ICT in my Classroom » assembly http://tbarrett.edublogs.org Space for me to explore my ideas and experiences of ICT in my classroom. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:00:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A little help from my network… http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2008/09/06/a-little-help-from-my-network/ http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2008/09/06/a-little-help-from-my-network/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:13:21 +0000 tbarrett http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/?p=298 A new term a new start and I kicked off the first few days of the term with an upper key stage 2 assembly on Thursday morning. I wanted to talk to the children about the prospects of a new term and what it meant to us all. Twitter was buzzing with well wishes as the US schools returned at the same time as most English schools, so I thought I would invite my network to help contribute to the assembly with their own thoughts about the new term and the new beginning we were all about to take.
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I asked for responses from my network a few hours before the assembly and then retweeted with a quarter of an hour or so to go and was so grateful, as I always am, to receive teachers thoughts from around the world. 

After talking in the assembly about new beginnings for some people in my own family, I invited the children to explain their feelings and reflections on the first few days of school. We discussed what they were looking forward to and any apprehensions they had.

With a global twist I shared the thoughts from my network on the beginning of a new term and what it meant to new people. I finished with Ian Usher’s reflection that a new term is “like a fresh piece of paper with nothing bad from last term written on it.” They really liked that thought and it ended the assembly on a positive hopeful note. Thanks to Ian and everyone who helped it was lovely to be able share your reflections in our assembly.

Why not ask for reflections on a topic or assembly subject from your own network and give the children a global perspective.

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