4 events

Here are 4 events that inspired me to record my learning journey as a blog:
1. In November 2005 I attended Professional Development courses run by Jacqui Sharp – "Digital Cameras for real Beginners and 101 Ways to use your Digital Camera."

2. I was next inspired by Dorothy Burt who spoke about classroom blogging at a Teachers Conference in Palmerston North in January 2010.

3. My wonderful techie and future focussed husband, Julien, continues to inspire and challenge me to try out new "technology." Hence my iPhone is now my favourite device that I am addicted to and would be lost without. Together with my iPad it has made it so easy for me to keep in touch with current changes in technology.

4. The last event that catapulted me in the deep end and showed me what could be happening in my school, was attending the ISTE conference in San Diego in July 2012. This conference opened my eyes, inspired and motivated me to share my learning. This blog, hopefully, will have ideas to inspire you to get e-learning happening in your classroom.


Friday, January 10, 2014

Evernote - Our Online Writing Books

https://www.evernote.com

Problem: How to use our 5 iPads and 6 PCs/laptops during our writing sessions? 
Solution: Evernote has become our writing book. After trialling Notes on the iPad or writing directly onto their wiki page I discovered that Evernote is much more manageable. Children can be rostered onto Evernote on the PCs and iPads and can access their pages anywhere, even from home if they wished. All children have their own page. They plan and brainstorm ideas and words, then draft their stories, edit themselves or easily peer edit and then conference with me. I can also check up from home - no messy piles of draft books around and then plan who I need to conference with the next day. Then it's easy for them to publish - copy and save with a photo or other image to their Kidblog page or wiki page to share. So half the class is writing online while the other half are using their traditional writing books. 
Click image to enlarge - Impressive writing by Raina - One of the more talented writers in the class 

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