© Paul Hopkins MMVII

A dozen ways of A dozen ways of embedding ICT in embedding ICT in

RERE

© Paul Hopkins MMVII

- reaching the impossible

Developing Ideas 1

• Educhurch• Monasteries online• Golden Temple of Amritsar• Jagad Mandir Mandir• Ask a Rabbi• People of faith• More Virtual Visits

e.g. Access to people and places that would be difficult or impossible to bring into the classroom

© Paul Hopkins MMVII

All newspapers are now created on computers, and you have the possibility to add sound, animation and video to your newspapers.

Make the “Jerusalem Times” for the morning after the crucifixion or the Buddhism Bugle for the events of the life of the Buddha. Use the techniques of spin, angle and re-telling as well as the tools of editing and re-editing.

- Digital Literacy

Developing Ideas 2

© Paul Hopkins MMVII

Remember that Religious Education is about “learning from” as well as “learning about”. Blogs allow students to keep a record of events, or respond to events that have occurred - this could include recording for assessed work. Forums allow students to exchange ideas, develop arguments and respond to others. Anonymity is also a possibility as well as accessing the debate out of lesson time.

- Blogging and Forums

Developing Ideas 3

© Paul Hopkins MMVII

Allowing students to show achievement need not be limited to text it can also include audio and video. These can then be saved and posted e.g. on the school’s internet or intranet sites and then made accessible to a wider audience.

- Podcasting and Vodcasting

Developing Ideas 4

• http://www.ukpodcasts.info/Culture/Religion

• www.audacity.com

• www.quicktime.com

• http://www.itunes.com/

© Paul Hopkins MMVII

Much of the good work in RE is discursive, kinesthetic or visual. Are you capturing this and developing e-portfolios of students work as well as paper portfolios.

Use digital cameras, digital video and audio recorders to capture achievement.

- Capturing the ethereal

Developing Ideas 5

© Paul Hopkins MMVII

Storyboarding or making movies are great ways for students to produce materials expressing their ideas. Use digital still or video cameras to produce the materials for a narrative in images as well as words

- Digital storytelling

Developing Ideas 6

• www.bigmyth.com

• www.thebricktestament.com

• Video Hanukkah

• http://www.flickr.com/

• http://www.youtube.com/

© Paul Hopkins MMVII

Stories do not always have a neat beginning middle and end. Use the action buttons in Powerpoint to explore branching out and helping students explore the many possible routes to truth as well as the liner model.

Multipath Narratives

Hopkins’ Sample Downloads

Freemind - OS mapping software

- Multipath Narratives

Developing Ideas 7

© Paul Hopkins MMVII

Searching the internet for information is often a fruitless task. Set up a webquest, a series of websites linked by clues or through which students need to navigate in order to find the required information.

http://www.redbridgerenet.co.uk/wq/wqformat.html

- Webquests

Developing Ideas 8

© Paul Hopkins MMVII

Accessing an online database to explore authentic voice

Developing Ideas 9

Using materials that exist to help pupils explore the beliefs and values of others, and contribute their own responses.

Listening to young people talking (database)

www.pcfre.org.uk/db

http://pof.reonline.org.uk

© Paul Hopkins MMVII

Virtual Learning Environments

Developing Ideas 10

Anywhere anytime learning. How can students access resources / materials and support to help them with their learning when they are not in your classroom? How can they contact you? How can they submit assessable work?

• www.gcsere.org.uk

• www.re-course.com

• www.moodle.com

© Paul Hopkins MMVII

Mediascapes

Developing Ideas 11

Mediascapes are a potentially powerful way of engaging with the world around us. Using PDAs they offer new opportunities to explore and interact with the landscape in exciting and varied ways. The Create-A-Scape website project aims to offer the inspiration for teachers and pupils to start using mediascapes, and to provide easy-to-use guides and free software to help make mediascape creation as simple and accessible as possible.

• www.futurelab.org.uk

• www.createascape.org.uk

• www.multimap.org.uk

• www.googleearth.com

© Paul Hopkins MMVII

Reinforcing learning with interactive opportunities

Developing Ideas 12

Using wordsearches / crosswords /missing words / hangman etc…

www.eclipsecrossword.com

www.halfbakedsoftware.com/

www.contentgenerator.net/multiplechoice/

© Paul Hopkins MMVII

For more on these ideasFor more on these ideas

www.mmiweb.org.uk/tenideas/www.mmiweb.org.uk/tenideas/

Questions?Questions?

© Paul Hopkins MMVII

A dozen ways of A dozen ways of embedding ICT in embedding ICT in

RERE