Another successful app to use with young children. A great way to record student voice - giving children the opportunity to publish their writing or to express their opinion about something they have learnt. It is easy for them to take a photo and to record, then listen and rerecord if they wish. Then this can be shared - via email to their parents or the link is copied and uploaded to their Padlet page (I am doing this for them at this point in time.)
Samantha explaining her garden plan; Scarlett talking about how a food pyramid keeps us healthy; Cooper counting in 5s.
Here are examples of how fotobabble can be used to record student learning - it also gives children the opportunity to talk to or about a topic without having to read a script - which is an important skill in itself!
Showing posts with label sharing learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sharing learning. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Blogger - Our Class Blog
So simple! Using the iPad Blogger app has made it easy for the children to write a new post each day on our class blog. I was determined that by the end of Term One they would take responsibility for choosing the learning of the day that they wanted to share and be able to publish the post themselves.
To achieve this I had to:
To achieve this I had to:
- set aside time each day to show 2 children how to take/choose a photo, write a title, write the caption, write their names as the labels
- suggest the photo/learning to share
- suggest an appropriate title, they could usually think of a sentence to write on the topic
- be available to edit their writing before publishing
- make sure that the task was shared around ans that everyone had a turn
- make sure that there were 4 children that were shown
Monday, April 28, 2014
Padlet - Term 1 2014
This has turned out to be the most successful app for the beginning of the year for my Year 2 class. It is so versatile and has enthused and motivated the children into taking photos, videos and writing and then sharing their learning with their parents.
As an introduction to Padlet we had class pages where we all wrote on the same page.
Now:
everyone in the class has their own Padlet page
each page is uploaded to the class blog - http://www.chelseabachelors.blogspot.co.nz/
it is then able to be accessed from home as well - several children have taken off with this and have added photos and captions of themselves at home
writing on their Padlet page has become part of the Daily 5 reading rotation
writing on their Padlet page has become part of the writing rotation
children choose what they want to write about - choose or take their own photo, write their own title and write their own sentence/caption
As an introduction to Padlet we had class pages where we all wrote on the same page.
Now:
Friday, January 24, 2014
Is there a place for Facebook in schools? Should schools have a Facebook page? Most schools with Facebook pages use them as a notification service or as another way of informing parents of what's going on at school.How different is a Facebook page different to a class Twitter feed?
The Chelsea School Facebook page that was set up before Christmas has certainly got a number of friends who are actively following the posts and liking and commenting.
I am now an administrator as well and can also post events and news items. I will be posting happenings in the Bachelor Syndicate such as
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Educreations
Our new FREE web tool – a special iPad app or use a laptop – http://www.educreations.com/
It is an interactive whiteboard that creates video lessons or
explanations in a slideshow format. From a teacher’s point of view it has
unlimited possibilities for children to become confident talking about their
learning and sharing it in an exciting, motivating, e-learning way.
The features of Educreations:
- Write text or draw lines or pictures with a pen using different colours
- Write text with a keyboard
- Take photos or import photos from a folder or your camera roll
- Import pictures from the web
- Add more pages to your slideshow
- Add audio or talk along with your slides
- Save and share your slideshow – email, Twitter, embed it into a blog or wiki page
- You will need to sign up with an email account to share it
Ways we could use Educreations
- share research about a zoo animal
- explain how to solve a maths problem
- share a book that has been read
- explain how to make something
The 2 weaknesses I can see are:
Having to record all slides in one session – you can’t go back and edit once saved
If you make a mistake with your voice recording you have to start all over again
Only disadvantage is that you can't save the talk for each page - you have to delete the whole voice recording if you make a mistake
Maths -
Talking through / explaining maths learning - eg showing doubles, mult problems, evidence from weighing activities - photos, diagrams, add voice
Literacy Ideas -
http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/maori-places/9197099/
http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/zoo-animal-tagxedos-by-zach-thomas-and-kartik/8950885/
http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/ipads-please/9073114/
Monday, January 13, 2014
Wallwisher/Padlet - An Oldie But A Good One
This is one of my favourite apps to use in the classroom! It is an old faithful from way back in the early days of hooking children and parents into sharing the learning that happens in the classroom with home. Luckily it has updated itself. It is simple, versatile, iPad friendly, free and can be used by individuals or be used as a collaborative class project.
Sunday, January 12, 2014
2014 - Using The Blogger iPad App
Student voice and all that - the children will be rostered on to take a daily photo of classroom learning and be responsible for writing the caption. Hopefully this will take the blog into more homes and will mean more parents will use the blog and maybe leave comments and feed back for the children - an authentic audience for their writing. The Blogger app for the iPad has made posting photos and captions so easy that all I need to do is check and edit the writing before publishing.
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Kidblog - sharing an individual child's work online
Half way through the year I was having doubts about our class Wikispace pages. I was always fixing errors with the children's posts. They found it hard to remember to write posts chronologically and I would find their writing in all sorts of mixed up places on their page. Uploading photos and leaving comments was messy too. I feel wikispaces is probably suited to children older than my 6-7 year olds. Kidblog seems to be a cross between Blogger and Wikispaces, allowing a teacher to set up individual pages for each child in a class while still having control over each page. (Using Blogger meant having individual email accounts which seemed too big a step for Year 2s.) Writing posts was more organised and leaving comments was a lot easier.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
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!
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Embedding Slideshows
Then early this year I became really clever and taught myself how to embed a slide show into my blog - so easy really. I then discovered how to change the size of embedded fotobabbles and Storybirds - more by good luck than good management!
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| Click this link to watch a video slide show of the Trip to the Zoo in March 2012 and sing along to the zoo song or Zoo Trip March 2012 - watch a slide show of photos |
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| Click this link to watch a video slide show of the Trip to the Zoo in March 2012 and sing along to the zoo song or |
Zoo Trip March 2012 - watch a slide show of photos
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
Twitter in the Classroom
Follow me - @jennielesueurI have already written a post about the benefits of teachers using Twitter to keep up to date with new information. This post will deal with the benefits of using Twitter in the classroom.
WHY and WHO benefits? - Mainly the parents at present.
This is where my iPhone becomes another useful tool in the classroom. I take a photo of a learning moment and tweet it with a caption. I have a number of parents who follow me on Twitter so they get an instant update on what is happening with their child in the class.
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My aims for the future use of Twitter in the classroom:
- to tweet a photo/ caption each day, sometimes more
- to tweet a photo with a child of one of the parents who follows me
- to tweet information about what is happening daily in the classroom/ syndicate/ school
- to tweet information about what is going to happen in the classroom/ syndicate/ school - eg sports events, spelling tests, reminders
- to get the children involved so they are able to choose the "tweetable" moment
A sample - view these tweets -
Carnivore or Herbivore
Stars of the Week Kelly Sports on the Field
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
A Blog Begins - 2010
After attending the workshop on blogging in the classroom in January 2010 I knew that I could do this! So a trial blog began and many hours of fiddling and trial and error!
However my first trial blog with my class at the beginning of 2010 was
not well received by Senior Management or the B.O.T. It was obviously too early
for this type of innovation at Chelsea School – security involving photos and
information were the questionable aspects apparently. I continued with my
slideshows for the rest of that year and trialled Wallwisher with the children and
found it was well received by the parents.
This made me determined to continue with my class blog and in 2011 to bypass the security issues I advertised the URL for the blog only through syndicate newsletters that were sent home each term and made sure the URL was kept off the school website.
This link takes you to one of the very first posts on the new Bachelors' Blog in Feb 2011
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| My first class blog - Feb 2010 |
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| The first wallwisher created after a class visit to Ambury Farm |
This made me determined to continue with my class blog and in 2011 to bypass the security issues I advertised the URL for the blog only through syndicate newsletters that were sent home each term and made sure the URL was kept off the school website.
This link takes you to one of the very first posts on the new Bachelors' Blog in Feb 2011
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Power Point in 2006 - A Great Learning Tool
Power Point slideshows - Pre blogging:
I suppose the reason I enjoyed making the slideshows so much over the years was because it was a way of showing what was happening in the classroom. It was the time before blogging and the photo/caption slideshows were an excellent way to share learning with an audience.
Power Point has changed since then! The slide shows were simple and basic but served the purpose well. Now it’s so much easier to share what’s happening in your classroom on a class blog. Even links to or embedding photo slideshows is a breeze – instant sharing with an audience!
Power Point has changed since then! The slide shows were simple and basic but served the purpose well. Now it’s so much easier to share what’s happening in your classroom on a class blog. Even links to or embedding photo slideshows is a breeze – instant sharing with an audience!
An integrated English programme:
We made many slideshows together. Mostly they formed part of my English programme and were an excellent way to view and present. We often used a sequence of photos and captions to practise procedural writing.
Our slideshows covered a range of topics depending on our "Fertile Question" or inquiry research topic which was integrated into all curriculum areas as muchas possible.
Inquiry Learning:
This was also the time when our school began inquiry learning and experimented with different thinking tools. Some of the slideshows reflect the way I tried to integrate inquiry learning into my classroom programmes.Examples of our slideshows using various graphic organisers.
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