Otonga+Middle+Team

Welcome to the Middle Team's ICT page. This is a working document so it will be added to as our own ICT journey evolves. Please come back and check often to see what we are doing. Ultranet is used to communicate with others and to share learning. The children are becoming enthusiastic about sharing their learning with a worldwide community. [|Room 17] [|Room 18] [|Room 19] [|Room 20] [|Room 21] [|Room 22] There are so many fantastic things happening in our middle classes with SOLO. Check out Gareth and Nadine who integrated SOLO thinking into their Inquiry topics this year.... July 2012 Solo has been used to encourage writing. Below are some pictures of room 22 using a describe map about winter. Once the students had shared ideas they began to write a cinquain using all the descriptive words the class had come up with. Students in room 22 have been using pizap to create images for their myths written in term 2. Students in Room 22 have also been using ipads and the IWB to assist in spelling and their learning of sight words. In the photos below you can see a student using an application where they have to spell a word they hear and there is also an image of a student using t he IWB to work on sight words she had missed read.

In Room 22 the IWB has been used to record a collection of interjections. This was able to be pulled up later and students could use these in their writing. June 2012 Middle team sharing ICT resources every Monday of every week. Here Sonja is sharing some Olympic resources she came across.

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