Term 2 Goals

Term 1 for me was all about setting up procedures and expectations with my class around ICT in general.

My Year 4's were wonderful roles models. I used them as 'support techs' when the Year 3's needed help both in the ICT suite and the classroom. It really impressed me that IT skills they learnt last year by putting them into practice this year. They helped with teaching Years 3's how to; log onto their blogs, write and publish posts, commenting on other blogs, using the class netbooks, using voicethread.....

I spent a lot of time teacher modeling how to write a good quality comment and it has now really started to sink in. A classic example was when I had our quad blogging classes blog on the teaching station and we were reading their posts and also their comments my chn picked up that their comments didn't really follow the correct commenting structure and they didn't really have any feedback. So onwards and upwards with commenting this term. I am going to get our Techsperx to create classroom posters on "Writing good Comments" and possibly even  videos.

My E-Learning goals for Term 2 are;

• To develop more of an expert role and get certain certain to be the leaders in the classroom. This will then get chn to be the leaders and therefore develop their leaderships qualities. 
• To get chn to make up their own activities on Interwrite to share with others and get other chn to compete. 
• Developing a home-school partnership by encouraging parents/caregivers via e-mails to visit blogs and make comments
• Trying to integrate E-Learning as much as possible so work being completed in the computers in my class is not seen as an isolated task. I want chn to view using IT tools as part of their maths, reading, science etc. work.

I am excited to further progress our global connection via quad blogging and achieve my goals above.