This blog post is a follow up to an information sharing session we had with parents where we discussed helping our students / children find a balance between their on / and / off line lives. One question that came out of this session was, “How can we help our young children stay safe while allowing…
Category: infant
Publishing on the Web
Why?Having a class blog allows us access to added benefits to enhance student learning. Some of them include: Being able to share student learning with extended families/friends around the world. As an International school, our students come from many different places, and being able to share what’s going on in (and out of) the classroom…
Adding a Picasa Slideshow to Your Blog
To get started, make sure you have the iPhoto to Picasa Web Uploader installed. 1. Select the photos you would like to share from your iPhoto Library. 2. Click on File -> Export 3. Click on Picasa and make sure you have Better Quality selected. 4. Sign in to Picasa with your Google Apps account. 5. Click…
iPhoto to Picasa
Picasa Web Albums Plug In All teachers have a Picasa Web Album account with their gapps account. Go to https://picasaweb.google.com and log in using your gapps email and password. To make it easier to upload photos to Picasa you can download a plug in for your iPhoto. Go to http://picasa.google.com/mac_tools.html to download the plug in and follow the instructions:…
Blogging in the Infants
It is almost Blog time! We are ready to take our blogs that were started previously and; a) add in the school logo b) add in a personalized header (Thanks to Mandy and Sinead, in the communications department, for creating this template for us) There are many steps to this process but most steps are…
Parent Coffee Morning 1: Social Networks
The Digital Literacy Team at East is pleased to welcome parents to our first Coffee Morning – this time focusing on: Social Networks: Why they matter, and how you can help your child develop a positive online presence. We looked first at what was worrying you about Social Networks. Here is a wordle which shows your…
Impact Posters in Grade One
What’s an Impact Poster you may ask? I had the exact same question! An Impact Poster uses a powerful image and a short sentence, quote, or piece of text to grab attention and highlight something of importance. This week the Grade one students created Impact Posters to demonstrate their learning. Some classes focused on the current…
Teamwork makes blogging better.
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…
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…
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…