Context
This year at St Albans Catholic School we have been continuing to explore how we can best utilise a combination of our class iPads, laptops and our class blog to enhance student learning. We have used Teaching as Inquiry as our tool to explore and reflect on the effectiveness of a range of apps, software and approaches to using the ICT in the classroom.
Our Goals
Strategies
Outcomes/Evidence/Reflections
A huge shift has been evident at each level of the school - from using ICT tools and especially the iPad for doing and playing - to creating.
“I use Book Creator to make class stories using photos of activities we have been doing. The students love to read them over and over.” Jo Gill Year 0/1 teacher.
“We use Book Creator to write class and individual stories. Little Bird Tales is a great writing tool because it can be used on both the ipads and the laptops.” Sanne Kampschreur Year 1/2 teacher
“A highlight in Room 3 has been using PowerPoint to reflect on our printmaking by uploading photos of our art and recording our feedback and next step learning. We used Book Creator to make reading books for Room 1 to use.” Catherine Quinn Year 2/3 teacher.
“We enjoy using Book Creator to write. We collaborated to write an A-Z of London Book for Olympic Games tourists to use. In pairs students re-wrote and illustrated Traditional tales using the Book Creator and Free Draw aps.” Kath Roach Year 3/4 teacher.
Developing our on-line environment using Ultranet has been a focus for Room 5 particularly uploading own work using the ipads.” Joanne Foote Year 5/6 teacher.
Links to Evidence
Link to Buddy Class Initiative:http://kura-iwa.wikispaces.com/TAI_2012
Next Steps
-continue to explore new tools and share our learning with each other and via our class blogs
-continue posting comments as a class on partner blogs.
-build in some more direct teaching around posting comments and providing feedback. We will also make use of the ClassSpace modules (Media Gallery, Discussion Module) to achieve this.