Using+Blooms

** Higher Order Thinking Skills in the Classroom. **

display and used to foster and develop quality thinking and learning.


**Blog Launch - ** The new class blogs were announced to the community via the school newsletter in April and again in May.  The students are very excited about them and are wanting to share their learning with an audience and have an online presence.  The Juniors are keen to upload photos and movies so their new e-pals can view what they have been doing and leave them some comments too. I also had a blog launch with the Board of Trustees and showed them around both class blogs and explained the purposes and rationale behind them. This was an easy way to keep everyone informed as well as highlighting our work and learning in ICT, our comitment to ongoing professional learning  and the quality programmes we are developing.

Newsletter 5/5/11


 * Term One ICT Reflective Learning Journey - Lorraine. **
 * Developing Written Language through ICT and Digital Learning – Lorraine. **

The children used the active board to write about their experiences of being afraid after our “big day out” The kids love writing on the active board, and are quick at learning how to use the editing tools, such as changing the pen to a rubber to edit their work and changing it back to a pen. I was also pleased with myself as I figured out how to print out their work onto A3 sized paper. The children (and I) were pleased with their work. From there we selected photos that encapsulated their fears. They looked most impressive and have been displayed in the classroom for all to see and read.

The children wrote Haiku poems about some of the things they saw on our "Big Days Out." We typed them on the computer and inserted a picture. I thought they looked a bit boring. So we evaluated our efforts. We thought about how we could present these so they had a “wow” factor. We tried some different borders but this didn’t do it. Then we came up with the idea of enlarging our photos and overlaying our poems on top. Awesome results!!!