Comments on: Using Instant Messaging to Engage Children with Reading Comprehension http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/02/25/using-instant-messaging-to-engage-children-with-reading-comprehension/ Space for me to explore my ideas and experiences of ICT in my classroom. Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:18:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Look what we found online today! 11/16/2009 | Books, Bits, and Bytes of the Dickens LMC ... http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/02/25/using-instant-messaging-to-engage-children-with-reading-comprehension/comment-page-1/#comment-3831 Look what we found online today! 11/16/2009 | Books, Bits, and Bytes of the Dickens LMC ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:01:03 +0000 http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/?p=348#comment-3831 [...] Using Instant Messaging to Engage Children with Reading Comprehension | ICT in my Classroom [...] [...] Using Instant Messaging to Engage Children with Reading Comprehension | ICT in my Classroom [...]

]]> By: tbarrett http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/02/25/using-instant-messaging-to-engage-children-with-reading-comprehension/comment-page-1/#comment-3437 tbarrett Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:08:03 +0000 http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/?p=348#comment-3437 Hi David currently there is no way I know of saving or archiving the chat which is a shame. That is why the style I take with the work is not to look at a finished outcome, but to do it in a workshop style modelling and remodelling answers. Assessing responses and giving feedback straight away. I believe that chat can be archived either via GMail or in the Google Talk client that needs a separate install. I think that a Google Form for collating responses may also be a useful tool. Hi David
currently there is no way I know of saving or archiving the chat which is a shame. That is why the style I take with the work is not to look at a finished outcome, but to do it in a workshop style modelling and remodelling answers. Assessing responses and giving feedback straight away.

I believe that chat can be archived either via GMail or in the Google Talk client that needs a separate install.

I think that a Google Form for collating responses may also be a useful tool.

]]> By: Suggested Reading for 03/04/2009 | Clif's Notes http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/02/25/using-instant-messaging-to-engage-children-with-reading-comprehension/comment-page-1/#comment-3436 Suggested Reading for 03/04/2009 | Clif's Notes Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:31:07 +0000 http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/?p=348#comment-3436 [...] Using Instant Messaging to Engage Children with Reading Comprehension [...] [...] Using Instant Messaging to Engage Children with Reading Comprehension [...]

]]> By: David Noble http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/02/25/using-instant-messaging-to-engage-children-with-reading-comprehension/comment-page-1/#comment-3433 David Noble Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:57:41 +0000 http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/?p=348#comment-3433 I was fascinated to hear of your experiences; as I start to follow your inspiration and explore Google Docs with classes, I've been starting to share Presentations as topic notes. We had a go today at doing a text chat around an RE lesson on Lent. I was able to test the load up gradually, one or two children at a time while the class were working on something else- quite slow but it all worked well. They got Smiley fever initially until I suggested it would be easier for me to be the only one to use Smilies to mark out my questions and comments which might get lost in the chat otherwise. We lost connection once, but it came back up and everyone reconnected automatically after a couple of minutes. A useful exercise- some novelty value perhaps devalued the RE content initially, but they started to answer my questions well with some prompting. Also very easy to see who is typing, even when they shouldn't be! Some stopped following the leader at times, but when they did, my changing the slides was almost simultaneous around the room! One question- how do you save the chat? It looked Flash based and I could find no way of saving the complete transcript. Any ideas, I'd love to know, as otherwise the ideas generated vanish into the ether! With your Google Pres Chat exercise » link to Nothing found for 2009 02 25 Using-instant-messaging-to-engage-children-with-reading-comprehensi... did you find a way to save the chat transcript? I was fascinated to hear of your experiences; as I start to follow your inspiration and explore Google Docs with classes, I’ve been starting to share Presentations as topic notes.
We had a go today at doing a text chat around an RE lesson on Lent. I was able to test the load up gradually, one or two children at a time while the class were working on something else- quite slow but it all worked well.

They got Smiley fever initially until I suggested it would be easier for me to be the only one to use Smilies to mark out my questions and comments which might get lost in the chat otherwise. We lost connection once, but it came back up and everyone reconnected automatically after a couple of minutes.
A useful exercise- some novelty value perhaps devalued the RE content initially, but they started to answer my questions well with some prompting. Also very easy to see who is typing, even when they shouldn’t be! Some stopped following the leader at times, but when they did, my changing the slides was almost simultaneous around the room!

One question- how do you save the chat? It looked Flash based and I could find no way of saving the complete transcript. Any ideas, I’d love to know, as otherwise the ideas generated vanish into the ether!

With your Google Pres Chat exercise » link to Nothing found for 2009 02 25 Using-instant-messaging-to-engage-children-with-reading-comprehensi… did you find a way to save the chat transcript?

]]> By: Mike Qaissaunee http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/02/25/using-instant-messaging-to-engage-children-with-reading-comprehension/comment-page-1/#comment-3429 Mike Qaissaunee Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:03:05 +0000 http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/?p=348#comment-3429 Tom, Great idea and implementation! Tom,

Great idea and implementation!

]]> By: Blog: ICT in my Classroom | Bscopes Feeds http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/02/25/using-instant-messaging-to-engage-children-with-reading-comprehension/comment-page-1/#comment-3427 Blog: ICT in my Classroom | Bscopes Feeds Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:01:38 +0000 http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/?p=348#comment-3427 [...] Blog: ICT in my Classroom tagged with: education Post: http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/02/25/using-instant-messaging-to-engage-children-with-readin... [...] [...] Blog: ICT in my Classroom tagged with: education Post: http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/02/25/using-instant-messaging-to-engage-children-with-readin... [...]

]]> By: alijoy http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/02/25/using-instant-messaging-to-engage-children-with-reading-comprehension/comment-page-1/#comment-3426 alijoy Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:14:42 +0000 http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/?p=348#comment-3426 What a a great idea. IM meets reciprocal reading. I suppose what is happening here is that they are all 'talking' to you at the same time where as in a shared situation it would be one talking to you at time or in independent time some might not talk to you at all. To follow the reciprocal reading model the next step would be that a child would take the teacher's role and lead the session on a very small peice of the text. They could also discuss words, phrases and sentences that they didn't understand as they were reading and in fact the group could answer. What a a great idea. IM meets reciprocal reading.
I suppose what is happening here is that they are all ‘talking’ to you at the same time where as in a shared situation it would be one talking to you at time or in independent time some might not talk to you at all.
To follow the reciprocal reading model the next step would be that a child would take the teacher’s role and lead the session on a very small peice of the text. They could also discuss words, phrases and sentences that they didn’t understand as they were reading and in fact the group could answer.

]]> By: David Osman http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/02/25/using-instant-messaging-to-engage-children-with-reading-comprehension/comment-page-1/#comment-3425 David Osman Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:38:20 +0000 http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/?p=348#comment-3425 Great idea! You could even use the function for in class lecture and notes. The students could use the IM feature for any 'pair-sharing' and other discussion points. Do the students have access to the IM transcripts later on? If so, they could possibly use them as a form of notes to study with. Thanks for sharing. Great idea!
You could even use the function for in class lecture and notes. The students could use the IM feature for any ‘pair-sharing’ and other discussion points.
Do the students have access to the IM transcripts later on? If so, they could possibly use them as a form of notes to study with.
Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Rafa Ribas http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/02/25/using-instant-messaging-to-engage-children-with-reading-comprehension/comment-page-1/#comment-3424 Rafa Ribas Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:54:54 +0000 http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/?p=348#comment-3424 Tom, Really interesting idea and something I am willing to try out one day. One quick question. You mention that smileys did appear. What about SMS-like text? Was that allowed, discouraged, criticised? My setting is a secondary international school, so I am wondering whether one should make a point about that. Tom,
Really interesting idea and something I am willing to try out one day. One quick question. You mention that smileys did appear. What about SMS-like text? Was that allowed, discouraged, criticised? My setting is a secondary international school, so I am wondering whether one should make a point about that.

]]>