Ginny+-+Muritai

//Hi! it has been a while since I have taught in the Junior School, but I am back with Year 1's this year at Muritai School. I am passionate about teaching Literacy and am really keen to integrate ICT into my Literacy programme this year. I am hoping to teach my kids some ICT skills so that they feel confident when using ICT in the classroom. Basics like saving a document to file and being able to open it without teacher assistance. My focus for this year is to come up with ways to manage 22 children during ICT. I have some ideas, but would love to hear of any others you may have! Looking forward to updating this with all the success that I am hoping for this year.

Cheers, Ginny

11.03 Hi! Umbrella question for the team is: How can we use ICT to enhance the phonetic knowledge of children? By using… (each class to have different programme/resource and look further into this specifically)

Thanks for meeting with us today! It was great to get something a bit more concrete sorted! I like the idea of using iweb, so may 'book' you for that!!!! Cheers, Ginny//

//9.04.08 Hi Suzie, Just having a look at the work you did with voicethread - NICE!!! will have to talk to you about this and get myself sorted. Only a week (and a bit) to go!!!

Cheers, Ginny//

21/4 Hi Ginnie! Great to see you making good use of this space as an ongoing diary of your project. Glad you liked the VoiceThread example. I have a page of instructions on how to use VoiceThread on my wiki that you might find useful in the meantime. I am going to embed the example VoiceThread here as well so others know what we are talking about. I have also put a page about action research onto Teacher Portal with a break down of the action research process and a blank template in Powerpoint that you could use to write it up at the end. media type="custom" key="684619"

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media type="custom" key="618891" 24/07 Last term seemed to whizz by. The Action Research was started with a voicethread idea and the class loved using this toll to assess their work (see blog) but I got a bit lost in terms of how to assess this and use it for my research questiosn of //How can we use ICT to enhance the phonetic knowledge of children?// Am thinking now that I will use the Letterland resources (Mac activities) and the letterland assessment that I have completed for this term to assist the learning of initial sounds for a small group of boys in my class.

31/07 Have been using the Letterland resources in class, focusing on a small cohort of children. Am already seeing a noticeable difference in their ability to sound out words and find common rimes in words to assist them in reading and writing. Great - looking forward to assessing them at the end to see how this resource has improved their learning.