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Integrating oral, visual and written language using ICT. Having children produce and present language using ICT tools and then publishing them on the website / wikispace / youtube has huge advantages: · Enthusiasm and motivation … it’s fun · Authentic contexts with an authentic audience (home or assembly, How many hits have you had?) · Integrates the strands of language and can be bi-lingual · Uses other children’s work as models · Can be shared with other classes at assembly or even buddy classes on the other side of the world · Ability to share with family and extended or distant family members · Parental (or peer) feedback. Parents can comment on the work. · Teacher can discuss the progress with parents · Sharing with other educators (e.g.What do you reckon is this pupil’s next step?) · Get ideas from other teachers. Even from other countries. · Use as assessment of progress e.g. compare February work with November. || Check out these sites · **__ Wikispaces: __** essential for sharing children’s work with parents, friends and family on line. (See Summary for breakout 5) · **__ Cooltoolsforschools and thetoolbox.wikispaces.com __** These are a must. They list all the relevant free software programmes, says how they can be used to enhance language, give examples of work done by children and (in some cases) provides a tutorial. The lists are divided into sections such comics” or “videoing” · **__ Gettingtrickywithwikis __** : A NZ site put together by an ICT facilitator to answer all the FAQs about putting together a class / school / individual wikispace e.g How do I change the background? · **__ Digistore: __** a MoE funded shopping site accessed through TKI (but you’ll need to register and get a password.) · **__ Animations __** : A software that allows you to make talking cartoons and accessible through NZMaths site for some reason. · **__ Comic life __** that allows pupils to make on screen or printable comics with either recorded speech or speech balloons or both · **__ Photostory: __** a bit like Kidspix but can do more and is the most common language slideshow / video software being used in UK. Great samples. Check out the “How to make a sandwich” by a group of 6 year olds. · **__ Blabberize. __** Take a photo and make the mouth move (Like the old Monty Python movies) and add speech || If you can only go to one ICT workshop in your life, then it should be this one. It gives resources, sources, ideas and enthusiasm in both the big-picture and little-picture of ICT integration. It shows how ICT can be used to **__enhance__** language from pre-school to year 13. || Take a tool each from the above list and try it. Come back together and compare. Check out **__madeawards.com.nz__** a competition for on-line language that you might want to enter. ||
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 * __ Say it, read it, write it: Literacy in an ICT environment __** ||
 * __ Presenter: __** Barbara Reid and Donna Dyet
 * Te Rā: ** - Wednesday 24th Feb 2010
 * Te **** Wā **** : ** - RCC West Room, Rotorua ||
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