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English Blogs

lwict — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:03:57 +0000

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.

Art Blogs

lwict — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:59:47 +0000

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.

QTP Grant

lwict — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:20:33 +0000

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 they will partner with us in QTP application. I am not sure what form that might take. District Office has said they will support me as well.

Jan from Central has also volunteered to help out.Possible Presenters:
Finn Craig – They are happy to come and present if they have time available.
Brad Hicks – Intersested – possibly blogging or other Web 2.0
Byron (Apple) – Interested – need dates to confirm.
Ritemath – http://extranet.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/DSME/RITEMATHS/general_access/project_home/Team.shtml

English Blogging

lwict — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:46:48 +0000

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.

Characters in Advertising

lwict — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:49:11 +0000

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 ineffective?

Life. Be in it

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 ineffective?

Constable Care

Who is Constable Care a mascot for?
What message is he trying to get across to people?
Who do you think the target market is? (Age, Gender, Lifestyle)
Do you think he is effective?

One More Character

Who is this character?
When do you see him?
What is his usual message?
Why do you think the character is effective or ineffective?

Can you think of any other characters used to get across a message or sell a product on TV or Radio? Name (or describe them)

English Blogging

lwict — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:13:25 +0000

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.

Confrontation and Change

lwict — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 02:03:18 +0000

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 the negative reactions slide off without impacting?

Improving Readability

lwict — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:52:13 +0000

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

IWB and “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”

lwict — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:08:30 +0000

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 destruction, livelihood losses in the third world, desertification, precarization of working conditions, food poisoning and so on…

Denying all these well founded accusations would be impossible so we decided to create an online game to explain to young people that this is the price to pay in order to preserve our lifestyle”

Reflection:
It was interesting to note that most students were really involved in the activity. It was great to see them working together to try to get the best outcome. Also to hear them discuss the alternatives or options in the game.

One Aboriginal Boy really liked it. Afterwards he raced upstairs to continue the activity on his own computer. I asked Simon later if the boy was generally engaged in class. Simon said that it depended on the activity. This goes to support the theory that the IWBs will be especially effective with boys and Aboriginal students.

The students were also very interested in how the IWB works.

I had them sit on the floor or the bench seat. They didn’t like this but it gave easy access to the board. I do not know how well this will work with a big class (>20).

Blog Rules

lwict — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:36:36 +0000

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 world to know. For your safety, be careful what you say, too. Don’t give out your phone number or home address.
Do not link to your personal blog/journal from your school blog; you might reveal information on there that you don’t want to reveal on your school blog.
If you want to write your opinion on a topic, make sure you’re not going to be offensive as you write it.
Always make sure you check over your post for spelling errors, grammar errors, and your use of words. Paste your post in a word processor and run spellcheck, or download a spellchecker for your browser.
Never disrespect someone else in your blog, whether it’s a person, an organization, or just a general idea. You don’t want someone making a stab at what you are passionate about; don’t do it to someone else. Again, your blog is a public space. And if you put it on the Internet, odds are really good that it will stay on the Internet. Always. That means ten years from now when you are looking for a job, it might be possible for an employer to discover some really hateful and immature things you said when you were younger and more prone to foolish things. Be sure that anything you write you are proud of. It can and will come back to get you if you don’t.
Don’t write about other people without permission; if you can’t get their permission, use first names only. Never share someone else’s last name.
Watch your language! This is part of our school community. Language that is inappropriate in school is also inappropriate in your blog.
Make sure things you write about are factual. Don’t be posting about things that aren’t true. Link to your sources. Never link to something you haven’t read. While it isn’t your job to police the Internet, when you link to something, you should make sure it is something that you really want to be associated with. If a link contains material that might be creepy or make some people uncomfortable, you should probably warn them by using a parenthetical note or some other word of caution.
Keep it education-oriented. That means that you probably shouldn’t discuss your plans for the weekend, the last dance etc.

sources:
http://intheknow.edublogs.org/rules-for-blogging/

http://mccyeareight.learnerblogs.org/2006/05/01/rules-for-blogging/