Communication

=Communication=

====In the Australian Curriculum students develop ICT competence as they learn to use ICT effectively and appropriately when investigating, creating and communicating ideas and information at home, at school, at work and in their communities.====



Communicating with ICT
Students use ICT to communicate ideas and information with others and collaboratively construct knowledge, in adherence with social protocols appropriate to the communicative context (purpose, audience and technology). They:
 * share, exchange and collaborate to enhance learning by:
 * sharing information, such as on social networking sites
 * exchanging information through reciprocal communication, such as by email, instant messaging, bulletin boards, online friends, public forums, blogs, video conferencing
 * collaborating and collectively contributing to a product, such as using wiki project management tools, file management, online docs, interactive whiteboard software
 * understand and apply social protocols to:
 * receive, send and publish taking into account characteristics of users, such as culture, gender, location, status, and expertise, and the permanence of digital histories
 * apply techniques or strategies to ensure security of information to:
 * control levels of access to sites
 * protect files
 * block inappropriate users and report abuse.

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Skype
The possibilities of Skype to flatten your classroom are endless.
 * 1) Interview authors, astronauts and other amazing individuals from around the world.
 * 2) Collaborate with classrooms, businesses and more in multi-disciplinary projects.
 * 3) Explore a volcano, rainforest, or history museum in virtual fieldtrips with experts in the field or even share your field trip experiences with others.
 * 4) Practice conversational foreign languages with native speakers.
 * 5) Provide additional support for students needing extra attention or unable to come to class.
 * 6) Invite a guest lecturer from leading educators and experts from anywhere in the world.
 * 7) Explore foreign cultures first hand with classroom to classroom video conferencing.
 * 8) Broadcast a performance or project to parents and families unable to make it to school.
 * 9) Access and share professional development opportunities with educators on the go.
 * 10) Collaborate with innovative educators to plan units, lessons, and more.

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What is Twitter? It is 140 characters micro blogging social media site. Social Media is content that has been created by its audience. To use social media successfully you create conversations, conversations create communities. ICT as General Capability- One component of ICT competence is when students communicate with ICT: exchanging ideas and information with others while adhering to social protocols appropriate to the communicative context (purpose, audience and technology).
 * Some Classroom Ideas **
 * Gather real-world data
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Notice Board- Notify students of changes to course content, schedules, venues or other important information.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Summaries- Ask students to read an article or chapter and then post their brief summary or précis of the key point(s). A limit of 140 characters demands a lot of academic discipline.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Share a hyperlink – a directed task for students – each is required to regularly share one new hyperlink to a useful site they have found.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">‘Twitter Stalking’ Follow a famous person and document their progress. Better still if this can be linked to an event (During the recent U.S. Presidential elections, many people followed @BarackObama and kept up to date with his speeches, etc).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">‘Time Tweet’ Choose a famous person from the past and create a twitter account for them – choose an image which represents the historical figure and over a period of time write regular tweets in the role of that character, in a style and using the vocabulary you think they would have used (e.g. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hold discussions -All students participate because a sequence of contributors is agreed beforehand.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Progressive collaborative writing - Students agree to take it in turns to contribute to an account or ‘story’ over a period of time.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Modern language learning- Send tweets in foreign languages and ask students to respond in the same language or to translate the tweet into their native language.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Give it a standard story opener and tweet this to your network
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ask network to continue the story in tweets, collaborating with the previous tweets and following them.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Any topic that has an open question to ask
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students discussing current economic climate might be: SaveOrSpend. Ask pupils to tweet @SaveOrSpend which they think is the wisest thing to do with your hard earned cash, or Government taxes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Let parents follow what you are up to
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Put up a tweet asking people to give you their location.Class first estimate distance from school, then use an atlas to gauge distance.Then using Google Earth - can place mark where they are and find out distances.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Give children individually the twitter 140 characters rule - they have to write story introduction, character description or whole story.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Use a twitter poll to collect and graph opinions about a controversial issue- []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Word Morph - send out a word and have your network give the students synonym and other meanings, thereby testing the literacy strength of your PLN. Or have classrooms connect during writing workshops.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Find someone in another class, school, country who is interested in the same topic you are. Following each other on Twitter, share information, resources and ideas.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Help each other find answers or even suggest questions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Based on a novel or short story...
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">After a study of point of view and character development
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students become a character. Students use their study of that character to create conversations around key events in the plot
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Would be even more interesting to focus on events and situations that are omitted from the text, but referred to, so the students are creating their own fiction based on their knowledge of the writer, the time period, and the characters
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Use a Twitter widget for instant webpage updates
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">While they work, stimulate your students to tweet and reply about:
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In this way, Twitter replaces the students logbook //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">stuff they learn
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">difficulties they face
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">tips they want to share
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">great resources they find

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- sharing <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- reflecting <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- engaging <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- inquiring & <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- reporting
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">When learning about probability and the language of chance in mathematics, use your Twitter network to offer a real world response to your questions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Scavenger Hunt- Have students find websites, pictures, or other online documents that fit a certain criteria related to your subject area.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Teach bite-sized information
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Twitter as a Research Diary- If you are a researcher, you may use twitter as a research diary for your daily classroom findings through:

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Invite your others to check your progress of 'what you are doing' and to offer you instant advice & feedback
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students use twitter to report real time ICT news events.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Create a newspaper of your daily twitters [|http://paper.li]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Revision challenges
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Type in a keyword ("communism", "appeasement", "poverty" - whatever) Then watch the results come pouring in using twitterfall! <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Create a list about a topic for an exam your children are revising for, then post a daily (they could be more than one a day) challenge in the form of a question, task, etc...
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Notetaking- Students can take their notes during a class in the backchannel.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sharing Resources- Students can also look online for information that supplements the lecture or class discussion.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Commenting-Students can also comment on the ideas being share or discussed in class.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Amplifying Ideas
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Offering Suggestions- It gives students a voice in where a class discussion goes. Students can suggest discussion topics or questions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Building Community-discussions can help students get to know each other in a variety of ways.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Opening the Classroom- Some backchannels are private; that is, only the instructor and students can see or link to wider community.