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This week has been great. It is amazing how something so small can motivate a whole class so easily. We are working away at problems we are facing, especially with the email. We need to find a way of getting our work off the devise for marking. We have tried email, gmail, Dropbox but all have been blocked by our network. We will keep working on them. Apparently webDAV is another option, but our server needs to be tweaked for it. I have spent a lot of time in the IT office this week, and can see many more hours in there ahead of me.
In class we have all (nearly!!!- soon Lateesha & Anthony) got our own devises and are spending time on Keynote (like PowerPoint) and Pages (like MSWord) so that we can use them in our learning programs. Today we started our ‘Blueback’ Booklet for English using Pages – they look great!!!
I will be away from school on Monday 8th August. Ms McCarthy and I will be at the CEOWA office in Perth learning more about iPads in the classroom. Hopefully when we return on Tuesday, the iPads will be ready for our lessons.
Yes they have finally arrived and are having Apps loaded onto them. Soon……
Am trying out posting for our Blog from the iPad. Have to write in HTML – have no idea about this. So will see what happens. Those of you who would like to become experts of the Edublogs site, please see me.
Well just saved it and guess what – it worked!!!
Well the time spent in Hobart at the Conference about Digital Learning was worth it. I learnt heaps!!! I also had a great 3 days driving around Tasmania in a ‘whirl wind’ tour. Here are some of my photos. Hope you enjoy them.
Horseshoe Falls
Hobart
Snow
Mountains
Freycinet National Park
Australia's Oldest Bridge
Welcome to Term 3, 2011.
This term will see us trialling the use of iPads in our English and SOSE classes.
This is so exciting and will mean some differences to the way we operate in our classroom.
The biggest change will be in our approach to homework. Homework will now be used for “FRONT LOADING” the topics we will be covering in class.
Front Loading is when the “teaching” elements of the lesson/s are done at home, while the class time is used for interactive activities.
My aim for this term is to take the emphasis off “teaching” and put it onto “learning”.
Looking forward to a term of change, growth and learning.
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