tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53686262552004829182024-02-20T05:50:55.326+13:00The e-Learning ClassroomJacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-45286344919605179782017-01-13T11:14:00.000+13:002017-01-13T11:14:14.291+13:00Centralising all my blogsThis blog is now discontinued as I have moved all my blogs to <a href="http://sharpjacqui.blogspot.co.nz/" target="_blank">one central blog</a><br />
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<br />Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-38209161066994546992015-05-13T13:21:00.001+12:002015-05-13T13:21:52.698+12:00What to do with extra screens in the classroom?A couple of my schools are experimenting with having an extra TV screen in their room. One of the schools has 4 e-Learning rooms with 1-1 iPads, 12 Chromebooks and 10 Laptops. They have a projector, a large TV and a small TV. The other school has two TVs, one large and one small.<br />
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I first came up with this idea last year when I did some demonstration teaching at Alfriston School in a Year 5/6 class. The room had a projector and one TV. I had picked up a 21 inch TV with an apple TV so I thought I would try it as an independent centre. Students were using it for peer editing and collaborative games. So now the class had a main TV for a teaching station where groups would come for their instructional teaching, and a smaller TV that students could use themselves.<br />
Clevedon has put a smaller TV in all their e-Learning rooms and the following are suggestions of ways to use them.<br />
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Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-2713807144688563972014-08-08T18:11:00.001+12:002014-08-11T08:07:23.646+12:00Fourth and final day of 'Walk the Talk' AlfristonToday was the last day of my Walk the Talk. The students know the drill now and settle down very quickly to all of their tasks. Writing still seems to be their favourite and we are receiving some wonderful writing from them. The following are examples of writing that is still being edited<br />
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And another<br />
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and then there was the 'Peer Editing'...<br />
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The students sat at the 'Teaching and Learning Station' table with their Chromebooks reading, suggesting, commenting on one student's story that had been shared with them. The story to be edited was also mirrored to the TV through my Mac Laptop. Here are examples of students commenting on student work (Note the last comment in the first example <i><b>'Athens (capital dude)'</b></i><br />
The students knew what their Learning Intentions and Success Criteria were and used that as the basis for most of their comments.<br />
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This was a great way for students to be part of the editing process, and they were all learning at the same time.</div>
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At the beginning of the Writing session I also pointed out the Different Ways to Publish your stories on the wiki.</div>
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Once the Students have finished their publishing, they will start the whole process again but with a myth of their choice, starting off with the Graphic Organiser.</div>
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The Journal group are learning to skim and scan a play</div>
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Student are managing their Google Maths Docs well, they <br />
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<li>are copying/pasting the activities they are doing to their timetables. </li>
<li>are recording examples and totals they have achieved in iPad games or Internet games</li>
<li>they are reflecting in their maths book about how the activity went</li>
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I have suggested to their teacher that they record in their timetables when they have attended a workshop as well.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teaching improper and mixed fractions using a game on a website, students look at the problem, solve it in their books, discuss, argue, agree and then check answer on screen. I left them after the first 2 problems, they were sorting the learning out for themselves.</td></tr>
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Today the students started writing their Research question. The first steps to designing a research question is to write down what we already know. I introduced them to the Graphic Organiser<br />
<a href="http://hotandthinkertools.wikispaces.com/Writing+Questions" target="_blank">Writing Questions</a>. They went to the Wiki Research page and clicked on the link to open it and then they made a copy and saved it to the Room 9 folder so that I could access it.<br />
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This took them most of the session. Some of them still need to work out which one will be there research question. Once they have an idea, I would suggest that they use the <a href="http://hotandthinkertools.wikispaces.com/Big+wide+Questions" target="_blank">'Big Wide Question'</a> graphic organiser, that I made specially when I observed some students in another school trying to develop their questions. <br />
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Once they have developed their question they will need to identify what their keywords will be. With all of the work we have done with keywords this week, they should be able to manage that part of the task easily.<br />
Now it is time to look for the information using the keywords, collect and store which they can do in this Google Doc.<br />
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I have had a wonderful 4 days working with Room 9 and co-teaching with their awesome teacher Bonnie. <br />
The successes were:<br />
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<li>the large TV with an Apple TV, iPad and Mac laptop. I was able to use both my Mac and iPad to teach from</li>
<li>the Learning station with the small TV for students to mirror what they were doing and have other students peer edit, comment, solve problems etc</li>
<li>Google Docs, all student work was shared in a folder to me, so when we wanted to peer edit, I opened on my mac, mirrored to large TV and they were able to edit on their Chromebooks, and all could see at the same time on the large screen</li>
<li>TV was great for playing Youtube movies on Egypt, excellent clear picture and great sound</li>
<li>Chromebooks worked well for all students, easy to use and access</li>
<li>using iPad apps as teaching tools i.e. Explain Everything</li>
<li>kids teaching kids, I could start them off and leave them to it</li>
<li>kids not wanting to stop writing, and letting them do just that...I called reading groups as I wanted and the others could keep on writing</li>
<li>the self pacing maths doc, kids working at their own speed on activities that they wanted to do</li>
<li>kids making choices about their learning</li>
<li>kids knowing what they were learning and were able to articulate it when asked </li>
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And probably a whole lot more that I will remember later. The only 'not so successful' was<br />
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<li>getting Chromecast to work, but hopefully that will be solved soon </li>
<li>the occasional internet slow down but that could be due to all the devices being connected and used at the same time (along with all the teachers who were visiting and their devices that they were using courtesy of the school's Daily Passcode)</li>
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All in all, a great few days for the students, teachers and myself! <br />
<br />Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-68428079197706831112014-08-07T16:39:00.000+12:002014-08-11T08:07:23.651+12:00Day Three 'Walk the Talk' Alfriston SchoolIt was another great day in Room 9 at Alfriston School with motivated, industrious students!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDhG0RiJdKc36nOkoCMjDnQmPt9tFdcaj9-eFt6dAyzgE5RnC-OhT2OBK0Nt1dv6QZjA5MJ42muLkSrKInzEq2gemKxjEkJp-maFf8gU5zgGiu4OzHOQSbUx090FV3e8syIzaLtTcuxQzQ/s1600/photo+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDhG0RiJdKc36nOkoCMjDnQmPt9tFdcaj9-eFt6dAyzgE5RnC-OhT2OBK0Nt1dv6QZjA5MJ42muLkSrKInzEq2gemKxjEkJp-maFf8gU5zgGiu4OzHOQSbUx090FV3e8syIzaLtTcuxQzQ/s1600/photo+3.JPG" height="320" width="240" /></a>Writing time was phenomenal today. The students did not want to stop writing. Most are writing their stories using their frameworks for reference. Some are at the editing and proof reading stage. Reading generally follows writing so today we said to the students, you can continue writing during reading time if you wish, except for the group I need to see for a reading workshop. All chose to keep writing!<br />
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I started a workshop with another group today. Here is the Writing Assessment Checker.<br />
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And this is the Workshop. I started them on the '<a href="http://www.telescopictext.org/write/" target="_blank">Telescopic Text</a>' which they had already used with their amazing teacher Bonnie. I gave them the sentence 'Prince Theseus went to Crete' and guided them through expanding and making the sentence better. Their goal is to improve at least 3 sentences in the same way.<br />
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The second workshop was with a group who is working on paragraphs. One of the student's said he was ready to conference so I was able to go through the Writing Assessment Checker with the whole group. He soon realised that he needed to proof reading his writing again!<iframe height="500" src="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VIY2PUCmyn-sxtwrfPL2zc5znAVOhspjtcG6MJA-NBI/pub?embedded=true" width="100%"></iframe>
and here is the workshop. The students played a paragraph game and then we mirrored one of the student's narratives up onto the TV. I encouraged the students to critique and peer edit his work, looking at their Writing Assessment Checker to proof read and edit his story. After a short time l left them to it. After his story was checked, they looked at the others in the group.<br />
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I then met with the 'Percy Jackson' reading group. This was the first time that students had worked with me on this book. We looked at their Vocab Log. I chose a word from one of the student's logs, and showed them how they could use the Search function on Kindle, how to find a dictionary meaning, and how to read in context. That is the focus for their reading from now on is to work on their Vocab log.<br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>Maths</b></span><br />
The students now know that straight after morning tea, they come straight into the room, get their books, a device and start on their Maths task Doc. There is no fuss and no time wasted, they just get straight into it. I call a workshop, name the targeted students and allow an open invitation for any others who want to attend.<br />
Today I briefly saw the 'Finding fractions of a number' group. They all knew how to solve fractions of a number, we looked through the rest of the workshop which they said was too easy! So they moved off to work on their Maths Task Doc. I have set myself the goal of finding some harder activities for them.<br />
The second workshop today was improper fractions. The first couple of slides of the games I chose confused them, so I have removed them and found new ones to use tomorrow. Over half of the group got the strategy, I will work with the rest tomorrow with the new activities I have found.<br />
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Today was still about keywords. We looked at Slide 6 and discussed the number of hits.<br />
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After that we talked about internet addresses, domain names and URLs<br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>Writing</b></span><br />
The children got back their printouts of their Inspiration or Google Doc Narrative frameworks. Their task was to now write their own version of 'Theseus and the Minotaur on Google Docs, using the framework they had worked on yesterday. During this time I took two writing groups.<br />
This is the first group's <span style="color: #e06666;"><b>Writing Assessment Checker</b></span>...<br />
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And this is my version of a modelling book - A <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Writing Workshop</b></span>. This is a work in progress, I add slides as I work with the students and identify what they need to know and what resources I can find to support that. In the example below, we are working on structure, looking particularly at Opening statements.<br />
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This is the second group's Writing Assessment Checker<br />
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And the Writing Workshop. In this workshop I have started off with some websites to see how well the children do with full stops and capital letters. They managed quite well with these so I will look at Slide 5, apostrophes, commas, speech marks. I will add some slides once I have looked at their writing, copied their writing and use that as a teaching slide.<br />
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Today I worked with the 2 journal groups. The first group's workshop was about summarising ideas in text. This workshop goes over 2 days. The reason why I do this is because we look at other resources at the same time, articles, news reports, factual information from the internet that has something to do with the story we are reading. If a country, city, town is mentioned in a book then I like to show where it is in the world and compare where NZ is in relation to the country we are looking at.<br />
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The second group was looking at skimming and scanning.<br />
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This is my version of a 'Modelling Book'. I add slides as I work through the Journal stories with them, if I see a teachable moment, I include it in the workshop. If I can find a youtube movie or an internet page that relates then I add that as well. In the above workshop you will see that we looked at the Parthenon and the Acropolis by using the Tools - Research in Google Presentation, this showed us the pictures and gave us more information about them, that we couldn't get from the journal story.<br />
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Today I ran the equivalent workshop again and the students showed they understood everything they had learned so I sent them to the Whiteboard table for 10 minutes to play the game.<br />
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/everyday-mathematics-equivalent/id417016316?mt=8" target="_blank">Everyday Mathematics - Equivalent Fractions</a> App. They took one iPad and used the whiteboard table to reduce fractions they weren't sure of.<br />
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The second workshop I ran was <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Finding Fractions of a number</span></b>.<br />
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This went really well with students coming with no idea of how to solve the problems to successfully solving them in minutes. The youtube movie on the second slide did a great explanation and then students started doing the problems I had added to the page in their books. I passed around the iPad and everybody had a turn at solving it while the others wrote in their books. They were sent off to continue with their Maths Tasks doc.<br />
While I was taking the workshops the rest of the students worked on their Maths Tasks Doc, choosing their own learning for the day, recording and reflecting on what they had done.<br />
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Today we worked at the Redefinition stage. Students went to the <a href="http://walkthetalkalfriston.wikispaces.com/Inquiry" target="_blank">Inquiry page</a> on the wiki, they clicked on the links to open up the individual Google docs, they made a copy and then highlighted all the keywords that answered the question at the top of the doc.<br />
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At the same time they also had open the Class Collaborative Doc and added their keywords to the columns, they had to ensure that they put in new keywords, there were to be no repeats. They did a great job on this and now they have a doc that they can refer to when they plan their own research question with lots of keywords to choose from.</div>
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<br />Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-75520699822293198432014-08-05T13:40:00.000+12:002014-08-11T08:07:23.656+12:00Day One: Walk the Talk Alfriston<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjlJ2IXgPblpaJ4e7mc_rmWn4eA3uOWwER6TVkeniDDNDZ1Iz1NCllfbnPhlbuXiVv3xkUBb1k_ASROb6PJlMysmHl1P37YzjG62DkQmmIMdwimZ6MDwYXWGmHB1Yd86xA8VRMfzdXCat/s1600/IMG_3917.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjlJ2IXgPblpaJ4e7mc_rmWn4eA3uOWwER6TVkeniDDNDZ1Iz1NCllfbnPhlbuXiVv3xkUBb1k_ASROb6PJlMysmHl1P37YzjG62DkQmmIMdwimZ6MDwYXWGmHB1Yd86xA8VRMfzdXCat/s1600/IMG_3917.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a>I am teaching for 4 days at <a href="http://www.alfriston.school.nz/" target="_blank">Alfriston School</a> in South Auckland in a Year 5/6 class.<br />
The school has just started on their e-Learning journey with 3 classrooms Yr 0-1, Yr 3-4, Yr 5-6 who have all been working with me this year.<br />
This classroom is trialling tables instead of desks, and after a couple of weeks, students are not missing their desks at all. The school has purchased one high table, and one whiteboard table to test out in the room. I heard some students say today "I love working at these high tables!<br />
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I have made a wiki that is for the students to get their resources from and for teachers to see how I did the teaching. Wherever possible I will be using the <a href="http://childrenasresearchers.wikispaces.com/samr" target="_blank">SAMR</a> model to show how I thought about 'Teacher Delivery' and 'Task Design'.<br />
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View <a href="http://walkthetalkalfriston.wikispaces.com/Home" target="_blank">Walk the Talk Wiki</a></b></span><br />
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Today I set up 2 Apple TVs, one on the big TV and one on the small TV (18"). These will become teaching and learning stations for the students.<br />
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This class has 9 Google Chromebooks, 8 windows computers, and I have brought in 4 iPads, a Samsung tablet and a Surface Pro.</div>
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After a while I stopped them and showed them the <a href="http://hotandthinkertools.wikispaces.com/Narrative+Writing+Framework" target="_blank">Narrative Graphic Organiser</a>. They could choose to do an Inspiration one on the iPads or use Google Docs on the computers.</div>
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Once the students had finished the Graphic Organiser, it was printed out and is now the structure for their narrative writing for the next day.</div>
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Today was all about introducing 2 groups of students to their Reading Task Google Doc. This involved them downloading it to their Google Drive, copying it, renaming it and moving it to the shared class folder so I could view it. They then had to do the same thing with their Vocab log and Chapter Title Assignment. This was quite time consuming and this is where '<a href="http://hapara.com/products/" target="_blank">Teacher Dashboar</a>d' would have come in handy.</div>
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The students are working on Fractions, Percentages and Decimals at the moment and I have created a wiki page that leads to all of their resources. I am focussing this week on Fractions.<br />
This page has the downloads they need for some games and their workshops that are completed with me or independently.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">View <a href="http://walkthetalkalfriston.wikispaces.com/Maths" target="_blank">Maths wiki page</a></span><br />
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They also have an Independent self pacing Maths Google Doc where they have to record what tasks have been completed.<br />
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I worked with one group today while the others worked through their tasks. We started the workshop Equivalent Fractions. We focussed on Slide 2 and looked at Equivalent Fractions.<br />
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We tried some examples using the app <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/explain-everything/id431493086?mt=8" target="_blank">Explain Everything</a> which was shown up on the screen at the Big TV learning station.<br />
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I started the Inquiry topic today with a focus on Keywords. This is the presentation I am using.<br />
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And this is the SAMR model I am following. We completed the tasks in Substitution and Augmentation. The students used their topic books to record their keywords. Both TVs were used with iPads mirroring the story.<br />
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<br />Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-14111059061194557392014-02-10T17:06:00.000+13:002014-02-10T17:08:38.177+13:00Starting the School Year<b>Orientation</b><br />
I was thinking about how I could best start an e-Learning class at the beginning of the year. I want my students to become independent learners as soon as possible so the best way to introduce them to this is the '<b>Orientation Contract</b>'<br />
This would include<br />
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<li>the 'Getting to know me' form</li>
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<li>great way of finding out how your students like to learn</li>
<li>find some things out about them that you don't know </li>
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<li>the Wonder Wall</li>
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<li>get them thinking existentially</li>
<li>great starters for discussion and independent investigations </li>
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<li>Tasks in the spaces with small independent investigation</li>
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<li>individual, peer and group tasks</li>
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<li>Management Chart</li>
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<li>students start to manage their time and track their learning </li>
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<li>Digital citizenship tasks</li>
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<li>ongoing tasks for the year </li>
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<li>Device care contract</li>
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<li>how to look after equipment </li>
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<li>Setting up of books standards</li>
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<li>ensure that high expectations are set for book work i.e use of rulers etc </li>
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<li>Getting to know apps and trouble shooting</li>
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<li>set a list of tasks that enable students to learn how to troubleshoot their devices</li>
<li>introduce them to the <a href="http://educationandipads.wikispaces.com/Apps+to+start+off+with" target="_blank">apps they are going to be using this year</a></li>
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<li>How to work in a work station</li>
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<li>how to mirror</li>
<li>how to turn on TVs/Projectors/Apple TVs, troubleshooting </li>
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<li>Using class wiki and resources</li>
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There are a lot of tasks here, but what you can do is start off with a small number of them and once completed they would open up more tasks. <br />
If you make your wiki or site the place to go to get the tasks then students will get used to the wiki. <br />
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Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-30347069055125854752013-08-11T16:18:00.000+12:002013-08-11T16:24:07.342+12:00Turning tradtional into the e-Learning opportunityIn a traditional classroom teachers tend to talk a lot. In an e-Learning classroom there should be less 'teacher talk' and more 'student talk'. Here is an example<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Scenario One:</b></span> </span>Science Investigation (Traditional approach)<br />
Children are sitting on the mat in front of the teacher. Teacher has a sheet of newsprint pegged to the white board with the 'Purpose' of their science investigation written on it. Teacher asks students 'What are the keywords?' A couple of kids will raise their hands and answer. As they find a keyword, teacher asks them what it means and adds that in brackets above the keyword in question. Teacher repeats last step many times.<br />
Then teacher has students turn to TV set and they watch the first part of a youtube video, teacher asks the question 'What is the independent variable?' A couple of students try to answer and more discussion goes on, toing and froing between those students. The rest are by now quite restless and squirming. This last step is repeated twice more. 40 minutes has gone by and only 50% of the class has truly been involved.<br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Scenario Two</b>: </span>Science Investigation (e-Learning approach)<br />
Children are organised into groups (3-4 in a group). One member of the group will open the shared presentation.<br />
They work through the following presentation with the teacher moving around working with individual groups. After 45 minutes, the groups all meet together and share their findings.<br />
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The activity provides a similar result to the traditional method but it is a lot more interesting for the children and allows more students to have a voice in answering the questions. The Youtube movie can be wound back and forward when needed and the teacher has time to spend with those students who need the extra help.Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-52754871112454128742013-05-26T20:08:00.000+12:002013-08-27T13:58:15.585+12:00Walk the Talk Day TenFinal day today! I have really enjoyed working with the children and Rebecca the teacher. It has been a great opportunity to observe the development of their learning with 1-1 iPads.<br />
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Writing<br />
The parents came in today and were able to see the children at work. They were able to see students<br />
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<li>writing in Graphic Organisers</li>
<li>editing by developing their ideas in Pages</li>
<li>proofreading by checking their learning intentions and success criteria</li>
<li>publishing in a variety of ways</li>
<li>observing the teacher as she held conferencing sessions with the students as they talked about their writing </li>
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At Maths times they saw students using a variety of tools for different activities. Students were making <br />
'nets' out of paper, deciphering tangram puzzles, designing buildings in Sketchup on computers, creating tessellations in Pages and iOrnamate, Geometry worksheets, 2D patterns in Keynote, Maths text book work and Geometry Transformation workshops through the projector.<br />
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The next steps are for the teachers to carry on with the work I have planned for the students and start to use ways to provide evidence of student learning in one place. Students can share their work with teachers and parents within the individual apps but now we are able to store the physical evidence of children's manual work. We have started looking at Evernote as a place to store student work and so far it seems to be working well. We have had some students taking photos of their 'paper nets' in Evernote and leaving a verbal comment about what they have learned and how they felt about the activity. Students who are working on Sketchup are taking close up photos of their screens and doing the same thing. One child photographed her two 3-D Worksheets and made comments about what she did wrong and what she did to fix it. Some others have sent PDF copies of their published books made in Book Creator to their Writing folder in Evernote, which means that you don't have to go through several steps to find the student's work. Teachers might decide to let students send through to Evernote some of students' final edited writing in Pages. All of that writing can still be seen in the Pages 'library' but maybe best pieces of writing could go there. The next issue of course is how do teachers keep up with the marking of this work. This could be done when teachers are working with the groups i.e. when they have conferenced in writing, the edited piece could be sent to Evernote there and then and the teacher adds their comments straight away. When students come to Maths group, they can then share the work that has been done and sent to Evernote with the group and the teacher for feedback. With reading, some of the work is completed in Google Docs and does not need to be shared back to Evernote as it is able to be easily viewed in Google Docs itself. Likewise if there has been any maths or Writing work completed in Google Docs the same would apply.</div>
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<li>catering for each individual student in their rooms </li>
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Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-62239233433651427802013-05-23T20:00:00.000+12:002013-08-27T13:57:03.248+12:00Walk the Talk Day Nine<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/notability-take-notes-annotate/id360593530?mt=8" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI18yiR70s1BtJZy4ut0fnL5X_0saqIqfru-0why9FBIUEa7fMfUkEX4PqNI2y5Fi2dhwx6zpfSoAsQSm-IfELuet8Tw7oE64fZNiofC4qOFb5Jhgf8rCESGKa4CLxB-FJgSqVoozrMeDS/s200/Screen+Shot+2013-05-23+at+6.13.48+PM.png" width="128" /></a><b>Writing</b><br />
I tried out a couple of new ideas today with the students. I noticed that some of the students were having problems sequencing in order and identifying the main points in a story. I ran a workshop session where they copied the story <a href="http://greece.mrdonn.org/greekgods/dionysus.html" target="_blank">Dionysus and Ariadne</a> from the website and pasted into Notability.<br />
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I then showed the <a href="http://hotandthinkertools.wikispaces.com/Narrative+Writing+Framework" target="_blank">Narrative Framework</a> on the Projector which has been made in Inspiration.<br />
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Most of the children have managed very well with all of the Google Docs in the different curriculum areas, keeping up with the work that they need to do. There is still a small group that needs a bit more structure and scaffolding. I created a new doc that we printed out and is clipped to the whiteboard. They have to get this doc and tick off the tasks they achieve and then show me at the end of that session what they have done. It will take some training and the teacher needs to be on the ball following up on these students to make sure that they are on task and making good choices about their learning.</div>
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Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-46610039825381151632013-05-22T19:57:00.000+12:002013-08-27T13:52:18.376+12:00Walk the Talk Day Eight<b>Writing</b><br />
What I have particularly enjoyed in my time at Clevedon, is having the opportunities to look at how children learn, identify what are some of the difficulties they have and thinking about the 'what' and 'how' I can assist them. An example is using the Telescopic Text last <a href="http://elearningclassroom.blogspot.co.nz/2013/05/walk-talk-day-five.html" target="_blank">Friday</a> which has helped the students to think about expanding their sentences using more adjectives and verbs. Some students are having difficulties sequencing their myths and legends so tomorrow I am going to get them to screen shot or copy the text from an original myth, insert into Notability and let them use the highlighting and pen tools to identify all the different parts of the structure of the story, then they will use the <a href="http://hotandthinkertools.wikispaces.com/Narrative+Writing+Framework" target="_blank">Narrative Framework</a> to plan their writing.<br />
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Most of the students like to publish their work in Book Creator, but from tomorrow I am going to introduce them to more ways. I am going to take one students piece of writing and present it in several different ways. As they decide what they want to use, I will only show those students how to get started and they will become my teachers for the rest of the other children when they are ready to learn how to do it.<br />
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I really think the Kindle App has been a huge success for reading. Gradually students are starting to use the dictionary within the app to help them to decipher meaning and how it fits into the context of the sentence. They are also being exposed to the 'there is more than one meaning for that word'. They read the meaning then look to see if it fits in the context of the story, if it doesn't then read the next definition etc.<br />
I showed one student today how to take notes within the story and then she went on to share with the rest of the group. They are expected to come with some notes on the next chapter when we have our novel study group meeting.<br />
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Rebecca, the teacher of the class, started the Transformation Workshop using the projector with the group of students who had identified as their learning goals 'translation, rotation and reflection. It wasn't long before she was able to leave them to carry on as they were managing their learning well, working together as a collaborative group. She was then able to move around the class working with individuals and small groups, whilst still being able to keep an eye on the Transformation Group.<br />
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<strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sharpjacqui/transformation-workshop" target="_blank" title="Transformation workshop">Transformation workshop</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sharpjacqui" target="_blank">Jacqui Sharp</a></strong> </div>
I ran a voluntary 'Tessellation with Pages' group (instructions in above Workshop) Those students that attended learned how to translate, rotate, flip, duplicate etc in Pages on their iPads. Their task is to see how many shapes they can get to tessellate with each other. They can use the computers as well which will give them more choices. On Friday I will show them how they can draw their own shapes and tessellate them as well using <a href="http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/gallery-symmetry.htm" target="_blank">Escher Images</a> as examples.<br />
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Most of the students are able to collect their information, reference it and store it in Notability.<br />
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<br />Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-47432117330078403512013-05-21T22:21:00.003+12:002013-08-27T13:51:34.711+12:00Walk the Talk Day Seven<b>Writing</b><br />
Students are using the Writing task boards well. Some of the students are on their second round of writing stories. When it comes to publishing, they are loving the choices they have.<br />
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Several more children were publishing today. They really like using <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/book-creator-for-ipad/id442378070?mt=8" target="_blank">Book Creator</a>. I reminded them that they could create their own graphics while they were waiting to conference with me which means they can use Sketchup, Minecraft, Pages shapes or any app they have on their iPads.<br />
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The Apple TV and the TV screen has been a fabulous teaching station. I have really enjoyed working with the Kindle App and it has proved to be an invaluable teaching tool. Many of the teachers who have observed me teaching have been able to see the worth of the application. The students love it as well, they like being able to highlight words and sentences, find dictionary meanings instantly and write notes.<br />
One of the activities I have set up for the Artemis Fowl Book, was to set up a Gnomish (Gnommish) book in Google Presentation called 'Our Fairy Book. Students can click on the link and they can add their messages. The first student added their message today.<br />
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I had a teacher today say 'How do you keep ahead of the kids?' My reply was "why do I need to?' I used Minecraft as an example. Students are able to create their graphics and later their Ancient Civilisation worlds. I don't know how to do it, as long as they can explain to me the 'what and why' I am happy for them to use the app.</div>
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Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-80695113547267096912013-05-20T19:55:00.000+12:002013-05-20T19:55:57.072+12:00Walk the Talk Day SixAnother busy day with excited, motivated students.<br />
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<b>Writing</b><br />
After talking about Vivid Verbs in writing, the children set to their work. A few students have started on their second story and lots are ready to conference and publish. Several have posted to the <a href="http://mythsandlegendsbyus.blogspot.co.nz/" target="_blank">'Myths and Legends blog</a>' and some are working on Book Creator. Here is one example of a finished book.<br />
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<strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sharpjacqui/theseus-and-the-minotaur-21497853" target="_blank" title="Theseus and the Minotaur">Theseus and the Minotaur</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sharpjacqui" target="_blank">Jacqui Sharp</a></strong> </div>
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We had an internet outage for about 15 minutes today, but students were able to carry on with non digital activities or ones on the iPad or computer that do not need internet. One of the activities was to make Maori patterns (tessellations). I had suggested some programmes students could use, but I had one student come up and show me how he had used the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/art-fun-iornament-free/id566034047?mt=8" target="_blank">iOrnament</a> app for his patterns.<br />
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Part of the research process today was to find resources on the 'systems' of Rome and note down titles, authors, page numbers and URLs if they are from the Internet. It was interesting to note that nearly all of the students went for the books first rather than the websites. Most of the students used Notability to store their references.<br />
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<br />Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-13092956276778162302013-05-19T16:32:00.001+12:002013-05-19T16:32:20.869+12:00Walk the Talk Day Five<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8aFx7Hf51g2t7XnF0UEybWPvQWIbJMiC_QmedTkbD31Mvz0WjUcrgkv2vAhyphenhyphenK313dUfRDlWztfvUo2wPciJJy5fBcXsGrPC20eM2IY5_n0nFj35fRH3t_efJBcS4PWGF-Z7S5Fk6CaS3n/s1600/minecraft.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8aFx7Hf51g2t7XnF0UEybWPvQWIbJMiC_QmedTkbD31Mvz0WjUcrgkv2vAhyphenhyphenK313dUfRDlWztfvUo2wPciJJy5fBcXsGrPC20eM2IY5_n0nFj35fRH3t_efJBcS4PWGF-Z7S5Fk6CaS3n/s320/minecraft.jpg" width="320" /></a>Five days have gone past so fast and I am half way through my time at Clevedon. We have had lots more visitors today and the students were only to happy to share their learning with them. Quite a few of the boys are coming everyday with their new 'Ancient Civilisations' minecraft creations. They very proudly showed the visiting teachers some of their ideas. It was lovely to see how interested and excited the other children were as the minecraft students presented via Apple TV. This example is one where the student has made a model of Poseidon in Minecraft. Below, this student is experimenting with temples. I have said to the children that they can take screen captures of their creations and use them as graphics for their publishing and presenting.<br />
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I now have access to student work through the Google Teacher Dashboard. What I really like about this is being able see all of the students work in one place, what they have updated and when!<br />
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This morning we sorted the children into groups of 3 and assigned them a computer. I set them a task of expanding the sentence 'Prince Theseus went to Crete.' They had to do this on <a href="http://www.telescopictext.org/write/" target="_blank">Telescopic Text</a>. I did use a little bribery by saying the best group writers would get five <a href="http://www.classdojo.com/" target="_blank">Dojo</a> points each. They took to the task with great enthusiasm and when they shared 15 minutes later, we were amazed at the quality of writing, structure, descriptive words and thought that the students had put into their work. It was fabulous to watch the collaboration that was going on. Here is what they wrote (please bear in mind that they were not worried about spelling and punctuation so much, they were trying to get their ideas down)<br />
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The students are using the dictionaries within the Kindle app more often now for helping them to find meaning. The Vocab Log is working well, as I am using it as a teaching tool. I put ? next to the words that students have made an incorrect sentence or meaning and we look it up in the 'search' on the Kindle app, look at the word in context and then look at the meaning and decipher what it means in the story. <br />
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The independent workshops are starting to work better, but I think in future I would not try to use Mathletics, Studyladder and Rainforest Maths for collaborative work. The activities themselves are great and fit right in with our NZ maths but are too hard too navigate to in a group situation. They will have to continue to be used as independent activities with individual sign ins. The students enjoy the workshops and is one of the noisiest parts of the classroom as they all chime in at the same time calling the answers. The best way I have found to use this workshop is to start it off myself, leave them to carry on and go back to set up for the next slide when they are ready. Other workshops I have made for other strands go straight to other websites with no logins or sign ins, so students can work collaboratively through the workshops without a teacher.<br />
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<b> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sharpjacqui/shape-workshop" target="_blank" title="Shape workshop">Shape workshop</a> </b> from <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sharpjacqui" target="_blank">Jacqui Sharp</a></b> </div>
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Today we recapped on yesterdays '<a href="http://hotandthinkertools.wikispaces.com/Fact+Recall" target="_blank">Fact Recall'</a> and what students knew about Ancient Rome and they had to do a '<a href="http://hotandthinkertools.wikispaces.com/Finding+Keywords" target="_blank">Finding Keywords</a>' for their mini inquiry on <span class="c7">'What were the systems the Ancient Romans invented?'</span><br />
I talked about Keywords and what they were. I will be using the following slideshow to teach research skills to the students.<br />
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<b> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sharpjacqui/how-to-be-a-better-researcher" target="_blank" title="How to be a better researcher">How to be a better researcher</a> </b> from <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sharpjacqui" target="_blank">Jacqui Sharp</a></b> </div>
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We looked at <a href="http://www.telescopictext.com/" target="_blank">Telescopic text</a> to begin with as most of the students need to develop their sentences and expand them. The students were amazed at how 'I made tea' turned into a full story all about tea. We had a quick look at expanding one of the sentences from our story using the <a href="http://www.telescopictext.org/write/" target="_blank">Telescopic text Writing page</a>. I am turning this into a group activity for tomorrow. I will give them all the same sentence and turn it into a challenge. There are 9 computers which will allow 3 students to each computer.<br />
One of the students finished her writing today so she was able to publish it to our Myths and Legends blog.<br />
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This photo shows the students peer editing using the TV and AppleTV. They have mirrored their iPads to screen. <br />
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The students are enjoying all 4 books and are making slow progress through them. Having to write up their vocab log and prediction mindmap has slowed them down, but once they have mastered these they will be able to get onto the other activities. It is quite clear that a lot of the class need to work on vocab and the vocab log is making that very apparent! I make the vocab log a focus when the students join me for their group time, and they all participate in helping each other making sense of the words. Using the Kindle 'search' tool (I spoke about this in detail in my last post) that brings up where the word is in context and then tapping on the word to get the dictionary is starting to help them in deciphering meaning. <br />
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A couple of boys have discovered that they could draw using the isometric paper.<br />
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<br />Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-89992406122792552492013-05-15T17:52:00.000+12:002013-05-15T17:52:29.600+12:00Walk the Talk Clevedon Day 3It was another great day in Room 7 today. I was so involved with the children that I forgot to take photos except for the few below during one session.<br />
This was the first day that teachers came to visit. The children rose to the challenge and enjoyed talking about their learning with the visitors. The students who were out at soccer yesterday had a bit of catching up to do, but the other children helped them to find their way.<br />
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I added the 'participation' one today to help some students who needed to concentrate on developing their participation skills. It worked beautifully!<br />
Clevedon School works on a different value each week so I have added 'Unity' for this week and 'Understanding' for next week.<br />
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Students are gradually understanding the Writing Charts of Drafting, Proof Editing, Conferencing and Publishing. They know not to put themselves on Conferencing if they haven't checked off their 'Have I...' chart. And they are learning very quickly that if I see any missing punctuation they have to leave the Conferencing group immediately and work on it.<br />
This was the first time I worked with a conferencing group using the Apple TV and TV set. It was perfect for the job. Students were able to mirror their work to the TV, and the other children were able to peer edit it for them with a little input from me. I had their group learning intentions and success criteria in front of me and was able to keep referring students to what they had to concentrate on.<br />
I worked with a couple of writing groups as well and could see that we all need to work on developing our sentences!<br />
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Another use that I came up with was when we were looking at their Vocab Logs, we could search for the word they had chosen, which would show the passage it came from and then we could click on the passage and it would open to the page so we could read the word in context! Brilliant! They found that very helpful!<br />
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I had that classic moment that all teachers have on regular basis where your technology fails you, and <br />
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Students were able to work independently on their own choices of tasks.<br />
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Some were making nets, some doing worksheets, some doing geometry games on the computer, some working in their maths books.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsNVvdKdLv3ViV9-WVjK1S7R0dZMNT7TcFvDSkwWme1IptHlsWDVT_g1F_SSB1tQLT-4rtXKe4MmVQncQxyFvGgZPoLUq7R4F1hLJVLH2RPNbbccWD4BULRI5QG54tXQz7ANYzX03CsAh3/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-05-15+at+5.38.49+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsNVvdKdLv3ViV9-WVjK1S7R0dZMNT7TcFvDSkwWme1IptHlsWDVT_g1F_SSB1tQLT-4rtXKe4MmVQncQxyFvGgZPoLUq7R4F1hLJVLH2RPNbbccWD4BULRI5QG54tXQz7ANYzX03CsAh3/s400/Screen+Shot+2013-05-15+at+5.38.49+PM.png" width="400" /></a>I held a quick '2D Shape Animal' Workshop where I showed them how you could use the shapes in the Keynote app to make animals. Once I showed them how to colour, resize, flip, translate, rotate (spot the maths language there!) move behind and front, that took probably less then 5 minutes. I left them to it! A few minutes later one of them came up to show me how rotating the green circle on the Pentagon shape made Hexagons, Octagons etc (more maths language!). They carried on making <br />
those and saved them to be printed out. I had one girl who was working on other activities come up and ask me 'If I didn't come to the '2D Shape Animal workshop, could I still do the animal shape activity?' Of course I said yes, because I knew a few students were watching and those that weren't saw what the others had produced and asked them to show them how to do it. Students teaching students...my job is done!<br />
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It was a very loud noisy afternoon with Inquiry. But all of the students were engaged and 'participating' and on the whole have done very well with their mindmaps. Photos will follow this week. I will be doing quite a bit of work scaffolding and teaching them research skills as the weeks progress. <br />
<br />Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-14246028310925076822013-05-14T18:14:00.001+12:002013-05-14T18:19:53.138+12:00Walk the talk Clevedon Day 2I had a wonderful day with the children in Room 7 today. A few were away at soccer all day, so they will have to catch up tomorrow. It was great to see the students starting to get into the activities and being excited about their learning. I was impressed to see several children who organised their iPads so that the work they do for me (Google Docs etc) are saved as a Bookmark to Home screen and then organised into a folder. One child even calls his folder 'Jacqui Sharp' and is quite proud of his organisation.<br />
We talked about introductions and setting the scene for writing and I demonstrated using the <a href="http://hotandthinkertools.wikispaces.com/Narrative+Writing+Framework" target="_blank">Narrative framework</a>. Students will use this as their drafting template and when it is finished they will share and open in Pages for crafting and editing. I managed to see all of the writing groups at different times to show them their assessment.<br />
Before they are ready to conference with me they have to have looked at the 'Have I...' table and check off that they have attempted or achieved all of the goals.<br />
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Reading time was fun as now we are starting to look at each chapter of their books and discuss them. Most students have started their <a href="http://hotandthinkertools.wikispaces.com/Chapter+Title+Assignment" target="_blank">Chapter Title assignment </a> and their <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApTEUN8KCuysdFRYME9TVVRZR2lLcFB5NFdWb201enc&usp=sharing" target="_blank">Vocab Log</a>
We have discovered that Google Spreadsheets on iPads are a little tricky to do, so some of the children have been going onto the computers and laptops to fill in that information. Tables on Google Docs are problematic as well, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. They can be still quite fiddly so some children have reverted to laptops as well.<br />
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We started with the Shape Workshop with maths, I called one group up with their maths books and the rest chose from their Geometry Tasks. <br />
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It was interesting to see which activities they have gone for. I will blog more about this and have some photos over the next few days.<br />
For the iPads I recommended these maths apps<br />
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<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/geoboard-by-math-learning/id519896952?mt=8" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Geoboard</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #fff2cc;">(Free)</span></span><img height="54px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/9Q9nsK8pg7HTe-HsI5o9ma3GgQL3VJO7-mE4e3DS8SYOmq49A1YXIvG8xgVxgCOW9pZdujC3vMEJkAHpkeu_3q1nqKTNdwtExuuq4unrUGrHXx8yfdOZv83C" width="51px;" /></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Maths app for Geometry</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/tanzen-hd-lite-relaxing-tangram/id369014729?mt=8" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Tanzen HD Lite </span></a><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Free)</span><img height="58px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/vayqTVLdzU5upoNC082boQY32niye6KRnnpyE8ZsMgLaBQ3bMc34HAy8lVIEeorX2tw-20UCEG3IDYdqQBlQ3y4_8ILA81l-8u6QJ5ap-IEQnP9OQ9s3ANiA" width="57px;" /></span></div>
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<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/screenchomp/id442415881?mt=8" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ScreenChomp</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #fff2cc;">(Free)</span></span><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><img height="51px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/TlPE4TcgbdeV3jd0wQk51q4kPk53eZL1DFEdGMpqEeeVGE7E6RhBDNKGe90TbCEgbCa7X3aoge644K4kkqOZpMNjFABUqAIIevDcgDEul33hGFiSDWIRGMTn" width="51px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Whiteboard app that will be used for maths</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/art-fun-iornament-free/id566034047?mt=8" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">iOrnament</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #fff2cc;">(Free)</span></span><img height="48px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/iTAW4FmOSMP65JCRT84XNBVjw3l9JsR0r7jwHTR3ZptMYs_kqXpzaBKX8b1dDkShtfXqAvoFor8qcjBshCG1TtMnY_rQiO5UkhI96mxojR6he6T8Ukb_FupB" width="49px;" /></div>
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The iOrnament app has been a huge success and several students are creating the most amazing tessellations and patterns. A couple of them have asked if they can create a presentation of their best creations. Some other students are enjoying the Geoboard app and have started taking screen captures of their designs as well.<br />
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We started our Inquiry Unit today 'Ancient Civilisations'. The big questions are<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>What systems were developed by past civilisations?</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>What legacies have past civilisations left behind?</b></span><br />
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And I gave them a choice of how they wanted to mindmap their ideas<br />
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3 of the groups decided they wanted to use Large paper and coloured pens. They used their iPads to refer to the questions, to look up definitions and to find information. Several got the books from the display and were using those as well.<br />
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There was only one technical glitch in the day. The internet went down for about half an hour. The projector is wireless so we couldn't use that or the Apple TV. We couldn't use Google Docs but as one of the students said 'It doesn't matter, we are working on Inspiration so we don't need the internet!' So we survived after all!Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-33148494976102912582013-05-13T21:54:00.000+12:002013-05-13T21:54:13.481+12:00Walk the talk Clevedon Day OneToday was my first day in Room 7 a year 5/6 classroom 1-1 iPad class. They also have 6 laptops, 3 standalones, one projector and one tv with an Apple TV box. I am going to be working with them for 2 weeks and from the 3rd day, teachers from all over Auckland will be coming for a look.<br />
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There was great excitement as new furniture had arrived! Once they had all settled down I introduced them to the wiki I had made that was going to be the portal for all their learning. <br />
<a href="http://walkthetalkclevedon.wikispaces.com/home" target="_blank">Walk the Talk</a><br />
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The hardest part of the day was getting the students to download the various Google Docs to their iPads. I hadn't been able to set up Teacher Dashboard yet or get access to the students accounts, which would have allowed me to send the documents en masse to all of the students and place them in the correct folders. As it was, it was good exercise for them to learn how to download, make a copy, rename and put into the correct folders ready for the day tomorrow.<br />
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During Writing time I worked with a couple of groups showing them how to download their Inspiration mindmap '<a href="http://hotandthinkertools.wikispaces.com/Narrative+Outline" target="_blank">Narrative Writing Framework</a>' ready for tomorrow and they then went on and taught others in the class.<br />
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There has been some difficulty with students' parents downloading the books for Kindle. I have worked out if you set up new account with Amazon and then try to find book you want to download, it either will not be found or will say that title is unavailable. Once you add your credit <br />
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The students were quite good at downloading links, making copies and saving in folders at this stage. Once they had done that, they were able to have a look around the maths wiki page.<br />
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<br />Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-91243832149332585712013-03-27T07:59:00.001+13:002013-03-27T08:01:26.695+13:00Observation Holy Cross #4Sarah is finding that her students are more independent now and don't rely on her to tell them what to do next. They are experimenting with devices and are now thinking about what they need to use for the purpose of their learning. I have observed in both classes how fast they are at using the iPads, their fingers fly moving from app to app.<br />
Sarah is finding that students' work is of a much higher standard, the content is a lot better. Parents have told her that their children talk about what they do at school more than what they have ever before. She has noticed that there is a lot of discussion and sharing amongst the students as they talk about how they going to approach their work.<br />
In reflecting on where the students were at the beginning of the year she said that students found it hard to have choices as they were used to being told what to do, now they know how to cope. I saw that with the task Sarah set today...students were given a time limit, expectations and from that they chose how they were going figure out how they were going define, find and present. Every group of 2 or 3 worked in a different way. Their task was to present what they knew about the '12 stations of the cross' and what was the meaning of each station to them.<br />
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Because it 'Holy Week' for the Catholic church, students do a lot of work around the '12 Stations of the cross' so Diane had set the same task Sarah had. We had been talking about statistics and Diane was talking about how students could present their knowledge. I saw a great opportunity to talk about <a href="http://infographicseducation.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank">infographics</a>. Diane could see how that could fit in with what she wanted students to do that afternoon. I shared with the students what infographics needed and we looked at the structure slideshow example. The students got a lot of good ideas of how to use symbols and different ways to show timelines.<br />
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<b> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sharpjacqui/structural-elements-of-an-infographic" target="_blank" title="Structural elements of an infographic">Structural elements of an infographic</a> </b> from <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sharpjacqui" target="_blank">Jacqui Sharp</a></b> </div>
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I suggested to Diane that she made it a regular thing during the week to look at different infographics and analyse them using the examples I have curated on <a href="http://scoop.it/">scoop.it</a><br />
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I worked with a reading group today in Rebecca's room, with a particularly difficult text on estuaries (The secret life of Estuaries. Connected 3 2006). Students had their iPads and journals and we worked at the TV Learning Zone. Students had the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/dictionary.com-dictionary/id364740856?mt=8" target="_blank">Dictionary</a> app open so that they could look up words that they didn't know.<br />
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There were 2 diagrams in the story. I got them to take a photo of the first diagram and annotate the different parts of it. When we came to the next diagram they did the same thing. The diagrams were a visual aid of the text relating to the text they had just read. Some of them started to jot down some notes as they would have to write an explanation later.<br />
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Diane has changed her classroom around and it looks great. The students took part in the redesigning of it. One of my suggestions was to move the shelving away from the wall and point it into the classroom, take everything off the top of it and students can use it as a place to work. It looked like it was working pretty well to me.<br />
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Students are still using the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/pic-collage/id448639966?mt=8" target="_blank">Pic Collage</a> app and have become rather adept at using it for lots of different reasons. One of the tasks today was to retell the story of the Prodigal son and then publish it so it looks like a board game. A couple of boys did a lot of problem solving, made their own squares and came up with this result.<br />
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Sarah has started her management system for writing, where she has set her expectations, students have a timeline and they have to show where they are on the timeline by moving their name. <br />
<br />Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-91685147614067569872013-03-17T22:45:00.000+13:002013-04-04T11:42:38.472+13:00Observation 'The Gardens' 12 March 2013Evernote and Edmodo are being used by some of the teachers in this school. Tracy in particular has lead the movement amongst the e-Learning teachers with Edmodo. Most of her Year 5/6 class are in their second year of e-Learning and it shows. The students are very quick and adept with the technology.<br />
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Jan wanted her students to practise their handwriting with Drawing apps on the iPad. The students mostly chose Drawing Pad. I suggested using Notability with lines and also suggested that they record themselves in Screen Chomp writing the alphabet so that they could see what letters they are not forming correctly. Once they had their practice in Notability, they could save into a Handwriting folder, their best pieces of writing could be shared to Evernote.<br />
The last 2 years the e-Learning teachers have been using Google Sites for their digital portfolios. They have decided it was too cumbersome so they are using Evernote which can be used both on computers and devices. Most creative apps will share to Evernote, so students can store best evidence of their progress in notebooks in Evernote. Work that has been hand done can be photographed and added as well. Students can also use the recording option to record their feelings about their work.<br />
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One of Tracey's students showed me how to install the Evernote clipper to Safari on the iPad<br />
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<li>In another tab go to <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.evernote.com/" target="_blank">http://www.evernote.com</a></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: small;">and bookmark it, rename it 'Evernote Clipper'</span><b><span style="font-size: small;"></span></b></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Go to this link</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://mergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/iOSEvernoteWebClipper.txt" target="_blank">http://mergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/iOSEvernoteWebClipper.txt </a></span><span style="font-size: small;">copy the code, tap on Bookmarks and Edit, tap on Evernote </span><span style="font-size: small;">Clipper</span><span style="font-size: small;">, paste code</span><b><span style="font-size: small;"></span></b></li>
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Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-10823913376608019412013-03-09T16:23:00.000+13:002013-03-09T16:23:54.680+13:00Observation Week ClevedonThe teachers are discovering that the Google Drive app is not perfect. You can't copy a document in Drive, students need to go to Chrome and open the desktop version. Students had problems signing in and you can't see the collaborators on your documents in real time, you have to tap sync to see what they have added. My suggestion is to use the Google Drive app for getting down ideas, editing, and sharing. If the teachers want the students to do peer editing, it would be best to use the class laptops so that they can make full use of the commenting feature.<br />
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Students are making choices in what apps they use for their learning. One group of students were splitting words into syllables and several of them chose <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/notability-take-notes-annotate/id360593530?mt=8" target="_blank">Notability</a>, where they typed the words and use the pen tool to draw the lines. Others were writing in notes or writing in their books.<br />
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I liked this short maths starter called 10 pin bowling The students chose an app to record their answers and they had 5 minutes to get rid of all of the pins. Apps they could have used were <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/showme-interactive-whiteboard/id445066279?mt=8" target="_blank">Showme</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/educreations-interactive-whiteboard/id478617061?mt=8" target="_blank">Educreations</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/screenchomp/id442415881?mt=8" target="_blank">Screen Chomp</a> or <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/notability-take-notes-annotate/id360593530?mt=8" target="_blank">Notability</a>. <br />
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The classroom wikis ( <a href="http://missbakerslearners.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank">Rachael</a> and <a href="http://csseven2013.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank">Rebecca</a>) are being referred to all of the time and resources are being added constantly for student use.<br />
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The use of <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/evernote/id281796108?mt=8" target="_blank">Evernote</a> has started in one classroom where each student has a notebook where they save their research information. Students found out how to add graphics, type notes, add tags and they are going to learn how to use Evernote to reference their research.<br />
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To get to know the iPad one of the teachers has made up an iChallenge for both classes. Students had to fill in what they were able to do, they used the emoji symbols to record their answers.
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Following on from our discussion about <a href="http://elearningclassroom.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/organisation-tips.html" target="_blank">monitoring the options</a> students choose, Rachael is trialing this spreadsheet with a group to see if they can self manage themselves and their tasks. We look forward to the end of the term to evaluate how it worked.<br />
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Christine makes extensive use of <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/edmodo/id378352300?mt=8" target="_blank">Edmodo</a> where she shares almost all of the students 'Learning assignments'. Students can choose what programmes they want to use to show off their learning and share back to Edmodo. Children use the chat and messaging features purposely to discuss learning. <br />
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They also use Google Sites for blogging and occasionally use Google Docs mostly on the computers rather than the iPad.<br />
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Christine still does handwriting with all of the students for 2 reasons<br />
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<li>Parents are concerned that students won't be able to write when they get to Secondary school</li>
<li>Some of the students writing does need to improve legibility</li>
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She makes a handwriting PDF, using <a href="http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/" target="_blank">amazing handwriting worksheet maker</a>. Students access it through Edmodo and practise their handwriting in their handwriting books.<br />
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Christine feels that she does a lot more marking in an e-Learning classroom, as students tend to finish work more quickly because they have typed it up once, had it edited and then they finish with the final product. But to balance that, Anna feels that she is so much freer in the class to work with individuals, pairs or groups as the students are so much more independent and self managing.Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368626255200482918.post-28916470962041333152013-03-03T21:19:00.003+13:002013-03-03T21:19:21.702+13:00Oberservation Week 4 Holy Cross<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Looking around the whole Year 5/6 class I could not see one single child who was not engaged. They were working in pairs using iPads and the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/puppet-pals-hd/id342076546?mt=8" target="_blank">PuppetPals</a> app or computers. One child used her initiative and used the notes app to record her thoughts as she was creating in PuppetPal.<br />
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Later in the day they were making choices about how they were going to record their information. I introduced one child to <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/pic-collage/id448639966?mt=8" target="_blank">Pic Collage</a>, who then started teaching another.<br />
I loved seeing the individual creativity that was coming out, they were choosing the digital tools they wanted to use.<br />
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Sarah had extra students in her class today (40 in total). But still everybody worked well, with students moving between iPads and computers.<br />
These students were writing up important events that happened in the years since they were born. I told them about '<a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history" target="_blank">This day in history</a>' and they were able to track events and complete their tasks.<br />
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Students were mindmapping their ideas so I introduced one group to <a href="http://popplet.com/" target="_blank">Popplet</a>. The teacher set up a class account. Students can do 5 different mindmaps before they need to delete them to make room for more. So another tool was added to their digital toolkit today '<a href="http://popplet.com/" target="_blank">Popplet</a>'.Jacqui Sharphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18098130968092971867noreply@blogger.com0