Using YouTube, Web 2 and hand held devices in the Brunei English

Programme

You Tube• High interest. Short and sharp. 3-4 minutes.• Breaks up lesson• Helps comprehension• Modelling ideas to students• Teacher ideas• Reward• Save to computer

Examples• 4 sausages in a pan• I can sing a rainbow• Busy Beavers prepositions song• 10 green bottles• Head shoulders knees and toes• Hokey Pokey• I’m a little teapot• Goldilocks and the 3 bears• Clothes line song• Days of the week• The wheels on the bus• We are going on a bear hunt• Busy Beaver colour song• 5 little monkey’s• Sesame Street face song

Web 2• Web 1

• Skype, Ustream, You Tube, Flickr, google docs, Blogs, Wikis, Facebook, Glogster, Slideshare, Voicethread, Little Bird Tales, Wordle etc etc

• Anytime, anywhere.

• Brunei’s infrastructure. Faster connections. Limited at present.

• Giving the students an audience. School, community, country and worldwide.

• Share ideas, comments, forums, ratings.

• Motivation and enthusiasm for learning.

• Connectivity, Creativity and Collaboration.

Examples

• Blogs- Blogger.com. Make your own class blog to create an audience

• Embed Web 2 into your blog. Here are a few examples that could work for you in Brunei.

• Voice Thread• Glogster• Little Bird Tales. Digital story telling.• Wordle. Making word clouds• Puzzlemaker. Creating word finds for green and red words.

Hand held devices

• Apple Iphone, Itouch, Ipad and other hand held devices in the classroom.

• Itunes store/Open source• Examples

Professional Development

• Derek Wenmoth. Superb educational blog. 21st century learner. Future of Education. Keeps you up to play with whats happening in Education.

• Generation X. Gaming• Ted.com Ideas worth spreading. Riveting talks

by remarkable people.• Slideshare. Sharing your and viewing other

presentations.

Websites • http://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/• • http://blog.core-ed.org/derek/• • http://www.glogster.com/• • http://voicethread.com/• • http://littlebirdtales.com/• • http://www.blogger.com• • http://www.slideshare.net/• • http://www.wordle.net/• • http://www.ted.com/