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Culture Documents
• Aim
• I wish to bring classrooms to life with culture. To open the students minds to
new perspectives; creating excitement and tolerance to cultural differences.
Vincent Pienaar
• Mr. Vincent Pienaar is a 25 year veteran math teacher from South Africa.
• He has been very successful teaching math at middle school level for the
past 5 years in the USA and is familiar with every aspect of the school
system.
• Also notable is the fact that he has been a principal of an elementary school
in his native South Africa for nearly 6 years before he became an
International Teacher.
• His moto is: "Vincenti Dabo" Translated: It shall be given to the conqueror.
Video conferencing
• Connecting people.
• Students are able to explore,
communicate, analyze and share
information and ideas with one
another.
Connecting via video link
1. Lesson Summaries
2. Collaboration of Notes
3. Concept Introduction and
Exploratory Projects
4. Dissemination of important
classroom information beyond the
classroom
5. Individual assessment projects
6. Creation of a simple website
7. Sharing of initial thoughts about,
and knowledge of a new topic
8. Student portfolios
9. Location to aggregate web
resources
10. Collaboration among teachers
Wiki examples
Wikispaces for teachers
• Video camera
• Program such as Movie Maker or
imovie
• Make them available on DVD and
a web site if available.
Research Projects
• What is a voicethread?.
• Ed.VoiceThread.com, a secure
site just for educators and their
students
• Teachers can keep
Voicethreads private or publish
them
• 5 innovative ways to
comment
• you can draw on top of the
media as you record your
comment
• Embedding easy- add
interactive group discussions
to any website
How Do I get started with Voicethread?