Moving to Wordpress
Please note that this is my last post on this site...worried about Posterous going under so have moved to www.stevesingapore.wordpress.com. Happily, Wordpress has an import from Posterous tool so it was dead easy!
Please note that this is my last post on this site...worried about Posterous going under so have moved to www.stevesingapore.wordpress.com. Happily, Wordpress has an import from Posterous tool so it was dead easy!
It has been fantastic having iPads in my Y7 French class this year, we have used the device frequently in meaningful ways and the kids' repertoire of tools is becoming impressive. Today, having drafted a piece of extended writing about what they typically eat and drink for each meal of the day, including an introduction to the concept of le goûter, we focused entirely on pronunciation. Students had previously peer-assessed speaking work using ShowMe so they each had targets to pay attention to this time. We brainstormed specific tips for 'sounding French' on Edmodo, kids then checked any tricky-to-pronounce words using the speaker function of the Google translate app. When ready, they then used the Educreations app to make a narrated slide for each of their meals, posting to Edmodo for all to see.
A trial group of Y7 students today sharing their first entries in their Evernote portfolios..they have been shown how to tag each entry with one of our school's 8 learner profile attributes: balanced, open-minded, reflective, principled, knowledgeable, thinker, communicator. There were some innovative uses of the camera, with photos of certificates achieved, positive feedback from teachers on written work, team photos, dance performances and even a picture of a full roast lamb dinner one student had proudly made for her family! I guess she tagged that under risk-taker and knowledgeable? Students certainly found out things they did not know about one another and so did staff. Evernote does not natively embed video, which is a shame, but with video now able to upload into Google drive, kids can post a web link to that. Can't see a way to create that link on the Drive app itself, but can on the web version...
Interested to know if anyone is using a different platform for portfolios!
by Archie
As everyone knows, Year 7 has been given iPads. Among all the brilliant uses of them has been 'SloPro', which is an app that lets you film something and play it back in slow motion. In gymnastics we have been using it to record and evaluate our balances. Watching movements back in slow motion helped us to identify the strengths and weakness in the performances. We could watch it back many times and even stop it to look at skills more closely. Using the iPad camera to record the skills helped us to see what we did wrong so we can do it better next time. I think that this is an amazing idea to help us evaluate performances and we should carry on using it. Gymnastics is fun but using 'SloPro' helps us learn more quickly.