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e-Literacy: Other worlds: To infinity and beyond with digital tools in the middle years.
Cross posted from Bridging the Gap Cluster Blog If you are interested in e-literacy then Lizzie Chase is an Australian educator whose work you should follow. Lizzie has "written a series of free downloadable English lessons at Other Worlds http://otherworlds.yolasite.com for upper primary and l...Tags: lizzie chase, e-literacy, web 2.0, literacy, ictpd, other worlds, english, lessons, multimedia
- The following are a quick snapshot of some of the e-learning being integrated throughout classes in our school; In our special needs room the T/A's have been doing some great work with our ORRS funded children and other children in their support groups. T...
Tags: e-learning, special needs, interactive whiteboard, ict, literacy, numeracy, visual arts, music, digital photography
Consistency, Scaffolding And Building On The Skills We Have Gained
It has always been our intention to keep our focus on doing a few things but doing them very well. We laid these foundation with our thinking tools with a schedule of introducing DATT at each classroom level and building on this in the following years. So it has been with ICT. W...Tags: literacy, oral language, voicethread
Into Music 1 - Classroom music in years 1 - 3 now digitised
This iconic Ministry of Education resource is now updated, digitised, and available to download on Arts Online at http://artsonline2.tki.org.nz/resources/units/music_units/into_music_1/. The resource links to literacy, NZC, Digistore, other learning areas and arts disciplines, and t...Tags: music, arts, literacy, languages, cross curricula, nzc, social studies
Is all this interactivity really a good thing?
As I was working with the very young children (6yo) on Thursday I was thinking that all this iPad interactivity, on its own, may actually not be a good thing. http://allanahk.edublogs.org/2011/09/17/ipad-sharing-3-apps-to-support-literacy/ Did I tell you that I now have an iPad2 that will proje...Tags: ipad, literacy
Teaching literacy through the arts
Our Arts Online team of community facilitators in Dance, Drama, Music - Sound Arts, Visual Arts and Art History are keen to hear from the wider teaching profession about the role you see arts playing in the teaching of literacy. Do you use the arts as contexts for developing literacy? What approa...Tags: visual arts, dance, drama, music, literacy, cross curricula
- Rachel, a teacher of a year 8 digital class, just rushed into my office and said, "This is why I like blogging. Taine just asked, 'Has Lorna updated her blog yet? I don't understand that last question so I thought I'd see how she responded to it.'"
Tags: blogging, blogging, literacy, feedback, mokoiaintermediate, rotorua lakes cluster
- I asked some of our students how e-Learning had been integrated into their classroom programmes: Amy Talks About Ziptales Amy Talking About Ziptales from mrshyde on Vimeo. Tayla Talks About Sumdog: Tayla Talks About Sumdog from mrshyde on Vimeo. James Talks About Email James Talks a...
Tags: mokoiaintermediate, rotorua lakes cluster, rotorualakescluster, milestone 5, goal 3, goal 1, literacy, numeracy, digitalresources
Learning a musical instrument raises achievement
TEACHING the performing arts in primary schools significantly boosts the results disadvantaged students achieve in academic subjects. An independent evaluation of an arts program taught in disadvantaged schools found student grades in English, maths, science and studies of human society rose s...Tags: literacy, arts, music, student achievement, key competencies
Great App for Creating Stories - My Story
Have just written a very brief blogpost on the My Story app for iPads. Check out the blogpost here.Tags: digital storytelling, literacy, creativity