Blooms Taxonomy for ICT

What tools can you use at each level of Blooms?
http://media2.teachertube.com/files/articles/1437.pdf

Understanding story structure

Try this link to a teacher's blog that is full of ideas!  This idea is for a walk through the story to help children to understand the structure.  As they walk along the path they can practise retelling and summarising the story.  Have a look at some of the other ideas and links too.  I really liked the teacher's bag party.  Many teachers have photographed and described the contents of their "teacher bag". Interesting that most of them take home lots of work and don't get time to do it!

http://www.ateacherstreasure.com/2011/09/treasured-tip-of-day-stepping-into.html

Website to research

http://primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/07/19/blogging-with-very-young-students/

Newspaper Article -L@S 2012

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Learning @Schools

The comment that has stuck in my mind was the "one touch of a key and their future is on the line". In the paper an article on a similar theme gave examples of young people not considering their vast,unknown audience when they posted information and comments on facebook or blogs. It involved losing jobs and friends!! I was also taken with the analogy of giving children the tools then sending them out to play without a duty teacher!!
I still think we need to be mindful of privacy and the ramifications of some of the tools we are working with on line. We have to teach children the safety rules because their parents may know less than the child.

Clever and thought provoking

Photos on blogs

Has anyone else found that when you go to look at photos on your blog , you can click on the photo and you get a slideshow type screen that shows all the photos enlarged?

Reflection time November 2011

Cool... Now I've done it again so - more instructions - when saving the powerpoint page, go down to the last option to choose other ways to save. click on arrow and find JPG.  Change to Edit HTML on edit post.  Put the cursor to the top of the box and insert image.  When I inserted using compose, the 2 slides joined together. Don't know why. As soon as you have inserted more HTML you can change to compose and see what it looks like.

What an interesting way to put this on my blog!!

1. It was a pptx.  Save as JPG in powerpoint.

2. Insert as HTML and here it is. If you click on it, it enlarges!!

photos on blogs

Reflection - It's much better to put photos on a slideshow or photopeach if you are not going to put a caption on each one. It takes up less space on your blog and you dont have to keep scrolling down.

Vocaroo and Interface class blog awards

Chinese Whispers
I am trying this on my class blog.
 I've recorded a sentence onto vocaroo and the children
have to repeat what they heard.
I'm wondering how safe and sensible they will be when recording.

Also I went onto the interface website and had a look at the finalists for best class blog
and use of web2 Tools.  It will be interesting to see who wins it!! It's interesting reading the different reasons for having their blogs too.
http://www.interfaceonline.co.nz/awards-2011.cfm
This next link was to some NZ class blogs. Interesting looking at class blogs for similar ages to mine.
http://nzedublogs.wikispaces.com/NZ+classroom+student+blogs

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Busy, busy...

I see from the date above that I have not posted anything for 4 weeks.  I have been commenting on children's blogs though and working with my class on doing individual posts to talk about their learning.
It's not that difficult to get them to write a post but I think next time they can save as a draft and I will publish it when I have checked it for spelling mistakes.

Reflection week 4

Hooray! Everything seems to be working again. 
For the past week, I've been encouraging my student, Brendan to have a go on the IWB.  It makes you realise how hard it was when we were new to the concept.  Now I'm stuck with the need to leave my laptop in the classroom for the IWB, when I also need it for CRT or when I leave Brendan on full control.  I guess some people have already dealt with this.  I don't usually leave my laptop in the class room with a reliever, but should we be letting/encouraging relievers be ICT capable in our rooms??
Also ... I used a microsoft programme on my own laptop to make a video out of a set of photos. (Movie maker I think)  Really easy to do and I was pleased with the outcome. Check out room 2's blog to see KC Art club in action!

New Technology!!!

What a week!  First my lamp needed to be changed on my projector. I was told by Marius that we should all be checking our filters regularly and resetting the filter counter. Also we need to make sure we have our lamp on "eco". I was sure I did but realised that it is very easy to press the lamp control button on the remote and you are back to full strength (which greatly reduces the life of the expensive bulb).  If you need help with this I can show you what to do.
Then either me (or my son) used up the monthly data allowance in 2 weeks, so have been on dial up speed. It is painfully slow when you like to flick around different sites like I usually do.  Hence I haven't been posting much. I'd like to be commenting on Blogs but I'll get back into it soon.

Reflections on the journey so far

I'm having a lot of fun.  I really enjoy testing the sites before letting the children loose on them and I felt lost without my IWB today.  I seem to be using it more and more regularly during maths and literacy times.  I'm also really thrilled with the way the class are using study ladder.  They can't wait to have a turn. I choose a variety of activities related to their literacy and numeracy learning for them to complete.  I love doing my blog, and I'm comfortable with what my class are doing with theirs.  It's a mix of me posting items of interest, videos and photos of what's been happening and the children starting to post their work. The number of sites and variety of tools are overwhelming but I've decided to try a tool and have it working before I look for more. 

Sketchfu practice number 2

http://sketchfu.com/drawing/4154483

If you go to this link you can have a go yourself.
Have a look at what others have done. Zigster has done some really cool stuff.  If you speed it up to 64x it's quicker to watch.
http://sketchfu.com/drawing/2698427-little-frog-

Sketchfu

I'm having difficulty with sketch fu.  I made a sketch and published it and it has linked to my blog.  Now it won't load back at the website, so I guess it's tripping around in cyberspace somewhere!
I'll try again later because it's quite cool if you like drawing (very basic drawing!)

Embedding from Brainshark

Cool tools for Schools website.

I've been looking at this website and am trying some of the tools out.The Sketchfu tool is neat.  You use different sized pens and a good range of colours to create a picture.  When you replay it, it redraws your picture as fast or slow as you like!  Easy to use and interesting results. 
Next I went to My Brain Shark, initially because you can add a voice over to your powerpoint.  I searched an existing ppt and am attempting to embed it!
I hope it works.

Interesting...

I'm trying to get on to the staff digital portfolio blog and it won't open for me. I can open others but not that one.  Just wondering whether you can open it when someone is working on it? 

Blogging and year 2s

Kia Ora
I made a very brave move last week and let the children in room 2 loose on our blog site.  I raced round madly in the ICT suite checking computers.  All children were in the right place so we went step by step through the process.  They all virtually wrote the same thing then wrote their own secret code (for fun).
Well... that started something!!  Parents have been on the site now because the children found it for them.
This week I put some photos on and the children wrote their sentence.  The children must have gone straight home and talked about it because some parents had been on and commented before I even got home from school!  It's very powerful.  I think the computer savvy families can benefit from the blogs and I guess in time the others might become more interested.  I must say -  it is motivating for me, to see how excited the children are to be engaging in this activity.  Some of my class have also taken their study ladder passwords home and they practise for homework.  I'm really interested in the possibilities!!!