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Etherpad – The best thing since sliced bread?

March 31, 2009 · 6 Comments · Literacy, Tools, Writing, Year 6

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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