tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61367636004938075582024-03-14T00:34:42.186-07:00Mr Andrews OnlineOffers a Creative Computing Curriculum to inspire young learners & Professional Development for subject leaders.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06711717186771147535noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136763600493807558.post-60473556356975432862017-12-06T07:53:00.003-08:002017-12-07T06:14:20.863-08:00We have moved<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You will find all new blogs on the new Mr Andrews Online website: <a href="http://mrandrewsonline.co.uk/">http://mrandrewsonline.co.uk/blog/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://mrandrewsonline.co.uk/">Mr Andrews Online Creative Computing Curriculum</a> is packed full of great ideas to bring learning to life and introduce real-world skills to the classroom. Members using the scheme will benefit from ongoing networking with other teaching professionals in the collaborative area and be able to share best examples from their own classrooms inspired by the projects. Schools can raise the profile of effective use of technology in school with Digital Leaders.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06711717186771147535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136763600493807558.post-5868661096837611222017-11-20T05:40:00.000-08:002017-11-20T06:34:16.018-08:00The New Mr Andrews Online Creative Curriculum Launch<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new Mr Andrews Online Creative Curriculum launched last week with 5 Academies from the <a href="http://www.outwood.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #7eef14; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.3s;">Outwood Academy Trust</a>.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was contacted by</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-wilson-577b055a/" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: objects; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7eef14; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: background-color, box-shadow, border, color, opacity, transform;">Lee Wilson</a></strong><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, the Executive Principal (Primaries) back in March (2017) as their current ICT scheme of work wasn’t working for them and had become stale and didn’t allow the teachers to exploit cross curricular opportunities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“I’d like you to come up with a more simpler scheme which does the following: each year group to do around 3 bigger computing projects per year which are driven in topic by the cross curricular unit of work being taught. I’d like them to <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">wow’s the children and be aspirational</span>. For each unit could teachers be provided with a suggested ‘how to guide’ which in effect they would then just guide the children through? I’d like the children to create something from their learning in computing whilst covering all of the computing curriculum.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since then I’ve been busy writing, preparing resources and collecting examples from children based on my experience working in schools supporting effective use of mobile technology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The scheme currently contains 18 creative projects (KS1-KS2) with over 120 activities and covers the computing curriculum. Each term new projects will become available. The projects contain: activity and plans will examples, resources, pupils outcome examples including digital books, graphics, screenshots, animations, skills progression, templates, design sheets, challenges and videos. You can find out more about the projects <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://mrandrewsonline.co.uk/projects/" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: objects; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7eef14; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: background-color, box-shadow, border, color, opacity, transform;">HERE</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through ongoing conversations with Lee and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://twitter.com/lukeprimary" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: objects; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7eef14; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: background-color, box-shadow, border, color, opacity, transform;">Luke McNamara</a></strong>, the Primary Lead Teacher across the Academy there will also be a Collaborative Space for teachers to share best examples of work by children with other teachers inspired by the projects. There will also be a forum to discuss new and innovative approaches to learning and ideas on raising the profile of IT in school. You can find out more about these areas<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <a href="http://mrandrewsonline.co.uk/professional-development-area/" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: objects; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7eef14; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: background-color, box-shadow, border, color, opacity, transform;">HERE</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The scheme launched on Wednesday 15th November 2017. Each of the schools signed into a group Skype chat and were guided through the Teachers’ Area, including guides, projects, collaborative space and forum. Following the session each of the teachers signed up to the site and now have access to all the resources and training materials as and when required.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Across this school academic year I’ll be delivering each of the 18 projects across the Trust as part of teachers’ professional development and ‘wow’ days for the children.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06711717186771147535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136763600493807558.post-87570433152093020732016-06-20T05:03:00.003-07:002016-06-20T13:15:42.953-07:00Digital APPrentice<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now your pupils can express their digital creativity by building their own unique app on any subject or project from across the curriculum using iPads.</span><br />
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<br />*The classroom day features the use of iPads which are provided for the day.<br /><br />To book a Digital APPrentice day in your school or for further information please contact <a href="mailto:info@mrandrewsonline.com">info@mrandrewsonline.com</a> or phone <a href="https://www.blogger.com/pages/08450030896">08450030896</a></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06711717186771147535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136763600493807558.post-3168154127717273052016-05-09T05:29:00.003-07:002016-05-09T05:36:28.459-07:00Effective Interventions For Pupils with Special Educational Needs<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our expectations when working with children who have barriers to learning and special educational needs must be higher than we dare to imagine. As should our expectations of ourselves as teachers, practitioners, parents and carers. Our children grow up quickly and we know many elements and foundations are essential for an adult to have an opportunity for a happy, fulfilled and productive life. Education, of course, but never forgetting emotional intelligence, resilience, independence, self-care, communication and social skills. It is the bigger picture I see when I work with children and colleagues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our children will be adults soon. Will they achieve, thrive, survive? Will they be given the skills? Will they be given the chance? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my role managing Special Needs interventions with<a href="http://www.mrandrewsonline.com/"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(1, 140, 201); color: #018cc9;"> Mr Andrews Online</span></a> and ongoing work with a number of schools and families, with children who have autism has taught me how solution focused, creative and determined parents and practitioners can be. The sacrifice and selflessness is focused on one thing alone, and I have gained enough experience to know that as it is a huge challenge, there is really no choice and actually those small, and often tiny, steps of progress matter so much. The widely shared statistic (often challenged as an urban myth) that the divorce rate among parents of children with autism is 80% reminds us that teaching, caring for and supporting a child with autism (alongside the challenges of medical needs and education systems and procedures) takes people to a place where there is additional strain, stress, pain and worry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the past 3 years I have worked closely with a large number of special needs co-ordinators, teachers, speech and language therapists, educational psychologists and families to develop new approaches which impact positively and immediately on the progress and life opportunities for children and young people with autism. My experience along with practical and post-graduate training in special education has taught me many things which I am able to share and bring together using new and simple approaches which use mobile technology. The focus of everything is based around progress we know we'd like to see, and a future life we would like to be available for the student we are working with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My <a href="https://www.smore.com/7k8p7-ensuring-progress-for-all-pupils"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(1, 140, 201); color: #018cc9;">new training course</span></a> provides a full background, practical overview and implementation plan and is suitable for both practitioners and parents. High-Impact approaches addressing challenges in communication, transition, interaction and social imagination.</span></div>
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A key challenge for teachers is not learning how to use technology. It’s recognising the value of what’s possible and then securing a way of making it happen. Finding a compelling reason why technology should be used. Understanding “<b>Why?</b>” and “<b>How?</b>”</div>
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For 3 years now I have been supporting schools based on my own pedagogical beliefs and values. I want my students to be able to write and write well. To speak confidently and articulately. To read for pleasure and to further their understanding. To collaborate and be able to solve their own problems creatively and to be prepared for their future with a robust combination of knowledge, understanding, skills and resilience.</div>
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To achieve this goal there are certain elements of tablet technology that are more effective tools than any other. This principle forms the foundations of the work I share with the hundreds of schools I support. A highly effective pedagogical approach which impacts on all subjects and at all levels, which is aligned with evidence and research.</div>
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All of my work in the classroom follows a consistent message and clear method delivering whole school impact.</div>
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The team I work with at SAS Learning (<a href="http://www.saslearning.co.uk/">www.saslearning.co.uk</a>) have prepared a comprehensive and powerful online platform which combines training and resources all focused on a tried and tested whole school pedagogical approach. It is based on classroom practice in hundreds of schools and there is no approach, system or methodology it doesn’t seamlessly align with.</div>
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If you are a school leader, literacy co-ordinator or manage interventions in your school I would like to invite you to attend one of my free training workshops in the summer term and will show you an exciting way forward to impact on the learning outcomes all of your pupils.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06711717186771147535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136763600493807558.post-15657680509744501372016-03-24T07:56:00.000-07:002016-04-07T20:45:43.357-07:00Kicking off with Reading: One example of how can apps really make an impact on what matters most?<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHWJLgyY37uYSgEckvBvlKzvre1c2OnNtOphVbT8oXPbz_tskNaTU3S5zMdx0ZmYE2h55OxV6umclcwHXZWZ-Y4Iz7dNcv67SIM3z-ieALsVYP0GtHBo6Tv9TmFzqhgX5VQb4C1iRty0s/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-03-22+at+12.54.02.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHWJLgyY37uYSgEckvBvlKzvre1c2OnNtOphVbT8oXPbz_tskNaTU3S5zMdx0ZmYE2h55OxV6umclcwHXZWZ-Y4Iz7dNcv67SIM3z-ieALsVYP0GtHBo6Tv9TmFzqhgX5VQb4C1iRty0s/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-03-22+at+12.54.02.png" /></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This simple reading intervention makes use of the free popular app “<b>New Star Soccer</b>”. In the game the player controls the career of a professional football player, attending training, maintaining relationships with the manager and fans, and of course playing matches. All of the selections involve reading the on-screen text which leads to choices as to which boots to choose and whether or not to skip a game of golf with teammates to sign autographs for fans. New Star Soccer does something quite unique to support the development of reading, which is immediately apparent once the game is being played.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Already there are relevant and frequent reading opportunities in the option and management of the game, but the real power of this brilliant app comes in the matches which are played. During the games the player might take shots, complete passes and headers and dribbles. They may be substituted, or not even selected to start. However, throughout the game it is the continuous text commentary which describes all of the action. Line by line, minute by minute the text describes the action. The speed the text appears can be adjusted. If you want to know what is happening in any match, you have to read the text.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reading the text aloud can be done by an adult or a pupil both during or after the game. The pace of the text (even on the slowest setting it is better to begin the approach with the adult narrating the live commentary and reviewing the text later) Screen shots of the commentary can be easily captured as images by simultaneously pressing the “home” and “power” buttons. Even as a 15 minute daily reading intervention, the motivation to participate and read more to find out what is happening next is *powerful. A fun game lasts a couple of minutes at the most and features around 50 lines of text, all of which can be read back and scrolled through following the action of the match.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is typical short session with the students (groups or individuals) I work with. This is more appropriate as an intervention led by someone who “gets it” believes in it and recognises the value. It combines spoken language opportunities, reading and reflection activities and countless writing activities for all genres of writing, all based around an ongoing game of <b>New Star Soccer </b>(it is different every time and never ends).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3: Read the commentary aloud as it appears. The adult’s role in this can be reduced as appropriate when the pupil is ready to take over. It is the content of the text commentary and the way it is presented which makes this approach to reading so powerful. The pupils very quickly develop fluency in reading, and expression and comprehension. All of the skills gained through the actives are entirely transferable, as is the confidence in reading, self-esteem, interest in learning and enthusiasm (which will be evident in all participants)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4: Review the match and discuss key incidents through reference to the text commentary (taking screenshots of the text commentary allows it to be printed).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5: Complete a short writing task linked to the match or the current events taking place in the game. This can form an ongoing writing journal especially for those using this approach as an intervention. This may take the form of: A match report, A persuasive advert to encourage fans to support the team, Instructions on keeping fit, programmed notes from the chairman. **The list of writing opportunities is endless. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is just one activity which can be used to turn around attitudes to reading and to make reading relevant and interesting. There are thousands more books and ideas and resources that can ensure that once there is a spark, the flame stays alight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">*do be aware of the addictive potential of any digital game. To maintain the impact of this intervention daily time spent should be limited to one game a day and at the most 30 minutes to complete the whole session. There can be many follow up reading, writing and comprehension activities based on the action in New Star Soccer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even If there is even one pupil you are working with who you feel may gain from this approach, give this activity a try over several sessions, and please share your feedback on progress and do share any success stories. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We work with a number of teaching schools which are undertaking research on the impact of some of the approaches we have developed, if this is an area of interest to you and your school would like to be involved in a research project please get in touch. It is partnerships with schools across the country which is enabling us evaluate our work and maximise its impact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Songs are brilliant resources. Singing along to favourite songs only leaves a happy feeling. Melody links to memory, as currently demonstrated by my 11 year old daughter who is happily memorising the elements of the periodic table through songs found on spotify and Youtube, and my youngest daughter who learned the 7 times table by changing the words to Disney’s “Its a small small world”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a teacher I have always used songs in my work. I have never understood why I can recite every lyric ever from hundreds, maybe thousands of songs, but can’t remember where I put my car keys. There are many educational researchers who promote songs as way to enhance vocabulary acquisition and comprehension and evidence recognises listening as a pre-requisite to the development of language.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Songs tell stories. songs share facts, songs explain things.</b> And we love them because there are so many so there will definitely be ones we like. And we can change the words. And we can make up our own. Songs give us language we can use and remember.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My favourite songs to use with primary children are all by American band They Might be Giants. They have albums written for children including No!, Here Come the 123s, Here Come the ABCs and Here Comes Science. Different, challenging, funny, addictive and mesmerising songs extolling the virtues of imagination, wordplay, fantasy and playfulness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most often I will link a song to a project or activity which supports spoken and written outcomes, invention and imagination and in a way which captures the enthusiasm and interest of even the most reluctant learner. “The Alphabet of Nations” is a catchy fast-paced recitation of countries beginning with the sequence of letters of the alphabet. “Algeria, Bulgaria, Cambodia etc” It is a brilliant song, which can be found on the album Here Come the ABCs and online. The exciting bit for me is W,X, presented in the song as “West Xylophone” which turns out to be an imaginary country developed to ensure the alphabetical success of the song.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">West Xylophone become the starting point for so many writing projects as it is a brand new (imaginary!) country. It needs laws, a national anthem, famous residents, a national sport, a distinctive cuisine, traditions, folk tales, historical events. An infinite number of ideas and activities. My year 4 class invented their own currency, advertised a West Xylophone festival, designed and sold West Xylophone car stickers and invented and provided marketing copy for a national airline. We did make links to knowledge and understanding but two words in one song produced so many opportunities for creativity, imagination, independence and real world relevance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For teachers using tablets to promote progress spoken and written outcomes activities could include: (all of these activities can be linked to any real country to pursue geography and history objectives, but to see the true power of pure imagination West Xylophone is a good starting point!)</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Create a digital timeline book using the app Book Creator outlining key events in the country’s history (recount).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Use the app Tiny Tap to create a quiz about the country’s traditions (questioning).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Create a narrated re-enactment of an event in the country’s history using the app Puppet Pals (chronological report)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Create a narrated visitor’s guide using the app Shadow Puppet (description)</span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06711717186771147535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136763600493807558.post-18898995532878740282016-02-29T06:16:00.001-08:002016-03-01T01:37:17.146-08:00Providing Powerful Writing Opportunities Across the Full Curriculum<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s a time of transition at Mr Andrews Online. It’s almost 3 years after we started offering training to schools in the form of training courses, school based training days and the extremely popular classroom based CPD days. During that time we have delivered training to over 3,000 teachers and high impact teaching to over 20,000 pupils. As teachers, we have been lucky to work in so many different places and we have never stopped learning, wherever we’ve been.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Complete engagement is guaranteed, with students implicitly developing their understanding of dynamics, tempo, timbre and texture - three of the National Curriculum's 'interrelated dimensions of music'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overcome this by asking students to create their own backing tracks for recitation, raps and sung melodies. Using the 'Autoplay' feature on the smart strings instrument, student can create beautiful, shifting string quartet patterns in a range of moods and styles that form the perfect backdrop to evocative performances of their own create writings. A complete, step by step guide to this process is in my new book, '<a href="http://transformancemusic.org/textbook/"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(1, 20, 128); color: #011480;">Teaching Music With GarageBand for iPad'</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to providing a strong incentive to complete literacy tasks, students develop their self-confidence, communication and rhythmic skills. Sometimes the quietest student turns out to be a star rapper!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using the same principle as adding stickers to certain notes on a keyboard, the 'choose scale' function on the smart keyboard, guitar, strings and bass instruments allows students to play within a capped scale, in which every note sounds 'right'. The iPad enhances this principle by allowing the student to choose from a wide variety of voices (including classic organs, synths and guitar effects), and the ability to change octaves and timbres instantly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Want to change the Beatles' lyric on 'Hey Jude' to 'Hey Gove'? Or perhaps rhyme Kylie's 'Can't Get you Out of My Head' with our favourite government school inspecting body? A canny combination of GarageBand and YouTube makes this simple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, find a karaoke version of your chosen song on youtube and download it using a program like 'Youtube Downloader', or a browser extension. Transfer this song onto your iPad using iTunes or an alternative program and import it into a track in Garageband, matching the tempo of the song to the tempo in GarageBand. You can now record your own lyrics using GarageBand's Audio Recorder, improvise over the chords (see above) or even chop the song up and change the harmonic structure!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A complete lesson plan using this technique with Aloe Blacc's 'I Need Dollar' is presented in <a href="http://transformancemusic.org/textbook/"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(1, 20, 128); color: #011480;">'Teaching Music With GarageBand for iPad'</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>'Teaching Music With GarageBand for iPad' can be purchased online in ebook or paperback formats <a href="http://transformancemusic.org/textbook/"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(1, 20, 128); color: #011480;">here</span></a>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A small number of expertly chosen apps and a tablet computer (iPad or Android) are required to support this groundbreaking process, which was first presented at the UK National Literacy Trust conference “How to be Outstanding” in October 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I have a number of reluctant writers and have been looking for ways to engage them for some time. This product was just what I needed. The immersion in the games gave the pupils real knowledge for the writing tasks. They were hooked into writing straight away. It was clear that there was an increase in motivation, application and enjoyment resulting in higher standards of writing.”<br /><br /><b>Petra Rafferty, Senior Teacher, Highlands Primary School, Hull, UK</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><br /><b>How can we use technology to transform learning outcomes for our children and young people?<br /><br />What really are the main benefits in the classroom, and what approaches should be avoided?</b><br /><br />The presence of technology in all aspects of society, from the home to the school and the office, often provides more questions than answers. It can’t be ignored, and all educators need a strong and clear understanding of how education technology can (or can’t) support their work as well as its core purpose: teaching, learning and student progress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>COLLABORATION AND LEARNING</b><br /><br />Until my collaboration with David Andrews (<a href="http://www.twitter.com/mr_andrews" target="_blank">@Mr_Andrews</a>) (an ICT leader focused on whole school impact and ensuring learning comes first), I was a firm techno-sceptic and remained a big advocate of the<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Toxic-Childhood-Modern-Damaging-Children/dp/0752880918"> “Toxic Childhood” work of Sue Palmer</a>, holding the view that technology – and access to it – can be damaging and detrimental to children’s social, emotional, physical and communication development. We see it everywhere: children immersed in their tablet based games; parents not talking to or looking at their children as they live their lives on smartphones.<br /><br />Language delay is a growing and significant issue <a href="http://srdad.com/SrDad/Early_Childhood_files/Todd%20Risley.pdf">( Risley, T. R & Hart, B. (2006)</a> for many young children and impacts their progress in reading, writing, and success in education as they grow up. David helped me open my mind to the technology (although the first time he showed me an iPad, I felt this was just another shiny waste of money that meant little to me and my pupils).<br /><br />With an expert’s eye and an insistence that technology was simply a facilitation tool, David helped me channel my creative and learning-focused principles into gaining skills with a small number of applications which supported my firm belief in language and communication development. Together, we developed a small “app toolbox” which is central to our approach in the classroom. I now firmly believe now that with a clear purpose classroom technology can lead to remarkable progress, higher standards and improved life opportunities for students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><b> HARNESSING THE POWER OF THE TABLET</b><br /><br />Through collaboration with psychologists, speech therapists, school leaders and classroom teachers, I have reached a point where I am convinced that harnessing the power of tablet technology can provide genuine transformation for all teachers. I have worked extensively over the past 2 years with David and colleagues in hundreds of schools across the UK to develop a simple, whole-school accessible approach to using education technology in the classroom to achieve relevant outcomes and maintain the focus on learning.<br /><br />With a background in language development and primary/special education, I have used examples of best practice in promoting learning to produce successful, high-impact approaches which firmly place the power of technology in the hands of the teacher, parent, and education professional.<br /><br />We now have available to us incredibly powerful devices which can make an immediate and sustained impact on standards and progress, but it is important we put all of our efforts on learning first, and recognize that technology is simply a valuable tool which may or not be appropriate for the task in hand.<br /><br />There is so much more to using technology in education than word-processing, Google, and spectacular apps – and the answers are often much more simple than expected. My primary aim when I am using technology when working with students of all ages is to ensure progress in spoken language and communication which will underpin success in reading and writing, and understanding in all subjects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recently I have presented two full day practical training sessions for children in Scotland with a focus on progress in writing and removing barriers for students with additional needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Both sessions were buzzing with creativity from the educators in attendance as they quickly began to see how technology could do so much for their students in ways they hadn’t considered before. This room full of creative educators quickly put their own stamp on these ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They developed instant resources matched to meet the needs of individual students, created powerful multimedia assessment opportunities, and explored a wide variety of approaches to promote spoken communication. The discussion surrounding our carefully structured audio-visual approach to producing plans for writing was driven by inspired educators realizing that they now had the tools to make real changes to the learning process. Mhaire, an educational psychologist from South Lanarkshire, summed up the impact of the sessions:<br /><br />“The way we can now connect with individual students and their learning needs is incredible. There are so many ways these approaches can change make an impact on lifelong learning for students of all ages.”<br /><br />The answers can be unexpected for some colleagues, and previously held ideas are sometimes challenged. The sessions are packed with countless practical, accessible and transferable approaches which map out the next steps for the forward thinking, ambitious, and truly innovative schools. Examples from the training activities include a distinct and carefully structured audio-visual planning tool for all genres of writing, powerful assessment approaches which ensure feedback is meaningful, relevant and responded to, plus a two-way approach to sharing pupil and teacher content through the quick and easy production of powerful web apps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am looking forward to working with the exceptional </span><a href="http://edtechteacher.org/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EdTechTeacher</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> team and meeting the creative and learning-focused educators at the </span><a href="http://ettipad.org/events/boston14/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">iPad Summit in November</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. My workshop uses a small handful of apps which come together to produce an approach which instantly raises standards in every classroom.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This November, I will be presenting the approach that I use at <a href="http://www.mrandrewsonline.com/training_courses/19">venues across the UK,</a> and in <a href="http://www.mrandrewsonline.com/training_courses/19">London, on November 19th.</a> I will also be sharing this fully transferable approach at the <a href="http://ettipad.org/events/boston14/">EdTechTeacher iPad Summit in Boston</a> on November 13th and at <a href="http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/conferences">UK National Literacy Trust </a>conferences in the Spring.</span><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogger.com%2Fblogger.g%3FblogID%3D6136763600493807558%23editor%2Fsrc%3Ddashboard&media=https%3A%2F%2Fimages-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com%2Fgadgets%2Fproxy%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252F4.bp.blogspot.com%252F-j_lLSlXwTIM%252FVD5ACPpmJDI%252FAAAAAAAAFFI%252Fe1etv3HkLyA%252Fs1600%252FScreen%25252BShot%25252B2014-10-15%25252Bat%25252B10.35.34.png%26container%3Dblogger%26gadget%3Da%26rewriteMime%3Dimage%252F*&xm=h&xv=sa1.35&description=" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(data:image/png; border: none; cursor: pointer; display: none; height: 20px; left: 26px; opacity: 0.85; position: absolute; top: 3779px; width: 40px; z-index: 8675309;"></a><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogger.com%2Fblogger.g%3FblogID%3D6136763600493807558%23editor%2Fsrc%3Ddashboard&media=https%3A%2F%2Fimages-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com%2Fgadgets%2Fproxy%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252F4.bp.blogspot.com%252F-j_lLSlXwTIM%252FVD5ACPpmJDI%252FAAAAAAAAFFI%252Fe1etv3HkLyA%252Fs1600%252FScreen%25252BShot%25252B2014-10-15%25252Bat%25252B10.35.34.png%26container%3Dblogger%26gadget%3Da%26rewriteMime%3Dimage%252F*&xm=h&xv=sa1.35&description=" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(data:image/png; border: none; cursor: pointer; display: none; height: 20px; left: 26px; opacity: 0.85; position: absolute; top: 3779px; width: 40px; z-index: 8675309;"></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This full day course combines the </span>musical<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> expertise of Ben Sellers director of Transformance Music, along with the cross-curricular </span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">approach to raising standards developed by Chris Williams, founder of Mr Andrews Online (recently recognised as one of the top 3 blogs in the UK in Education).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">These three factors are also fundamental in effective music teaching, especially as pupils takes their first steps in songwriting and composition. The iPad provides a set of virtual instruments, recording facilities and ways to layer melodic, harmonic and rhythmic ideas that, if used thoughtfully, allow pupils to create great sounding music quickly whilst still learning fundamental musical principles and achieving the clear learning outcomes and progression at all levels.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The beauty of Garageband is that it allows students with no musical experience to make something that sounds great almost immediately, but has enough depth to stretch more advanced students, accessing concepts of musical theory- chord progressions, inversions, compound time, melodic phrasing- that ready them for composition with acoustic instruments. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are two tutorial videos I have developed offering complete sets of lesson plans for KS2 teachers using Garageband:</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two of the features particularly useful in the classroom are the huge bank of scales from around the world that can be chosen from or added to, and a playing surface that has space for two instruments at a time, allowing two students to play together. We can also create our own instruments using the iPad microphone, great for students who have have trouble vocalising. Thumbjam shows our pupils the value of <i>control </i>over music-making: The more skill a participant has on an instrument, the more effectively they can communicate their ideas and emotions. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">MadPad is a video sampler that is allows us to create 'soundboards'- 12 video clips of acoustic instruments, vocals, found sounds or sound effects. I recently worked on a project with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, creating a Madpad 'set' by sampling a Violin and a Viola player and then allowing a pupil with limited mobility to play these sounds as part of our school ensemble alongside his peers. I have also used it at KS1 to explore making music from every day objects, and recently did a project with Boomwhackers, using <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opktxl0e3ew"><span style="color: #011480; letter-spacing: 0px;">this</span></a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">as my inspiration</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">.</span></span><br />
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Having had the same class for the last two years, I have been able to develop the children's ICT skills across a range of iPad apps. Along with working with myself, both David and Chris have also worked with my class on several occasions which has given them a good </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">understanding of a range of apps. As a result I felt it was time to allow the children to begin to choose how they wanted to present their learning, instead of instructing them on a particular app I wanted them to use.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The children's topic this term is 'Wonders of the World' which has involved them studying different aspects of Ancient Greece. The learning challenge from this particular week was 'What religion did the Ancient Greeks follow?'. Consequently, I decided to deliver a History lesson based on the Ancient Greek gods. When planning the lesson I felt that this would be a good opportunity to use iPads to enhance the children's learning. I could have just given the children a source of information and let them write down their findings, however I felt this would 'turn off' several children in the class.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The task given to the children was simply to describe an Ancient Greek god. Having recently signed up for Quadblogging, the children were told that they had to describe a god of their choice to their real life audience. They discussed a range of apps that they could use to present their learning and then the children were then shown the following example to ensure they knew what was expected by the end of the lesson:</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After using this as a hook to get the children engaged, they were given some initial time to research their chosen god. The children were provided with a hard copy of information about a range of gods which also included a QR code which was linked to a teacher selected (child appropriate) website.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The children were told that the information given to them in the booklet had not come from a particularly reliable source. Having recently worked on different types of sources in previous History lessons, the children knew they would have to verify the information before using it in their presentation. They scanned the QR code and used the chosen website, along with some of their own websites, to ensure the information was accurate and also add additional facts about their chosen god.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After reminding the children on a range of different apps they could use, the children then began to transform their research into an appealing presentation that would describe their chosen god to their audience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many of the children used the model shown to them as a starting point for their own presentation and as a result 'Tellagami' was the app first used by the majority of children. Having previous experience of this app, the children were quickly able to produce an introduction to their presentation. The benefit of this app was clear to see as the children who would usually finding writing difficult or disengaging were able to either use the voice recording aspect or type what they wanted to say without having to worry about their handwriting or spelling. The children saved their initial Tellagami video clip to the camera roll and then exported it to iMovie. Once in iMovie they were able to edit the video clip, insert images, and also add sound effects and background music. Many children repeated this process throughout the rest of their presentation, however some children also decided to use other apps.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A range of children chose to use the app 'VideoScribe' as a way to introduce and end their presentation. Using their previous knowledge of the app, the children were able to reduce the time taken for the images and font to be drawn and then export them into iMovie to accompany their Tellagami clips.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the most pleasing aspects evident throughout the session was the amount of independent learning taking place. As the children were choosing the apps they wanted to use, I was able to facilitate learning and support children who were facing some minor technical issues. As earlier discussed, the biggest impact of using the iPads was seen in the children who would usually find reading and writing difficult. These children produced a presentation of similar quality to the 'more able' writers and were highly engaged throughout the entire lesson.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After posting their presentations on their individual blog pages the children then received comments on their work from similar aged pupils from around the world. This interaction with a real audience gave the children's work a real purpose and they were able to respond to comments made during a blogging session. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since meeting Greg Kulowiec at last year’s EdTechTeacher iPad Summit in Atlanta we have been able to experience the real opportunities for global collaboration for both students and education professionals. Greg is currently working on an exciting “Global Screencasting Project” which has huge potential for learners of all ages and we are encouraging everyone we work with to get involved. The project maximises the capacity of the iPad/Android screencasting app “Explain Everything” which was designed by Dr Reshan Richards, Director of Educational Technology, Montclair Kimberley Academy, New Jersey.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This re-blogged post was written by Greg and published on his blog <span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://kulowiectech.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/global-screencasting-project-alphabet-x.html">The History 2.0 Classroom </a> </span>outlines the project and explains how to get involved. Have a go! Collaborating on projects created in Explain Everything and shared via Dropbox/Google Drive is the tip of the iceberg for groundbreaking transformational outcomes. What can be achieved now that was previously inconceivable? Participation in this project will go some way towards beginning to answer that question.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Welcome to the Global Alphabet Screencast!</span></span></div>
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The purpose of this experiment is to explore the capabilities of global collaboration facilitated through the use of iPads as a screen casting device. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the global alphabet screencast by simply selecting one letter of the alphabet and creating a short (30 second or less) screencast that captures the meaning, essence or unique perspective on that particular letter. This project would not be possible without the creation and thoughtful development of Explain Everything.</span></span><br />
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Create a short screencast (30 seconds or less) about one letter of the alphabet. Explain, describe, narrate, animate, sing, recite a short poem about or provide insight into any letter of your choice. Each screencast will then be merged and compiled into one world wide English alphabet screencast that will be published online (YouTube & Vimeo) for the entire world to view.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/63669939"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">Please watch this short video tutorial</span></a> if you are not sure how to upload and share an Explain Everything project through Google Drive or Dropbox.<br />
<b>NOTE:</b> If your school Google Apps domain does not allow for sharing of work outside of the domain you may have to use a private / individual Google Drive account to share. You may also upload your Explain Everything project to Dropbox & share the link to the file. <br />
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<b>TARGET AUDIENCE: </b>Any educator, classroom, student or administrator is welcome to contribute!<br />
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<b>Due Date:</b> March 31st, 2014 (tentative)<br />
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<b>Publishing Date</b>: TBD - the goal is to combine and publish one week after the due date. The final project will be published on both YouTube and Vimeo. <br />
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1. iPad<br />
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Complete the Google Form below. Please select one letter of the alphabet as indicated by the first drop-down menu. I will include four (4) screencasts per letter in the final project and will do my best to update the Google Form by removing any letters from the drop-down menu that have been successfully completed. <br />
If you are a younger student submitting you may wish to use your teacher’s name in the name field below. Names are only being collected to assign proper attribution once the project is complete.<br /><br />
<a href="https://docs.google.com/a/edtechteacher.org/forms/d/1CADq2GPs-i78tszFiLcqxtRLSmHlJwjQdeCoj68F7D4/viewform"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">Click HERE to sign up via the Google Form</span></a><br />
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<b>Submitting Your Screencast:</b> <br />
<b>Option 1: Google Drive</b>1. Upload your Explain Everything PROJECT file to Google Drive. Once uploaded the file should have a .XPL file extension.<br />
2. Name the file: Alphabet Letter - Your Name - State - Country - School Name<br />
3.. Share the Explain Everything PROJECT (.XPL file) to: greg@edtechteacher.org</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a recent introduction of iPads into our primary school (Stanley St Peters Church of England Primary School), we as a key stage decided to implement the iPads within our current topic- Rivers!</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a view to revamp the science project and inject some of the excitement and interest you often see in other subjects across the curriculum, we decided the iPads would best compliment the science project of ‘The Water Cycle’. The children’s task was to be able to understand, explain and present the process of ‘The Water Cycle’. In previous years this project would have necessitated a Power Point or perhaps a drama production. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Water Cycle previously involved an introduction session that demonstrated the processes; this was usually demonstrated with a video clip. From this session, the children would have been expected to draw a diagram or begin work on their presentation. Many flaws could be identified in this style of teaching such as: most children in year 5 and 6 are more than competent at creating a PowerPoint and are no longer excited by this method of technology. Very often children copied and pasted large chunks of information to fill their slides and finally when speaking to the children, they said rarely did anyone look at their PowerPoint’s, other than the children’s who were selected in the lesson.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First of all, we had to investigate ‘What is the Water Cycle?’ using QR codes, which linked to teacher selected (child appropriate) websites all focused on the Water Cycle. We allowed the children a session to view a variety of the websites; we discussed how to take useful notes, which would allow the children to reuse the information from the websites later in their projects. As teachers we placed a huge emphasis on the science being correct. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Task- <b><i>The children were asked to produce an animation, which identified and explained each stage of the Water Cycle. </i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although as a key stage we had a variety of experience, we selected: Explain Everything and iMovie as the focus apps. Creating my own presentation beforehand proved invaluable as I (@MissWClass11) could highlight any difficulties or mistakes to the children before they began.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a class we established a checklist of ‘what must be included…’ We allowed the children to take full lead; they decided all 6 processes of the Water Cycle and an introduction page.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once each slide had been recorded the children exported their video to the camera roll, allowing it to be imported into iMovie. Within this app the children were able to mute the previous recording as this had been conducted in a noisy classroom, where as the children were able to find recording zones in school to record on iMovie. iMovie enabled the children to insert ‘splits’ which sectioned the video into the different processes of the Water Cycle. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was astounded and amazed with the quality of the work produced, the level of engagement was amazing and we were asked several times… ‘What is our next project?’</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06711717186771147535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136763600493807558.post-31561939263351275192014-01-09T07:59:00.000-08:002014-01-17T07:55:50.225-08:00Digital Art at Hull Feren's Art Gallery with Hull's Children University<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently we've had the privilege to be invited to work alongside <a href="http://www.hullchildrensuniversity.com/" target="_blank">Hull Children's University </a>and <a href="http://www.stjamesprimaryschool.org/" target="_blank">St James Primary School</a> sharing our methods on how the application of mobile technology can have a real impact on standards. Over the next year we will be working with all the schools which are supported by the charity to share a simple, effective accessible approach to raising standards across the curriculum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Working alongside Hull Children's University we helped to design a Digital Arts project based on the module <a href="http://www.hullchildrensuniversity.com/modules/" target="_blank">'I'm Proud of My City'</a> - Hull's successful bid to become the City of Culture for 2017 and using the free Feren's Art Gallery for inspiration for the children's ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hull Children's University was started by </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr John Buttrick </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to give 'young people the opportunity for invaluable learning experiences aimed at raising their future aspirations and ambitions.' We first became inspired by John and his ethos at an event at </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hull University '<a href="http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Kevin-Keegan-Graham-Taylor-inspire-kids-Hull/story-16052306-detail/story.html" target="_blank">We Will Be Champions</a>' in May 2012, which was set up inspire the primary children in Hull to perform to their maximum potential and to be the best that they can be. The event attracted around 500 children and some fabulous speakers, which included Kevin Keegan, Graham Taylor, John Godber, Mike Tomlinson, Alan Johnson and Sam Whittaker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Subsequently, John Buttrick kindly agreed to be a <a href="http://Director of Hull Children's University, John Buttrick, chose to do his marking in person and left the children feeling so full of pride and self-belief." target="_blank">guest marker</a>, an ongoing project, which was set up to give the children a real audience for their work. You can read more on the project by following the link <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2012/dec/17/guest-marker-students-written-work" target="_blank">HERE</a>. He chose to do his marking in person and left the children feeling full of pride and self-belief (see picture below).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Digital Arts Project is designed to allow children a “relevant real-world” experience and to produce digital content they can be proud to share. Recently, year 5 pupils from St James Primary School took part in the full day project. After arriving at the Hull Children's University Learning Zone, the pupils watched "<a href="http://youtu.be/mXJkDgBUR9c" target="_blank">This City Belongs to Everyone</a>" -Supporting Hull's City of Culture Bid 2017 (see below) and were given a brief for the day. From that point, with a city centre location as a base, the day was fully mobile with children visiting and revisiting the Art Gallery as required.</span>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The project involved the use of iPad minis which include the exciting "airdrop" feature. Using airdrop, which makes use of the iPad’s Bluetooth capacity, pupils have been able to collaborate in any setting (with or without wireless connectivity) on projects such as video documentaries using iMovie and multimedia digital books using Creative Book Builder. This makes the powerful use of technology truly mobile and the ease in which pupils can combine, feedback and amend one another’s work in a setting such as an art gallery (</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">without the use of wi-fi) is impressive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The main goals of the project were primarily for pupils to gain knowledge and understanding of the role and content of the art gallery, develop skills in spoken and written communication and to use technology as a tool (when it’s the best tool for the job).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Feedback from teaching staff in terms of progress and standards has been very positive, particularly relating to speaking, presenting ideas and writing. Watching a 9 year old boy, who had never visited an art gallery before, approaching a painting thoughtfully whilst recording a clear and articulate description of his thoughts using the app Tellagami was a vivid demonstration of the creative potential of mobile technology. Mrs Capes has kindly let us use her video from the day, which you can see below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recently we have been working with The National Literacy Trust presenting our work at their conferences titled “How to be outstanding in the New National Curriculum.” The National Literacy Trust is a national charity dedicated to raising literacy levels in the UK. The charity is committed</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to improving the reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in the UK's most disadvantaged communities, where up to 40 per cent of people have literacy problems.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At Stepney Primary School the children in Nursery and Foundation Stage had been learning about familiar stories and had recently done some work and activities based on the story of 'The Three Little Pigs'. After a meeting with the staff, it was decided that I would work with the children in Nursery Foundation Stage for one day each to help develop their communication, expression and listening skills through story telling using iPads apps (<i>My Story</i> with children in the nursery and <i>Explain Everything</i> in the Foundation Stage), to retell the story of The Three Little Pigs using the app <i>The Three Little Pigs by Nosy Crow</i>.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoy6uO4ekQmzAKk2FMTtqqFLrV0_voxJuK2X_BRkrzJUO5fsM-v1rpEOmIC6Bi0QCzJSz_SxOe-CrH9-sAUOQnGnq1RfikPu570r-wcDaPjCiiZqicEAMcF8GGRoj0syjJCjKbXGlcRuc/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-11-19+at+09.26.44.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoy6uO4ekQmzAKk2FMTtqqFLrV0_voxJuK2X_BRkrzJUO5fsM-v1rpEOmIC6Bi0QCzJSz_SxOe-CrH9-sAUOQnGnq1RfikPu570r-wcDaPjCiiZqicEAMcF8GGRoj0syjJCjKbXGlcRuc/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-11-19+at+09.26.44.png" /></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I first came across <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/three-little-pigs-by-nosy/id418543664?mt=8&uo=4"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The Three Little Pigs Nosy Crow</span></a> app in 2011, when my eldest daughter was three and recalled how much she had enjoyed interacting with the story. The graphics and sound are excellent and the characters are fully interactive as you listen to the story or alternatively chose to retell the story yourself, which is also great fun. Subsequently, we have also bought many of the other apps created by Nosy Crow (<i>Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Pip and Posy: Fun and Games</i>, etc).</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week pupils at <a href="http://www.southcaveprimary.co.uk/" target="_blank">South Cave CE Primary School</a> were collaborating on descriptive writing activities with teacher, Mr Tatton. The classroom has no wi-fi connectivity. Each pupil had an iPad mini and used the new <b>Airdrop</b> feature in iOS 7 to share work with each other and to send finished content to the teacher's iPad for display.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The teacher shared a <b>Pages </b>document with each pupil's iPad using Airdrop. The pupils were able to open the document and followed the prompt, which was to select an image and begin to imagine and describe what it might like to be there. The pupils then shared their work with an agreed partner who provided feedback and improvements bef</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ore the work was presented to the class in the form of a Tellagami animation (example below).</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The completed documents and animations were sent to the teacher via airdrop. This allowed instant whole class display via the classroom projector. It also gave the teacher a copy of everyone's work for marking, feedback, storing and sharing. This removes any need for Apple TV or a reflection app. The iPad was plugged into the VGA cable of the projector. The restriction that it wasn't available as a mobile classroom visualiser was overcome by the fact that any pupil could instantly share their work via Airdrop.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The potential of the free app 'Tellagami' in education, once combined with other apps (*A</span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pp Smashing</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">), is vast and has so much potential in the classroom. The app can of course be used as a stand alone app, but the real impact on teaching and learning occurs when the app is combined with any number of apps (see examples of <i>App Smashing</i> with Tellagami later in this post). The app can be used to improve speaking and listening skills, be used as part of the writing process, used by pupils of any age to demonstrate their understanding in any curriculum subject and can also be provided as a guide to support learning as a direct teaching tool, either as a whole class or on an individual basis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tellagami lets you create and share animated messages in 3 easy steps. 1) Customise your character and background. 2) Record your voice or type a message for your character to say. 3) Share the finished Gami to the camera roll.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without a doubt, one of the most useful features in the classroom is the text to voice recognition. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Especially when the pupils listen back to what they've typed and have time to correct any errors. Any spelling, grammar and punctuation errors are highlighted as the character reads back the typed words. No full stops? Then the character reads very quickly without pausing. Spelling errors? The character will read words incorrectly. Errors can be easily be corrected by returning to the typed screen. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pupils can instantly listen back to their recording and easily make any amendments. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is also a record feature, which allows 30 seconds to record your own voice. Again, one finished the recording can be previewed instantly and corrected, if necessary, by re-recording. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both the record and type features</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> combined with being able to change the background image from one from the Camera Roll offers endless opportunities for pupils to share their knowledge on any given subject. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not only is it a great way for pupils to demonstrate their learning, it also overcomes </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the problem of recording voices in a busy classroom environment, when background noise can often make a clear recording very difficult.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haylee (<a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC4QFjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fteedubz3&ei=a-tfUti9HPCp7AbIxYHIAw&usg=AFQjCNFROZovBOCbgUOAO0Zbxg2g_Yn58A&sig2=YHg8nqNWnvAHPfqE8NkB0w&bvm=bv.54176721,d.ZGU" target="_blank">@teedubz3</a>) a Year 2 teacher at Thanet Primary School (<a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FThanetPrimary&ei=j-tfUtyTL7Gy7AaZ34CoBg&usg=AFQjCNFiGkBVBH7kYxWCDOid6-_YPPcSfg&sig2=ii29Mna87eDKs70KetGY2w&bvm=bv.54176721,d.ZGU" target="_blank">@ThanetPrimary</a>) has been using the app Tellagami to great effect as a direct teaching tool with her pupils. Haylee shares how she used the app with her class below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our topic this term looks at famous people and as we have just introduced hand held devices into KS1, what better person to research than Steve Jobs himself? In a previous lesson, the children had learned how to save images from the web into the camera role, so had a bank of 'Steves' at their disposal. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The objective of this lesson was for children to learn the basics of using Pages - primarily being able to insert images (of Mr. Jobs) and text, with a view to editing font size, style and colour. However, the idea of demonstrating this to thirty 6 year olds and getting any kind of desirable outcome was quite daunting... until I was shown Tellagami!</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was introduced to the Tellagami app during a Mr Andrews Online training session and immediately loved it! I had a few ideas of how I'd like to use it to support learning and was eager to try it out with my Year 2 class. I was sure they would find the cartoon 'teacher' engaging and decided for its first trial I would use it as a direct teaching tool to assist a Pages tutorial.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I first set about taking screen shots of each step of the document creation, which were then used as the background within the Tellagami app. Next, I described each step using the in-built voices...I'm not a fan of recording my own! This did need a bit a playing around with as the inflection or pronunciation was a little off, but finally I was happy and had each step saved as separate videos. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These were imported into iMovie, where I clipped the app logo from the end and spliced them into one film. The last step was to play the whole video within Explain Everything, adding in the pointer tool at appropriate places. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was going to leave it there and just AirPlay to my IWB, but chose to upload it to Youtube (my first time!) to make it more accessible for colleagues. It's a little rough around the edges (I'm no video editor) but overall it worked so well within the lesson. You can see the video below:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">I kept it quite structured - the children worked on iPads in pairs and I played the video, pausing at each step. This then allowed me to assist the few (and it really was only a couple) who were struggling, whilst the others easily navigated their way around and helped their peers. The children immediately made links with our literacy unit too - instructions - by telling me 'The lady didn't use enough time connectives!'</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once the basics had been explored, each pair was given time to independently explore the other features. By the end of the session, all pupils, regardless of ability, had successfully created a simple document with a picture and one or two lines of text. Having an engaging character visually direct them to each function in the first instance, gave the children the confidence to use something previously unfamiliar with ease.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The combination of using Tellagami with Explain Everything was a godsend for me in this situation and I certainly feel it has loads more potential if used with some creative thinking. Plus, being a free app is always a bonus! So if you look at a box and see a car, a spaceship or suit of armour, give Tellagami a go and see what you and your pupils can come up with!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">The app Tellagami hasn't been used in every project we've delivered in schools. But below are three examples of <i>App Smashing</i> using Tellagami, from a mixed Year 2/3 class, a </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Year 6 class and as part of a Year 1 project all about The Beatles by the pupils from</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"> Stepney Primary School. Paul Browning, the head teacher, has very kindly written a testimonial of the work we've done in the school, which you can read <a href="http://www.mrandrewsonline.com/testimonials" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*<i>App Smashing</i> is a technique coined and honed by <a href="http://edtechteacher.org/" target="_blank">EdTechTeacher</a>, Greg Kulowiec (<a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fgregkulowiec&ei=xetfUrP6IcSthQecpoGYAw&usg=AFQjCNGw1ovL7nvmeKXOFyN5CCyrqV40rw&sig2=Ckiqsi8Q_5TiL566rKxclg&bvm=bv.54176721,d.ZGU" target="_blank">@gregkulowiec</a>) that uses multiple apps to complete a project'.</span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06711717186771147535noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136763600493807558.post-33636536892729866292013-10-04T03:55:00.001-07:002013-10-12T02:12:00.894-07:00Airdrop Is Awesome. That Is All. #airsmashing<b id="docs-internal-guid-28ae7f45-82e6-9248-46d1-91daaca863a3"></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-28ae7f45-82e6-9248-46d1-91daaca863a3"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having used this feature now on 2 occasions I can only agree with Greg. </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AirDrop is awesome, that is all.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I have worked with AirDrop this week once with a class of year 3 pupils at <a href="http://www.pocklingtonschool.com/lyndhurst-school/" target="_blank">Lyndhurst School</a>, Pocklington (alongside innovative teachers Mrs Kennedy and Mr Allen) and also with a group of primary school teachers with</span></b><b id="docs-internal-guid-28ae7f45-82e6-9248-46d1-91daaca863a3" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></b><b style="line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daniel Harvey </span></b><b id="docs-internal-guid-28ae7f45-82e6-9248-46d1-91daaca863a3" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(<a href="https://twitter.com/danielharvey9" target="_blank">@danielharvey9</a>)</span></b><b style="line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></b><b style="line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">director of digital learning at <a href="http://www.johnhenrynewmancatholiccollege.org.uk/" target="_blank">John Henry Newman Catholic College</a>, Birmingham. On both occasions Wi-Fi connectivity was not used.</span></b></span></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-28ae7f45-82e6-9248-46d1-91daaca863a3"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The year 3 pupils found this feature easy to use and they were creating video content and getting involved in combining and manipulating their work using a number of apps (</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">appsmashing</span><span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for followers of <a href="https://twitter.com/gregkulowiec" target="_blank">@gregkulowiec</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/reshanrichards" target="_blank">@reshanrichards</a>) and then sharing outcomes with one another instantly. They also used AirDrop to send me their work for feedback, for sharing and for displaying to others. It really made it easy to collect pupil content from a large number of devices.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">he potential of this feature seems limitless. Next week we are working with pupils spending a night in a museum and we are hoping to make films and use animation apps bringing the exhibits to life. Without worrying about any Wi-Fi issues the pupils will be able to produce their own content (text/music/video/images/animations) and immediately submit it to a single device for their work to be combined and edited to reach a finished product. Rapid sharing and collaboration on truly mobile devices is an exciting development for all teachers and students working with iPads.</span><br />
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</b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06711717186771147535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6136763600493807558.post-70417247895858740792013-07-10T05:10:00.000-07:002014-11-16T12:24:58.997-08:00Introducing Game Design as Part of an Integrated Project<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Context</span></b><br />
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</b>The opportunities for learning through the use of digital gaming are diverse and massive. The speed and ease in which basic game development can be achieved using apps such as Sketch Nation can provide a platform for outstanding cross-curricular projects and really make an impact on progress, standards and pupil independence. This blog post describes one project (upper KS2) which could easily be adapted to suit Key Stage 1 or expanded to meet the needs of Key Stage 3 pupils, and to support almost any topic/subject. 1:1 use of iPods enabled maximum pupil engagement but fewer devices could have been used if pupils collaborated in groups.<b><br />
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</b>The initial objective of the project was to design, produce and promote an iPod game based on an element of our current topic. In class some of the children wanted to link the game to last term’s World War 2 topic but most chose to base their game on the new topic of African wildlife and diversity. The whole outline of the project was shared with the children at the outset so they could plan and organise their work. The basic requirements were that the children would need to design and produce an original game, create a persuasive and informative marketing display on their learning wall, create online multimedia promotional material on their blog space, and to present and try to sell their game to a class of year 5 pupils at a showcase event. This would lead to the culmination of what was ultimately a business and enterprise project.<b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Jdzp5euRdAGt8H2r4zOyXWT6hQHQ8XZabEAZxPXW8FDcOXpvQdMTDnlTiGPRvVqZz-rQaxt9tzxBhgFQz_oaBY0u9tSMYUq61iSLr82xbDrz28IBHmY7P01aj1Cmkb9XOvM0qPxsacQ/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-07-10+at+19.16.43.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Jdzp5euRdAGt8H2r4zOyXWT6hQHQ8XZabEAZxPXW8FDcOXpvQdMTDnlTiGPRvVqZz-rQaxt9tzxBhgFQz_oaBY0u9tSMYUq61iSLr82xbDrz28IBHmY7P01aj1Cmkb9XOvM0qPxsacQ/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-07-10+at+19.16.43.png" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">The FREE app Sketch Nation was introduced to the children. It is a quick to learn and easy to use game design app which allows users to produce their own unique digital game. After a brief demonstration pupils were encouraged to explore the features of the app and begin to think about the game they wanted to design. There are simple and advanced levels of the app and most of the pupils chose to use the advanced level. Pupils were able to design their own characters, a range of obstacles and enemies and platforms and backgrounds to suit the setting of their game. It is possible to create graphical content in the app, to scan in artwork or to use downloaded and edited images. The extent of how much content be developed is vast. Scoring systems, power-ups, frequency of obstacles, effects of collisions and so many more features are all completely editable. The quality of the completed games was excellent. Some were extremely challenging, some were fun and some were a little easy. In a short space of time the children produced exactly what they wanted. Below are 3 examples of games created by the pupil's using Sketch Nation:</span><br />
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Linking back to<a href="http://mrandrewsonline.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/using-app-store-for-persuasive-writing.html"><span style="color: #021eaa; letter-spacing: 0px;"> previous work on persuasive writing</span></a>, pupils researched different types of advertising and features of branding and promotion. They were able to create their own display on their<a href="http://mrandrewsonline.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/developing-use-of-pupil-blogging.html"><span style="color: #021eaa; letter-spacing: 0px;"> learning wall</span></a> using their own content. Every aspect of their work was also posted to their own blog space using the Posterous Spaces app.</span></span><br />
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Following research in the App Store, pupils designed their own app logos and titles. Most chose to do this by hand with felt-tips (Where do all the reds disappear to?) but some used Brushes on the iPod. Font ideas for many came from<a href="http://www.cooltext.com/"><span style="color: #021eaa; letter-spacing: 0px;"> www.cooltext.com</span></a>.</span></span><br />
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Pupils swapped devices to film each other playing the games so that they could capture examples of the excitement of the game play. iMovie was used to make advertisements and this allowed easy editing and combination of images,video,captions and titles. Soundtracks were created in Garageband, the <i>smart </i>composition aspects of this app, along with the excellent drum machine and sampling features, make it easy to compose effective music to suit any purpose. It doesn’t take a specialist to produce high quality original compositions with Garageband.<br />
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Pupils having access to and ownership of their own blog space has been a central part to the success of many of the iPod based projects. The ability to present to and receive feedback from an audience has a powerful impact in terms of quality, pace of output, promoting independence and resilience along with a sense of pride and ownership. Every element of this project was posted to the Posterous blog quickly and effortlessly with the iPods. Posters, logos, videos, instructions, examples of gameplay and even the initial plans were explained by the pupils as part of the blog post. QR codes linked to any video content were displayed on each pupil’s own learning wall.<br />
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As the culmination to this project (which was completed across one week in under 3 hours) the children from the adjacent classroom (year 5) were invited to a <i>New Games Launch Event</i>. The visiting pupils viewed the learning walls, engaged in discussions with game designers, scanned the QR codes to view the online content and had the chance to test the games. Each visitor had 5 game tokens and was able to “purchase” their favourite games. This session was focused, very interactive and proved to be an exceptional opportunity for promoting speaking and listening, questioning and answering. It also provided valuable feedback to the pupils on the quality of their game designs and promotional material.</span></span><br />
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Although each pupil’s starting point was a history or geography objective such as “Demonstrate an understanding of the main threats to wildlife in Africa” or “Recognise the implications on the Battle of Britain in WW2” the opportunities that to expand learning in a project like this are numerous. There were many opportunities for writing in terms of persuasive texts, summarising feedback and reporting on the <i>New Games Launch Event.</i> During the event records of scores were kept for each player of the game allowing investigations into averages and data handling opportunities. There was a significant impact of the pupil’s ability to orally present and explain their work using appropriate styles and vocabulary. The integrated of the iPods has allowed them to become a tool to support and enhance learning. The pupils only use it when it is needed and will often choose other methods of presentation and research.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAT3pKj_4TstduKQLrT0KcbDt3WggicuhtIWhB1yY9ci1W4XpQYxiRjKuLBTiMYM_w1TbEJOoW-XE5JugHYfVxO9gwCUD12h3DH4L3huhxK8BG7xH0tQtX4l_g1FINpvaF3FHrSwjPkUA/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-06-10+at+13.36.47.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAT3pKj_4TstduKQLrT0KcbDt3WggicuhtIWhB1yY9ci1W4XpQYxiRjKuLBTiMYM_w1TbEJOoW-XE5JugHYfVxO9gwCUD12h3DH4L3huhxK8BG7xH0tQtX4l_g1FINpvaF3FHrSwjPkUA/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-06-10+at+13.36.47.png" /></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As part of an ongoing project at Bellfield Primary School in Hull, year 5 are studying the book Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>1: Plan a route between landmarks and describe directions. </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Screen capture images can be taken when using <b>Recce </b>by simultaneously pressing the HOME and POWER buttons. Using <b>Skitch</b> routes between locations can be described and annotated promoting the use of geographical language and awareness. Extending this idea into <b>Explain Everything </b>short videos and narration can be added to the maps and recorded as presentations which can be shared.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The power of apps such as Epic Citadel has proved effective as a stimulus for writing and a spark for imagination in young writers. The virtual and completely explorable environments provided by Recce can provide a starting point for stories, for setting descriptions or for even relocating a familiar story to a new setting. The app provides the backdrop to countless opportunities for writing. Screen capture images can be used in an app such as Strip Designer to create storyboards, planning sheets and writing frames.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>3: Report on a virtual visit. Send postcards.</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Children can plan a virtual visit to any of the locations available through Recce. Pictures ( screen shots) can be taken along the way and presented using Strip Designer as postcards, adding text in different forms. As an extension and to create a multimedia project the postcards created using Strip Designer can be opened as a background in Explain Everything and video content added. The idea of adding several video screens to one background holds enormous potential and Explain Everything makes this extremely easy.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Content such as pictures, maps, annotated images, videos and audio recordings can all be combined using the app Creative Book Builder. Detailed projects can be built up into extensive pieces of work which can be shared as iBooks or even web links if used in conjunction with Touch App Creator. The depth and detail included in a tourist guide to any of the Recce is limitless and the quality and range of content possible completely redefines the potential outcomes for pupils.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The vehicles continually navigating the Recce landscape can provide a good starting point for pupils to create public transport timetables. Routes can be planned across the city, stopping at key locations. Timings can be added to create timetables to go with route maps for buses. Skitch provides simple tools which make the route mapping side of this easy. Timetables can easily be added either within Skitch or produced in a range of apps including Pages and Numbers.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Creating a map, key and scale by hand remains a valuable skill and the accuracy presented by Recce is a good starting point. Details can be compared with Google Earth images and real maps and maps can be produced to be combined with other projects such as a tourist brochure created using Creative Book Builder. The iPad camera easily allows images of maps to be captured and cropped and inserted as an image into almost every app in which content is produced.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Research on key locations and people connected to a city can form the basis of presentations created as books ( Creative Book Builder), movies (iMovie), slideshows (Keynote) or web content ( Touch App Creator). Each of these examples could feature video output produced using Explain Everything. Recce can provide a dynamic and virtual world where history</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thanks to the brilliant Lisa Johnson ( @techchef4u) for sharing this app at the recent iPad Summit in Atlanta USA</span></div>
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