A few months back I wrote an article for Terry Freedman which was published in Computers in Classrooms online newsletter. Today the same article has been published on ictineducation, Terry Freedman’s site. The article refers to the use of Edmodo, Animoto, Audacity and VoiceThread in the classroom.
Thanks for that Terry
May 20
I thought it would be of interest to post my thoughts, conclusions and also comments from my class after our first week of exploring and using Myst in our classroom.
I had my initial doubts whether the use of the game as a teaching and learning tool would be suitable for a class of children who have Spanish as a first language but after playing with the game I decided it would be a wonderful opportunity for developing speaking and listening skills. My thoughts were proved correct as the game has brought so much conversation into the class and with it more descriptive and interesting language. Read the rest of this entry »
May 12
The excitement and anticipation that this game has brought to my class is truly an inspiration. Before we had even gotten into the classroom children were asking me when we were going to do Literacy. It’s become their favourite subject with no exceptions.
I set up two chairs for hot seats and asked the class to recap on yesterday’s events. I use hot seats in the way wrestlers use their partners – children can tag others to get into the seat to talk and since we started using Myst everyone wants to talk. It’s a busy 5 minutes and the conversation is wonderful; I will have to record one session for you to listen to so you can experience the intensity of discussion.
May 5
We’re into our 2nd week of using Edmodo and the enthusiasm for it is growing. I posted a ‘secret assignment’ for over the holiday weekend and the response was good considering quite a lot of the class travelled away from home and access to a computer.
The idea was born out of the Telescopic Text activity from Mark Warner’s brilliant site Ideas to Inspire, and which we tried out in class a few days previously. I typed up the task in Word then uploaded it to Edmodo, set the due date on the calendar and sent a message to all the group about the assignment. I focused the activity on the use of descriptive language, creating effect and correct punctuation. And for a class of second language learners it’s a perfect exercise for perfecting their grammar.
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