Portable Intelligence: Another Way to Learn Smart

Portable devices help deliver a multisensory, multimodal and multimedia approach to our teaching and learning while enabling us to Mix IT Up, learn smart and teach smart. PDAs used as multimedia repositories, netbooks and web 2.0 'digigogies' are used seamlessly to enable students to connect, create, collaborate and communicate.

Students are able to - Read Smart, Create Smart and Learn Smart with a variety of cross curricular, differentiated and digitally diverse blended learning activities currently accessed by all junior school year levels. All activities have been designed using M.I. grids and choice boards embedded with both traditional and emerging resource links in order to maximise student engagement by providing for their preferred learning styles or mode of learning.

Learning objects; interactive venn diagrams and graphic organisers; Edmodo
for private microblogging; sound and video editors; survey tools; Voice Thread; Photocube; YouTube; Animoto; Wordle; Bubbl.us; Toondoo; Go Animate; Movie Maker, Photostory; Posterous; Tokbox; Voki;
Glogster and block poster generators; Museum Box and interactive
web pages and specially created nings, have all been integrated into Learn Smart activities.

The session will provide attendees with a take away Read Smart, Learn Smart and Create Smart 'digigogy' grid.

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Robin McKean, as Microsoft Innovative Teacher 2005, STELLA Scholar 2005, Westfield Premier's ICT Research Scholar 2006, National Award for Quality Schooling: Excellence by a Teacher - Outstanding National Achievement recipient, 2006 and Microsoft Innovative Teacher: 2007; has been afforded valuable opportunities to investigate the integration of ICT into learning activities throughout many classrooms both locally and globally. The subsequent design of learning activities incorporating a variety of the most teacher friendly and successfully demonstrated digital resources, emerging technologies and integrated learning practices are easily able to be shared and are currently helping to add value to learning opportunities (2.0) across the curriculum and across all year levels at home at St Hilda's ASG in Perth.