Class+7

=**Class 7 - eLearning (Learning Management Systems and Hybrid eLearning) **=

===Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) **Acceptable Use Policies for Internet use.** ===
 * **ensure that school computers are being used in a safe, relevant and appropriate manner**
 * **a written contract between administrators, teachers, parents and students **
 * **defines access privileges, rules of online behaviour, and the consequences for violating those rules**
 * helpful tool for teachers
 * advice on how best to integrate the Internet into their classrooms
 *  having students sign a contract about their usage of the internet does not seem realistic in a an elementary school, especially for the intermediate students

===OCDSB - Policy on Computers and Internet  [|OCDSB AUP] ===


 * the Ottawa/Carleton Board are now offering over 50 **courses online**
 * online courses are a great opportunity for students who need to work or have a health problem and are not able to go to school during the day
 * the board is also offering a **contract** to the members of the board, including the students, for using the internet and intranet without any filtering.
 * **this is a good idea because it gives space and opportunities for students and teachers to use and learn from a wider range of websites**
 * **also students who are responsible on the internet, will not be punished for the students who were not trusted**


 * __E-Learning - Electronic Learning__**

1. Syncrinizing: on the internet at the same time as professor 2. Asyncrinizing: on the website our own time.
 * Desire Learning bought by ministry
 * Blending Learning (Combination of two ways of learning)
 * University of Ottawa uses webct.

__**Skype**__
 * video communication; not in sync (5 minutes behind)
 * use it in a classroom? ...
 * have a guest speaker on it
 * pen pals
 * communicate with classes from across the world
 * bridging two classrooms

Presentations: Part 2

 * Alex and Sejal - Immigration in a Canadian Context**
 * [|Human Migration - Push and Pull Factors]
 * Gcast: a website where you can create a podcast for free
 * Also, there is the option of using a smart phone


 * Brad and Alex - Webquest/Webrace**
 * WORLDCAT.ORG :the world's LARGEST bibliographic database. WorldCat is the best place to find out how you can locate any resource in a library or online version. It will find books that Google could never find! Let's see how quickly you can navigate WorldCat!
 * Wikispace


 * Helen and Dane - Periodic Table**
 * media type="youtube" key="GFIvXVMbII0" height="274" width="339" align="right"
 * Wikipsace for lesson
 * This video explains how the program works.


 * Karen and Steve - Graphic Novels**
 * Make your own graphic page
 * wikispace for lesson
 * Comic Life was introduced. The program is used to make comics. Luckily, Ontario schools have this program!!! Awesome! I really enjoyed this!


 * Taylor, Kristin, and Natasha - Diamante/Podcast Assignment**
 * [|Website for making a website!]
 * By using this website, students can make the poem and then they are to interpret it through a podcast.


 * Laura and Andrea - Food Diary Assignment**
 * Energy in and Energy out: I was forced to do jumpin jacks for one minute!
 * We should keep our energy level balanced
 * wikispace link to assignment


 * Steven and Daljit - NASA**
 * use a website to aid with group math equations
 * not very student-centered
 * students do not get the chance to use the technology


 * Stephanie and Jen - French**
 * wikispace link to lesson
 * need to create a documentary using photo story
 * The Positive and Negative Aspects of Life in New France: use of Photostory to represent the two aspects. Students are also given headphones with microphones to record a description of the pictures used.