Monday 6 April 2009

Walking the Talk Day Five



I haven't seen the children since Thursday last week (ran a course for teachers on the Friday!) I was interested to see if they could remember the routines, I was pleasantly surprised, everything ran as if I hadn't been away. This reinforces what I always say to teachers... if you have strong routines, high expectations, and well organised management (and a quiet voice) all students will respond well. It doesn't matter if they are decile one or ten, they still respond in the same way. I did this same 'teaching experience' in a decile one class a couple of years ago, and a couple of teachers that have visited so far have seen me 'in action' in both schools, using the same management techniques and children reacting in the same way.

Most of the students are using the mimio well and are quite capable of calibrating it. Surprisingly enough we do not have to calibrate that often (maybe 3 times a day) even though the projector sits on a table in the middle of the room. Students have become very adept at it.

Everyday for writing I demonstrate a different way of publishing. Today I modelled Comic Life for Publishing. Children have used it before so several of them worked at it confidently. Some are working on Photo Story 3 (free for Windows), publishing on their wikipage or typing it up in Word or Pages with Borders, titles and their Superhero graphics. Some have published using the Publish button in Inspiration. One child has made a Podcast 'with a little help from his friends', all of which we will add to his wikispace.
I only have 3 more days left so I'm going to show them my 'Comic Slideshow' idea in PowerPoint and upload to Slideshare and how to create an iMovie in 3'easy' steps!

Update on Research topic: I think they get what I mean about creating Research questions and keywords. We will be searching for information tomorrow!

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Jacqui, It has been exciting following your adventure in the classroom. I eagerly awaited the news about each of your days last week. I will look forward to the remainder of the posts this weeks. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas and excitement.

Jason

Jacqui Sharp said...

Thanks Jason, it has been a fun time but not long enough, I won't get everything finished I have started, but I am sure the teacher of the class is going to carry on when she gets back.

Moturoa said...

Nice work (and play). I have borrowed your images as a database of ways we can publish and share our work.

Allanah K

Mr Wood said...

I love the many ways you have of publishing their work. Do they get to choose their own preferred method?

Jacqui Sharp said...

Hi Allanah and Shaun, feel free to use the Publishing ideas, I have lots of drafting, conferencing and reading ideas like this too, which I will post about later.
Yes, Shaun the kids are able to choose their method of publishing, I like to provide opportunities that suit different kids learning styles and multiple intelligences!