Blogging support

http://bling4yrblog.blogspot.com/

I found this great website with helpful tips on how to blog!! I'm going to sit done and have a good read through and see what helpful tips I can use for my class blog!!!

ICT Challenge

Your ICT challenge this week....

Use your flip video to record children's learning in your classroom.

Upload your video to your class blog (or children's individual blog).

Middle and senior teachers - get your ICT leaders to record children as well and then they can upload their videos to their e-portfolios.

Junior teachers - if you want to use senior ICT leaders to video chn just ask.

EXTRA... post a reflection on your teacher e-portfolio. How are you using the flip in your classroom? How are you going? What is working well? What are your next steps of learning?

Student Voice

http://edtalks.org/video/publishing-student-voice

http://edtalks.org/video/enabling-students-blossom-eportfolios

Watch these videos on... student voice / video / e-portfolios

Flip videos

Using Flip Videos in the classroom

Staff Meeting - 21/6/11


Flip videos

• How to use them - set up, change setting for video etc


• storage/security/student use


• Model one way of using a flip video in maths


• How to use them effectively in the classroom - share ideas


• Practice taking a video of a teacher


• Upload onto your teacher e-portfolio (type a message while video is uploading)


• ICT challenge


• Reflection on teacher e-portfolio

Extra Ideas on how to use a flip video in our classroom....

•Math: record the steps of a math problem with explanations; find math in nature; find math in everyday items
•Act out a scene from a book; narrate a story; record students reading poetry for a virtual poetry jam; oral communication – turn a persuasive essay into a commercial
•Science: demo/create ‘how-to’s for experiments; record labs/dissections/demonstrations
•Social Studies: conduct an interview of a famous person from history/person from another culture; conduct “man on the street” interviews based on history/cultures; re-create a famous speech; create a commercial – “why you should visit…”
•Performing Arts: demonstrate basics of an instrument/parts/hand positioning; create a warm-up video for others to follow along; record yourself and critique
•PE: demonstrate rules of a game; make a workout video
•Health: create a video on making/maintaining friendships/interview kids about what they eat for lunch at school;

More ideas....
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_6tv55j7g9

A website of a school that uses flip videos for reading stories.
http://littlevoiceslittlescholars.blogspot.com/

ICT Sharing

Gwynneth - Sets up her teacher laptop in the ICT suite when her class in in there. When chn finish their posts and they are proof-read she can go onto children's e-portfolios and make a comment on their posts. A great use of time!


Asri - Has a sentence starter for similes on her interwite whiteboard in the mornings and chn add their ideas. See below.



Toondoo - great website to create cartoons. http://www.toondoo.com/


Shane - Shared his "today" powerpoint with class hosts, task boards. Scanning work to add to the big screen

- Google Earth - great to zoom in and find places around the world.

- Google body - need google chrome browser


Marcelle- TES connect website

http://www.tes.co.uk/

ICT Challenge #3

http://www.mytoshiba.co.nz/products/education/resource-centre

Click on the link above and sign up (on the right hand aide) to receive regular e-mails on the digital classroom and the use of technology in the classroom. (It’s take 30 seconds to sign up and under region I presume HT means Hamilton??)

Also... if you haven’t signed up to TES connect then you must!!! It’s a great site, particularly the Iboard section (for use with interactive whiteboards!!) http://www.tes.co.uk/


Let’s make this the ICT challenge for the week!! Have you completed last week’s challenge from Marcus yet?

ICT Challenge #2

This is a copy of Marcus' e-mail sent to everyone this morning...

Good morning all

Thank you for your participation in the moderation session with the Pukete staff yesterday. It sounded like a very useful session to confirm we are on the right, or at least same track. It was also great to see some sharing of resources happening.

I would be interested to know if anything interesting, concerning or exciting emerged from the session. If you have any new wonderings about written language you could post them on your blog.

Let me know your thoughts.

Kia pai to ra.

Marcus

Therefore... This weeks ICT challenge is... brought to you from Marcus...

Post a reflection of your thoughts on your e-portfolio!!! We look forward to reading your reflections! :)

ICT Challenge

Reminder...
Last week's ICT challenge was to:

• Post stickies on as many staff blogs as you like!!!

A great way to visit staff blogs and support their ICT journey by answering the question they have asked!!!

PS - I bluebooked last weeks challenge... I think I will now post the weekly challenges on this staff blog! :)

ICT sharing

Staff Meeting

Thanks to Robyn and Jessica for sharing ....

Here's Robyn's website: (watch this space....)

Jessica shared the timer on Interwrite - it can be used for group rotations, coming to the mat in a certain amount of time, packing up etc.

Making your blog private...

I had a question from Robyn a while ago... she mentioned that on blogger she could scroll the "next blog" and a random blog would show.

She then asked me... "Could my blog show up here?"

I have now remembered that you can make your blog private by going to settings and changing the 2 questions below to NO.

Reflection

How do we teach chn to be reflective?

• end of the day reflections


• where to next?


• where can chn use strategies in other areas of learning


• teacher model what reflection should look like - the reflective process


• beginning statements to begin reflection


• reflect on what you have posted


• use modelling books/class work to use to reflect


• use success criteria


• use learning logs to prompt learning and where to next

Guidelines for teacher e-portfolios

• what to do...post on... websites, add photos

How often do we post?
Once a week?

How long do we spend on our posts?

Thoughts...

• teacher challenges - post a photo


• team competition


• library of other sites


• cross syns teams

Digital Portfolios

Staff meeting
Agenda:

• Sharing - How are you going with your teacher e-portfolios?

- Any questions so far?

• Guidelines for our teacher e-portfolios (how often should we post reflections, comments? etc)




• Adding labels, gadgets, other blogs, video links




• Guidelines for student e-portfolios




• Teaching children to be reflective

TASK...

1. Practice writing a reflective comment on a child's e-portfolio.

2. Post some stickies on other tecachers e-portfolios,

Teacher e-portfolios

Sharing back from Learning@Schools 2011 conference

Scott McLeod

http://www.slideshare.net/nickrate/eportfolios-ls-2011

View more presentations from Nick Rate.

http://softwareforlearning.tki.org.nz/

http://www.toondoo.com/

http://webtoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

http://thinkerstoolbox.wikispaces.com/

http://littlevoiceslittlescholars.blogspot.com/

http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/

TASK... for staff

Watch the whole video clip of Scott McLeod's presentation by next staff meeting. Get ready to share your thoughts.

NEXT STEPS...

1. Create your own digital portfolio.

The purpose of your portfolio will be to reflect on your ICT journey this year and many more years to follow!!! :)

2. Add your questions to our on-line wall "What questions do you have?" (see a previous post)

Some things to think about...

Should we 'share' our e-portfolios within the wider community?

Let's listen to what Ewen McIntosh thinks....

Ian Fox

Assessment for learning and e-portfolios

The e-portfolio - A personal space for learning

E-portfolios - Which tools to use?

What questions do you have about digital portfolios?

Learning at Schools Conference

Three of us (Asri, Pip and Marcelle) attended the 3 day conference in Rotorua in week 4.

We learnt so much and are ready to share it all with you soon!!!!! Watch this space....

Staff Meeting #1

What is a digital portfolio?
Why are we using them? The PURPOSE...???

Introducing the e-Portfolio on Prezi

Examples:

http://room7samazingjourney.blogspot.com/

http://8bellevue.blogspot.com/


OUR AIM...
Our aim will be for the students to create an electronic record of their learning – reflective, including work samples and written or oral reflections.

Challenges....

1. From my experience the hardest part is encouraging thoughtful reflection in the children. Getting work, photographing work samples and adding text etc is the easy part.
2. Making the most out of the weekly ICT time

3. Integrating digital portfolios into the classroom programme
4. Capturing those 'magic' moments - when children grasp a concept/skill, show success in achieving their goals etc, how do we capture this moment and post (or get children to post it) onto their blogs.
5. learning how to set a blog was my first step. I learnt alongside the children!!! Using the more able children and them encouraging them to teach others was beneficial.

Where to from here?
- How to include the whole school in the process?
- Sharing the purpose of these blogs/portfolios with children.
- Which tool to use? If blogs, how to manage with younger children (passwords etc)
- How to encourage the language of reflection required with the students?
- How to include goal setting?
- Adding feedback from teachers/parents/students.

“We don’t learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.” – John Dewey