Mels

Term 3 at Kairanga school has begun! Exciting times ahead.

ICT afternoon -Digital Photography

16 August 2010 - Staff ICT meeting

Just this week in class we have started to use the fact monster as part of our reading rotation. Its a great website for practicing researching skills. After the meeting this afternoon I am going to look into using the smartkiddies website as part of numeracy follow up activities.

14 September 2010 - ICT workshops.

This term we have done some great ICT workshops in our classroom which have been really exciting. Workshop one: Rule of thirds The class learnt how to take photos while applying the rule of thirds and taking black and white photos. This was alot of fun for the class.

Workshop two: Slide show in the keynote program During this workshop the class learnt how to make a basic slideshow about their neurons. The class had first created a neuron using lollies and taken a photo of the neuron. They then took the photo. After uploading the photo, we cropped it so that it just had one background color around the the neuron and it then made it easy to use the alpha feature in keynote and mask the photo. Following on from that the students added titles and labels for the neurons. We then added transitions to the slide show and finally a voice over.

The students just absolutely loved this lesson, and so did I. It was heaps of fun. And it now means that the students in the class can go and make a slide show independently for many aspects of their learning. For example as we go into preparing for our poetry celebration the students will be able to make a slide show of a favourite poem and then provide a voice over. This is will help them as they improve their reading.

Mels left Kairanga School at the end of 2010. She will be teaching at Central Normal School in 2011 and we all wish her the very best!