This is just an introduction to a few project ideas one can consider.

1. An introduction to project ideas
Presenter: Fiona Beal

2. What technology
components are
teachers around the
world using for
projects?

3. • Blogging (Edublogs/Blogger.com)
• Wikis (Wikispaces)
• Twitter (microblogging)
• Videoconferencing / Skype
• Photosharing (Flickr/Picaso)
• Videos (Youtube/School tube)
• Facebook groups (Social networks)
• Thinkquest
• Online Games
• Windows Live
• Glogsters
• Google Docs
• Cell phones / Mixit
• Websites
• Windows Live
• Podcasts
• Microsoft’s free tools – Autocollage, Songsmith etc. etc.

4. A few examples
of Innovative
projects

5. Blogging

6. 1. My ‘Bonding through
blogging’ project 2009

7. Making friends, interviewing and
writing up information

8. Checking the information and
uploading to blogs

9. Senior Citizen bloggers

10. Our School classroom blog project
(blogs might be out of date)
http://graderfishhoekprimary.blogspot.com
http://grade1fishhoekprimary.blogspot.com
http://grade2fishhoekprimary.blogspot.com
http://grade3fishhoekprimary.blogspot.com
http://grade4fishhoekprimary.blogspot.com
http://grade5fishhoekprimary.blogspot.com
http://grade6fishhoekprimary.blogspot.com
http://grade7fishhoekprimary.blogspot.com
http://musicfishhoekprimary.blogspot.com

11. Current project – classroom blogs
http://grade3fishhoekprimary.blogspot.com

12. 2. Edublogs blogging challenge
for students
http://theedublogger.com/
http://edublogs.org/2011/03/07/edublog
s-weekly-the-student-blogging-
challenge-is-starting-now/

13. 3.Using a blog to write a book with a class
http://5bwrites.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html

14. Wikis

15. A wiki is:
Collaborative website
Easy to set up – no HTML required
You have to join to participate
Anyone can edit text

16. 1. Bronwyn Desjardins from Grayston Prep
(a former Innovative teacher finalist)
http://graystonprep-grade6-english.wikispaces.com/

17. Weekly planner

18. Twitter attached to the site

19. http://graystonprep-grade6-ns.wikispaces.com/

20. http://graystonprep-grade6-
english.wikispaces.com/The+Write+Stuff

21. 2. Brenda Hallowes in PE
( a grade 3 wiki project)
http://movingplanets.wikispaces.com/

22. 3. Jonathon Humbles Gr 5 wiki
(plays international chess games)
http://humbleclass.wikispaces.com/

23. This is a Grade 5 caring project we did with Nigeria
http://paying-it-forward-project.wikispaces.com/

24. Movies

25. YouTube videos:
The completed production of videos that the learners created have been uploaded to
YouTube. The links are below:
Pirates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq81vPdYPVs
Bullying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1ik0OGPhSU
Crime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMEPvVoyKR0
Deforestation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dH_cjLN6CU
Drugs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cciwT7GcdPA
Global Warming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQF5ApaXanE
Hunger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mch85tTTXAg
Global Warming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj_7KCogy1I
Poaching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK_Z9S05XGE
Pollution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14UioBkkxTw
Racism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg-pi0_Euiw
Pollution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JaYgUy1Owc
Bullying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkdZTFQfu_g
Abuse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoDFh3wsFjo
Surfing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs9cTMcSMW8
Violence : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-2wly9Rl-8

26. This is a Grade 6 Thinkquest movie project we
completed in 2010 called ‘Future savers’

27. Thinkquest

28. Thinkquest (world finals run by a team
from east London and Port Elizabeth)
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/winners/2009_narrative.html

29. Online Games

30. The project utilised game based learning as a context for learning within 6 cluster
primary schools, concluding in an innovative transition event involving activities
using Guitar Hero. On transfer to secondary school the pupils continued their
use of the game as a context for learning and social interaction. Huge
collaboration (he came second)

31. Evoke: using an online game to increase
awareness of global issues and involvement in
the community
Name Cheryl Douglas
School Bishops
Town/City Cape Town
Province Western Cape
email cdouglas@bishops.org.za
Grade 10 and 11
Subject Co-curricula, Science and Biology
Community, Community
Collaboration
or Content

32. Windows Live

33. He invented a ‘Newton’ that can answer any question about Newton using
Windows Messenger… has won awards in about six countries…teachers
flock to learn from him at his school in Singapore…but he didn’t win a place
at the Innovative Finals!

34. Glogsters
(online talking
posters)

36. A great example of glogsters
http://www.sanandres.esc.edu.ar/olivosp/extranet2009/6to/glogster6to/index.
htm

37. Websites

38. The best way to understand my website is to visit it: www.mrs-claassen.co.za
An innovative teacher finalist in 2009

39. Podcasts

40. Podcasting using Vocaroo.com

41. E-books

42. 1. Trash-to-Treasure
(winning project in 2010)
Name Linda Bradfield
School St John’s College, Pre-Preparatory
Town/City Johannesburg
Province Gauteng
email bradfield@stjohnscollege.co.za
Grade Grade 1
Subject Life Orientation – Environmental Awareness
Community, Community and Collaboration
Collaboration or
Content

43. Learning Tasks and Activities 6
• E-Book: Each boy in the class created their own electronic
storybook telling their own story about why we should re-cycle. This
was a highlight for them and often one of them would appear at my
door before school asking if he could work on his storybook. The
stories were shown when the boys did their presentations to other
schools.
Examples of an E-Books
• Visits and Presentations: Initially the boys skyped a school and
told them about the work they were doing and challenged them to
collect as much as they had.
We then went out on visits to other schools; a previous Model C school
in Kempton Park, Yeoville Community School and Masibambane, our
sister school in Orange Farm.

44. 2. Our collaborative Grades 4 and 5 e-
book project using Powerpoint and
Slideboom.com
http://fionabeal.edublogs.org/our-stories-
with-sound-project/

45. The Big Green Monster
A collaborative story between three nations
Danvan in South Africa
Part 1: Danvan in South Africa
Part 2: Alexis in Canada
Part 3: Eleonora and Martina in Argentina

46. Part 1: The green monster

47. The Locket and the Treasure
Chest
A collaborative story between two countries:
The locket
Part 1: Chemar, Katbut and Lynpea (in South Africa)
Part 2: Holger, Nico P. and Joaquin R. (in Argentina)
By Chemar, Katbut

48. PART 1: THE HOLIDAY

50. 3. My project 2008 - Creating a
reading scheme of 80 books from
Grade 1 – Grade 7 in hard copy and
on a website.