ICT with Junior Classes

Several of our junior teachers took up the opportunity today to attend a Sharefest of ICT Ideas for Years 1 - 3. This session was organised by Waimea Cluster, and held at Henley School. Below is a brief outline of the ideas presented:

ICT in the Junior Classroom

(Ideas and tips for working with Years 1 – 3)

HINTS

• If going to a computer lab, bring maths toys, lego or similar to alleviate boredom as it can be VERY slow getting everyone logged on.
• Have a look at Photostory: similar to iMovie (free download)
• www.youtube.com – can post videos on here and link to your blog
• when learning a new program, allow a couple of sessions for children to play/experiment with the program.

IDEAS

1) Children create PowerPoint story book. (6 x 1hr sessions)

• Use saved images, or children create their own in Paint. Avoids inappropriate images, wasted time searching clipart.
• Plan ahead – decide which words you are going to use in your book, and which slide layout.

2) iMovie/Book

• Teacher created iMovie of own to demonstrate
• Students took own photos using digital camera (talked about: focus, distance, can see face). Children chose a place they liked in playground, took each others photos.
• On school trip, children took photos (decide before you go who is going to take photos).
• Children drag photos to computer (need to talk about files etc).
• Children inserted their photo on to their own page, and wrote stories beneath it. Book printed out – laminated and bound for classroom use.
• Narrations (as written on their book page) recorded by children to go with photos, and added to imovie.

3) Class Blog

• Once a week – photos and stories.
• Comments on blogs are motivators for writing
• www.youtube.com – can post videos on here and link to your blog

4) Maori Myths/Legends retelling (Art/language)

• Children created their own paintings in Artrage to go with story
• ArtRage – free download sufficient. Can use for ‘tracing’ ie photos can be added with ‘transparent’ layer on top, and traced over, recoloured etc.
• Paintings were added to Photostory, and children added their re-told stories to create book (max four pages).