Easy ways to integrate ICT into geographyCarolyn McCabeClient Relations & PD (Dept)mccabe.carolyn.s@edumail.vic.gov.au

ICT for communicating, creating and visualising thinking in geography classes

recording and planning, constructing and shaping ideas

locating, informing, sharing, publishing information

organising, creating and managing information products

Where to start? The Channelwww.education.vic.gov.au/schools

What makes the Channel the web for schools?

The websites within the Channel have been teacher-recommended and reviewed.

All teachers and students can recommend sites for the Channel to review.

The majority of the websites included in the Channel come from external sources (not

DE&T), but they have educational relevance.

There are different pages for different audiences and from these pages you get

different sets of results.

Each school day the Channel gets site suggestions from teachers. We check these

before including them in the Channel.

Examples of websites from external sources (not DoE) that the Channel links to:

Primary Page

Search box presents results suitable for primary students

Secondary Page

Search box presents results suitable for secondary students

There’s also a Channel page for Teachers

Quick links to teacher recommended web resources

Apart from guided links there is a Channel search box. Use to find teacher-recommended

and reviewed websites

Search results for visualising thinking

Search result: Imagination Cubed

Use for visualising thinking and communicating – students can collaborate & share

Names of people: Al Gore

Organisations: BBC;

National Geographic; ACF

General Terms: sustainability; tsunami; deserts; GIS; geography

interactives; teachers tv

Products: photostory

Other search terms

Teachers TV – teacher pd online

Photostory for creating digital stories