A couple of videos from yesteryear
Yesteryear
I found these when transferring my google videos over to youtube.
Just the kind of handover you want from your predecessor at work. This is the message I left poor Sarah Hoyle. I also left her a bucketload of resources and lesson plans on the Fronter MLE so I was a little bit helpful!
Stickybits to showcase pupils work
Feb 2011
After two weeks of creating a photo story about the farmers of Fair-trade produce and how fair trade has helped them, the finished videos were published to the world via the bar codes of the Fair-trade products that the children had been investigating. To see the videos you'll need to download Stickybits on your smartphone and scan the following items:
Using Endless Ocean on Nintendo Wii as a stimulus for writing
Nov 2010
After reading many of the pieces on games-based learning, particularly the case studies on the Consolarium Glow group, I decided to try this myself. I found that allowing children to have time to become immersed in the world of a computer game stimulated lots of ideas and generated a sense of empathy reflected in the pupil's diary writing tasks. For more details, see the blog entry.
GPS Treasure Hunt - Hampton Court visit
We attempted a different kind of treasure hunt with my year 4 class. During our trip to Hampton Court Palace, to mark the end of our Tudors topic, we were lucky enough to try Wikitude out on the HTC G1 handsets. The handsets were lent to us by Brentford City Learning Centre to enable us to develop this project.
Yesteryear
I found these when transferring my google videos over to youtube.
Just the kind of handover you want from your predecessor at work. This is the message I left poor Sarah Hoyle. I also left her a bucketload of resources and lesson plans on the Fronter MLE so I was a little bit helpful!
Video introduction to the Brentford CLC Fronter MLE room in the form of stop-motion animation.
Stickybits to showcase pupils work
Feb 2011
After two weeks of creating a photo story about the farmers of Fair-trade produce and how fair trade has helped them, the finished videos were published to the world via the bar codes of the Fair-trade products that the children had been investigating. To see the videos you'll need to download Stickybits on your smartphone and scan the following items:
Sainsbury's fair-trade white caster sugar
Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons 145G
the co-op fair-trade rich roast instant coffee granules
Here is the QR code to download the app
Android
Using Endless Ocean on Nintendo Wii as a stimulus for writing
Nov 2010
After reading many of the pieces on games-based learning, particularly the case studies on the Consolarium Glow group, I decided to try this myself. I found that allowing children to have time to become immersed in the world of a computer game stimulated lots of ideas and generated a sense of empathy reflected in the pupil's diary writing tasks. For more details, see the blog entry.
GPS Treasure Hunt - Hampton Court visit
We attempted a different kind of treasure hunt with my year 4 class. During our trip to Hampton Court Palace, to mark the end of our Tudors topic, we were lucky enough to try Wikitude out on the HTC G1 handsets. The handsets were lent to us by Brentford City Learning Centre to enable us to develop this project.
Children worked in small, adult supervised groups and used the handsets to find points of interest at the Palace.
The children pointed the handsets at in the direction of the point of interest and followed the icon on the screen until they found it. Once there, they clicked the icon on the screen and brought up information and a task for them t
o do in their ideas books.
Using google maps, I marked the points of interest and wrote the information and tasks. Then I was able to upload the .kml file to wikitude.me to create my 'world'. To my surprise, this world was included in the main list of worlds available to users of wikitude and therefore easy to find and isolate using the handsets.
The children enjoyed the chance to use technology to enrich their visit and managed to find parts of Hampton Court Palace that they may not have found had they just walked round as a class. It enabled me to provide more of a focus for the 'exploration' time that children had. There are several points for improvement for this project which I will work on. I will include a class evaluation shortly.
Here's a short video explaining how wikitude works:
Personal Safety Day - Suzy Lamplugh Trust
Brentford City Learning Centre
August 2009
Working with a group of secondary school children from all across Hounslow, we were to create a short film to highlight the importance of considering personal safety when travelling on public transport.
We worked with Hanif Khan from Video-Shoot Productions Ltd to create the video which was very well received by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust as well as other child welfare professionals throughout the borough.
BBC News School Report
March 2008
