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[|Community newsletter snippets] children have contributed to) children have written class reports to share with parents and community.



 Room 1 (Years 0-1)

 Room 2 (Years 1/2)

 Room 3 (Years 3/4)

Just two of the webquests I created last year as part of inquiry learning units. Feel free to use them or to make any comments.  Thanks  Casper Kruger (Wyndham)  [|Human Body]  [|The Water Cycle]  Casper, these units look amazing, and will be a great resource for others to share. Thanks for adding these. Denise

 The following link takes you to a webquest I developed for the extension group I take at Wyndham this term. I use the webquest as a resource to structure this inquiry learning unit. The aim is for them to use different web 2 technologies to publish or to sort out their information and to share it with an international audience. Please see "The Process" page for more detail. One group will be using "Elluminate" software to do web conferencing with Donavan Primary School. We use a wide angled webcam for this purpose. "Elluminate" integrates with the functions of the interactive whiteboard and it makes collaborative learning with other schools an exciting experience. Please feel free to use this webquest within the cluster: [|Endangered animals]  Regards  Casper Kruger





 Some teacher __experiences__ with web 2 technologies

 1. [|Allanah King's use of web 2 technologies]

<span style="color: #bd1f1f; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> 2. [|Link to Allanah's blog where she has posted a transcript of her YouTube video.]

<span style="color: #bd1f1f; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> 3. [|From Rachel Boyd's blog]– story of 7-year olds and their reflective journals: lovely quote: “Today I learned that a class can talk to another class in New Zealand or in a different country using a computer."

<span style="color: #bd1f1f; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> 4. A [|blog entry] exploring the use of various Web2.0 technologies for learning (including twitter)

<span style="background-color: #f7df18; color: #bf2236; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> ** __Some useful resources in terms of web 2 technologies__: **

<span style="color: #301725; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> 1. [|Social Bookmarking in plain English]- YouTube video that introduces the use and benefits of social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us

<span style="color: #301725; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> 2. [|What is del.icio.us?] Another short video clip that introduces the social bookmarking site del.icio.us

<span style="color: #301725; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> 3. [|Wikis in plain English]- YouTube video that provides an interesting introduction to the use of Wikis

<span style="color: #301725; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> 4. [|RSS in plain English] - YouTube video explaining Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

<span style="color: #301725; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> 5. [|Introduction to RSS] - Another YouTube video introducing RSS

<span style="color: #301725; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> 6. [|Social Networking in plain English]- YouTube video introducing the basis of social networking sites such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook etc. (Very good for linking up with teachers around the globe, e.g. teachers with interactive whiteboards)

<span style="color: #301725; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> 7. <span style="background-color: #00f3ff; color: #301725; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">**Links to social software:**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> [|wikipedia - social encyclopedia]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> http://www.facebook.com/ - Personal web environment

<span style="color: #990ec8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">http://del.icio.us/ - Social bookmarking

<span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> [|http://www.skype.com/</span]> - Video and Audio calls

<span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> https://www.blogger.com/start - Blogging

<span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> http://twitter.com/ - Micro Blogging

<span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> http://www.elluminate.com/ - Software to be used for __web conferencing__ with other schools. This software integrates with the software on the interactive whiteboard - fantastic stuff!!! <span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">

<span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If you are interested to make your own <span style="background-color: #eb9eb0; color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">educational blog <span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">or a <span style="background-color: #d89cb3; color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">classroom blog <span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">, check out this link: http://edublogs.org/

<span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> My extension group is currently using a range of IC technologies and software and will publish their work on the following web 2 sites: Blog, Wikispaces andTeacherTube.

<span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> I hope you find this information useful.

<span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> Casper Kruger

<span style="color: #0ab84c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> __ Some resources related to Inquiry Learning __:

<span style="color: #0ab84c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Inquiry Graphic Organisers - TKI] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Examples of some simple graphic organisers for students to use during an inquiry.

<span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Inquiry Learning] <span style="color: #279b53; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Concept to Classroom practise

<span style="color: #279b53; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Assessment Rubrics] - <span style="color: #006600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The rubrics are about certain skills schools have identified as being important as they move students towards the goal of being 'life long learners'

<span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Questioning within the Inquiry Learning Model] - <span style="color: #24b263; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Types of questions

<span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|The place of ICT in Teaching and Learning] - <span style="color: #0d9116; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I totally agree with this point of view.

<span style="color: #0d9116; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> A Question Skills Wikispace

<span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> Inspiration and Kidspiration are compatible with Promethean ACTIV boards and SMART boards. This is a short [|video] to demonstrate this.

<span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> Short movie made by Room 3 about our visit to the Chinese Gardens during week 5, Term 2.

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<span style="color: #bf3b96; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> https://cinquains.wikispaces.com/

Room 5 (Years 4/5)

Room 6 (Years 5/6)

media type="custom" key="7260113" //__ 2nd half of the year 2010 __// children working indpendently using ict tools for writing and maths These children are all in the junior school. Here teachers are working with other groups while children are using computers, interactive boards. Here these children have been taught the required skills to work independently on their on. For some children now they are learning to be more self reliant and responsible for their work. They are learning what track changes are and how to rework their work on the computer instead of it being the 'norm' to only write and rework in text books. The children love using the technology