The document profiles a teacher who uses various digital tools like Flickr, Skype, and blogs to enhance history teaching in a rural Australian school. It lists the online tools and resources the teacher uses, including social media platforms, and provides contact information for those interested in learning more about integrating technology into the classroom. The teacher also connects students globally through projects where they answer questions from students in the United States.

1. History in the
21 st Century Classroom

2. About Me
In 2009
• ICT and accounting teacher
• Joint MS Innovative teacher of the Year (Victoria)
• Bailleu Myer Scholarship for Rural Leadership in education
• ICTEV Leader of the Year
• Finalist in the DEECD innovative curriculum
• Australian Excellence in Teaching national award

3. Hawkesdale P12 College – a small rural prep-year 12 school

4. Some great e-tools
• Connect
• Communicate
• Collaborate
• Create

5. Some favourites
1. Flickr
2. Skype – show Russian video
3. Wordle
4. Wallwisher
5. twitter

6. Twitter
@ idocente Museum Box: provides the
tools for you to build up an argument or
description of an event, person or historical
pe... http://bit.ly/9Xc0fX
@immigration_mv
On today at the Immigration Museum:
Croatian Community Festival, 11am - 4pm
(Sun 27 June). #Melbourne
http://bit.ly/cV2o2S 9:27 AM Jun 27th via
Twitter for iPhone Reply
Retweet

7. Skype

8. A linkup with a school in Russia

9. Grades 3 to 7 listen to students from Singapore talke
about racial harmony

10. Wallwisher

11. Wall wisher – see link

12. Flickr –photos online
Why use?
• Always accessible online
• Add to groups
• Add notes
• Add comments etc

13. Voicethread
Online podcasting
Make sure you register for free
educational version

14. Boston Connections
See my blog post

15. Wordle

16. Blogs
• Globalstudent
• Globalteacher
• Blogger
• Edublogs

17. History Teacher Blogs
• http://historytech.wordpress.com
• http://historyiselementary.blogspot.com/
Check out their blog rolls or links to other sites
Search online for others

18. • There are plenty of illegal immigrants in australia
and each day many are sent home. illegal
immigrants tend to have a non valid visa. some
people who come here dont have a visa at all.
Illegal immigrants come from all over the world.
what happens to all of the illegal immigrants once
they have been found out is they get relocated
back to the country they came from.

19. Melissa // Oct 18th 2008 at 2:30 pm
• That is what happens here in the United States as well. Visas are
really a big part of it because visas take a long time to get, and then
people just come illegally. Where are the illegal immigrants that
come to Australia from?
Juliet Pham // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm
• How do you feel about the fact that the illegal immigrants are
relocated? Do you believe that it’s fair? I don’t think that it is. I
really think that it would depend on the reason. Are the immigrants
doing any harm really? That’s pretty interesting that Australia does
have illegal immigrants because I never thought a place like
Australia would because of the fact that it doesn’t have any
countries near it or any land bridges.
Travis Bugge // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm
• how do they get there? are they snuck on a plane or something? fur
us, its pretty much peole crossing the border, or swimming over
here. which part of austrailia do they go to?

20. Students as experts:- Year 9/10 students answer questions from USA so
students could develop Australian travel posters
Wikis – wikispaces, wetpaint, pbworks

22. Where to find global projects?
•classroom2.0
•Edna for Australian educationalists
•Global projects
•Flat Classroom Projects
•Jenuinetech Projects
• use a search engine as there are many

23. Where to find (global) partners?
• Learn Central
• Skype partners
• Around the world in 80 schools
• ePals
• Twitter
• Mailing lists
• conferences
And google for more

24. Where to learn more
• Tech Talk Tuesdays (3:45-4:45pm): goto
http://education.vic.edu.au and search for
online events, find calendar, select Tech Talk
Tuesdays for the session title and elluminate
link
• eT@lking Wed 8-9pm: part of the Australia
series in http://learncentral.org or read my
blog at http://murcha.wordpress.com

25. Contact Me
• mirtschin@gmail.com
• Skype: anne.mirtschin
• Twitter/plurk id: murcha
• Teacher blog: http://murcha.wordpress.com
• Class blogs: http://murch.globalteacher.org.au
http://backyard.globalstudent.org.au
• Delicious and diigo: murcho/murcha