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 'Writing'
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 [...]
Stripgenerator
July 22, 2008 · 3 Comments · Tools, Writing
Today I stumbled across this tool called Stripgenerator whilst looking through my Google reader. There seem to be a lot of flash based comic book creators out there at the moment and I’ve already blogged about Comiqs. I decided that I’d follow the same sort of format and allow the children a complete carte blanche to [...]
Tags: comics·creativity·Writing
Publishing Children’s Digital work – The Results
July 9, 2008 · No Comments · Literacy, Tools, Writing, Year 6
A week or so ago I posted about a site called Lulu which allowed you to publish children’s work. I recieved the results yesterday and I have to say that I was very impressed with the results. The whole process from ordering to the books arriving took just over a week and the quality of [...]
Tags: lulu.com·publishing·Writing·Year 6·yearbook
It’s only a comic isn’t it?
July 4, 2008 · 6 Comments · D & T, Literacy, Tools, Writing
AIM: To give the children an open ended task without constraint and see what they produced. To record the skill that I observed and that were being developed. To have some fun! WHY: After yesterday’s post about the massive change I believe needs to take place in education, I decided that I needed to put [...]
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 [...]
Voicethread and Poetry
May 31, 2008 · 1 Comment · Writing, Year 4
Just found a moment to finally reflect on the Voicethread that I set up with our Year Four Children. The idea was to write cinquains based on pictures. The other children from around the world would upload their cinquains based upon the same pictures. This would allow lots of discussion about the poetry etc and provide [...]
Tags: poetry·voicethread·Writing
Anomoto (part 2)
May 21, 2008 · 1 Comment · Writing, Year 4
Our year 4 children have been working on adverts for different subjects at school. They’ve used Animoto’s free 30sec option. Here’s the music result.
Voicethread (part 2)
May 20, 2008 · No Comments · Writing, Year 4
Here is some work I did yesterday with some Year 4′s on writing cinqains. Really simple to get them recorded onto Voicethread at the end of the lesson. I’m going to try online and see if any other children from around the world want to write their own and then upload them to the same time. [...]
Tags: poetry·voicethread·Writing
Writing Adverts
April 21, 2008 · No Comments · Writing, Year 4
Came across this great site on another blog www.animoto.com Basicly it lets you create a fantastic 30 sec moving presentation by uploading pictures and sound to the site. We’re going to get our Year 4 (7/8yrs old) to record their own adverts for the school using pictures they’ve taken and sound created in Audacity. (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) [...]
