Mr Kirkpatrick led our staff meeting today and taught us all to blog.
Tools we use in School. February 26, 2009
At Charlestown Primary we try and use as many ‘Web 2.0′ tools as possible to make our learning as exciting as possible. These tools help us to gather and present information in a really interesting way such as this using Animoto – it’s free use too!
Character Descriptions December 2, 2008
Today we wrote some new character descriptions following on from our work last week on Wordle. We really tried to use powerful language and created some movies using Photostory. Here are our results.
Thomas B and Deusa
Hanna W
Hannah and Demi
Dion, Courtney and Kaitlin.
Connor H
Alice, Gemma and Courtney.
Let us know what you think about our efforts!
Chatting allowed in class! November 21, 2008
Today was a really exciting day in Year Six, not because of the Christmas Production rehearsal, but rather for a new way of working that we have tried.
Over the past few weeks we have been using a program called Synchroneyes in class. It let’s me as a teacher see what everyone is doing on their laptops, which is great. We can also share each other’s screens and all sorts of clever stuff.
Today we took another big step forward in the way that we learn. We used the ‘chat’ feature of Synchroneyes to collaborate together and share information that we found out about a famous Victorian explorer called David Livingstone.
It was a brilliant way of working which let us share loads of information really quickly. As they say “many hands make light work!”
All the children were so focused on the task we didn’t hear the playtime bell!
Well done everyone.
MrKp
