ICTOPUS sharing good practise!

I have just had another article published on ICTOPUS on our schools use of KLP! Please take a look if you think the ideas may work for you.

Here is the link:

http://www.ictopus.org.uk/index.php?sc=1

The current article is regarding our world links (SPG138), I have also had articles on our KLP usage in SPG76, 84 and 95!

I do hope they may be of use to you.

Panarama!

Just decided to take the plunge and re-create our school website using the possibility of creating a public space on KLP! Up until now, I have been managing both KLP and our website - too much to do!

So, with a blank canvas (so to speak) and loads of inspiration, I set to work!

Having managed to attend Tim Rylands keynote speech at the  recent ICT conference I was awe inspired to get going on ‘all’ (no I know you can’t do it all at once!) his fabulous ideas.  The picture above, however, was one of the easiest, most effective and versatile  pieces of ICT that I have created in a while…

As Tim showed with ease the creating of a Panarama, I simply couldn’t wait!

· I stood in the best spot on our playground with trusty Flip cam in hand

· I filmed a very steady 180 degrees arc around my position

· Uploaded the image into flipshare

· Cut the various snapshots as necessary

· Opened Microsoft Ice (free download)

· Dragged in the relevant images

· Watched as in seconds the Panarama was created

· Cropped

· Uploaded it onto KLP where our new school website is being created

· Simples!

I am very impressed with the result and it looks great at the head of our new website!


visit: www.timrylands.com for further inspirational ideas as well as Panarama!

DCC ICT conference...

WOWEE!
What an amazing day we had at Swanwick Hayes yesterday!
Eight of our boys year 4, 5 and 6, presented a series of work shops to teachers, ICT coordinators, Head teachers, consultants and even our KEYNOTE speaker Mr Tim Rylands - a gentleman whom both my children and I have become huge fans of! As we delivered our final workshop for the day, he was blogging to the world all about it - read about it at www.timrylands.com

Here's a snippet...it may be useful...

Our workshop delivered by myself and the boys was to entice the delegates in the wonder of KLP and how it thoroughly engages all of our children at Eureka into the digital world of learning! The power of web 2 technologies developing awe and wonder, a sfae and secure environment of an ever increasing opportunity to learn independently, push the bounderies and barriers to enjoy our time in our learning journey and be able to share it with the whole school community.
The boys were sharing and explaining very confidently how powerful a tool KLP is, and all the different pages and spaces we have and continue to develop to enhance their Literacy skills across all year groups and all abilities.
A truly memorable experience for both myself and the youngsters!

FILMS we love 'em!!!!

This term we have been learning about our theme May the Force be with you!!! Lends itself very nicely to a whole host of things - especially film production!!!


We watched the trailor for APOLLO 13 - after I had added it to our KLP page for our new topic - of course!!! We can view over and over again - for a whole variety of reasons.

We discussed salient points, action, characters, empathised with them, looked at mood, camera angle...

Next - I added some snap shots form the trailer into various wikis - children chose the characters, acted out the scene and we worked on the charactreisation, speech bubbles and then speech marks for narrative!







Resulting form that event, the children planned their films in small production teams using a film board scene planner. Great enthusiasm, team work and fabulous imagainery space events...

To complete their film, the children then had to choose - the usual - movie maker, photo story, digiblue.....or a couple of new 'free' cloud based pieces of sortware...


We tried Zooburst and Animoto! What a hit!!!! After creation, I collected the embed code, added each html code to a text editor and created our film page...

After embedding into a page full of films....I added the relevant code to each child's eportfolio too! They then have their own - to keep! Plus, invited all the school to add a film review of 2 stars and a wish to discussion board question linked to the film camera! You could easilly do this to a survey too! And be more specific with the questions!!!

A super literacy topic - that encompassed so so much more...bets of it was the whole class -mainly BOYS - were VERY engaged!!!!!!