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Posted by Fiona Aubrey-Smith.
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Posted by Phil Bagge on January 17, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Fiona Asked me to post this here
As a school we have had Moodle, Studywiz and now Google Docs. But what I really want as a primary school teacher is.
* Google Wave type tool (PrimaryPad) with colour-coding for pupils and secure chat based within the tool. Either text or even better voice chat. Should be secure within the school domain only to start but with the option to allow wider sharing as pupils age/maturity allow.
* An email system but it should limit children to only email within the current domain. When children get to a certain age or prove themselves responsible then they should be able to email outside the domain. All good security setting and spam filters. Any rubbish that looks like its being rude, should email to teacher so that he/she can discuss netiquette with the children.
* Expanded collaborative document system similar to Google Docs to include word processor, spreadsheet, slide presenter, mind-mapping, drawing. All of those can only be shared within the school apart from projects that we agree might be collaborative with other schools or other countries.
* A linked website builder which children can built sites similar to Google Sites, but with the ability to publish things outside the domain once permission is given by a teacher.
* A secure chat system that records the chat in case of a cyber bullying incident. Like children to have the ability to do video chat. Chat facilities to overlay any of the other collaborative facilities as well. Video chat and text chat should be part of the other collaborative processes. Like the ability to switch this off for children who can’t cope with that level of maturity.
* Equivalent of their own workspace – their wall. A mix of a facebook style discussion wall for posting. Children should be able to set up their own subgroups/communities. Initiate discussions about the next learning phase, negotiating curriculum.
* All of this should be on a single signup somewhere.
* These facilities should be available all the way through their educational history. There should be graduated versions of these facilities; skinned appropriately to look fun and funky in the reception.
* Take the same system “out there” into the wild” at the end of pupils formal education . Dis-establishing it from the system. Kid keeps all of their tools and the parts of the network that they want, but it’s no longer linked to a specific network (a school or college or university).
* When a kid gets over a certain age/maturity level they can start porting in bits and pieces from other outside agencies/services. (I hate all this constantly having to set up a new thing all the time.)
* A media repository – upload their own pictures securely. Provide a shared e-locker for material created in other mediums (e.g. a drawing or 3-D model in another piece of software).
* The ability to link/create/arrange targets, targets they write/drag from banks of child friendly targets collaboratively with the teacher. System detects when a child is working on a target and prompts for verbal or textual reflection.
* Should be a teacher marking system, plus a peer-monitoring system. So that children can give each other feedback for their contribution to collaborative activities. All that set of data should pull into the same system as teacher grading.
* I would like some sort of portfolio system – children should be able to star any bits of their contributions from any tool in the system, and they would be gathered together as “my best bits”. These are things that I’m proudest of that I want to share with my mum or my granny.
* A testing quiz system that is easy to create and store banks of questions much like the Moodle Quiz tool but pupils would be able to create questions and quizzes as well as teachers.
* I would like all this for free.
* The social networking, communicating tools would be always on top and available within any of the creative tools unless an educator switched them off for a specific activity.
Posted by JaneWaite on May 6, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Agree on all the above its so frustrating to see the opportunities and have the requirements but not have the functionality to realise potential now that I have fired up my six year olds.