Reference+Materials

=Welcome to Reference Materials= This page is made essentially for collecting any links, files or information regarding the topics being taught, as well as information about classrooms, classroom management, and websites that might shed light on understanding topics, students, the school and or student culture. [|My Del.icio.us. Account]stores a number of Items that are scattered throughout this portfolio, but also are heavily refereneced here. That account is related to ICT and collects information about ICT news as well as Teaching references.

Topics - Reference Material
(Constantly Updated list as there will be more and more topics taught that I must keep track of and update content of Reference materials regarding the individual topic of a curriculum is in each link here.) //Online Shopping// //Negotiating Conflict// //Visual Basic// //File Formats// Normalization Data Collection Excel Advanced Google Search

Classroom Management - Reference Material
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Management+%26+Rewards A teacher created wiki which works on the concept of classroom management with the use of ICT.

//Software//
This is mostly freeware (so far) that you can download and install. Content here is used for either developing a students interests in IT through programming, or is software used for classroom management or assisting in study (OpenOffice or SimplyNoise) //Some items in this list may be too large to simply host, so you may be redirected to the programs website and download it from there. Sorry for the inconvenience.//

**Relating to Students - Reference Material**
After observing and teaching a number of classes, I found that there was much dialogue and terms that I didn't understand. By quickly referencing some terms as well as being told some very helpful websites to understand students by certain teachers, I found that to be very helpful to. A helpful reading by Alex Voiskounsky about Internet culture ([]) helped me realise how important this particular issue is, as teachers need to understand students and vice versa. Many teachers (including me) did not know the common phrase "Raging" "Rage quit" "trolling" etc, until I did some research.Once I learnt it I found it to be invaluable in relating to students.

[] Helpful understanding into the internet culture of rage face, including the most famous "Problem?" Troll and Me Gusta rage face. (left and right respectively) Troll / U mad? / Problem?: Me Gusta:
 * Rage Faces**

Rage faces are //everywhere// in school, and year 7's to 12's know about them. I integrated this into my class by having a particular rage face for every 5 minutes in class. For every 5 minutes that went by I stuck a print out of a rage face expressing my emotion on the board, trying to get students to quieten down, as a classroom management exercise. Students related to it, found it funny but also did respect the faces I put up on the board.

[] A fellow teacher told me about that site, claiming that if "you don't know what it means, but you understand the meaning of the word, the context will be on this site". Use this for understanding dialogue in class that you are unsure of. This proved helpful for certain terms students said that I didn't know. Although never open it up in class as some content is definitely NWS.
 * Expressions and Words**

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