Learning, Teaching and ICT

I’ve been thinking about the community we might be building via the Carronshore blog.

Miss L replied to Maryam today …. she wrote:

“Thank you for replying. We hope your fingers aren’t too sore!

The children in P5LW would love to meet you if you come to parents’night.

Memoona in our class will be doing Ramadan on Saturday so she explained all about it. Good luck with the rest of Ramadan!

Great to hear from you!

P 5LW ”

Maryam also left a comment on this blog (I’ve still to reply!) and another comment appeared from Monica. She commented that one of the Falkirk Bloggers mentioned in the last post is her French teacher.

Meanwhile Miss Keane’s pupils are still blogging about their learning through Drama, and the Dunipace pupils continue to leave comments on the Carronshore blog.

 It was also great to read the post on 08 AllStars blog congratulating Carronshore for coming up with great ideas for them to try out in P.E. ….. well done Miss L and P5L/W

Elsewhere in Falkirk, the pupils in P7 at Easter Carmuirs have been trying out the great things that comic life can do to improve literacy skills.

This short video was made by a group of pupils using the comic life software. It was given to me today by a Ian from Dundee  . He was very impressed by the difference it made to the children’s learning…… I’ll give full credit tomorrow when I have access to his ‘proper title’

Some Falkirk Blogs …..

When writing this post earlier this evening, a new comment arrived from Maryam  .  I pressed ‘publish’ but then realised my blog was a bit ‘dis-jointed’ because I’d been experimenting with ‘copy and paste’ from the Falkirk website and from ‘word’ .

When I checked the post, I realised that the sidebar had disappeared completely and decided to delete the post and re-write it ….. so part of this post might be a repeat read for some 

http://mrmeikle.edublogs.org/

http://eastercarmuirs.edublogs.org/

http://carronshore.edublogs.org/

http://bainsford.edublogs.org/

http://srbrown1.edublogs.org/

http://bantaskin7k.edublogs.org/

http://sacred6.edublogs.org/

http://misskeane.edublogs.org/

http://bitlarbert.edublogs.org/

http://misslaw.edublogs.org/

http://p7dunipace.edublogs.org/

http://carronshore6s.edublogs.org/

This list doesn’t include the Carronshore individual Pupil blogs from the last 2 years. Some of them still take the time to be part of the blogging community even though they’ve moved on to High School.
Just recently, Maryam commented on Primary 5L/W’s class blog. She wrote:
 

“Hello everyone!
Its me Maryam.
Im sure some of you might remember me. I use to go to Carronshore primary but now i am in high school. Phew! I am so tired waking up every morning ans going to school that i think my legs might just fall off. He he. And its bad enough to find my classes. THE WHOLE SCHOOL IS LIKE A HUGE MAZE! I keep getting lost and i have to keep asking the teachers for help which is a bit embarrasing.
And when you guys start high school. Don’t worry one bit about the stupid rumour that has been going round, that you will be getting your head flushed down the toillet. Our headteacher, who we call the rector said that rumour has been going round for OVER 100 YEARS! Wow! Don’t worry its not true.
I have just saw your video and WOW you all look SOOO different. Very different i hardly recognized you.
I will hopefully write back soon.”

Miss Law replied:

“Hi Maryam!
How are you? I’ve spoken to the class and a lot of them remember you from last year! How’s high school going?
5LW really appreciated the fact you told them that that silly rumour isn’t true! See, I told you!
Keep blogging about your high school adventures, we’d love to read about them!”

….. And yesterday Maryam did reply – she wrote:

“Hello everyone.
Its me agian
Sorry i haven’t been able to write back, been a bit busy alot with homework. I have been doing all kinds of stuff this month, i have been keeping ramadan which i think some of you are maybe fimilair with, you know. The time of month that you don’t eat, Well ovbiously you dont eat for A WHOLE MONTH!Hehe. No, you wake up early in the morning like about four or something, the time changes every day. Then you eat and then pray then back to bed and then don’t eat ANYTHING till the evening, which that time changes aswell. The time you wake up goes higher and the time you eat goes lower.. so its kind of getting shorter. Get me? You kind of get hungry but i’m getting use to it… Sorta.
I am really missing Carronshore, ecpecially the time you have to get there! At high school you have to be there at 8:40am, and you aren’t alowed to be late. It’s not tricky but you’ll get use to it .
I was hoping on coming to parents night at Carronshore, with my little brothers. I wan’t to see there reports AND everyone else, like the teachers like Miss Law .
Augh, My fingers are getting sore typing, I’ll write back soon. Bye bye!

Maybe we are building a community?

You can read Maryam’s comment by clicking here.

Image from …… Barnstable, Janet. reflect.jpg. “created February, 2000″. Pics4Learning. 16 Sep 2008 http://pics.tech4learning.com

Yesterday’s post on a Compuer use survey by primary 7V led to a comment being left on the class blog by John. He wrote :

“A very interesting survey primary 7, I think I’ll try it with my class later this week.
I am a teacher I  enjoy using my computer at home more than school too, but I do enjoy using computers in school. I wonder why Adam gives powerpoint a 3 in school and a 4 at home?”

What I didn’t make clear is that the survey was carried out by me last year …. and when I looked closely at the date, it showed that it actually took place during the the very first week of the first term in 2007.

I really regret now that I didn’t repeat the survey in June (too late now as they’ve all gone off to High School).

We had an exciting year using blogs, wikis and lots of freely available software and I’m pretty sure the results from an end of year survey would have shown a more positive reaction to school use.

Very bad forward planning

I checked out the Carronshore Blog so that I could link it to the last post on here. I noticed that a large percentage of the live traffic was linking to a post about computer use at home versus school. 

I’ve noticed an interest in this post before. I’ve ‘copied and pasted’ on to here …

Computer Use

2 Responses to “Computer Use”

1.   monica Says:
   August 22nd, 2007 at 1:52 pm The reason that I like my home computer is that i do not have to log on and none of the games are blocked
2.   P7teach Says:
   August 22nd, 2007 at 2:54 pm Thanks for your comment Monica! Logging on is a bit of a nuisance!I wonder what others in the class think?