Bloemfontein 20 October 2011
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The document discusses various technology integration projects and resources for education. It describes blogs created for different classroom projects and grade levels. It also outlines other online tools used for creative writing, storytelling, podcasting and collaborating including Storybird, Little Bird Tales, Padlet, and wikis. Finally, it mentions emerging technologies being used in some schools like tablets and cellphones for educational purposes.
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Bloemfontein 20 October 2011
- 1. Blogs, wikis, projects and other ideas Presented by Fiona Beal fionabeal@gmail.com http://fionabeal.edublogs.org http://schoolnetsa.blogspot.com
- 2. Blogging
- 3. 1) My ‘Bonding through blogging’ project 2009
- 4. Making friends, interviewing and writing up information
- 5. Checking the information and uploading to blogs
- 7. 2) Our School classroom blog project http://graderfishhoekprimary.blogspot.com http://grade1fishhoekprimary.blogspot.com http://grade2fishhoekprimary.blogspot.com http://grade3fishhoekprimary.blogspot.com http://grade4fishhoekprimary.blogspot.com http://grade5fishhoekprimary.blogspot.com http://grade6fishhoekprimary.blogspot.com http://grade7fishhoekprimary.blogspot.com http://musicfishhoekprimary.blogspot.com
- 9. 3) Keeping in touch project 2009 – Gr 4 – 6 computer club
- 10. 4) Using a blog to write a book http://5bwrites.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html
- 12. 5) Grade 2 weather project 2010
- 15. 6) Literacy project Creating and sending Flat Stanleys to another class along with a week’s diary
- 18. We sent podcasts
- 19. 7) Current blogging http://fionabeal.edublogs.org
- 20. SchoolNetSA blog http://schoolnetsa.blogspot.com
- 22. 8) Creative writing and blogs
- 23. By John Grade 1
- 27. Page 1
- 38. Microsoft Powerpoint Microsoft PowerPoint is currently my favourite programme for writing stories
- 39. Stories made using PowerPoint
- 40. A creative writing project creating a reading scheme
- 41. The Grade 5 bookbinding team at work
- 42. In computer lessons we created a reading scheme of 80 books from Grade 1 – Grade 7 for Steenberg Primary School
- 43. One class was selected to deliver them and read some of the stories to each grade at Steenberg in their school hall.
- 44. Thank you for these books!
- 45. Methods of creative writing
- 46. Our world loves stories. Do you like stories?
- 47. Catch the story going around in your head!
- 48. Concentrate hard until you find the story
- 50. Let’s discuss our stories in groups
- 51. Oh, that is a funny story!
- 52. That’s a very good idea!
- 53. Now it is time to put your thoughts on to the computer. Don’t worry about spelling and grammar – just write!
- 54. The words are done, the story is in paragraphs and Ihave checked the spelling. My friend helped me. The pages are in order. Now it’s time to illustrate my story.
- 55. How do you do this „print screen‟ thing again? We use ‘print screen’ to get the pictures and words into PowerPoint.
- 56. 9) Collaborative Creative writing and blogs
- 57. Using iEtherpad Pad to create circle stories http://ietherpad.com
- 59. You are given a code.
- 60. We sent codes from to Canada and then Argentine
- 63. This is what it looks like in Slideboom.com
- 64. Stories are stored on my classroom blog…
- 65. 9) Storing online creative writing activities on a blog
- 66. Storybird http://www.storybird.com This is a free online writing programme with loads of beautiful art to get you thinking and creating an e-book.
- 68. Let’s read this story bird…
- 69. Artisan’s Picture Book http://artisancam.org.uk This is a free online writing programme which is great for the younger learners
- 75. Little Bird Tales http://littlebirdtales.com/ http://fionabeal.edublogs.org/2011/05/10/we- loved-using-little-bird-tales-today/ This is a free online writing programme which has a place for the learners to draw or their own illustrations or import images.
- 77. Wikis
- 80. Ideas using youblisher.com http://elk-grade6-stories.wikispaces.com – Karen Stadler‟s project
- 81. Grade 6 stories demonstrated…
- 88. A look around the Grayston wiki…
- 90. Brenda Hallowes in PE http://movingplanets.wikispaces.com/
- 91. Writing a class novel using a wiki http://yrps5m.wikispaces.com/Welcome
- 93. Poetry
- 99. Podcasting Great for listening to reading
- 102. 11. Reading sites
- 103. http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/weekend-website-51-17- story-sites-for-first-and-second-grade/
- 106. Skype an author
- 107. http://www.highlightskids.com/Stories/Rebus/rebus_theNoise0 705/0705_theNoise.asp
- 108. Microsoft’s free programmes are great for projects
- 109. Microsoft’s free ‘Songsmith’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E
- 110. Microsoft’s free ‘Autocollage’ Learners selected themes related to what makes South Africa great from an 8-year old‟s perspective. This learner chose “Sunsets”. They then wrote poems about their autocollage
- 111. Songsmith and autocollage used together… Group 1 5A Group 3 5B Group 5 5B
- 112. Use Songsmith, World Wide telescope and Movie Maker to introduce a theme on Space This teacher used Worldwide Telescope to find images of the solar system; he wrote a song about space; and he made his own movie using Movie Maker.
- 113. Use Movie Maker for a project
- 114. Use Movie Maker for a geography project
- 115. Other things happening in technology integration
- 116. Some schools are starting to experiment with tablets like Ipads http://karenstadler.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/projects-ipads-presentations-and- possibly-prezi/ (Elkanah House)
- 117. Some schools are starting to experiment with cell phones (Pinelands High – Grade 11)
- 118. Yoza project (formerly M4Lit) well underway
- 119. Teacher from the Leap School starts publishing house (Fundza) and includes three mobi stories via Mxit per month
- 120. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soAk3F0wX9s (Gotta Share)
- 121. SchoolNet free Premium members programme • Please leave me your email to get back to you. • Announce online initiatives • Blogging week by week