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Voicethread for Teacher Reflections- Junior

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Demonstrate the integration of ICT with an authentic example of e-Learning from your classroom practice in the space below. =====

Describe the e-Learning activity, the context for the activity and the impact being engaged in this activity had on teacher confidence and student learning outcomes. You may include photos, links, student anecdotal comments, planning documents or any other useful evidence. 

Ahuroa School ﻿Room 3 is a year 1 & 2 class. From the beginning of term 3 we have been fortunate enough to have i touches, we decided to choose children who needed addition support for L iteracy and Numeracy. At first children just found their way around their touches by playing. Then as they became more familiar with these they were taught how to use applications. We used both buddy tutoring with the senior class and conferencing groups with the teacher. The children loved learning new applications. Term 4 we have assigned the touches so that there is one between two. This allows for sharing, negotiation, and collaboration. The successes are the seamless intergration within the reading and maths tumble.


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 Kaiwaka School   Room 3 is a year 1&2 class. We have almost completed our science Spring & the Season's unit. The English component of the unit is to write a news report showing what we know as if we were a news reader. Then we videoed it so that later we will critique it and improve on our presentation skills & reading.This is the first video.  media type="custom" key="7234919" <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Room 2 is a class of New Entrant/ Year 1 students at Kaiwaka School. We are lucky to have a regular visit from our local playcentre. This is a voice thread of one of their visits where the children were photographed enjoying time with their old friends. As a follow up the children shared their feelings about what they enjoyed about the visit. I have learnt that voice thread is an excellent tool for assessment, follow up activities and an enjoyable way for the children to finish an event or unit. I am now confident at using voicethread. <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">media type="custom" key="7234793" <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">

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ICT for inquiry learning The voice thread was completed following a motivational visit to a private vehicle collection related to the concept of transportation and moving loads. We experienced first hand how machinery can be used to move loads. All students shared their thoughts on the visit. It involved me learning to upload photos to voice thread and then upload it onto the classroom blog, to be shared with parents and a wider audience. The students then used the voice thread to help with planning their recount writing of this event. <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">Christine Smart Year 1

In small groups the students wrote an adventure for their kiwis, used their kiwis and other props, constructed a forest, then played out the adventure by manipulating the characters to be photographed at frequent intervals to be made into an animated powerpoint. The culmination of the whole learning journey was an evening presentation of the 7 powerpoint shows made by the groups with the help of 7 parents for one morning, to an overflowing audience of parents, grandparents, helpers and friends. The 6 yr old students could not all be hands on for manipulating kiwis, taking photos and making the ppts, but they all participated in as many areas as they could, learned much about the processes involved and most of all were very proud of, and excited by, their presentation to the audience. The audience were very appreciative of, and amazed by, the presentation they had just watched. This was a very effective way for these students to convey their thinking to an audience besides writing and reading. //Ann Parnell// || media type="custom" key="6869783" || A -Z of Kiwiana objects. Each child had a picture to draw, write the letter and type in the word and their name. It was beneficial to do a class project so that when they were all finished it was displayed on the wall and then I made it into a bound book for the book corner. //Andie Gore// || conferences involving the whole school. I wanted the students to be able to talk confidently to their parents about their learning. What they are good at, what they have been learning to do, and what their next learning steps are. To assist them to do this I decided to create individual power points with the students so that they could speak about their work and things we have done at school through using the power point prompts. Students chose work that they thought showed the learning they wanted to talk about – with teacher guidance and took photos using the digital camera. Some children were able to put their photos into the power point and I did some because of the time factor. The student lead conferences went extremely well. Parents were most impressed as we used the big screen. It was a great way to get the students to talk about the technology as well as their curriculum learning. I will definitely do this each year and we decided to just continue to add to the power points throughout the year and they can have it as a record at the end to show some of their individual learning journey. //Paula Tornquist// || media type="custom" key="6928063" ||
 * ~ Mangawhai Beach School - Piwakawaka (yr 1&2) syndicate  ||
 * One outcome of a "kiwiana" topic was that all the students made a soft toy kiwi for homework. Parental help was asked for. Response was so great that we needed to use the kiwis in some way to show those who had helped how their efforts had in turn helped the students learning experiences in many ways.
 * In the new entrant class I find that kidpix is an excellent way for children to develop their mouse skills and create an image that is meaningful to them. They quickly learn about space, shapes and colours. We were studying Kiwiana and as a class we did
 * I have a class of 26 Year 1 students and this year we began doing student lead
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Photostory is a great e learning tool. It is free to download, easy to use and looks effective. We used it to share our reading. I photographed the student's favourite reading books and they read the book. They really enjoyed hearing their voices. being able to publish to a wider audience by posting onto our class blog made it even more powerful. We have had many positive comments from viewers. As a reading and oral language activity it was really valuable. Barbara Bartlett Tomarata School media type="custom" key="6966755" ||  ||

I find Photostory an effective, user-friendly way add audio to stories and photos that I post on my class blog. In this example, the children wrote and presented a speech based on a sea creature they had studied. I encourage the children to share their published work with their families. We love reading comments about the work. I spoke to one of my children’s mum’s today, telling her I enjoyed reading a comment her pre-schooler had made about her sister’s speech on the blog. She said that her four year old was unable to read the stories but loved listening to them. There’s a target demographic I hadn’t previously thought of! media type="custom" key="6988389"

Ros Murphy Year 1-3 teacher Tomarata School

<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Blogging with Voice Thread <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This term my class have enjoyed the challenge of adding speech to their class Blog. After initially using Picture Trail a lot to display photos we have been delighted to add a running commentary to our photos. This involves discussion, scripting and rehearsals for reading their text out aloud - all valuable skills while children are having fun! <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Feedback from parents has been positive and the children are now asking to go on to our Blog to view each others' Voice Threads. The next step will be to teach them how to add appropriate feedback in the Comments section. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cathryn Stevens <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Year 2/3/4 teacher <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tomarata School

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<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">Kaipara Flats School media type="custom" key="6589615" <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Matakana School <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">It has been very satisfying using ICT with the group of special needs students I work with. The use of auditory and visual which is available with the computer appeals to many students as does the quick reponse time. I make use of a lot of visuals as story starters which work very well with students with limited motor skills. Digital photos are also an essential resourse which enable personalisation of events leading to more meaningful written tasks.The reinforcement of maths and literacy software has been invaluable for use as a support to students during non teacher contact time and free online programmes are a great bonus. This results in increased on task behaviour and a resulting increase in learning time. <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Being able to access meaningful online resources has been great particularly enjoyable as can be seen in the photo above. <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Wendy Chittenden <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The Castle <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">These New Entrants were all asigned a Year 5 Computer Tutor who they worked with throughout the Term. The goals were established with the Tutors. These included teaching the NE's to log on using a cue card with the username and password on it. <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The children then worked in the Paint Programmeto gain mouse control, the aim was to reinforce letter formations,learnt earlier in the week, and to use a variety of tools avaliable in the programme. The Tutors then saved each child's work in their own folder and used this to review the previous weeks achievements and to established what they would concentrate on improving next. The children ended the term, by completing an evaluation of the programme and having a shared morning tea provided by the new entrants. The computer tutor programme provided individual support and tuition for each child and most of the children related to each other outside the classroom and created many new positive relationships within our schoool. <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">

<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In this year 2 classroom the children share their e learning on a class blog. During 2010 the children's blog is intended as a news blog which reflects the children's personal news stories and classroom news and sharing with our audience. <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The Book Blog refered to in the presentation was a blog that ran for a term in 2009 and was specifically related to the children's learning in relation to Maori Legends. This blog is filled with examples of ICTs that have enhanced the children's oral language and story telling. <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Some of the examples (such as the glow worm example) are taken from Room 5's news blog from 2009 which is a rich example of home/school learning relationships. <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">media type="custom" key="6680095" <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I asked the children in room 5 to think about why we should blog in our classroom. Here are some of their reflections. <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">media type="custom" key="6986799" <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Dominique Vikstrand Room 5 Matakana School. <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #100080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">﻿﻿ <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">

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<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #100080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In literacy we read the book 'Going on a Bear Hunt'. We viewed a powerpoint created by another teacher for motivation and then photographed ourselves going on our own bear hunt around the school. I then put the images on Photostory and we presented it at a school assembly. This has become a favourite shared reading activity in my class. <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #100080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Rietta Young.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Matakana School

=<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I have used various forms of ICT to support many aspects of teaching and learning at Year 1 and 2. = =<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Here is an example of a series of questions generated and recorded on Kidspiration.................... = =<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Children are intrinsically motivated to complete a range of tasks when using technology. We have discovered a world of information at our fingertips within our classroom. Today, for example, we watched the Chilean miners being rescued on BBC News Live feed. The children were fascinated and the discussion which ensued was rich and valuable, providing a 'teachable moment'. Children continue their education at home via web2 sites such as Blogging. Smartkiddies has been a recent, popular optional online activity at home. The list is endless and continues to grow in the ways in which I integrate ICT into my programme. = =

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Room 4 Matakana School = =<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The following wiki site (matakanawastewise.wikispaces.com- Room 4) is an example of one of the ways ICT was successfully integrated into my classroom during a school wide integrated study of 'Wastewise'. The childrens photos and samples of their work were posted regularly on my Room wiki page during the study. Following the unit I sent a survey out to the parents and recieved lots of positive feedback. = =<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Geraldine wrote: "Loved the site, really good to see pictures of the kids at work. Keep up the great work! Would love to see more photos." = =<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Recycle Rex was an important part of our study...he is currently holidaying in South Africa! He took part in much of our learning as loves to have his photo taken! = =<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ICT tools have enabled me to enhance the curriculum and is now used to support the children in my class with their learning. Kidspiration, publisher, power point and paint are now tools used daily to enhance my programme. = =<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Deb Kearns = =<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> =