AIM: To write a collaborative play script using Google Docs WHY: Writing using Google Docs should allow the teachers and children to work on the script in their own time without having to be together. Using the Forms should allow all the children to contribute their ideas to the script. The children should have a [...]
Entries from June 29, 2008
To blog or not to blog….
June 25, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Over the past few weeks I have become more and more absorbed in the world of web 2.0 or as some call it the ‘edublogosphere.’ The benefits of blogging were, if truth be told, unclear at the beginning of the process, however as I have continued I have become more and more convinced as [...]
Wordle
June 20, 2008 · No Comments · Assessment for Learning, Google Docs, Literacy, Tools, Writing
Here’s a word cloud that I made using all the comments left by children on our school website. I think it makes interesting reading. It also occurred to me that this could be a really useful tool for looking at the quality of vocabulary that children were using in their writing, for example if [...]
Mind mapping Using Mindomo
June 17, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
I just though I’d post about a great piece of mind mapping software that I’ve used over the last few weeks with my Year Six. If you want to explore the map properly then follow the link (I still haven’t really got my head round embedding if the code doesn’t work immediately – sorry!) http://www.mindomo.com/view.htm?m=ea14ad99d247a2bb9589ae55cf41a4ba [...]
June 14, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Thank you so much to everyone who gave me advice to get this sorted especially dswaters (the edublogger herself!) and HGJohn.
Simple MFL Idea
June 12, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Went into a colleagues classroom yesterday to see a great simple idea for MFL. She had simply put a wigit on her desktop showing the weather in the two towns that we work with in France and Spain. Brilliant way of really embedding MFL in the classroom.
Collaborative timelimes using Dipity.
June 12, 2008 · 2 Comments · Google Docs, History, Tools, Uncategorized
This is simply a follow up post to show what my children have managed to produce using Dipity. I’m really proud of the way that they’ve come such a long way in a short period of time. The results are developing all the time. AIM: To produce a shared timeline of John Lennon’s [...]
Further adventures in Google docs.
June 11, 2008 · 10 Comments · Google Docs, Literacy, Year 6
After the excitement of yesterday and the progress that I made (further enhanced with some collaboration with Tom Barrett) I decided to have a go at an idea that was buzzing around my head. AIM: To see if the forms in Google docs can be used to bring pupil’s work together in one place raise standards, [...]
Tags: Google Docs·Literacy
Result – Self Marking Spellings in Google Docs.
June 10, 2008 · 13 Comments · Google Docs
Whilst messing around today I suddenly thought to myself “What if you could use the forms in Google docs to set up a spelling test that would mark itself?” WHY? To make life much easier for the teacher and save time marking repeated spelling logs. To show any patterns in spelling mistakes. To give the [...]
Tags: Google Docs·homework·spellings
The only future you can predict is the one you build yourself.
June 9, 2008 · 2 Comments · Journal
Over the past few weeks I’ve been getting more and more involved in the edublogging community and trying to sort the wheat from the chaff. When I set up this blog I really wanted to keep it as full of ideas as possible and avoid what I saw as potentially indulgent and unnecessary soul searching. However, [...]
