Easy as.... With your iPhone or iPad.
Why?
Children love to
hear themselves read
It's a record of
"before"evidence/data
Do another one
later in the year and compare and check the changes/ differences/improvements
Embed on their wiki
page for parents to hear - use at Parent Interviews?
Saturday, May 18, 2013
QR codes in the classroom
Ignite at Pinehill School - 16 April - thanks Kate and
Dana
Load the QR reader app onto your iPad and iPhone
Load the QR creator app and follow the easy steps
For voice you need to use Audioboo
Children love to go around the room with the iPad reading the codes - labels for individual art work, labels for learning Te Reo and ..........
Load the QR reader app onto your iPad and iPhone
Load the QR creator app and follow the easy steps
For voice you need to use Audioboo
Children love to go around the room with the iPad reading the codes - labels for individual art work, labels for learning Te Reo and ..........
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| A message for the children to read |
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| A Mothers Day message posted on the Bachelors Blog |
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| Taliya's audio of her research about the Red Panda |
The Daily 5 Literacy Programme
Attended Ignition13 - April 22-23 at Albany Senior High - an
unconference led by Emerging Leaders NZ.
It was great to meet and be amongst other motivated and passionate teachers who wanted to share their ideas about what is happening in their classrooms.
Hence a light bulb moment!! And reading 3 books in a week
"The Book Whisperer" - see last post
"The Daily 5"
"The Daily Cafe"
by Gail and Joan (the 2 sisters)
It was great to meet and be amongst other motivated and passionate teachers who wanted to share their ideas about what is happening in their classrooms.
Hence a light bulb moment!! And reading 3 books in a week
"The Book Whisperer" - see last post
"The Daily 5"
"The Daily Cafe"
by Gail and Joan (the 2 sisters)
The Book Whisperer
By Donalyn Miller
What an inspiring book - basically:
What an inspiring book - basically:
- letting children choose their own reading material to bring to the guided reading lesson
- having teachers group their children according to the skills they need rather than by age levels
- giving children uninterrupted time and space to read the books they have chosen
- guiding them to choose the right books at the right level
- showing an interest in what they are reading
- teachers showing and sharing their love of reading
The L & A Team
L&A - (Leadership and Assessment)
As part of the catch up for 10 years of little PD in the school and to bring us up to date we have started this contract. Wow - a big time learning curve!
Classroom teaching strategies are under close inspection - clarity of learning intentions, clear success criteria co-constructed with the children, planning using the teaching as inquiry cycle, focus learners, student voice, teaching based on evidence and data, reflective teachers, modeling books, reflective learners setting their own goals and learning, Team Leaders observing their teachers and both reflecting on teaching practice, Team meetings becoming PD sessions - just some of the new look happenings around the place!
Out with the old (thank goodness!) and in with the new!
But not enough TIME to do it all quickly enough!
Hence why I've been re-energized to keep this blog, that is tracking my learning as a teacher, going - it is a great way to be a reflective teacher!
As part of the catch up for 10 years of little PD in the school and to bring us up to date we have started this contract. Wow - a big time learning curve!
Classroom teaching strategies are under close inspection - clarity of learning intentions, clear success criteria co-constructed with the children, planning using the teaching as inquiry cycle, focus learners, student voice, teaching based on evidence and data, reflective teachers, modeling books, reflective learners setting their own goals and learning, Team Leaders observing their teachers and both reflecting on teaching practice, Team meetings becoming PD sessions - just some of the new look happenings around the place!
Out with the old (thank goodness!) and in with the new!
But not enough TIME to do it all quickly enough!
Hence why I've been re-energized to keep this blog, that is tracking my learning as a teacher, going - it is a great way to be a reflective teacher!
Our Class Wiki
http://chelseaschoolspace102013.wikispaces.com/
A place for the children to share their work in an authentic environment. David Kinane helped us all to set up a class wikis so children could have their own page as place to record their learning. Only 2 classes have seen the light and the benefits of it at the moment.
I set the students in my class a holiday task - record using text and photos - something you did in the holidays -so far 6 children have added to their page. It's great - I have set it up so that I am emailed every time the wiki is changed. By monitoring it this way I can easily see who has worked on their wiki - one of the advantages of a wiki over a blog - you can also rescue anything that is deleted.
I encourage the children by commenting on their wiki post - a commitment you have to buy into when you start a wiki or blog - it's a 24 hour job - I couldn't just leave commenting on the work they had done till after the holidays!
A place for the children to share their work in an authentic environment. David Kinane helped us all to set up a class wikis so children could have their own page as place to record their learning. Only 2 classes have seen the light and the benefits of it at the moment.
I set the students in my class a holiday task - record using text and photos - something you did in the holidays -so far 6 children have added to their page. It's great - I have set it up so that I am emailed every time the wiki is changed. By monitoring it this way I can easily see who has worked on their wiki - one of the advantages of a wiki over a blog - you can also rescue anything that is deleted.
I encourage the children by commenting on their wiki post - a commitment you have to buy into when you start a wiki or blog - it's a 24 hour job - I couldn't just leave commenting on the work they had done till after the holidays!
2013 - A New Year
Wallwisher becomes.....Padlet (a new, fresh look.)
A new year and lots of changes afoot. David Kinane, an e-learning consultant is working with us to get e-learning integrated into the classrooms. He suggested everyone becoming familiar with Wallwisher, an old friend for me. So it's easy to go with this but with a difference this time. The iPad and new laptop mean we can add a photo to our walls. We make all sorts of walls and embed them on our blog and our class wiki and on our own wiki pages.
A new year and lots of changes afoot. David Kinane, an e-learning consultant is working with us to get e-learning integrated into the classrooms. He suggested everyone becoming familiar with Wallwisher, an old friend for me. So it's easy to go with this but with a difference this time. The iPad and new laptop mean we can add a photo to our walls. We make all sorts of walls and embed them on our blog and our class wiki and on our own wiki pages.
Smilebox and Christmas
An awesome website for the end of the year and parents
love it when they get this cute e-card from their child.
Its free with a limited range to choose from or relatively cheap if you join for a short period.
Take a Christmas photo of each child in the class - Christmas hat, reindeer ears etc by the Christmas tree, do some group ones as well with friends - upload these to Smilebox too.
Just upload a selection of people photos from throughout the year - include individuals, groups, special days, learning events etc
Students take it in turns to choose a Christmas card template, they add their own words and photos and choose the music - the final product is very cute - then they upload and email it to their parents.
Its free with a limited range to choose from or relatively cheap if you join for a short period.
Take a Christmas photo of each child in the class - Christmas hat, reindeer ears etc by the Christmas tree, do some group ones as well with friends - upload these to Smilebox too.
Just upload a selection of people photos from throughout the year - include individuals, groups, special days, learning events etc
Students take it in turns to choose a Christmas card template, they add their own words and photos and choose the music - the final product is very cute - then they upload and email it to their parents.
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