Hello, I am so excited to have created this new Blog and am really looking forward to discovering many new classroom and learning resources for our primary children and to share with you, too. So keep checking back in, you'll be sure to find something new on each visit.
Any comments about the resources we are exploring are most welcome, especially if you have tried them yourself, and would love for you to recommend any that you have come across yourself, on your travels around the net.
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A new blog, now accessible at school, which unfortunately, this one, which I love, isn't, so hence the New Blog. I hope that you'll come along and join me on the new Blog too! Look forward to seeing you.
Thursday 6 August 2020
Saturday 14 April 2012
100wc
The 100wc, a weekly, Literacy based, challenge where children are given a writing ‘prompt’ which they respond to with a 100 word piece of creative writing. They post their work onto a class Blog which is then linked to the 100wc website. Whilst they await responses the children also have the opportunity to peruse other children’s work, adding comments if they wish. Posts are many and creatively varied.
The challenges present many opportunities for writing skills development with its focus on sentence construction, paragraphing and punctuation use and the added bonus of writing for a real audience, providing a meaningful personal impetus. I can’t sing the praises of this activity enough, clearly a powerful facilitator and a vehicle for developing peer assessment and learning independence. With its phenomenal potential the 100wc can very quickly become a valuable asset and a cultivar of children’s positive learning attitudes and engagement, collaborative learning and responsible Blogging techniques.
http://100wc.net/
Additionally, the wonderful 5 Sentence Challenge is once again a valuable contributor of writing skills development this time for younger children and positively supportive of inclusion. Centring on the formation of clear, contextual and correctly punctuated sentences it provides constructive and focused encouragement enabling all children to participate and contribute imaginatively.
http://100wc.net/
The challenges present many opportunities for writing skills development with its focus on sentence construction, paragraphing and punctuation use and the added bonus of writing for a real audience, providing a meaningful personal impetus. I can’t sing the praises of this activity enough, clearly a powerful facilitator and a vehicle for developing peer assessment and learning independence. With its phenomenal potential the 100wc can very quickly become a valuable asset and a cultivar of children’s positive learning attitudes and engagement, collaborative learning and responsible Blogging techniques.
http://100wc.net/
Additionally, the wonderful 5 Sentence Challenge is once again a valuable contributor of writing skills development this time for younger children and positively supportive of inclusion. Centring on the formation of clear, contextual and correctly punctuated sentences it provides constructive and focused encouragement enabling all children to participate and contribute imaginatively.
http://100wc.net/
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Are We Ready For The Adventure?
I am in the process of creating a presentation, entitled,”Are We Ready For The Adventure?’ for our next staff meeting, exploring all the exciting work that’s going on with Primary schools, on the Web. Through the presentation I am hoping to develop, firstly, a positive argument for the cultivation and development of Blogs, across all classes, and secondly focus on the actual potential of Blogging when interest and momentum is seized and capitalised upon and steered into a multitude of directions, thereby accounting for and encapsulating many learning styles and individual interests. I am hoping to show a number of varied examples of Blog use across all primary age ranges, including both class Blogs and primary student Blogs, to hopfully really get our Blogging active and moving, dispell any myths about its lack of use for younger children and provide a firm footing for its development. Any help from existing, successful class and primary student Blogs will be most useful and appreciated.
Sunday 5 February 2012
Quadblogging, 100 Word Challenge, New Tutorial Centre and New Student Page, All in One Weekend, Now That’s What I Call Busy!
Well, it’s certainly been a busy weekend…Began with my finishing a Tutorial Centre on our Learning Platform, a direct response from our staff skills audit. I am really pleased with the result and hope that it becomes a useful element. The Tutorial Centre focuses on developing skills for using MS Word, PowerPoint, Publisher and Excel and other applications and programmes available on our school Network, such as LOGO, Dazzle, and Clicker. As always such an intiative remains dynamic and develops over time and becomes modified as it is used.
Then I created a new page on our Student Space entitled, ” What’s the Time Around the World?” Providing a variety of clock faces, all synchronised, showing the various ways we use and ‘see’ time, such as a basic anologue clock face with second hand, 12 hour digital clock, 24 hour digital clock with date, roman numerals and a face with no numbers. Alongside, were online links to various resources to help children complete activities as well as just ‘finding out’. A world clock in a useful table format for discovering time all around the world, a converter to help compare time in one country with another, a colourful night and day map, an online timer and a countdown timer which children can set for an important event of their choice. Colourful buttons link each resource and the working clocks help to make the page quite an engaging an active little space. Let’s hope the children like it.
I also spent time exploring the 100 Word and 5 sentence Challenge Website and developing a ‘persuasive argument’ to present to staff tomorrow, with a view to our joining in. I really like the fact that this reaches younger and lower attaining and less motivated children as well as children who love to write. I’m quite excited about our taking part and feel it would be a good step forward for our school. Providing an audience for our children’s work, can at the very least be a positive dynamic and a stepping stone towards greater things. So that’s on this week’s ’To Do List’!
At teatime, I joined David Mitchell’s, online class about Blogging and QuadBlogging. I must say that I have been exploring the idea of Quadblogging and how we can adopt this, so was a little conversant with the subject matter. However, Blogging is in its infancy and still somewhat spasmodic, but that leaves us with lots of room for discovery and development. The class provided further insight and it is always more than useful to speak to those who have experience of the initiative you are thinking of or are trying to implement. Helps you to develop a more informed picture with which to share with colleagues, and indeed more confident answers to purposeful questions. So a big thankyou to everyone who shared in the online class and to David Mitchell for being generous enough to share his experience and his ideas.
Then I created a new page on our Student Space entitled, ” What’s the Time Around the World?” Providing a variety of clock faces, all synchronised, showing the various ways we use and ‘see’ time, such as a basic anologue clock face with second hand, 12 hour digital clock, 24 hour digital clock with date, roman numerals and a face with no numbers. Alongside, were online links to various resources to help children complete activities as well as just ‘finding out’. A world clock in a useful table format for discovering time all around the world, a converter to help compare time in one country with another, a colourful night and day map, an online timer and a countdown timer which children can set for an important event of their choice. Colourful buttons link each resource and the working clocks help to make the page quite an engaging an active little space. Let’s hope the children like it.
I also spent time exploring the 100 Word and 5 sentence Challenge Website and developing a ‘persuasive argument’ to present to staff tomorrow, with a view to our joining in. I really like the fact that this reaches younger and lower attaining and less motivated children as well as children who love to write. I’m quite excited about our taking part and feel it would be a good step forward for our school. Providing an audience for our children’s work, can at the very least be a positive dynamic and a stepping stone towards greater things. So that’s on this week’s ’To Do List’!
At teatime, I joined David Mitchell’s, online class about Blogging and QuadBlogging. I must say that I have been exploring the idea of Quadblogging and how we can adopt this, so was a little conversant with the subject matter. However, Blogging is in its infancy and still somewhat spasmodic, but that leaves us with lots of room for discovery and development. The class provided further insight and it is always more than useful to speak to those who have experience of the initiative you are thinking of or are trying to implement. Helps you to develop a more informed picture with which to share with colleagues, and indeed more confident answers to purposeful questions. So a big thankyou to everyone who shared in the online class and to David Mitchell for being generous enough to share his experience and his ideas.
Saturday 21 January 2012
Blog the Leap Year
http://feb29th.net/
This is such a brilliant idea...A one day event, Blogging across the world,check it out and join in.
This is such a brilliant idea...A one day event, Blogging across the world,check it out and join in.
Saturday 24 December 2011
Thoughts and Reflections
Read a personally significant Blog post this morning that really resonated with my thoughts and indeed some of the conversations I’d had during this last week. Discussing the constant and ever present, dynamic, changing face of Web 2.0 technologies the writer highlights the need to embrace and cultivate such change positively, rising to the challenges presented by the multi faceted dynanism of progressive technologies. The summation of the post provides a reflective and contemplative annotation of my own role as an ICT Co-ordinator engaging with and promoting Web 2.0 technologies, as a valuable asset for teaching and learning and that as such I am indeed a learner seeking to lead the way in my learning environment.
Thanks to http://web20forschoolleaders.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/we-live-in-unce-2/
Thanks to http://web20forschoolleaders.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/we-live-in-unce-2/
Wednesday 21 December 2011
Communication4All
This is a fabulous site with brilliant resources for all year groups and covering the whole curriculum. All the resources are attractive, purposeful and engaging whether for teaching and learning or display. I have been using this Website for a long time and each time I visit there is always something new to find. I particularly like the interactive ICT and e-safety resources and the Blogging posters will be a fabulous adition to my new Blogging Display in readiness for next term. so a big thank you to Communication4All for those.
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