One of the features of the Year 3 BA course is an onsite teaching experience with children from a local school. Over the years I have tried to vary both the schools we use and the projects that we develop. In the beginning the projects tended to be quite prescriptive and used applications that were familiar to the classroom, such as Microsoft and Textease. As time went on I began to encourage my students to try more innovative technologies in their planning, Digi Blue cameras and Blogs for example. It seemed the ideal opportunity as they were in a relatively safe environment, that being there were 13 of them to teach and support 28-30 children, with both the class teacher and myself at hand in case there were any issues they had not anticipated. This time, without dictating the day’s proceedings to my students, I am trying to encourage them to explore a range of Web 2.0 and other innovative software rather than more traditional ICTs. Planning will take place next week, so here is hoping that last week’s Activity generator session inspired their creativity and innovative juices!
Guys if you are reading this check out the link above to Terry Freedman’s Web 2.0 projects book.
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