The who: Reading The who: Reading groupgroup

Prior knowledge Prior knowledge

The children had little knowledge or no experience The children had little knowledge or no experience with some or all of the programmes and sites that I with some or all of the programmes and sites that I introduced to them.introduced to them.

The What and the WhyThe What and the Why

Integration of ICT skills and LiteracyIntegration of ICT skills and Literacy

Class Blog, Online Herald, PowerPoint, Class Blog, Online Herald, PowerPoint, Movie maker and Aviary.Movie maker and Aviary.

Introduce new skills using ICT. Present a Introduce new skills using ICT. Present a literacy lesson that challenged their literacy lesson that challenged their current understanding and extend their current understanding and extend their current thinking.current thinking.

The processThe process

I selected a current I selected a current article from the article from the Herald Online.Herald Online.

I chose the article I chose the article because all of the because all of the

children hadchildren hadheard of the earthquake heard of the earthquake

and the newspaper and the newspaper hadhad

video footage and video footage and photo links.photo links.

The link to the article was through the class Blog.

Children watched the

video link and discussed what they

saw.

They then selected the picture that best represented

the effects from the Earthquake.

They copied the photos, placed these into a

PowerPoint file, enlarged and saved.

My partI promised the group that I would make the music. For this I used Aviary. I had never used this programme before and it was pretty simple as long as you have around 30 minutes to play around.

Movie Maker

This was a team effort since neither the children nor myself had used this before.

Little bits to note:

•Power Point files – When saving –presentation.

•Pick up and drop into Movie maker.

•Import music into Power Point from Aviary.

•Follow the blue headings.