The Project Plan - Section A and B

The project plan is at the heart of your project - without a good plan you will just get lost.

You need to start filling in your project plans now, but you do not need to try and finish it all at once.  The project plan is your guideline for each stage of the project.

Section A: Don't forget to give your project a good title. 

Section B:  This section should underpin the rest of the project. 

 This section is critical

How to use box.net

You should have received an invitation to collaborate on a folder called UKZN PGCE.

Please click to accept the invitation.  You will then be able to create your folder in the box.

Click on NEW to make your folder and subfolders.

UPLOADING A FILE

When you have completed an activity and you are ready to upload it to the box, follow these steps.

1.  Open your folder on the Box and select the folder you want to save into

2. Click on UPLOAD to start uploading your file

3.  When prompted, browse to the file on your computer

4.  Once the file is uploaded you can edit, update  or delete it

Something for the Foundation Phase

I found a fantastic site with ways to help teach sight words.

Here is the link - I hope you enjoy it.

https://www.box.com/signup/collablink/d_137822832/769c305364ff1

Some notes on using the Microsoft Learning Suite

 

SONGSMITH

If you are a musician this programme will drive you mad!  The chords are random and don’t fit what is in your head.  If you are not a musician you will enjoy the fun of it!  Kids love it!

Load the programme

Write some words you want to sing – could be about anything – don’t get carried away with anything too lyrical or fancy.

Open the programme and select NEW SONG

You will see a screen where you can choose the style you want

Scroll to listen. Select the style you think fits your song and click next.

Choose the tempo and click finish:

Press the record button and when it says SING, start singing.

When you have finished, press STOP and it will play back to you.

If you like the song, SAVE,

If you don’t, UNDO and try again.

For a new song, press “SONG STARTER”

Other options:

·        Change the number of chords in the bar

·        Add an intro or ending off bar.

PHOTOSTORY

Select the pictures you want to use and put them into a folder. (This step is optional but it really makes life much easier)

Open Photostory and create a new story.

Step 1:   IMPORT pictures – you can do this one at a time or import all the pictures you are using at once.  Get the order right by pressing the left and right arrows on the screen.  You can also edit your pictures on this screen.

Step 2:  ADD A TITLE – Write what title you want to add and edit it  - font, colour and where you want it on the page.  Do this for each of your slides (or you can do it one slide at a time)

Step 3: CUSTOMISE MOTION – the programme will do this automatically but you can make your own changes – change the speed, change the starting and ending points, etc.

  

Step 4: COMPOSE AND RECORD NARRATION – write what it is you want to record and then record it (or you can get all the narration in first and record screen by screen later)

Step 5: ADD MUSIC – you can use music you have already on your computer or you can ask the programme to synthesise some for you.

Step 6: SAVE your Photostory.

Save it as a PROJECT if you want to come back and work on it later.  Save it for playback if you are happy with it.  This will save it as a .wmv file (Windows Media Video) which you can play on a computer (not an a DVD player).  You can resave it as a .flv file if you want to upload it to Youtube.

 

Project Ideas

Today we chatted about project ideas - there were a few of you who were looking at a project on Weather.

I found these resources on WEATHER while i was looking for something else - they are resources from the British Council.  Have a look at them

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/fun-games/whats-the-weather

Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants

We talked in our lecture about how all of you, and the children you will teach are digital natives, while my generation are immigrants to living with technology.

This picture shows it in clear detail.  I learnt a-apple, b-ball, c-cat, etc.

Intel Essentials - a project to remember

Intel Essentials

Today we started the Intel Essentials course - how to develop and integrate a project into your teaching.

You can find the CD online at http://schoolnet.org.za/teach10/
or find it by going to www.schoolnet.org.za
and in the TEACHER DEVELOPMENT tab, go to INTEL TEACH
Scroll down and click on INTEL ESSENTIALS

Just a few points about projects

• Projects take more than one lesson to complete - they can take a week, two weeks, a month, a term - it depends on your topic and your learners
• Projects should have a real-life link in some way.
• Your project must incorporate ICT - but a good project idea can be done in any classroom and context
• As a teacher, you need to set up the project well, or it will be just a "cut and paste" exercise

This is what it says on the Intel CD about projects:

—Learners are at the centre of the learning process

—The project focuses on important learning outcomes

—It is driven by challenging questions

—It is a series of connected activities over a period of time

—It has real world connections

—There is a product at the end
 

—ICT supports and enhances learning

—Thinking skills are vital

    It supports multiple learning and assessment standards

 

YOUR TASKS FOR THIS WEEK

 

1. Create the folders you need in your workspace - it can be on your computer, on the UKZn drive or on box.net

        To use box.net you must accept my invitation to collaborate on the box.  I will e-mail this to you.

 

 

2.  Make a brochure or poster on why we use projects.  Use the information in the blog or on the CD.  Save it in your FACILITATION folder.

 

3.  Download the Project Plan template and save it in the Project Plan folder.  Find it on the CD on

MODULE 1 – Getting Started      Step 5

4.  Look at other people's projects to get some ideas

 

           Resources (at the bottom of the menu)  - Project portfolios - the phase  

           you want to look at

 

The whole portfolio will only be assessed at the end of October, but try and keep upi with the tasks week by week so that you don't have to scramble at the end.

 

Look at these recorded webinars for some prize - winning projects from South Africa

 

Digigirls Puzzle IT out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC5GxyBBoRA

 

R and J in R and B - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT-proeEmt0&feature=relmfu