Narrating Books in Mrs Law's Year 2 Class

The year 2's continued to learn how to create their books about 'Australia' today. They learned how to import pictures from a Google Advanced Search and how to use the voice record function to narrate the information in their books.
Looking forward to seeing the completed books!

Learning to Ceate Books in Mrs Lyon's Year 1 Class

Following our lessons about Creating Posters with the Pic Collage app the class learned how to create a book using the Book Creator app. By adding text with the keyboard and drawing pictures with the ink pen the students designed a cover page for their first ever book about Easter.
Looking forward to seeing more pages!

Reflecting on Writing in Mrs Taylor's Year 6 Literacy Class

After establishing some feedback protocols and agreements as a class using the Padlet app, the class used Explain Everything app to record a self assessment of a writing task. Green represents action required. The class set a number of goals for themselves to improve their writing as a result.

Creating Books About Australia in Mrs Law's Year 2 Class

Through learning the main functions of the Book Creator app on the iPad and how to do an Advanced Search on Google, the class were able to begin creating books about the topic. Students incorporated their research areas into their advanced image searches e.g. Weather in Australia, Animals in Australia etc.
The class also had the chance to enhance their learning by teaching their friends in the other Year 1 class to learn how to create a book in Book Creator about Australia too.

Pic Collage Posters in Mrs Dichiera's Year 1 Class

After doing lessons on using iPad devices safely and learning how to take photos on the iPad the class started learning how to make a poster using the Pic Collage app. The poster was about using iPads in a safe way. Students used their photo taking skills to take photos of friends that matched their sentences about being safe with the iPad.

Padlet for Writing Persuasive Text in Mr Klaric's Year 4 Class

Using a Padlet board created by Mr Klaric, students continued with their scaffolded learning task of writing a Persuasive Text. Students were able to refer to an example prepared by Mr. Klaric and then independently write their Persuasive arguments on the Padlet board. This allowed students to share out their arguments and refine their counter arguments by viewing some opposing ones.

As a differentiation strategy some students were provided the choice to upload a video explaining their persuasive arguments. Mr Klaric set a grid layout to make it easier for the students to view their contributions. The class also discussed self management strategies if the app wouldn't work e.g. exiting the app and restarting again.

Students accessed the Padlet board created by Mr Klaric by either:
- Using the Padlet app on their allocated iPads. On the home screen students selected 'Proceed as Guest' and then scanned the QR code in the Padlet app.
- By using a QR code scanner app already on the iPad.

Padlet for Literacy in Ms Taylor's Year 6 Class

Using a Padlet board created by Ms Taylor, all students in the class shared out their 'ea' words from their allocated iPad. This enabled the class to collaboratively expand their word list. They were then able to write their 'ea' word sentences in their workbooks with expanded vocabulary.

To set up a Padlet account go to padlet.com on your lap top or desktop computer. After you have set up your account, create a padlet board on the dashboard (grid layout works best in the beginning). Students can access your Padlet board by scanning the QR code for your Padlet board (which you can do by clicking the 'sharing' button) from the Padlet app on the iPad.

Padlet is a free app on IOS and Android platforms.

The Learning Journey Begins

In 2017 Gwynne Park PS has partnered with Winthrop Australia to engage staff in ongoing professional development. The journey will enable a measured yet fluent synthesis of the pedagogy at Gwynne Park with emerging learning technology. This blog will share the journey.