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Title of Presentation: Introduction to the OEF and a hands on experience.
By Claire Dean, Head of ICT, Stirling Primary, EL
Coach: Winning team U12 ThinkQuest Narrative Competition 2009
Assistant by: Brenda Hallowes, ICT Teacher and Librarian, Cotswold Prep School, PE
Assistant Coach: Winning team U12 ThinkQuest Narrative Competition 2009
Oracle Education Foundation
• Independent charitable organization funded by Oracle
• Dedicated to helping Grade 1-12 students develop
21st Century skills
• Provides ThinkQuest as a free service to primary and
secondary schools
– 405,000 students/teachers in 43 countries
– Partners with 63 non-profit or government organizations
ThinkQuest
• Protected, online learning platform
• Enables teachers to integrate learning projects into
curriculum and students to develop 21st century skills
• Includes:
– Project environment
– Competition space
– ThinkQuest Library
– Professional development
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Think Together
Think.com is now part of ThinkQuest.
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Learning Projects
Integrate learning projects into your classroom curriculum.
Choose a topic, assign students, invite teachers, and
collaborate with members around the world.
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Pages
Projects come to life when students create pages with text,
pictures, multimedia, votes, brainstorms, debates, and
messages.
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Competition
A space for students to participate in technology contests. All
eligible entries are published in the ThinkQuest Library.
ThinkQuest Competition
• Website Competition
– Students build educational websites on topics of their choice
• Narrative Competition
– Students publish their ideas on issues of global importance
• 2010: South Africa
– Local ThinkQuest Projects competition
– Teacher Incentives
ThinkQuest Competition
• 03 Sep 2009
ThinkQuest Competition: Important Announcement
“The Oracle Education Foundation will not offer its international
ThinkQuest Website and Narrative Competitions in 2010.
Having supported K-12 education for the past decade, we are
now taking some time to examine how we can best serve
students and teachers in the decade ahead. To ensure that we
have the resources for this important process, we have decided
not to deliver the competition this year.
We will continue to support ThinkQuest Projects, and we invite
you to keep contributing to this learning community of over
405,000 students and teachers in 43 countries. We will also
continue to support Local ThinkQuest Competitions.”
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Library
This award-winning resource contains 7,000+ projects and
offers students the opportunity to have their work published
and seen by millions.
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Benefits
Develop 21st century skills such as critical thinking, teamwork,
communication, creativity, technology, self-direction, and
cross-cultural understanding
Professional Development
A comprehensive training offering for educators to support 21st
Century Learning in the classroom.
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Protected and Free
The Oracle Education Foundation offers primary and high
schools a safe environment at no cost. ThinkQuest is
password protected, teacher monitored, and includes no
advertising.
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Salwa Kefi
Coach, ThinkQuest 2007
Winning Entry
“I have barely reclaimed my breath
from this exhilarating quest into
innovation, creativity and
technology. ThinkQuest taps into
students' potential, unbridles their
artistic talents, and helps them give
rein to their creative imagination."
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Steps to Enroll:
1. A teacher or school administrator completes the online application.
2. We review the application and verify that the school is accredited.
3. The school is now ready to create projects or join the competition.
Practical
Workshop: student log in
ThinkQuest website.
Project Page: teacher log in.
Create your Narrative Project
• Introduce yourself in “Meet the Team”
– Use the Write Tool
• Possible topics
– Use the Discussion Tool
• Choose a name for the Touring Company
– Use the List Tool (presenter)
– Use the Vote Tool
• Participants chooses a topic and create their own
pages.
• Each page must include the following:
– A picture
– A citation
– A file or Multimedia
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• Questions
– Use the Ask Me tool to ask Presenter any questions.
• Journal
– Participants use the Write Tool to write a reflective
Paragraph.
• Send a message to Members
• Role of the Help tool
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QUESTIONS?