Innes's+stuff

Hi everyone

Welcome back to 2010 - I trust you have all had a good break and are looking forward to what the new year may bring.

A simple [|counting on to 10]site site

I intend to use this page to store things we have talked about during my time with you (something I really value by the way), new ideas that have crossed my paths, sites and smells that may be worth sharing plus anything else really.

Those who have nothing to do and who would like to see my holiday snaps (well 10%) can [|look here] - take care these are my memories.

Just in case you can't think of anything to do.

12 December (still going out there?) All the best to Pam - hope you have as much fun out of retirement as i have 8-} Maybe something who see diferrent possibilities? How did he?? Animation vs animator

30 Novrember **To treat this** as a blog make sure you enter details at the top of the page and let it push previous stuff down.

Hey hey it's Monday - my last day with you all this year. I would like to make it as meaningful as possible and would be interestedin any questions you may have.

A constant focus for the year has been literacy and elearning. The following site, developed by a colleague, has a myriad of links and options around the development of literacy - with links to MoE documents no less.

http://elearningbop.wikispaces.com/Literacy+Progressions

For those of you who i have regaled with my universe interests have a wee look at this.

[] DO NOT print it out!!!!!

Getting the kids work on your class site or your wiki For those of us who looked at including Inspiration (and KidPix) diagrams in out websites, here is a help sheet that describes the process, For KidPix go to Export - make sure you select .jpeg



We talked about blog and wiki options - here are a few to check out.

[|Rachel in Nelson]

A wiki on podcasting

[|Stephen at Hokowhitu - blog] BIG NEWS - Stephen's class won the Fair Go Ad award over the break - check it out.

Allanah King, a very sepcial person at [|Appleby School]shares her class.

Allanah also shares thoughts about [|21st Century learning]

Ben at Hokowhitu uses [|blogs to share this].

[|Room 18 at Point England]

Keyboard activities These should be done after the kids have done Fingerwriting.

[|Typing Pacman] - sound familiar. [|Keep the monkey up] - Uses typing of left and right hands to keep the monkey from falling [|Dance Mat] - A BBC activitiy - a little too typing tutor for me [|Make the sheep bleat] - Play 'tunes' by hitting certain keys. Other things in hte pictures make sounds too. You might need headphones for this!! Flight links As you are exploring flight in Term 4 some of these may be useful. Design the flight system of the future -[| a NASA interactive] [|Robyn Whirlybird] - an interactive story You might like to experiment with [|paper aeroplanes]- a schoolwide challenge???? [|Kite sites] [|More kites] [|Hot air balloons] are fun. More for older kids there are some clear [|explanations and activities in here], A good [|paper aeroplane site] including video - good for sequencing [|A Kiwi science site] - way to go. [|Flight questions] [|Some fun 'air' experiments] [|NASA kids club]

Making online Jigsaws [|A good flash based one] - go for one of the larger sizes to start. You can upload it ans send the link. There are some free PC ones around, [|Here is one] - don't ask my opinion.

In a lighter vein

You gotta [|love that Maxine,]

Pondering on Podcasting The international podcasting champions - [|Point England] (remind me when i am next through and i will show you my favourite) Dorothy Burt, a fellow ADE and eFellow 2008[|developed this pdf]. [|Further information on PE.] PE do do [|Voicethreads] - interesting to compare. [|Allanah King is a podcast fan] Allanah's wiki on how to podcast, Jane Nicholls [|tried it with KidPix] (not on a PC but???) She was also a eFellow and [|her report is worth reading]. [|Some kids' stuff]

Some Literacy stuff If you are into online spelling this is as good as i have seen - mind you I can't understand the accent when playing against the computer so I play the reading rather than spoken options - challenging for 6-8 []

If you or your kids enjoy freerice.com then this will extend that a little []

For Rachel [|Audacity] [|Podomatic]

For Janice I have to admit that i tried this about 4 times before it 'stuck'!!! media type="youtube" key="bA4TYBP6d34" height="344" width="425" And this is [|the URL] Also it truncated it a bit - lost number 2 so needs a bit of fiddling. Will keep working on it - let me know how you get on however don't try it on dial up 8-}