LWICT at GSC

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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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 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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Both Jeff K and Marie F have expressed interest in setting up Blogs for their Year 10 classes.  This will be a priority for next term.

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The hardest thing in this job is motivating people to change. People react in very different ways to change. Some are passive aggressive. Some are aggressive. Some are negative. Some are positive and enthusiastic. The question is how does a LWICT coordinator take in the good reactions and let [...]

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Use these links to help you with your design process.  Each group member review one of the dot pointed sites (making notes in your blog) and report back to the other group member.

Improve the Readability

Design Basics for Web Authors

Fonts and Colour Choices   - useful to test your colour choices

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The “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” Year 10 Class used the IWB today to play a simulation at http://www.mcvideogame.com/index-eng.html.  The purpose of the site as explained by the site is below:
 ”For decades McDonald’s corporation has been heavily criticized for his negative impact on society and environment.There are inevitably some glitches in our activity: rainforest [...]

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Think about these rules for blogging. Do they make sense? Can you think of others we need? 

Please, no last names, addresses, IM screen names etc. Never EVER EVER give out or record personal information on your blog. Your blog exists as a public space on the Internet. Don’t share anything that you don’t want the [...]

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