Kindergarten 'skypers"

animated drawing...

With the keen emphasis on revisiting learning and the opportunity to share what you were thinking about and how you might have achieved this.... we could consider animated drawing sites. SItes such as art.com allow children to create art work with the added bonus of an 'undo' and 'do over'. it also allows them to replay how the painting was constructed. You can email the finished painting to anyone... home or the office for keeping. I am not great at drawing with a mouse... I like using my pen tablet for this ( or I bet it's great on an interactive whiteboard). art tools not as great as art rage... .but the replay advantage could be great. try out tate paint,slimber, or art pad. ( there are others too ) This sample is from artpad take a peek....

Getting started- digital microscopes and blogging...

This clip really resonates for me- having been part of the project Tania talks about in this clip and also needing an interpreter at uLearn Conferences in the beginning! I haven't blogged in a Kindergarten as this team did( and still does even when the teaching team has changed ) but the rest could have been a snippet from the team I was in at the time re: magnification and learning outcomes. Their blog has been going for many years now- take a peek... http://manaiakindergarten.blogspot.co.nz/

to facebook or not to facebook....

This is an area I am interested in.... I don't like facebook myself as a personal tool but recognise it's market share as a social media tool. Is it a good way to get 'housekeeping' info out there? It seems to be. What else does this connect you to though? How do privacy settings work for the friend of a friend? Is it useful (bearing in mind that Facebook is not for children) as learning support mechanism....

philosophy, good teaching, vision - alongside the tools...

photostory how to

Photostory as a way to assess and articulate...

Here's a photostory covered under Permissions from the Ministry  ECEICTPL project  ( 2006-2009) where a group of children revisit some representational artwork they did after some exploration. After  using books, internet and digital microscope photography to document their interest in small creatures, they used art media to experiment some more, and then used photostory to express/revisit the process they followed.