The document summarizes Tracy Allen-Whaitiri's personal inquiry into integrating her classroom reading program into the class blog. She explored various ICT tools like podcasting, QuickTime movies, Kidpix slideshows, and hyperlinking. This allowed her to engage students in reading and motivate their learning. While she made progress, Tracy recognizes the need to continually develop her skills and turn strategies into sustainable practices that support student-centered learning.

1. Kia ora koutou katoa
Welcome to my Presentation
Room 9
• room9bloggersmanaiaview.blogspot.com:
Tracy Allen-Whaitiri
Room 9, Manaia View School
June, 2009

2. My Personal Inquiry...
• My Inquiry topic is essentially about how I have
integrated Room 9‘s Reading Programme into our Class
Blog.
• I chose this topic because it was a way in which to push
out my own learning boundaries which meant...
• Having to develop and explore new ICT skills in order to
facilitate this - and at the same time...
• Using my new skills and creative imagination to hook
students into their Reading and ICT.

3. #1. What did I Define the Task:
need to do to
get started?
‘How can I integrate my Reading programme
into our class Blog?’

4. #1. What did I Define the Task:
need to do to
get started?
Which was...
‘How can I integrate my Reading programme
into our class Blog?’

5. First, I needed answers to some key
questions...
✓ What ICT resources were available to me?
✓ Where could I source/access them from?
✓ Who could help me find them and show me how
to use them?
✓ Which resources were the most useful and user
friendly?
✓ How was I going to integrate them?

6. #2. Seeking out
#3. Where
the information
and... exactly, will I
•People Power: find it?
✓Beth:ICT P.D. - Podcasting, Q.T. Movies...
✓Janice and the Pararahi Team -
✓Wendy & Donna S. - Hyperlinking, Websites,
Slide Shows...
✓Marilyn - Useful junior websites
•Engine Power:
✓Researching websites for ideas

7. #4. How have I used it?
Gleaning ideas from the Cluster Share Day and 1-1
Professional Development e.g.
✓ Voice Thread, Typography, I Can Animate, iMovie,
Podcasting, Quick Time Movies...
Shared Book:
✓ Experimenting, sifting and sorting The Monsters’ Party
through each of these options and
deciding on:
✓ Podcasting for Shared Book and
✓ Basic Sight Words

8. How have I used it? continued...
Quick Time movies to record those
‘Magical Learning Moments’
✓ I decided to experiment by
using the Quicktime Movie
application to film children
reading their journals -
individually.
✓ I wanted to see if a
Quick Time Movie was a
potentially useful tool
to hook students into I
their reading in some
way, shape or form.

9. ‘Magical Learning Moments’
Journal Reading
Benefits: 1-1 teaching, student/teacher bond,
motivational - maintains interest, exciting seeing
themselves live on screen, lifts interest
in reading and ICT (Ministry of Education, 2003).

10. How have I used it? ...continued
Kidpix Slideshow
✓ Kidpix Slide Show- Making use
of this application for Reading
responses/Basic Sight Words:
Experimenting - integrating the
teaching of mouse control and how to
use Kid Pix, with how to use the
‘pencil’ to write basic sight words e.g.
The, you, it.

11. Benefits:
✓ Adds interest and stimulation to learning basic sight words.
✓ Any intrinsic learning is transferred back into the identification of sight words during
reading and will hopefully stimulate learning in other curriculum areas e.g. Shared
Writing, Shared Book, Maths.
✓ Hooks children into their reading and ICT - acting as a catalyst to promote and provide
opportunities for children to develop an interest in electronic concepts of learning
through self-exploration and discovery via relevant and meaningful contexts (Ministry
of Education, 2007).
✓ Promoting ‘Can Do’ attitudes... If I can do this, what else am I capable of???
✓ Switching on a ‘light’ and keeping it on!!

12. How have I use it? continued...
Hyperlinking
Hyperlinking to online
activities via
our class Blog Site:
room9bloggersmanaiaview.blogspot.com:

13. Benefits:
✓ Hooks children into their reading and ICT.
✓ Acts as a catalyst to promote and provide
opportunities for children to develop an interest in
electronic concepts of learning through self-exploration
and discovery via relevant and meaningful contexts
(Ministry of Education, 2007).
✓ Provides opportunities for engagement with hands-on
experiential learning where children can work and learn
autonomously on open-ended activities at their own skill
level and own pace (Ministry of Education, 1994).

14. Room 9
‘Our Work’ Slide Show: MVS

15. Synthesis:
✓My presentation
✓Hand-out of my presentation

16. Evaluation:
Have I achieved what I set out to achieve for
my personal inquiry?
“How can I integrate my Reading Programme
into our class Blog?”
In some ways - ‘Yes,’ in other ways...
I feel like I’ve really only just begun...

17. Yes!
But... ‘Use my
I have learnt
at the skills, so I
about...
moment these don’t lose
Quick Time
are them’
Movies
Strategies.
Podcasting
Now I need to ‘Can Do’
Hyperlinking
turn them ‘Will Do’
Slideshows
into attitude
Screen Shots
Knowledge.
Operating a
How will I ‘Watch
Blog site
achieve this
Integration
this..? Space’
into Reading

18. Reflection
✓ Being a pro-active teacher - getting started on
the Blog is one thing... keeping it going is another.
✓ Pushing out personal learning boundaries in
order to deliver a sustainable and student
centred ICT learning environment...
✓ Balancing this with traditional teaching methods
e.g. pencil and paper
✓ Going the extra mile - ‘walking the talk’

19. ‘If you can dream it,
why not do it!’
...So what are you waiting for...
‘Go Get It!’
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20. .Photo Diary of my learning...
At the beginning...

21. Along the way...

22. When it was finally completed...

23. References:
Ministry of Education. (1994). Beginning school
mathematics: A guide to the resource. Wellington:
Learning Media.
Ministry of Education. (2003). Effective literacy practice
in years 1 to 4. Wellington: Learning Media.
Ministry of Education. (2007). The New Zealand
curriculum. Wellington: Learning Media.