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=NZ ConnectED Conference 16 – 17 July 2010= =10 Or 100 Practical Strategies from Classrooms around the World – Tony Ryan=

Being dynamic with dialogue is embedded in learning so…
Use humour daily whether it is incidental or planned.

// Incidental: // can happen without thinking in unplanned circumstances // Planned: knowing // what re-action may occur when using humour to engage the learner (jokes etc). You could burst out into song when you hear a creative connection. //It helps to know many lyrics in songs! e.g. **inquiry into the sun:** you might// break out in ‘Here comes the sun’ by The Beatles

Funny board: Set up a board as a way for children/teachers to share jokes with the class. Could be daily or weekly or even outside in the cloakroom for parents to add to. Kid of the week: -instead of trying to find a student to be a star for their behaviour actually pick a name from a hat to celebrate the individual child. This allows the chance for the __child__ that doesn’t necessarily get picked. They could be line leaders if they wanted or do any job they preferred etc Joke tellers: children to tell a different joke each day, have a joke on the board to start the day. School newsletter, assembly, children doing our endorphin corner, start with the punch line of a joke and the children need to write the beginning, or begin with a joke and have children to guess the punch line. Children to take photos/visuals, of humorous moments they see around the school and display in library or in class, Monday assembly jokes, A chalk joke on the footpath each day when parents bring children in, Art sculpture of mirror wall distortions (who couldn’t stop and laugh at that?) Teacher to share a joke for the day and display appreciation of humour. ** Remember sarcasm is the lowest form of humour and children spot this. **

2. Learning Detectives
Children are to be trained into roles of detective to be able to spot good teaching/learning. Get four children to assess the learning and teaching and to get them to give you feedback. The sharing strategy from children to the teacher will need to be respectful and children should be told how they can do this. The model is to give feedback about what the teacher did well and feed-forward to what they could do to improve on. (children could share with the teacher when on duty?) The teacher should always thank children for their considerations however the teacher has the ultimate choice to decide whether to act upon it as they are the adults. Learning detectives help children to be questioners and thinkers. // Children can be videoed and played back to. You could even freeze frame slides that you want to focus on or annotate with a Smart board. // // Children to video the teacher for the teacher to reflect upon their own practice. Children to video learning in the school community and feedback through assemblies. Year 6 children to have a chance to select children for certificates in the school who have displayed outstanding learning (could work with buddy classrooms) these certificates are given out at assembly. Children are encouraged to share moments when they saw that their teacher learned something (their ah hah! moment) as teachers need to model what is means to be a learner, // learning detectives could be good Inquiry researchers into what a good inquiry question could be as they spot problems etc in the school. Help teachers to have new topic/inquiry headings…make them exciting…‘The air above us’ instead of vehicles that fly, birds, space, internet and communication, weather, carbon footprint.

[|**http://kidtools.missouri.edu/**]
Google this sight to find a free resource for children who need strategies to overcome behaviour problems. The sight has tools to equip children to face difficult situations and circumstances. Even children who are into gaming programs have been known to ask for help to develop their relating to others side as other gaming children don’t choose to work with them.

4. Display Day
- Usually held on the last Wednesday of term - Each class shows the school and the community what they have been learning - This can be shown through a static display, video, interactive displays or through the children teaching others

Other ideas of showing learning are: A //listening// box, must find 4 people to listen to. They will share an idea/learning with you. Yellow pages’ directory within the class. Chn with special skills eg ICT specialist are listed and when the other chn are in need of help they go to these chn.

5. Lesson Engagement Online
This is a way of using laptops in the classroom while keeping students on task [|**www.wallwisher.com**] where online post-its are used (shown by Kirsty before) [|**www.polldaddy.com**] where real time polls can be taken with instant results

6. Student Voice
[|**www.soundout.com**] Student Voice is about ensuring children have a voice about what happens in and to their school. Its about empowering children to be involved in their school. Tony states that it’s important to listen to the ideas of children. He gives examples of children  Completely running school assemblies. Resolving a problem around the school.

7. Positive Videos
[|**www.funtheory.com**] Children are VERY image conscious. Videos are a fantastic way to capture children’s interest, thinking and learning. Using PodCasts is a great way of using video. Suggestions of taking short videos of the children (in the context of social interaction) and letting the children watch themselves and then:  · They could reflect on what they saw – look for the good things  · The teacher and children to provide feedback – how could they change or improve   · The teacher could freeze frame images. Tony asks – How do you use video?

8. Collaborative Processes
A range of thinking skills shared eg shopping for ideas (all available online at [|**www.learningnetwork.ac.nz**] - One idea is ‘discuss, publish, shop, polish’. A way of refining ideas within a group.  - A collaborative process is different from group work. This is much more structured to ensure that all group members contribute equally.

9. High Level Visual Literacy
Websites shared: [|www.cooliris.com] Cooliris is a browser plug in that presents media on a ‘3 D wall’ that lets you enjoy the content without having to click from page to page. [|www.prezi.com] Prezi can be used to create 3D slides similar to a Power Point.

10. Daily Inspiration
Ideas shared: Inspirational educators: - are enthusiastic and invariably optimistic - deeply believe that they make a difference - are able and willing to scrutinise their practice - use critical thinking, creativity and imagination - pay respect to their own well being

Practical ideas for inspiration: - inject some inspiration into assemblies - invite inspiring people to address your students - develop sister school relationships in less developed countries

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=E-Book Digital Literacy Presentation=

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=E-Book Implementation Reflection=

Teacher's Reflections on how the feedback from Conferences have been implemented into their classroom programme.

// "I had the pleasure last term to be presented with a short seminar regarding the use of eBooks in the classroom. At the time of the course I was quite sceptical regard more use of the computers for reading purposes as my personal view is that books should be the integral part of any guided teaching programme. // // To my surprise however in using eBooks in the class, it has resulted in some surprising outcomes. The children seem to be more engaged in their reading compared to standard big book activities and are talking more about there activities they are doing during group reading time. During our daily reflection the eBook activity has come up several times as being a positive learning point of their day and I now feel the use of eBooks during their Reading session is integral to their ICT and reading development. I have thoroughly changed my view since taking part in the initial seminar." //

"I have the luxury of having an Activboard in my classroom. This has made using eBooks with the class easier and more effective. My target audience were very new Year 1’s (5 years – 5.3 months old). My class do not have the skills to independently use the class pc’s All emergent readers so my choice of eBooks was around developing language/ word meaning. Orally rote learning the text, identifying high frequency words, finger pointing word for word. Reading skills not yet concrete/ established….   But they have a love of pictures and being read to. The following site has Clifford story books with highlighted words to click on, It reads the story to the children. And also there are interactive activities. []  Another favourite : []

Last year when we went to Howick Historical Village. I would have loved to show my class the following eBook site.It’s free to down load, traditional stories and pictures [] these are traditional tales of the Gingerbread man, Jack and Jill the story.

If it’s variety you want the following site is easy to navigate, you can select your age group, language eg English, French and choose from a large selection of books. I suggest you check what you are downloading first, as some of these books were hard to read and not appropriate ESOL children may enjoy browsing and finding an eBook in their language to read. [] I have a folder called Reading eBooks in my Favourites. Book sites checked, then their WWW stored. Easy to find book site and use with the class. With my Activboard I can show children how to navigate, read the books, play the games. They have quickly learnt the basic process."

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