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A Peek for A Week - Inside a Kiwi junior Classroom
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20 minutes and 58 seconds
Year: 2009
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New Zealand
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English
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Instructional
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k12online on Dec 13, 2009
Rachel Boyd's keynote presentation for the "Week in the Classroom" strand of the K12 Online conference. A peek for a week inside a kiwi junior classroom of 6 year olds. Come and see what we get up to in our classroom learning during a week using a variety of online and web2 tools.
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- K12 ONLINE 2009
- BRIDGING THE DIVIDE
- A PEEK FOR A WEEK
- INSIDE A KIWI JUNIOR CLASSROOM
- BY RACHEL BOYD
- Hi there and welcome to my keynote presentation
- for the week in the classroom strand
- for the k12 online conference 2009.
- My name is Rachel Boyd and this presentation
- is titled a "Peek for a Week, Inside a Kiwi Junior Classroom."
- I am from Nelson, New Zealand
- I teach a year two class of six and seven year olds.
- I am also the e-learning leader at my school
- and run professional development for our staff.
- In this presentation, we will take a look at the blend of
- 21st century learning in my class of six and seven year olds.
- and get up in our very "20th Century" inspired classroom during a week.
- I hope you enjoy sharing in my class's
- learning and find the presentation interesting
- NOW, LET'S TAKE A PEEK INSIDE ROOM 9...
- NELSON, NEW ZEALAND
- A PEEK FOR A WEEK IN ROOM 9
- Hi there, welcome to room 9 it's of a peek of what we are learning
- about this week, our classroom routines
- Oral language and we are looking at
- Listening and
- Speaking
- This week we are also during narrative writing.
- As well as reading
- Maths
- Inquiry Learning
- Music we are looking at
- singing.
- For physical education we are looking at
- Fitness
- To top it all off, some Visual Art.
- I hope you enjoy our
- A PEEK FOR A WEEK IN ROOM 9
- Just so you know throughout this presentation should you see the term WALT
- This simply stands for "We are learning to"
- ONLINE ORGANIZATION
- My classroom 9 has two major online features
- and they are basically digital students in their classroom.
- The page your are looking at here is our class blog.
- Simply it's our learning journey
- All sorts of information that we share for our conversation
- with the world, things we are learning about we invite obviously
- a lot of feedback and have conversations in that area.
- Our second online presence is our classroom wiki
- which we call our classroom learning hub.
- basically it's got every single link that my students
- need to use throughout the day.
- It's got lots of different buttons used for different purposes
- and everything my students need to do
- is only one click away.
- Perfect when you've got six year olds aren't typing.
- So, just start using our learning hub
- as a collection of links that we can do
- what we need to do on the internet quickly.
- Another way we organize our digital content
- for use every day in the classroom
- Is through this page here.
- This is actually our interactive whiteboard home page.
- Similar concept to before. It's got links
- everything that my class needs to use throughout the day.
- Some of them are links to interactive whiteboard files,
- and the recent links out to the internet.
- We are at the stage now where the students are able to
- very comfortably use the board and
- even run the morning program.
- CLASSROOM ROUTINES
- Each student in the classroom has
- responsibilities or classroom jobs they need to do every week.
- Two of these jobs involve our class blog.
- The first one is to check, the head counter
- to see how many people have been visiting our class blog.
- SHARE OUR CLASS BLOG FOR A REAL LIFE AUDIENCE
- So, before school and also at the end of the day.
- They need to log on to our learning hub and go and see what
- the head counter shows and make this number on a poster.
- and we also started to use the interactive whiteboard to display that as well.
- Earlier this year another one of my students had invented a new classroom job.
- And that is called the head counter calculation, believe it or not.
- Quite simply we wanted to work out how many
- people had visited overnight to our class blog
- and also over the weekend we hadn't been at school.
- So, that's another job we do every morning.
- One of our other classroom routines involves
- this www.wallwisher.com page.
- Before students have any ideas for posts
- and things we should be putting on our class blog. They can log on
- through the wiki hub post a sticky note up
- there and we check it when we are ready to put new content in.
- to our class blog. That's a responsibility they do before school.
- ORAL LANGUAGE
- SPEAKING
- LISTENING
- We start each day in our classroom with some sort of Oral Language activity
- be it listening or speaking.
- Mondays and Wednesdays this is class news so students are sharing
- about personal experience.
- What's become quite popular now, which is fantastic for junior students
- If the students have been doing something really really fun
- in the weekend they email in their photographs of what they've been doing.
- And we have those displayed over the interactive whiteboard
- while they are speaking.
- Each day we do an oral language listening task
- involving the website tvnz news.
- Basically it's New Zealand news online and
- they have video excerpts of
- just world wide news as well as New Zealand only news.
- Each day we watch a video clip of a news article.
- Before we watch we ask some questions about what we would like to be finding out.
- Then we listen for during the article for information
- about who, where, what, why, etc.
- After wards, we answer our questions
- or perhaps we go back through the video and pause it and review it.
- and often we've got more questions. So, then we go
- online and google the answer.
- And see what more we can find about the at the moment.
- WRITING
- NARRATIVE WRITING
- The past two weeks we've been learning to write narrative stories
- they would had lot of independent experience
- on how to structure these and what we need to include
- to have a really good narrative story
- This week we are actually working online with another class in New Zealand.
- In Aukland up in the North island.
- And we are using google docs to do our collaboration together.
- As we only have three computers,
- We've broken the class into 12 of two, three studnents
- and three groups will write online daily with
- with this other class in Auckland. We've done this for two weeks
- now and it has been really fantastic.
- Always frustrating at the start for the students because the story is taking shape
- after wards we have been able to learn a lot from each other.
- We also have the learning and teaching in the success criteria
- up against what they are writing up. so they can always check their own task.
- OUR PAPER KEYBOARDS
- Our class also has a set of paper keyboards
- Which we use when they are on the mat and I am doing modeling of the writing process.
- And we just integrated them to our writing sessions
- and we practice things like capital letters and post ups and things and
- and even thought the students have gone back to books to work with pen and paper
- it's still very useful experience and helps them to
- gain a little more familiarity with the keyboard and the computer.
- As well as our classroom blog we've also have a writing spot blog
- This is a special place we want our audience
- to notice our successes and not our mistakes.
- room9writing2009.blogspot.com
- It's a place where students can independently write without having
- spelling or their grammar or any of their work corrected by the teacher.
- The follow a visual help sheet like this one you see in here.
- To make sure they get their post online themselves independently.
- Writing blogspot blogs proved very popular with our students
- I think they enjoyed the independence. But, also as the rest of the class was writing
- in their books they get to write on the computer on the blog as well.
- I still conference with them just like normal.
- So, coming around and having their story and they still use
- their word sources to spell right in our case to help them with their spelling.
- HANDWRITING
- LETTER FORMATION
- Twice a week in the classroom we learn correct numeral and letter formation.
- I model it on the interactive whiteboard
- and the student come up individually and model it and we
- just celebrate each others successes there.
- For my more fluent hand writers
- once a week they get to go online and practice their typing
- instead of their handwriting.
- They're the students that very very capable
- they can form their letters and the numbers very very smoothly and correctly
- and their favorite site we visit is dance mat typing. (www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing)
- FITNESS
- Throughout the day we use a variety of
- youtube clips and videos
- for our daily fitness.
- These are simply to get us to join in to get us active
- to get our brains moving again and get our bodies moving.
- BE PHYSICALLY ACTIVE AND FIT
- READING
- We have five reading groups in the classroom.
- Each day we follow the reading task board. So, each group knows
- what the are up to.
- While I am taking instructional guided reading groups,
- The other students are involved in non computer based
- and computer based activities. Some of these include
- the listening post, alphabet and board games,
- practicing their spelling and using spelling tiles or moving mini whiteboards.
- And whole host of other things.
- We use our three classroom computers extensively at reading time
- Scheduling groups to have time play a variety of online games
- to practice and reinforce their reading skills.
- These games are bookmarked by delicious bookmarking
- by our page which is easily accessible by clicking the link through
- from our classroom learning hub wiki.
- WWW.DELICIOUS.COM/ROOM9NELSONCENTRAL
- All groups are with me during guided and the rest of the class doing either a reading activity
- or playing a reading game online
- We also have pairs of students using the interactive whiteboard
- to play a reading game
- These games are especially for use in the day of the week
- and are reading relate to a class class need
- or something we need to practice and reinforce in reading.
- After morning tea each day the students have
- have a browsing independent reading time when most read print based books
- During this time each day, three groups of two students
- get to do their reading online.
- They can choose from a wide range of class blogs from
- around New Zealand and the world to read
- and to leave comments on. We also have visual help sheet
- will assist them to leave comments, create links,
- with other schools and communicate around the world.
- Another popular online literacy based site that my class uses daily
- is www.spellingcity.com
- Spelling city allows to practice their own set of spelling words
- that I have created online and I've found an engaging way.
- CORRECTLY SPELL ESSENTIAL BASIC WORDS
- MATHS
- Just like in reading, we also follow a task board in maths
- Students are grouped according to the addition and subtraction
- strategy level they use.
- CORRECTLY SOLVE ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION MATHS PROBLEM
- While I take a group for lesson the other students either complete and independent maths task or
- or play board or online maths games.
- Once again we have a button on our learning hub wiki
- links through to suitable maths games I've signed them out to literacy count
- One of the more popular maths sites that my class
- use is www.tutpup.com Everyone is signed up with their own user name
- and password. As a teacher I can keep track of
- their scores and they get to practice the addition
- subtraction, multiplication, and division in an online environment.
- (AND DID I MENTION IT'S COMPLETELY FREE!)
- competing with students all over the world.
- INQUIRY LEARNING
- CLEAN STREAMS
- Our inquiry topic has focused on list of clean streams.
- Students received the task of an animated movie
- in xtranormal to communicate the five features of healthy streams.
- xtranormal is fantastic
- for my students because if you can type you can make a movie.
- We also used the magic can button to make movie making a bit simpler.
- The results are fantastic
- You can view them on our class blog and our writing blog
- This week is also an exciting time for six of my
- year two students because they are running
- the weekly tech session or the "techi briki" we have with the teachers.
- to teach them new technical skills, and new
- ICT e-learning skills to use in their classroom.
- So, this week's been quite exciting for those six students
- as they ran the session on xtranormal.
- and showed the teachers and treated them and taught
- them to use their xtranormal and create their own movies.
- NIBBLES EMAIL AND STORY
- AFTER LUNCH EACH DAY
- After lunch each day we have our nibbles time
- This is a period of time when the students can finish any left over lunch.
- they've got. And during this time we also read our emails.
- WWW.GMAIL.COM
- Our emails come mainly from comments that are from
- our classroom and writing blog. What happens is, once
- they are approved and moderated they get redirected to to our class email.
- MAKE LINKS AND CONNECTIONS TO OTHER CLASSES.
- We have email monitors and these two
- students are responsible all week for
- checking the email with the class and reading
- the comments and sharing them with the class.
- At this stage we also visit other schools
- if they've left us a comment and visit their blog and leave them a comment as well.
- We check all comments we receive from New Zealand and
- plot them on our map, showing their name and location of the visitor.
- LOCATE WHERE IN THE WORLD OUR ONLINE VISITORS
- It's particularly exciting when we receive international comments
- especially when the visitors leave their geographical location.
- At this stage we then go on what we call the google air plane.
- and go visit their home town and see where they are located in the world.
- EARTH.GOOGLE.COM
- in relation to us.
- VISUAL ARTS
- WITH A DIGITAL TWIST
- This week in visual arts we are creating digi-art linked to our inquiry learning
- CREATE A DIGITALLY ENHANCED ARTWORK
- PLANNING OUR DIGI ART
- TAKING THE DIGITAL PHOTOS
- SKETCHING OUR ARTWORK FOREGROUNGS
- CUTTING OUT THE DIGITAL PHOTOS
- DOUBLE CHECKING EVERYTHING FITS
- DYING THE BACKGROUND
- THE COMPLETED DIGI ART!
- THANKS FOR WATCHING
- I hope you've enjoyed your "peek for a week" inside our classroom.
- Hopefully, you've seen a slice of what is achievable
- even with limited classroom computers
- and a class of six year olds.
- I firmly believe that technology
- adds greatly to good classroom teaching
- enriching, adding vibrancy
- to the learning of our students.
- It has been my absolute honor and pleasure
- presenting in the k12 online conference
- Ka kite ano
- from New Zealand
- Transcription: Jose Rodriguez


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