Reading Writing and Web 2.0 make a great team
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Fiona Beal presents on integrating Web 2.0 tools in education, emphasizing creative writing methods and resources. She shares various programs like Storybook Weaver and Storymaker 2 and discusses collaborative projects, including e-books and class novels. The document provides numerous links to digital storytelling, creative writing, and reading resources for educators.
Reading Writing and Web 2.0 make a great team
- 1. Reading, Writing and Web 2.0 make a great team! Presented by Fiona Beal Fish Hoek Primary School fionabeal@gmail.com http://fionabeal.edublogs.org
- 3. Introducing myself • Web 2.0 ‘fanatic’ and passionate about integrating the curriculum with technology. • Have taught Grades 1 - 7 and am now Computer teacher at Fishhoek Primary • Life was revolutionised in 2009 by blogging and discovering a whole educational community ‘out there’. • Winner of Innovative Teacher 2009 in SA. Winning place in Pan African Finals in Mauritius and participated in World Finals in Brazil. • Textbook writer
- 4. Web 2.0: Amazing free, easy to use interactive programmes http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/
- 5. Outcomes for this session • Useful creative writing programmes and Web 2.0 resources • Writing methods used in class - the ‘just write’ method, circle writing etc. • Reading on the web
- 6. Back Channel Reflection http://todaysmeet.com/Fiona-RWW2 Introduce yourselves and add thoughts and ideas to share with us…
- 8. Approaches using bought programmes • Storybook Weaver • Storymaker 2
- 9. Storybook Weaver examples
- 10. By John Grade 1
- 13. Storymaker 2 examples
- 14. By Georgia Gr 5Be
- 16. Page 1
- 17. Other programmes I use • Microsoft Publisher • Microsoft Word • Scrapbook Factory • Microsoft PowerPoint
- 18. Microsoft Publisher examples
- 24. Scrapbook Factory de Luxe examples
- 31. Microsoft PowerPoint examples
- 32. Stories made using PowerPoint
- 33. Methods of creative writing
- 34. Our world loves stories. Do you like stories?
- 35. Catch the story going around in your head!
- 36. Concentrate hard until you find the story
- 37. Who found a story?
- 38. Let’s discuss our stories in groups
- 39. Oh, that is a funny story!
- 40. That’s a very good idea!
- 41. Now it is time to put your thoughts on to the computer. Don’t worry about spelling and grammar – just write!
- 42. The words are done, the story is in paragraphs mand Ihave checked the spelling. My friend helped me. The pages are in order. Now it’s time to illustrate my story.
- 43. How do you do this ‘print screen’ thing again? We use ‘print screen’ to get the pictures and words into PowerPoint.
- 44. A non-web project using creative writing
- 45. Fish Hoek Primary created a reading scheme of 80 books from Grade 1 – Grade 7 for Steenberg Primary School
- 46. We created stories in Storymaker 2 or Storybook Weaver and put them into PowerPoint. We then printed them as A4 booklets.
- 47. The Grade 5 bookbinding team at work
- 48. One class was selected to deliver them and read some of the stories to each grade in their school hall.
- 49. Thank you for these books!
- 50. E-books
- 51. Using Primary Pad to create circle stories http://primarypad.com Primary pad was at that stage called Etherpad. (it was then bought by Google)
- 52. We sent codes from school to school
- 53. Our two and three- nation collaborative writing project 1. These can be read from http://Slideboom.com itself following a link. http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/94941/The-Secret 2. They can be embedded in a blog. http://fionabeal.edublogs.org/our-two-nation-collaborative-stories/ http://fionabeal.edublogs.org/our-three-nation-story-writing-project/ http://fionabeal.edublogs.org/our-stories-with-sound-project/ 3. They can be uploaded to a website http://www.sanandres.esc.edu.ar/olivosp/extranet2009/6to/globalwriting/in dex.htm
- 54. Creating e-books uploading Microsoft PowerPoint http://slideboom.com
- 56. This is what it looks like in Slideboom.com
- 57. Ideas using youblisher.com http://elk-grade6-stories.wikispaces.com – Karen Stadler’s project
- 58. Other great ideas • http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/2011/05/26 /digital-storytelling-with-animation-tools/
- 60. Use a programme like http://www.wallwisher.com
- 63. Online sites
- 65. Storyjumper http://www.storyjumper.com This is flip-page book with artwork attached. You can enter a whole class to have these e-books
- 66. A sample from Tamsyn in Grade 5
- 67. A sample from Tamsyn in Grade 5 http://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/572294/4c68afedee407
- 70. Artisan’s Picture Book http://artisancam.org.uk
- 78. Sites using photos in a fun way http://www.picjoke.com http://photofunia.com http://piclits.com
- 82. Stories using Google Maps
- 84. Using a blog to create a story
- 86. Useful blog sites for creative writing
- 87. http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/weekend-website-51-17- story-sites-for-first-and-second-grade/
- 88. Lovely writing ideas on this blog http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/
- 89. Book reviews
- 91. http://www.booktrailersforreaders.com/Home+ Student+Book+Trailers
- 92. Use a blog to write book reports http://josephr4.edublogs.org/2010/07/19/my-report/
- 93. Further down in the same blog
- 94. More book report ideas This whole blog called ‘Watch, Connect, Read” is devoted to different types of book reports: http://mrschureads.blogspot.com/ Ths blog post gives ten alternatives to the traditional book reports: http://theapple.monster.com/benefits/articles/8529-10- technology-enhanced-alternatives-to-book-reports
- 95. Using Wikis for creative writing
- 100. Writing a class novel using a wiki http://willardswriters.wicomico.wikispaces.net/home
- 101. Writing a class novel using a wiki http://yrps5m.wikispaces.com/Welcome
- 103. Newspapers
- 107. Poetry
- 112. Reading sites
- 114. http://www.highlightskids.com/Stories/Rebus/rebus_theNoise0 705/0705_theNoise.asp
- 118. More Reading sites • http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=61940 • http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/genre/Children/all • http://studentdigitaltools.wordpress.com/reading/ • http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/50-places-free- books-online.htm
- 119. Great digital resources Note Handout comprising creative writing sites, poetry sites, online newspaper sites and reading sites entitled ReadingWriting&PoetrySites-FionaBeal
- 122. Handouts Printouts Inspirational sites Shared docs Microsoft’s Digital Storytelling e-book
- 123. And now for the hands on….
- 124. Back Channel Reflection http://todaysmeet.com/Fiona-RWW2 Please add further thoughts and ideas…