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Archive for May 31, 2007
"The Piano" by Aidan Gibbons
114 years ago
by tombarrett
in Literacy
Next week in our literacy lessons we are going to utilising a piece of content referenced in the new UK Primary Strategy. It is a short film called The Piano by animator Aidan Gibbons, take a look.
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It is intended to be used by Year 5 children but our Year 6 kids will not have the opportunity to use this great little bit of film so I have adapted the original planning for older kids as we continue our poetry work.
By the end of the week I hope that the children will have a narrative poem that illustrates what occurs in the film. Further work could be done with the children working in Movie Maker and adding their narrated poem on top of the film.
Please let me know if anyone would find the planning useful.
SMARTBoard Lesson Podcast #3
24 years ago
I was pleased to see the final instalment of my contribution to the SMARTBoard Lesson Podcasts published the Sunday before last. Ben and I discuss the future of the IWB and a couple of lesson ideas I contributed.
SMARTBoard Lesson Podcast #74: A History and Literacy Lesson from the UK
Let me know what you make of the show – well worth a listen.
Microsoft reveals it's cards…
04 years ago
It seems that it will be an interesting year regarding the release and development of interactive surface technologies. Now it seems there is a mixture of large players in the market all of which could concievably affect the look of our classrooms in the not too distant future.
As you may have read I have been tracking these products for more than a year now – four major stories seem to be most dominant.
- Jeff Han’s demonstration of multi-touch technology at TED Talks
- Philips Entertaible
- Rumours of new SMARTBoard technologies that incorporates multitouch – ie more than just the rear projector model.
And now…
- The press release about the Microsoft Surface
I suppose the question is no longer about whether or not we will see this type of technology in education but, what form will it take and who will be able to back it?
Exploring the 21st Century Classroom
14 years ago
Last Thursday night I presented to Ivanhoe Grammar School about the uses of ICT in my classroom. But this was no ordinary professional development event, Ivanhoe is in Melbourne, Australia.
We conducted the net cast using a free trial on some desktop conferencing software and used Skype for the voice call. It was quite a challenge for me as you don’t have the ability to see the faces of your audience so you don’t know when to go back over things or just shut-up fo a minute! Joseph Papaleo helped organise the event for his school and from his responses it seemed to be a success.
During the presentation I covered a range of topics, giving practical examples of their use in my classroom -
>>Blogs
> Writing for a real audience and purpose
> Visitors and comments
>>Google Earth
> Starting the day with a “Wow!”
> Going beyond geography
> Being an information tourist
>>Using Wikihow for instructional writing
>>Turning Point audience voting system
>>MS Photostory – an alternative presentation tool
I would just like to thank Joseph and the staff at Ivanhoe for inviting me to present and I hope that although the line was a bit poor you all were able to take something that could make an impact in your classroom.
