http://tbarrett.edublogs.org Space for me to explore my ideas and experiences of ICT in my classroom. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:55:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As our summer term Google Docs project drew to a close I asked the children in my class to reflect on what we had done. I asked them to record the one thing they found the biggest challenge about working together with Google Docs and the aspect they enjoyed the ... http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2008/07/24/what-my-class-thought-of-our-google-docs-project/ Many Twitter users have woken up this morning to find that their followers/following lists are a bit wonky. I noticed yesterday afternoon that I was approximately 300 people short of what I thought it should be. My first reaction was to dismiss it as a silly little problem, it is ... http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2008/07/24/missing-connections/ I am just about coming up for air from this year, the summer holidays are upon me now and I will finally have time to reflect upon some of the classroom activities that have gone on in this final term. This post is about using the adventure game Myst in ... http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2008/07/19/emerging-from-the-myst-being-inspired-and-making-a-start/ Although I may have led you to think that everything in the image is stuck to the laptop, I have to disappoint you! However I really like this image of my classroom because of just that sort of possibility. I want a learning environment for my class that blends the ... http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2008/07/16/mr-barrett-i-have-got-glue-on-my-laptop/ Other relevant posts: Google Apps in School - Week 1 , Week 2 , Week 3 , Week 4 , Weeks 5+6 Creating an emotion graph using Google forms Marking work in Google Docs http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2008/07/14/peer-feedback-using-the-chat-feature-in-google-presentations/ Teachers TV Tutpup.com Voicethread Google Docs http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2008/07/01/teachers-tv-filming-online-collaboration/ What is the best way to give feedback on a piece of work produced in Google Docs? What formatting tools are most appropriate to use when leaving comments? How do you organise 30 to 60 pieces of work handed in to you? How do children hand in work? What new ... http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2008/06/29/marking-work-in-google-docs/ It has been a quieter few weeks in terms of our use of Google Docs, by our standards anyway - so I have combined some of my reflections over the last fortnight. Although less prominent in the daily work of our literacy unit the use of Google Docs has continued ... http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2008/06/16/google-apps-in-school-weeks-5-and-6/ Emily Fritchley a colleague of mine and teaching assistant at school is currently collecting evidence for her dissertation about the support for EAL children in schools. I offered to write about it here as she is hoping for more responses for her work. There are only 8 questions in the ... http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2008/06/08/eal-survey/ The last few days have been pretty important for us at Priestsic Primary School. For the first time we have been able to offer our year 5 kids the opportunity to use their own laptop to work on. It is not a permanent 1:1 solution as yet, but it is ... http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2008/06/07/creating-an-environment-of-personalised-technology-choice/