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Imagine filling out the risk assessment for an excur-sion to follow the path of Burke and Wills? Study

penguins in Antarctica? Visit Chernobyl? Stand at thefoot of Uluru?

Experience this and more within a Google Earth trip;add images, video and other rich media to create a3D learning experience whatever your curriculumarea using Google Earth.

A Google Trip is simply following a series of place-marks on the screen in Google Earth.

To create a trip, we need to be able toCreate and place a placemarkCreate some text to read at that placemarkEmbed an image in itEmbed some video to itMake the placemarks more attractive to the stu-dentsSave and share the trip

This Google Trip mission today will guide you throughthese steps.

Download the file from here

tinyurl.com/xxxxxxxxxxxxx

to begin making your trip.

BUSINESS NAME

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COLLABORATIONA mission in engaging students in meaningful collaboration

Each day students collaborate outside our classrooms to learn, achieve, socialise, play and grow.The majority of the time they are using technology for this collaboration.Do you want your students to collaborate in real time on documents and presentations?Do you want students to connect with and learn with others, no matter where they live?Do you want technology to empower your students to collaborate while they learn, create andshare?Collaboration opportunities cross all forms of communication. Each KLA benefits from studentscollaborating in powerful, effective and meaningful mays.

This mission focuses on collaborative writing in its many forms. You will learn how to use acollaborative writing tool with your students, in and outside the classroom. Whether its sharedwriting assignments (even books), collaborative experiment reports or group presentations this

mission will lead you on the journey towards meaningful collaboration using technology.

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Everybodyisdoingit!Havingapresenceonlinethese

daysmeansyouwillneedtocreateanavatarordigital

representationofyourself.Alotofteachersuseaphotoof

themselves,butmanymoregoforthemorecreativeoptionof

creatingtheirown.

Takethechallengeinthismissiontoinvestigatehoweasyitistocreateyourowndrawing,cartoonorartwork.Workonlineusing

onahostoffreetoolsandeasytowebsitestocreateanavataror

originalimageforuseonSocialNetworkingsites,popularwith

educatorstheworldover.Twitter,Yammer,Facebookandmany

more

Whatagreatskilltosharewithyourstudents!

Tools,Tools,Tools!

Imaginehowcreativeyoucanbewhenyouknowhowtousethe

freeresourcesavailabletoyouonline

Paintinganddrawing Sketching Photomanipulation,addingeffectsandframes Avatarcreationwebsites Cartoons Orginalartworks

Digital Me:MakeYourOwnAvatar

( investigatingdigital art-marking

When you have completed your mission,

upload your creation(s) to the conference

posterous page for all your colleagues to see

your achievements.

xxxxxxxxx@posterous.com

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3 steps to complete

your learning

miss ion. . . .

1. Mater 10 new graphic

manipulation skills and create and

save 10 unique image files.

2. Create a slideshow demonstrating10 of your new image manipulation

skills.

3. Upload or link your slideshow to

the 1:1 conference wiki.

MISSION: creat ing graphics

The chal lenge: Create 10 graphics us ing

Adobe F i rew orks in 120 minutes

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3 steps to complete

your learning

miss ion. . . .

1. Analyse the data sets provided.

2. Create an infographic to clearly

communicate the data using your

digital graphic manipulation skills.

3. Upload your infographic file to

the unconference wiki.

MISSION: create an

to represent data v isua l ly Charts and graphs can

communicate data;infographics turn data into

information Randy Krum,

author of the Cool

Infographics blog.

An elegant and powerful

means to communicate all

sorts of information,

infographics are data

visualisations that help us

comprehend complex data.

http://coolinfographics.com/http://coolinfographics.com/http://coolinfographics.com/http://coolinfographics.com/