http//www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/node98
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BELTS
http//www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/node98
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EdNA Learning Objects
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StudySearch
http//www.studysearch.com.au/
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Provide processing and presentation tools
MS Movie Maker
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MS Producer
http//www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/tech
nologies/producer.mspx
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Toondoo
http//www.toondoo.com/Home.do
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ReadWriteThink
http//www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/
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Engage students in simulations
http//www.epa.gov/recyclecity/gameintro.htm
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http//mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/
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http//geosim.cs.vt.edu/
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Engage students in modelling
www.sketchup.com
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Modeling
http//www.barnabu.co.uk/city-of-london-growth-tim
eline
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Engage students in creative activities
http//www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/11_16/site/g
eography.shtml
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NASA World Wind

• World Wind allows any user to zoom from
  satellite altitude into any place on Earth,
  leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and
  SRTM elevation data to experience Earth in
  visually rich 3D, just as if they were really
  there.

http//worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
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EduSpace
http//www.eduspace.esa.int/
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My Wonderful World
http//www.mywonderfulworld.org/
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Quikmaps
http//www.mywonderfulworld.org/
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ClustrMaps
http//clustrmaps.com/index.htm
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Mash-ups
http//www.programmableweb.com/mashups
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Encourage the use of games
Education Queensland
http//www.learningplace.com.au/deliver/content.as
p?pid7669
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Tasmanian Department of Education
http//www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/gamemaker/defaul
t.htm
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Gamemaker
FARM SIMULATOR
http//www.yoyogames.com/make
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Scratch
http//www.scratch.mit.edu/
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Test your knowledge of world geography alone or
against another online player.
www.geosense.net
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Encourage use of programs that contextualise
concepts

• Mind Mapping
• Note taking
• Sketching
• Information manager
• Journaling
• Idea organiser
• Outlining

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Encourage use of programs that contextualise
concepts
http//www.aypwip.org/webnote/
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Outliner
http//www.bruceeisner.com/mindware/2004/04/ecco_p
ro_one_of.html
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To Do Lists
http//www.tadalist.com/
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XTimeline
http//xtimeline.com/index.aspx
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Google Timeline Maps (Mash-up)
http//www.google.com/experimental/index.html
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Teachnology
http//www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/ti
melines/
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Concept/Mind Maps
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C-Map
http//cmap.ihmc.us/
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Bubbl.us
http//bubbl.us
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Mindmeister
http//www.mindmeister.com/
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Kayuda
http//kayuda.com/
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Mindomo
http//www.mindomo.com/
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Del.icio.us
http//del.icio.us/
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Problem solving using WikiMapia

• WikiMapia is a collaborative Web 2.0 project
  to describe the whole planet Earth. It was
  created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy
  Saveliev, inspired by Google maps and Wikipedia.

http//wikimapia.org/
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Puzzles Problems
http//www.playkidsgames.com/problem_solveGames.ht
m
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Geography Zone
The worlds largest online geography contest
http//www.geographyzone.com/new/index.php
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Web Quest Builder
http//www.aclresources.net/webquests/create.html
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Web Quest Builder
http//projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/m
ywebquest/index.htm
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Web Quest Builder
http//teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/web_que
st/
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Hot Potatoes
http//hotpot.uvic.ca/
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Puzzle Maker
http//puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
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Engage students with virtual objects
http//www.multimediaphoto.com/english/pano360/ind
ex.html
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http//volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/movies/Stromboli/Str
omboli.html
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Engage students with virtual worlds
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http//www.secondlife.com/
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http//www.secondlife.com/
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Other Mindtools for Teachers
http//www.camstudio.org/
http//audacity.sourceforge.net/
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PDF Online
https//www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp
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Communities of Practice

• Oz-teachers

There is some nice modelling of built environment
using Google Earth KMZ files and Sketchup in the
London Timeline project http//www.barnabu.co.uk/c
ity-of-london-growth-timeline/    There are also
several similar geospatial modelling activities
based on sealevel rise modelling, inc
Australia.   Plenty of geography-based wequests
too, depending on your definition of
geography.   kp  
http//lists.rite.ed.qut.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/o
z-teachers
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RubricMaker
http//rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
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Rubric Maker
http//teacher.scholastic.com/tools/rubric.htm
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Constructivist learning sequences
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Adapted Gágne Theory of Instruction
Nine Instructional Events
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What some schools are doing!
Stanhope Gardens
A 24-hour school with no traditional
classrooms and where students use mobile phones
and laptops to learn Pupils from
kindergarten to year 12 can attend the school
between 6am and 10pm.
Greg Whitby, executive director of schools in the
Parramatta diocese
Source SMH, October 2006
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What does the future hold?

• Immediate
• User created content
• Social netwoorking
• Two to three years
• Mobile phones
• Virtual worlds
• Four to five years
• New scholarship
• Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming (MMEG)

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IMAX ICT
http//www.imax.com.au/content/resources/IMAX_SYDW
ILDLIFE_STE.pdf
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Cartoons for Homework
http//www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/
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Top 100 Learning Tools
http//www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html
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Web Quest Builder
http//teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/web_que
st/