What an excellent opportunity to learn new skills, gain motivation for integrating more ICT into the classroom and meet fellow teachers(especially local).
I attended 6 breakouts and I enjoyed the two practical workshops the most. This was because they were targeted to junior children were presented by an enthusiastic teacher with examples of how she used these in the classroom and were ideas that inspired me to think about incorporating into the classroom ths coming term. Both had many great ideas for digital camera use and getting the children to take charge, much easier to implement quickly in the junior area.
Two things I have introduced straight away are just letting the children 'play' more with the programmes introduced last term like comic life, and allowing the children more freedom with the digital camera. Last term there was a set task for the use of comic life and now, they can create trying out many more of the options available. I had introduced a cameraperson last term and tended to call on the more reliable of the children. This class opened me up to just making sure the cord was around their neck and let all have a go! I now have a list so all will get a turn and I am getting the previous camera person to show the next how to download the pictures into our class file.
Two other breakouts gave me alot to think about as they were creating thinking and inquiring minds.
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Ka pai Nicky,
I am please you got so much out of the U learn experience. It would appear you are nowmore motivted and armed with new knowledge and skills to do some different ICT things in your class. I look forward to seeing these in action.
Cheers
Neil H
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