Jeff+Jackson

Some students have suggested a better title ... something with the word 'KAPOW' in it perhaps.
 * [[image:Jeff.jpg width="130" height="168"]] || =Am I looking forward to the 2010 Interactive Whiteboard Challenge or what!=

Recently I have had a Smartboard installed and I am eager to adapt and learn the tricks of the trade. If it was a car I would take it out for a spin and see what it can do! We have held a welcome party and the students have named it Robostein. I teach at Pender's Grove Primary and am always exploring ways to sharpening my teaching skills. I'm looking forward to contributing and have already felt the excitement of the challenge by checking out what others are up to. ||
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 * =Challenge 2= || ==Using Cloning - Danny Ncholson==

1. Creating Arrays to explore Commutative Law
Danny suggests the quick and easy actions are often powerful tools that can quickly respond to student's questions at their proximal point of development. I was working with some students to explore the commutative law of multiplication and found the simplicity of the actions a powerful wy to model the law. It's a simple action but within it is imbedded a profound concept easily communicated.

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2. Exploring Area - Students teaching Students
Some students were away in class during a lesson on area. Some of those present redesigned the lesson with little help from me and were able to teach the students who had missed out the following days. This peer teaching is something that I want to build upon as it not only enables students to keep up to date after missing a lesson or two but also consolidates learning for the presenting student.

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 * =Challenge 3 Transparency= || ==Using Transparency - Danny Nicholson==

1. Angles
This was great fun for everyone. I am fortunate to have my Year 4 students for 45mins each week where we can plan nd construct a response to a challenge. Here students photographed angles around the school and then delivered the lesson to their peers. I was reminded again the power of peer tutoring not only as the Year 4 students energetically participated but also as the Year 3 students were captivated by the presentation (a strength of peer leadership and the IWB).

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2. Indigenous Australia
In preparation for an upcoming unit I have thought how best to utilise the transparency tool. Here a satellite image is imposed over an indigenous language map to stir conversation and appreciation of the connection of indigenous people with the land.

media type="youtube" key="FuYQQ4YDnJw" height="344" width="425" || AS we gathered to explore an integrated unit focussing on ou community and Australia we used voicethread to help us sharpen our theme. Students chose rom a range of avatars that I had already loaded onto my account. There was some initial recalling of the importance of open and closed questions that enabled a richer resonse rather than a brief response. After we explored the site examples and I demonstarted its us we started with a student willing to have a go and model the recording. Then as each student came forward the one who had just completed the recording supported and encouraged the new student. This activity quickly moved to a corner desktop and continued. At the point of writing this studets are sill adding their thoughts and questions.
 * =Challenge 4= || ==Record Capture and Extend Thinking - Ben Hazzard==

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 * The highlights*** Students really took time to formulate and structure their questions, often editing and rereading their recording.
 * Students awareness and abilities to project voice and clarify of diction were brought to the fore.
 * The experience was a communal experience and the challenge was to build on the class questions as opposed to contribute my question.
 * Once students quickly identified the way to use the tool they carried out the task without teacher support. Very naturally the experience moved to peer sharing and skilling.
 * Once again this provided an important space for students who were shyer and quiter to contribute and be heard over some stronger voices.
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 * =Challenge 13= || I loved this challenge response because it arrived on my lap without planning for it! Two students were planning to construct a crossword on the new words that they had discovered in reading a text during their Literacy Circles. They had been a part of class discussions and watched others work with Notebook Software for our Smartboard. It was simply the suggestion to explore the Activity Toolbar and desgned their own activity. They had a ball and the students in our class were engeged in the presentation and the learning on the new vocabulary their peers had discovered.

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The great highlight of this experience was watching the energy in developing the task, the reexploring of the written text and the joy of students as they shared proudly their learning. Note to Self: must continue to hand over the IWB pan to the students! ||