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I have now had my blog for at least a month, and if you have read any of my post's you may have learnt that I am a uni student studying teaching at Notre Dame Sydney. In the last 5 posts on my blog there is a link to my education class's wiki. As studying teachers, to us it is vital that we learn and become 100% capable at ICT. This wiki is our latest experiment as we are learning and expeirencing everything that ICT possibly has to offer to make us the most ICT expeirenced generation of teacher's yet.
So if you are reading this, I would love it if you could leave me a comment or two on what you think of my blog or if you have any suggestions on how i could improve it. Also feel free to check out our wiki and let us know how we are going.
Thanks

BRADFORD SCHOOLS E-PORTAL

This e-portal is totally devoted to ICT and education. It covers extensivley information on multiple intelligences and the need for ICT in education. This website provides numerous articles, links and idea's for the use of ICT making recommendations for the essential ICT tools that all educators and students should be able to access. It goes further for example in one article to list what ICT tools are essential for each multiple intelligences.
It also covers ICT across the curriculum and ICT for special needs students. This website is one that all teachers should be able to access or be informed about as the importance of ICT in school's is becomming ever more important with each day we pass by further into the third millenium. In particular teacher's need to be aware and be capable of using these different tools themselves, always aiming to stay one step ahead of their students, so they can use ICT to it's full potential to educate students in today's world.

http://www.bradfordschools.net/content/view/226/182/

THE KNOWLEDGE TREE

http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/edition-10/ipods-in-educationinnovations-in-the-implementation-of-mobile-learning/

The knowledge tree is a fantastic site, it is an e-journal for online and innovative learning. There are numerous which are free to read to anyone. In particular the articles focus on the importance of and the establishment of online communities, also in regards to learning. Some of the articles acknowledge the fact that we are living today in a truly digital world, and to be able to teach our children we must embrace this new technology. One of the articles, which the link is for above focuses on the craze of i-pod's in particular. This article disuccuses the potential for and how i-pod's are currently being used in education.
This is only one of many other brilliant articles that are worth a read. They provide some interesting idea's that should be consider by teachers and educators, young and old alike.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddjz64dp_0gwkpss

EXPLORING THE STRUCTURE OF THE WIKI

The Wiki ofcourse starts with the name of the person or the subject that the Wiki is discussing.
Secondly the Wiki consist's of importantly a contents section, for example this was taken from a wiki on Rudolf Dreikurs. This wiki is a private one, unlike many which are public wiki's. They are created by a person or group of people, who can add and edit information they post on the wiki.

This can be seen at:
http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Dreikurs,_Rudolf

Dreikurs, Rudolf
From WikEd
Rudolf Dreikurs (1897-1972)

Contents
1 Descriptions, definitions, synonyms, organizer terms, types of
2 Application in classrooms and similar settings
3 Evidence of effectiveness
4 Critics and their rationale
5 More Books by Dreikurs
6 Alternative explanations due to diversity considerations
7 Signed "life experiences," testimonies and stories
8 References and other links of interest

The Wiki also uses numbers to categorise each chapter in the content's. Within these there are sub headings. In each section there is an edit button. You can see the different postings different people have contributed to the wiki. However as these are anonymous there is no way to tell who is posting them.

SECOND LIFE

http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki

Second life is a virtual world for anyone and can be used by educators and academics. There is second life which is 18 +, and second life teen (for under 18's).
The rule in second life is that there are no rules. You live a virtual life, you can do anything and everything that a person can do in normal life. You can buy land, you can get a job you can do almost anything.
To find out more click on the link above...

THE MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE WHEEL

This multiple intelligence wheel has been taken from the website:
http://surfaquarium.com/mi/intelligences.htm

When planning a lesson it is vital for teachers to be aware of the multiple intelligences of students. By being aware of these intelligences, teachers are capable of creating lesson's that will appeal to all students. Not all students learn the same, some will like to work by themselves others will like to work in groups. Some students need visual aids to assist in their learning and others prefer using equations and problem solving skills to learn.
When planning a lesson teachers should have activities that cater to the three domains; introspective; interactive and analytic. Within these there are then the nine multiple intelligences. The only way to appeal learning to all students is by making sure that these intelligences are included when planning a lesson.


"Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problemsand create products of value in one's own culture."-Dr. Howard Gardner

In a nut shell, these are simple descriptions of what the multiple intelligences are:

Kinesthetic - interaction with the environment
Existential - connecting to larger understandings
Interpersonal - interaction with others
Intrapersonal - feelings, values and attitudes
Logical - reasoning and problem solving
Rhythmic - sound and patterning
Naturalist - classifications, categories and hierarchies
Linguistic - spoken and written word
Visual - seeing and imagining