Course Title: 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
Key Points: 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.
Relevance to teachers: 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
Summary: 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.
Strategies / Suggestions to implement into the classroom: 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.
Say it, read it, write it: Literacy in an ICT environment
Te Rā: - Wednesday 24th Feb 2010
Te Wā: - RCC West Room, Rotorua
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.