LWICT at GSC

Today Marie’s class took their novel blog posts and organised them in Inspiration.  Only a few of the students completed this task but Marie was most impressed with the work.  The students planned their essay without even being aware of it.  I am meeting with English staff on Wednesday to plan how we might use [...]

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I passed on an interesting link to Bec last week (http://www.mcvideogame.com/) that I thought she might use with her Year 10 S&E class. Bec has taken the idea and developed it. She is using the game as a stimulus to explore the various aspects of business. Students initially play the game on [...]

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Jeff was away today.   John and Chris covered his class.  I had the opportunity to show them blogging in
the classroom and let them read the student feedback sheets.  We also discussed the amount of
commenting that is appropriate.  John raised the point that its very important to comment on the low
achieving students.
I was amazed at how much work some of the students had done.  Some had done little to none in the first two sessions but had put in some significant effort the last two sessions.
Marie’s class is steadily working.  Some students have completed all of the of the tasks. Marie brought up some good points about student responses being personal.
We discussed that next year student blog user names might be chosen by the students and
kept confidential from other students unless  the students themselves reveal their user name.

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Bec has expressed some interest in using IWB and laptops with business simulation game – http://www.mcvideogame.com/ to engage her Year 10s in her current economics program. We are meeting next week Tuesday Block 4.

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Jason and I discussed use of the Caravan animation materials. He is keen to use the storyboards. I printed them out two to a page today and we discussed prining them on A3 paper to save paper. Jason will have students work in pairs to storyboard the Caravan animation. Upon completion [...]

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I am continuing to work with English staff and the year 10s. Jeff has had the students comment on each other’s blogs which is great. Jeff has found it difficult to find time to comment on student blogs. We discussed at length problems that could arise from only commenting on a few [...]

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VYEW
I have been asked to give a little presentation on blogging.  I am trying out a new piece of collaborative software called VYEW.  It describes itself as Vyew 2.0: Always-On Collaboration and Free Web Conferencing.  I learned about it via the Teach42 blog by Steve Dembo.
Steve was one of the presenters from K-12 Online Conference. [...]

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I used the IWB to help the Year 11 students revise.  I find it especially useful for stepping through the algorithm of a program.  I have one student at the board acting as the program counter/ instruction register and another acting as the ALU/ control unit (although I didn’t use these terms with them because they haven’t yet learned them- they will in 2007) .  The rest of the students [...]

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Jeff’s class came in on Friday.  We gave them minimal instructions on the Character Analysis.  That did not work too well.  I then went around to each student in the class and showed them how to copy and paste from the English Blog to theirs and update.  Students got stuck on what to write.  Perhaps [...]

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Sarah and Olaf have both installed all of the IWB software, GridPic and Geogebra.   They have also connected to the IWB to fix the driver problem.  Ricada and Shawn have installed all software but have not yet connected to the board.
Next step – get a trial with IWB and Year 10 students.

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