Blogging is a great way to communicate about the learning going on in your classroom. The challenge however for new bloggers to overcome is the idea of how this medium is different than the “way we’ve always done it.” One way that blogging is different than emailing or posting a newsletter is that these forms…
Category: primary
Changing Your Password
Please see the screencast below to show how to change your password via the school website www.uwcsea.edu.sg
Blogging in the Infant School
Blogging is a way to help communicate what’s going on in your classroom with an audience that includes parents. It makes the learning going on in your class visible and provides a forum for interaction via commenting. (Here are some examples of Kinder blogs Mrs. Wills, Zoe Page) Our teachers in the infant school are…
Claymation – 3rd Time Lucky!
This is the third year Margot and I have worked on a claymation project with the Grade 5s, and we both feel this is the year that everything is coming together! I have written about our adventures with animation here and here, so you can see a bit of the history. This year, we are…
5 Fab Ideas for Effective Online Research
Over the past few days, UWCSEA has been lucky enough to have Apple Guru Kathleen Ferenz visit our school. She has been a fabulous resource for me personallyas a Digital Literacy Coach, but also for the groups of teachers she has worked with. One of Kathleen’s many strengths is in Literacy, and she has given…
Students (and Teachers) make self-grading quizzes with Google Forms and Flubaroo
It’s easy to use Google Forms to collect information for surveys and manage sign-ups, but you can also use them for assessments. Geography students are using the Flubaroo script installed in a Google Form to create ten question quizzes for each other. We spent most of a double period creating the quizzes that they will…
Taking attendance for a a class that’s not on your timetable.
Occasionally, teachers will be asked to cover for colleagues who can’t themselves be there. In these cases, you need to be able to mark attendance for a class that’s not on your timetable. Here’s how (thanks to Hemantha Dissanayake for the screen shots). How to take attandance for another teacher from United World College of…
Linking to other sites from your Studywiz course page.
This tutorial shows you how you can use your Studywiz course page to link to other sites like a blog, or Google site. The suggested process has you editing the course’s Information page. You can put different types of information here like a course overview simply by pasting from an existing document or writing with…
Presentations – design matters
During our Professional Learning meeting in the Primary School, we focused on improving our presentations to parents. Our core message was that less is more. We encouraged teachers to think from the perspective of their audience, and focused on 2 easy ways to improve the design of presentations: Use fabulous images Use less text Fazree…