I witnessed how effective the recording of student responses using audio recording, can be in Tracey's class this week. Tracey recorded students verbally explaining the life cycle of a frog, using visual cues (of the stages) as they went. The student that I heard was one who normally would be very challenged if he had had to write the explanations. His verbal descriptions, his use of language & correct terminology were superior to any of his written work & showed that he throughly knew the content. The next student (another boy) was generally considered a higher achieving student but also often displayed poorer written responses to his verbal. This student was able to give even better descriptions, using better language skills & more detail. Tracey can now use the recordings as an assessment, focusing on the HSIE outcome, rather than being hindered by poor writing examples which do not do justice to student's knowledge of the topic.
Tracey did a great job, -learning how to log in to our new laptops, setting up the macs to record in 'garageband' and giving the students a new way to show their learning!
Well done Trace!!
Frances
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Interesting iPods!
Tracey, Luke and I attended an interesting Professional Development morning in Leichardt today. It was all about using iPods and Podcasting technologies to engage children in language experiences.
It was presented by Jeff Vardy who is a primary school teacher in the Wollongong Diocese.
Jeff's presentation was great, as he is a classroom teacher his ideas were very practical and he was able to present work his students had done with podcasting and class websites, that enriched his presentation as we could then see it "in action."
Jeff's session focused on where technology has its place in the curriculum and that "the teaching comes first. " He also gave us examples of how the use of the iPods came about in his classroom.
He began with the all important, and sometimes overlooked area of Talking and Listening. The idea of the podcasts and making Radio Shows with the children complimented this area of the English KLA very well. He also gave examples of using iPods in Maths too where children listen to their Maths problem and have a series of activities to do. (Great for chn who need to listen to the question several times to really understand it or for the poorer reader.)
The session ended with all of us having a go at making a podcast ourselves. Apple computers were favoured and using the program was quite easy.
It was a good intro to using this form of technology in the classroom.
Coleen.
It was presented by Jeff Vardy who is a primary school teacher in the Wollongong Diocese.
Jeff's presentation was great, as he is a classroom teacher his ideas were very practical and he was able to present work his students had done with podcasting and class websites, that enriched his presentation as we could then see it "in action."
Jeff's session focused on where technology has its place in the curriculum and that "the teaching comes first. " He also gave us examples of how the use of the iPods came about in his classroom.
He began with the all important, and sometimes overlooked area of Talking and Listening. The idea of the podcasts and making Radio Shows with the children complimented this area of the English KLA very well. He also gave examples of using iPods in Maths too where children listen to their Maths problem and have a series of activities to do. (Great for chn who need to listen to the question several times to really understand it or for the poorer reader.)
The session ended with all of us having a go at making a podcast ourselves. Apple computers were favoured and using the program was quite easy.
It was a good intro to using this form of technology in the classroom.
Coleen.
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