LWICT at GSC

Today I presented an afterschool session on using the IWB and some specialised maths programs to engage maths students.
First we looked at how the IWB works briefly.
Then we looked at using GridPic with images.  GridPic has several equations built into it.  A picture of a shade cloth was chosen and the group worked together to [...]

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Alana is doing an awesome job with the careers classes.  She has arranged some team teaching with Claire and Cherie.  They are now fired up to use the IWB.
Follow-up Required:
Meet with Cherie re:  Year 11 English Exam prep Week 4 Thurs Block 3/4
Meet with Claire re:  creating a Year 10 program for the last two [...]

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Mike and I worked on creating his blog for Craft.  Mike is going to create a post that identifies the marking criteria for each of the Arts Outcomes.

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I am pursuing a QTP Grant for professional learning in ICT for Geraldton.  My initial thoughts include

A mini-conference in Geraldton
Action learning based on conference exposure led by LWICT coordinators in schools
An ICT expo showcasing student work in Geraldton

Interested Schools include:

JWC – Carla
Rangeway – Michelle
WPS – Michael
GPS – Richard
Mt Tarcoola – Judy

ECAWA has also said that [...]

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I have set up another set of blogs for the second highest English class taught by Marie.  I have also set up a bloglines account for Marie to easily check student work and comment on it.  Tomorrow I will meet with Marie to discuss how and when we will use the blogs.  They seem to be a very good tool for the English area.

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Alana has used the IWB to show her Careers Video about motivational individuals – such as Layne Beachley shown here. They then used the IWB to note interesting facts from the video. Students were able to write directly on the IWB using the IWB software. Alana used a flip chart that I created as a [...]

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I set up blog accounts for Jeff’s Year 10 English class. We booked the class into a lab last Friday whenthey logged in to their blogs.   Initially we reviewed the blogging rules and then they started recording their movie reviews in the blogs.
Unfortunately, there were problems with some of the student accounts. It was [...]

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I have set up Jeff’s class blogs and a bloglines account for him.  We did a little lesson on how he can put resources on the English Blog sites.  Tomorrow we will try to get the Year 10 students on their blog sites and writing about Of Mice and Men.

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Look at the following web sites and answer the questions about them.
Go for 2 Fruit and 5 Veg

Who is the character in this short movie?
What message is the movie trying to get across to people?
Who do you think the target market is? (Age, Gender, Lifestyle)
Why do you think the movie is effective or [...]

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