Integrating E-Learning into the classroom.....: January 2012

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Digital Photography in the classroom

http://www.slideshare.net/rachelboyd/creating-shutterbugs-digital-photography-in-the-classroom

Thanks to Rachel Boyd for a great session in using digital photography in the classroom. There were lots of creative and easy to teach lessons of work.

My notes from this session (in summary form);

Ipod touches!!!! A great tool for photos... plus they are great for recording voice etc
Develop camera safety rules
Name the parts of the camera poster – postit notes – 1 colour to name 1 colour to explain
Put flipvideos and cameras on lanyards
Official photographers pass – on a lanyard- photos at assemblies
Use good examples of photos for discussion starter, discuss what the photographer wanted to capture.
- Newspix – photos from herald
- National geographic
- BBC news in pictures
Eye level view
Camera angles
Snail view “Imagine you are a snail slithering along the ground"
Possums view – holding camera up high
Make posters and put examples around each
Types of shots
Have a photo competition with a theme eg; textures, colour
Kodak.com

IDEAS... Have learning outcomes and success criteria for each type of lesson you teach
• Photo symmetry
• Symmetry but leave background
• Expressions – cut into thirds – can assemble two expressions in zig zag – happy one way and sad the other
• Sponge a background and put photos overtop
• Portrait weaving
• Pop art – 4 in black – dye each page
• Classroom rules with photos
• Collage –paint-photo
• Macro function button – close up function – can use for oral language, what am I?,
• Geometry-find shapes, print and classify
• Blend knowledge – blend focus – take photos and create a blend chart
• Maori greetings, colours etc – in groups of 4 create/take photos to show e; tena korua
• WALT create speech bubble to describe
• Personality plus – take photos to tell us something about yourselves e.g sporty,

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Teaching Fractions

http://www.teachingblogaddict.com/2012/01/fraction-videos-for-teachers.html?m=1

Fraction Videos - I thought these are a great tool for teaching fractions and also for chn to refresh and rewind to learn and remember.

An idea.... I could get someone (a child) to record myself teaching maths and upload to our maths blogs for chn to rewind and refresh.

Teaching Commenting

I believe it is crucial to teach our students how to write a comment and develop these important skills before they comment on blogs.
We expect chn to do certain things in the writing books so its just the same expectations for writing on blogs and also writing comments.
This article has great ideas on how to teach commenting... My goal for my class this term is to develop a set of criteria on how to write a good quality comment. I would love them to video themselves modeling how to write a good comment and post this on their blogs (e-journals).
Thanks to Katheleen Morris for this article.