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Christmas Carnival of Learning

I've been inspired by different online festivals such as the Student Blogging Challenge, the Comment Challenge, the Digital Storytelling Carnival and other educational community building activities to use an event to inspire sharing and communication.  Christmas is a great time for having fun, sharing and finding cool resources. Let's help each other and our students use Web2.0 tools and our online communities to really connect with each other this Christmas.

You can upload or share your links using your existing blog or you can create a teaching blog here at me.edu.au or a student blog using edublogs.  Then add your links to the Christmas Resources community.  By adding the Christmas community to your profile you'll be able to see whenever new things are adding just by looking at your profile.  You can also tag your Christmas stuff in delicious or Diigo with Christmas and add your feed to your me.edu.au profile.

Activity ideas:

• Create a Christmas animation that other students can use or copy from using GoAnimate Post links to any cool animations on your blog or in the Christmas community.
  
• Get students to create a Christmas game in Scratch
  
• Send a school in a different state a Christmas message using email
  
• Get your students to create an end of year video message about what they've learnt this year.  Upload it to Blip.tv or Teachertube and share it on your blog or in the Christmas community.
  
• Get your students to create a video to send overseas at Christmas telling them about Australia.  Upload it to Blip.tv or Teachertube and share it on your blog or in the Christmas community.
• Look at Christmas in other cultures using ...
• Participate in a Christmas web-quest
  
• Share songs you like to play at Christmas on your blog or make a playlist to embed in yoru blog
  
• Christmas craft ideas - upload your pictures to Flickr when completed.  You can also use flickr.com groups to get ideas.  Check out this Christmas Gift Project group.
  
• Helping other people at Christmas time.  Improve your vocabularly and give people rice at Christmas by playing this game.
  
• Write a Blog posts for Santa.  I might even set up a Santa blog to reply if there is some interest.
  
• Find favourite Christmas foods and recipe videos or post recipes on your blog.
• Find blogs or information about other things that are going on in the world at this time of the year.
  
• I'll be adding more to the Christmas community as I find things.
  

There are lots of other ways of sharing, posting ideas on Twitter, Edublogs or any of the other Educational communities around.  Or you can just add a comment on this blog.

Christmas is an awesome time for using technology that helps us communicate with each other let's really make the most of it.

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Posted at 01:05PM Oct 26, 2008 by Concetta Gotlieb  |  Comments[1]

Why this blog is unique

I write in a few different places because they serve different purposes.  Here is my reflection on the differences between my blogs.

Edublogs - Edusnacks.edublogs.org

• What I write about: reflecting on learning on learning theory and networks
• Who I connect with: other people who are interested in learning theory
• How often I write: a couple of times a month
• Why I like it: it's part of a large international community

Edublogs - Ourwork.edublogs.org

• What I write about: reflecting on learning and post work we have created
  
• Who I connect with: students and teachers
  
• How often I write: as often as I can
  
• Why I like it: the kids can connect with a wide audience of teachers and students
  

me.edu.au/b/concettagotlieb

• What I write about: teaching ideas, tools and reflections
  
• Who I connect with: Australian educators who are teach to similar curricula
  
• How often I write: every couple of days, everytime I capture something interesting at school
  
• Why I like it: it's uncomplicated and when I search within me.edu.au I get results of entries from people who are also Australian, it's a special community

It suits me to have a couple of different areas to blog from.  Mentally they are very different spaces for me, I go to them when I'm thinking about different things.   The people I interact with are different.

Want to start your own blog on me.edu.au? Watch this video.

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Posted at 10:33PM Oct 14, 2008 by Concetta Gotlieb  |