reallife

= Real Life ICT =

This was presented by two teachers from Christchurch. They talked about making ICT work in the classroom and basically gave us ideas and showed us what they had done in their classrooms. I was excited because I came away with some ideas to use immediately in my classroom.

Who is here today?

 * Open up a word doc
 * Type in Who is here today? (//I do this in red and make it about size 48//)
 * As the students arrive at school they go to the computer and type in their name and save the doc (//I put my name in first - in black and Comic Sans and about size 28//)
 * Do this for first couple of weeks (//depending on age of students//)
 * Then introduce how to change the font so for the next few weeks they'll be typing in their names, highlighting and changing the font
 * The next step will be to change the colour and then maybe introduce word art

Painting programs

 * Use paint before looking at more expensive options - if they can do it in paint then they can do it in other programs
 * Start by practising drawing a line that connects up and using the fill button to fill it with colour
 * Juniors can use paint to practise drawing letters or numbers

Reading Activities

 * Use paint to create pictures relevant to stories
 * Use PPT to animate pictures (//using fast transitions//)

Thinking Strategies

 * Deliberate teaching of these at specific levels
 * 1) Year 1/2 - Six hats
 * 2) Year 3/4 - Extended Brainstorming
 * 3) year 5/6 - Thinkers Keys (//although I'm starting to use these in my Year 3/4 class//)

Other notes

 * Every teacher has a digital camera to use
 * Every classroom has a data projector (//fixed to roof?//)
 * ICT isn't just about the hardware and the software
 * Explicitly teaching questioning tools
 * Using creating/manipulating programs rather than playing programs
 * Storyboarding before using PPT

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