Room+2

** 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.

** 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.

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Click on screen shot for room 7's blog.

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 * Blog: We have continued to develop our class blog and integrate it into classroom life. The children use the blog to complete their homework and parents are now discussing the blog with their children. Teachers from around the school are posting comments and questions for room 2 students to read and answer. The purpose of the blog in room 2 is to motivate writing, communicate with people from around our community, share work, complete homework, ask questions and think about the areas we are focussing on in class. I have found especially over the last term the students in room 2 aged 5-6 are becoming confident in using a computer and more independent learners.**

=**__Milestone 3__**= Blog

We use our class blog to discuss the schools weekly value linked to the key competency of self management.

We also use our blog to show case our writing because it provides the children with an authentic audience. We decided to create a writing blog that is linked to our classroom blog to keep our writing together. We use the label option when we post to make it easy for our parents to find our work.

I have found that all of the children are very motivated during writing time to complete their work to a high quality so it can be posted on our writing blog to share with their parents.

I regularly look for literacy, numeracy and topic (inquiry) related websites to put on the classroom blog as links for the students/parents to use as extra homework or activities to do at home. The students use these links during literacy and numeracy times at school.

One of the links is the school wide programme Mathletics.

Mathletics

We use mathletics to enhance our numeracy programme. The students each have their own page where they can earn points and create an avatar. The students complete maths activities that I give them based on their ability and level, they can also play live mathletics which has greatly increased their knowledge of basic facts and decreased the time they solve them in.

Click on the screen shot for room 2's blog.