IN THE NEWS FROM FLORIDA!

Great surprise today when I received the link to the local paper of the school that we have been sharing our Learning Platform with...not sure that I like being referred to as Johnson! But never mind! Here is the link if you are interested...

http://cnewspubs.com/?p=5312

KLP CONFERENCING WITH FLORIDA!

WHAT A TRULY AMAZING EVENT!!!!!

The image above shows both classes side by side taking part in the web conference - through our very safe Learning Platform - KLP!!!!! This was then transposed onto the IWB so that we could all see each other.

It took some setting up - 5 hours time difference; they don't start school until 10.00am; we are just about to go home then! No matter! Florida's children arranged to come in 1 hour early so that they could speak to us live - WOW!

Our local newspaper came in to witness the event first hand and their photographer too - of course! Our school mascot Goldie and our resident badger - Boris - were both there to join in with the event!

Check out the full article at -

http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/News/Pupils-visit-the-States-via-the-magic-of-the-internet.htm

Further developments coming soon....we have lots of ideas...

KLP SHARING WITH FLORIDA!

Hi all, can't believe it has taken me this long to post this to be honest...one of the highlights of my teaching at Eureka...

We have set up a link with a school in Florida - through KLP!!!!!

How?

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  I created a log in for their teacher (by the way - we initially met on e-pals!!!)
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  Set up a page for us to collaborate in...

• With a blog where we have all introduced ourselves - I can't believe it - every one of my class and our friends across the Atlantic have added a post explaining themsleves...they are commenting too and asking each other questions...
• We also have a set of discussions where we are sharing differences between schools, dress code, meals, clubs and any other things we think of!
• We each have a photo slide show here too!
• Another area we are developing, is a shared narrative! We have a wiki called 'Adventures Across the Atlantic' that we are writing together.

We have loads of other ideas...all of which are about 'engaging - enjoying - enhancing' the learning of our children! So far it has been a tremendous success!

LEA GREEN HIT!!!!! PARENTS ON LINE!!!!!!

WHAT A TRUE SUCCESS!!!!!

I honestly cannot get over the three days we spent at Lea Green!

We took netbooks with us, each evening we set up in the conference room and shared the days events with our families, friends and teachers back at school!

Some of the above was created before we went - some afterwards!!!!

Seeing the excitement in the faces of the children when they saw that their parents had added to a discussion or commented on a blog post was amazing!!! A great opportunity for learning and experiences to be shared with their families and opportunities to continue their learning outside the classroom, extending their literacy skills and esceeding expectations - truly fabulous!

After the event we blogged about our best bits...and I presented them with virtual awards!!!!!

All I can hope is that this is the start of a really good school/parent virtual partnership!

KLPing from Lea Green!

Hi all...
Not seem to have blogged in a while...

Off to Lea Green for three days tomorrow with 18 wonderful year 5 and 6 children...
We are taking our netbooks with us!
I have created a page on KLP for us, the school and the Parents - so we can keep in touch whilst we are there!
We have the timetable on the page so that everyone knows what we are up to!
A discussion area, a blog that the children are going to post in, news and slideshow ready to take our action shots!
We are all so excited...we are taking our flip cam too, so we shall be uploading video.
Hopefully, we may even get to web conference if anyone else is online when we are!!!
I shall let you all know how we get on!

Jacqui

WOW MOMENT!!!!!!

We had to close the school today - burst water main down the road!!!!

I promptly logged on, added news to explain, targetted it to members

(whole school site as EVERYONE has permission to view that)

...the news soon spread as one or two people logged into KLP to see what had changed or to do their Home Learning/extend their learning...

behold, they saw my message as soon as they logged in!!!!

One person rang to check that the message on KLP was corrected...

BLESS!

Techno power!!!!

Creating for new year...

Gosh, I shall miss my techi children from last year - they were brilliant!!!! So ICT skilled and capable - year 4 and 5!!! However, life (as they say) moves on, and so does the learning team!

These last few days been busy creating new things:

RE Interest Space!

Our RE coordinator has made the decision that the whole school will focus on a particular religion each term - easy to manage, resource, coordinate, evaluate... As one of those difficult to teach topics we thought it would be great to have an RE interest space for the whole school so that great online resources could be shared; children can collaborate on a common theme; older children can support younger; everything would be 'stored' in the same place...

A generic 'home page' if you like has been created (incidentally by a new member of staff, who was given a quick tour of KLP, shown where all our DCC How to sheets were, and he was off!!!!), with links to a seperate page to all religions, a multi faith calender and a very interactive game where a cute teddy explains the basics of each religion to the children (this is added in page viewer -the site is safely 'nuzzled' in KLP!

The animated links above, transport the children to different pages for each religion...we are studying Judaism this term, therefore that page is being populated with video, slideshows, links, games and interactive pages to support the learning and investigating the subject.

To top it all...just spent the day installing new pc's at school!!!!!

KLP is going to be even better from now on!!!!!!

CAn't wait!