eBites presentation for uLearn 2011 - small bites of learning and teaching using apps, websites and digital tools.

2. Kimberley Rivett
@krivett1

3. Why ‘bite-sized’?
Manageable learning
Small amounts
Lots of ‘buy in’
Immediate feeling of success

4. staff meetings
team meetings
use googledocs
apps, sites, games, wikis, blogs, ideas

7. http://www.sites4primary.com/ best place to look for
new and fab educational sites that are already
reviewed and loved!
www.tpet.co.uk resources abound!
http://taggalaxy.de/ visual for photo finders – the kids
love the global effect!
http://www.earlylearninghq.org.uk/ resources free to
download

8. Techie Brekkies
colleagues suggest themes
students suggest themes
at each person’s level with support

9. Blogs/blogging
blogs and blogging – using google reader to follow top
bloggers
Quadblogging – teaching the art of giving feedback in
kidspeak http://quadblogging.net/
Teddies around the world project – learning about our
world/other cultures http://www.langwitches.org/blog/
travel/teddybearsaroundtheworld/
blog buddies

12. QR Codes
wiki wanderers
maths quizzes
information gathering for inquiry
learning

13. QR ideas
label it!
Q(R)uilt it!
have fun!
make art from it

14. QR Hunts

15. Maths QR Hunts

16. Webquests
use ones that exist
create your own
get class to create their own

18. https://sites.google.com/a/webkwestie.nl/new-7-
wonders-of-nature/Home

19. Google Forms
quizzes
knowledge bombs
reading logs
assessment - prior knowledge or end of a unit of
learning
http://edte.ch/blog/2008/08/23/10-google-forms-for-
the-classroom/ Tom Barrett @tombarrett

22. Crowd Sourcing
utilise your PLN on twitter
ask BIG questions
start a googledoc about a topic e.g. how
do you learn your pupils’ names?
ask staff at Smackdown to contribute

24. Edchats
twitter #ukedchat #DUedchat #edchat
#edreform
suggest topics
follow chat and observe only
advantage is being able to view again
later

26. Flickr
totally student-driven
one photo per day
http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/
tell a story in 5 frames – get the children
to take 5 photos and tell the story from
only those 5 frames

28. Evernote
note taking and note making
photos, videos
cloud-based so available everywhere you
are on any device
share!

29. sight note/audio tags
sync with devices
tag bundles
list of notes

30. Skype
get talking!
learn to use it and USE IT!
buddy class - even in own school