Online resources for Religious Education

PRAYER FOR PARENTS AND SECONDARY STUDENTS

Sacred Space This beautiful site produced by the Irish Jesuits provides daily prayer. Spend some time investigating the site and you will find several useful links as well.

Prayer Windows Great site connecting art and prayer. Art may be purchased online.

Pray as You Go Daily MP3 Prayer Downloads~ Great site! Courtesy of Jesuit Media Initiatives.

Prayertoons if you like prayertoons, you can sign up for a daily subscription to prayertoons

Interview with Jesus~ Flash Movie

Online Games

A Memory game Maker -
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/games/memory/index.htm

Become the designer and make your own online games at Sploder -
http://www.sploder.com/

Funbrain is a great site full of activities for K-12
www.funbrain.com

For short educational activities online try Quia http://www.quia.com/web

http://www.bne.catholic.edu.au/public/learning_objects/ChurchSearch/ChurchSearch.html This is a simple learning object that allows children to explore and name some of the key objects within a church. Suitable for student background. Contains teaching and learning activities

Updated link for The Knowledge Tree reading > 8.05.07 workshop

http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-–-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community/

Holiday dreaming

The World Is Flat - in 6 minutes

Online resources

http://www.slide.com/

Interview with Al Gore

Polar bears talking

How do we manage multiple intelligences in the ICT environment?

AIM: To answer this question as a collaborative group using the links below...

Explore e-learning This is a catalogue of resources for Teaching Maths and Science in Secondary schools http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspResourceCatalog This is a site that provides a wide range of activities based on Gardner's multiple intelligences (fantastic site!) http://surfaquarium.com/mi/intelligences.htm

This site provides a number of very useful sites in relation to Gardener's MI with ideas for the classroom and the use of ICT
http://hometown.aol.com/abctagteam/multiple_intelligences.htm

Applying Bloom's Taxonomy in the classroom
This gives you concrete leads....but how do you use it in the ICT environment?
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm

There are a number of different sites that link you into research on e-learning and current trends. This site won't provide you with an immediate answer but it will help you begin collaborating with those who are researching in this field.
http://www.ncsl.org.uk/networked/index.cfm

Constructivist learning theory...don't forget that you are basing all this work on this theory. This is a good summary for you and not too technical.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ifi/resources/constructivistlearning.html

This site from Bradford England goes through the various intelligences and gives you possible activities in ICT to use to develop particular intelligences. While it is way beyond our technologies it is good to know because schools are getting these resources. There are also an increasing number of these technologies available as free software.
http://www.bradfordschools.net/content/view/226/182

Tools and resources provided by Intel for free to support collaborative student centered learning. Online thinking tools are active learning places where students engage in robust discussions, pursue investigations, analyse complex information and solve problems. Resources for 21st century teaching help teachers play a critical role in facilitating learning activities and posing questions that take student thinking deeper.
http://www.intel.com/education/tools/index.htm

Google gadgets for your webpage- just for fun

http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&source=gghp.

How to add video into your blog

http://bloggerstatusforrealbeta.blogspot.com/2007/01/editing-template-in-new-blogger-blog.html

http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/elearning-20/1

http://evolution.massey.ac.nz/assign2/MH/webpage.htm