This is a presentation that accompanied a webinar entitled '10+ steps to getting started with a digital classroom'

2. Is this your scenario:
• Longing to have devices in the classroom?
• Don’t know where to start?
• Well on your way but just looking for a few
ideas?
• You have a laptop and a data projector and
that is all? Or just a laptop?

3. Step 1: Start small

4. Step 2: Get familiar with a
Social Learning Management
system such as EDMODO or
OBAMI

5. You would use them to deal with a possible future issue of
managing your students' digital work.
1) Free: They allow an unlimited number of teachers and
students to create accounts and use their system at no cost.
2) Interface: A Facebook-like interface that is clean, appealing to
students and fairly easy to use.
3) No Email Required: Do not require an email account and they
both have a simple student-self-sign-up-system.
4) They include assessment building tools, discussion platforms,
assignment creators, scheduling tools and announcement
boards, badges for good work etc.
5) Google Drive Integration: They allow students and teachers to
connect their Google Drive accounts.

6. Step 3: Start a YouTube
channel for your class

7. Why use a YouTube channel?
1) Compile and collect video resources (save to your
favourites) for your own personal professional use, or
for classroom or student use.
2) Add your students’ creations.
3) Video clips on relevant topics make them
come alive. Shorten clips with Tube Chop
4) Make your channel as private or visible as
you like
5) Make slideshows with class photos. Add music etc.
6) Add comments and speech bubbles to photos

12. Step 4: Use behaviour
management software such
as CLASS DOJO or CLASS
BADGES

13. http://www.classdojo.com/

16. http://caitlinjones.edu.glog
ster.com/class-dojo

17. http://classbadges.com/

18. Step 5: Get on to Twitter and
start creating a PLN (Personal
Learning Network)

19. • I learn so much from my PLN – people I follow
on Twitter
• Start a classroom Twitter account
• Cathy Cassidy teaches her children to read
#kinderchat
• Learned some amazing things via Twitter i.e.
Anthony Peters and other Twitter stories.
• Join in Twitter chats

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22. Step 6: Start collecting
resources with a curating
application like Pinterest or
Symbaloo

23. • I love these three curating sites plus many
more. Teachers love Pinterest. Sets out the
boards so attractively (Warning – you can
spend hours here.)
• Symbaloo is great for collecting weblinks
neatly
• Scoop.it is also something I love to use – only
five free ones allowed.

24. http://www.symbaloo.com/home/mix/natgeobooks
National Geographic e-books for primary school

25. Science for primary school
http://www.symbaloo.com/home/mix/13eP26T8Ad

26. Pinterest
http://www.pinterest.com/teachingideas/

27. http://www.pinterest.com/fibeal/

28. http://www.pinterest.com/artpreston/

29. http://www.scoop.it/u/fiona-beal
Scoop.it
http://www.scoop.it/

30. Step 7: Sign up for a Mystery
Skype

31. https://education.skype.com/

32. https://education.skype.com/projects/2832-mystery-skype

33. http://schoolnetsa.blogspot.com/2013/01/why-not-consider-mystery-skype-session.html

36. • So much you can do with Skype
• Invite a novelist to speak about writing
• Invite any kind of expert to address the class
• Mystery Skype as a Geography lesson – guess
where the class is from.

38. Judi Francisco’s amazing Grade 6 blended/flipped
classroom project at Micklefield Primary

39. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/science/09fossil.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

40. Step 8: Start a classroom blog

41. • The whole world opened to me when I
started a classroom blog
• Other teachers would comment and
soon you would develop new friends.
• Collaborative story writing, Flat Stanley
project etc. Often when I go overseas
I meet up with a teacher who is a
blogging friend.
• Class can email posts to your blog.

42. Step 9: Join your class to a
global project

43. http://saveourrhinos.wikispaces.com/

44. http://theglobalclassroomproject.wordpress.com/register/

45. • There are many ways to join global projects
and you can choose according to your passion
• iEarn has great projects to join http://www.iearn.org/
• Karen Stadler’s rhino project

46. Step 10: Start using cloud
storage so that your
documents are available from
any computer.

47. Cloud storage providers

48. Step 11: Introduce your
students to digital storytelling.

50. Digital storyteling links
• http://www.youblisher.com/p/550920-Our-
Love-Book-by-Grade-1-Roberts/
• http://www.youblisher.com/p/465168-
Christmas-Cheer/
• http://www.youblisher.com/p/451668-Kleure/
• http://africanstorybookproject.wikispaces.co
m/
• http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-
resources/student-interactives/

51. Thank you!