Sharing the Addiction

Well, it has been a busy end to the term and I have been a little slack in adding to my blog. Still, I have a day out of schools today which gives me a chance to catch my breath and talk quickly to some of the things happening around schools. A couple of schools are venturing into Web 2.0. One school is using a wiki to make a webquest for their students on forces. Resources at an appropriate reading age have been difficult to come by so if you know of any, please email me and let me know. The address of this wiki is: http://wilfordmidsyn.wikispaces.com/

Other teachers are planning to get the children presenting their knowledge using Powerpoint. They really want to focus the children in on elements of good design and effective presentation skills so are using rubrics and examples of ‘bad’ powerpoints to get them thinking. Click here to go to a database of ready made rubrics that you can search called Rubistar.

Click here to go to my wikispaces page with resources for powerpoint (including a ‘bad’ example to download)

There has been some interesting discussions around the cluster about working with juniors and ICT and how much should be ICT to improve teaching or ICT the children do themselves. I think that there is nothing wrong in looking at ICT as a teaching tool where you use the ICT to make a lesson more motivating or exciting. Just because the children weren’t involved in creating the ICT content does not mean that it is not a valid exercise. In one school, we have been talking about using a powerpoint presentation to create a ‘hook’ at the beginning of the unit where children view the powerpoint slides containing images associated with certain jobs and then try to guess what the job is. I consider this a good use of ICT.

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