Vanessa

 =Vanessa Bowes=

I am teaching at Our Lady Help of Christians Rosemeadow. I team teach with Kristy on Year 5, who is also doing this course as well. Here is a picture of Kristy and myself.

From this course I would like to be able to present at staff meetings, in order to increase others knowledge with technology and motivate them to use technology in the classrooms more. I would like to further develop my skills in order to motivate my children, decrease behaviour management issues and refine the skills I currently use.

I would also like to learn more about interactive whiteboards, as I should be having one installed in the classroom soon. I know these highly motivate children and benefit their learning in a major way.

The tools and applications I am currently using within the classroom are: Myclasses, garageband, powerpoint, imovie, and others. The other day Kristy and I discovered how to blue tooth a movie from a phone to the computer. Kristy used her phone to video herself teaching two digit by two digit multiplication and then up loaded it to the myclasses page, so that parents are able to see how we teach it at school. The children enjoyed this, which means we will continue to do use this resource.

I am looking forward to learning new information from the group.

28/4/09 After our first day, both Kristy and I were excited about how much we could take back to the classrooms. We decided that showing the children a Voki would engage them and that they could use it later on. After a few internet problems we were able to show them and they were very excited.

During Catholic Schools week, we changed classes with primary, so we decided to get them to create a voki as well. Once again we had internet hassles, but overall the children were amazed at what they could create and some even went home and showed their parents.

30/4/09 - Blogs and Wikis Today I learnt how to create my own blog. I made the blog for Year 5 and I feel it is going to be a good start for them in order to learn how to use them as well. I enjoyed creating it today and it was good that if I encountered a problem it was able to be fixed on the spot.