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** Why? ** - its learning intention eg) addition, sequencing, retelling. =**__Milestone 4__**=
 * Samples of work will need to have: **
 * What ** the students were actually doing it for (its purpose).
 * How ** it enhanced the learning.

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** ICT Milestone 3 ** ** Bex Clement ** What did I use?

A current use of ICT in the classroom that I have used this year is the use of my classroom blog. During reading I wanted the opportunity to challenge and extend one of my reading groups. Using a link through the blog allowed me to plan lessons that enabled this to happen. The Power Point that I have included shows the process that I worked through with the reading group so that they could create a movie as their final product.

How was it helpful?

The blog link was incredible useful in several ways.

1. The practical needs of the children were met because more than one child at a time could access the link at school and at home if they wanted too. 2. It introduced new programmes to some of the children; those children who were aware of the programmes were then challenged by new programmes, such as movie maker. 3. As the teacher I learnt a new programme, Aviary, and this now leads to another route to develop the skills of the children for other lessons where ICT can be incorporated. The group then taught another group about what they had learnt by modeling it to them.

The blog is also a great way to link home and school together so that the children can share their learning with their parents. This again reinforces the skills that they have learnt at school, accessing, typing in addresses and writing comments on the blog.



Click on screen shot for room 7's blog.