Saturday, April 28, 2012
Student Engagement ... from the kids
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/student-engagement-stories-heather-wolpert-gawron
What a great list and talk about hit the nail on the head... so these kids are wanting to connect, collaborate and create as well. No surprises there. Are yours?! I wonder if your class agrees with this.
I really like #10 if you didn't get that far down the list! "Don't forget to have a little fun yourself." Which reminds me, I must find the funny pictures I took at our team meeting when we had a Mexican-themed farewell for one of the team. Lots of laughs and it's good for everyone.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Wordle
We had a play with wordle - http://www.wordle.net/ I like. Steph and Ami made one with vocab to reflect their class. Woop woop! we printed them off and enlarged them on the colour copier and Voila! something cool to share with their class today.
There are heaps of ways that wordle can be used... for literacy, learning units, inquiry, responses to texts and so on and so on...you choose!
Then I found this unit on writing bio poems which has a wordle - ask for the link and I'll email you, as it's too hard for this bear of very little brain http://thinkexist.com/quotation/i_am_a_bear_of_very_little_brain-and_long_words/10053.html
to put up here at this point!
Happy days, Fran aka MrsPotts
There are heaps of ways that wordle can be used... for literacy, learning units, inquiry, responses to texts and so on and so on...you choose!
Then I found this unit on writing bio poems which has a wordle - ask for the link and I'll email you, as it's too hard for this bear of very little brain http://thinkexist.com/quotation/i_am_a_bear_of_very_little_brain-and_long_words/10053.html
to put up here at this point!
Happy days, Fran aka MrsPotts
MrsPott's blog re-vitalised...
Mrs Potts says hello again - after a bit of a pause on this blog....I have been only posting Mrs Pott's Points on my fb group and yet there are some of my friends who don't like fb (private-person's-prerogative!) so I am going to link the two me-thinks.
I figure that I'll be able to post at work (boo-hoo to the spoil-sports who don't use fb for 'education purposes' and therefore have it blocked for the rest of us ... [new Tui billboard coming up!]
Today I posted about prezi and then spent a while trying to suss it out. More time needed with that but I can think of heaps of ways that this can be used. Exciting!
www.fractuslearning.com
I figure that I'll be able to post at work (boo-hoo to the spoil-sports who don't use fb for 'education purposes' and therefore have it blocked for the rest of us ... [new Tui billboard coming up!]
Today I posted about prezi and then spent a while trying to suss it out. More time needed with that but I can think of heaps of ways that this can be used. Exciting!
www.fractuslearning.com
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