Today provided me with one of those – ‘blimey things are going to be different from now on’ moments. After a staff meeting about guided writing with children last night, I put two and two together and realised that a tool called Etherpad could be a match made in heaven. I came across Etherpad through a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Literacy'
Etherpad – The best thing since sliced bread?
March 31, 2009 · 6 Comments · Literacy, Tools, Writing, Year 6
Tags: collaboration·etherpad·Literacy·Writing
Wordle in literacy
November 30, 2008 · 2 Comments · Assessment for Learning, Literacy, Tools, Writing, Year 6
This week I tried to use wordle as an assessment tool in literacy. Children were shown a stimulus image of a man looking over the edge of a well and were then asked to write 100 words of character description. We then took everyone’s writing and put it into wordle. The results were great! What [...]
Live blogging in the classroom
November 8, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Getting this iPhone has got me thinking about how we could use it as a tool for letting parents know what has happened in the classroom that day. Since I downloaded the wordpress application this now has become a real possibility! So I set up a class blog to see if this could really work. [...]
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 [...]
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
