Michelle

ichat - mshearman@mac.com email - mshearman@stmichs.woll.catholic.edu.au

====I'm Michelle Shearman. I teach at St Michael's Thirroul. I am the Learning Tech Coordinator and am also fortunate to teach a great group of year 6 students. I have been teaching for 14 years....gee that seems like a long time.====

====I have two children, Olivia and Jack. Olivia is nine and Jack is seven. I am very passionate about Learning Technologies and thrive on finding the best 'tool for the job'. I am also a very critical user of technology. As a result of participating in this course, I hope to challenge myself by working at the 'cutting edge' and by sharing what I learn with both my peers and my students. I also hope to become a more efficient user of technology through learning about things such as RSS feeds. A project which I would like to work on is further developing my current use of blogs and wikis. I would like to better explore the possibility of using blogs as a means of assessment. I would also like to improve my knowledge of embedding multi media within the blog environment. I am fairly familiar with apps such as, GarageBand, ilfe and iphoto suite. I am a pretty good 'dabbler' but would like to 'fine tune' some of my understandings. ====

[[image:Photo_20.jpg width="191" height="143" align="center"]] Some of the blogs which I have created with my students are:

 * ====[|yearsix2009.edublogs.org] / ..... the purpose of this blog is to enable my students to document their 'Year 6 Journey' and to encourage all students to contribute their thoughts====
 * ====[|ithink.edublogs.org] /..... the purpose of this blog is to explore the text types 'exposition' and 'discussion' . The students are presented with two points of view and asked to develop their arguments in an online environment====
 * ====[|puzzlingprimaryproblems.edublogs.org] /..... the purpose of this blog was to trial differentiation via blogs in the area of Mathematics====
 * ====[|mshearman.edublogs.org] /..... the purpose of this blog was to enable students to showcase their artwork in an online environment and also participate in art appreciation type conversation using a thinking framework====


 * ====Some of the wikis....====


 * ====[|neverendingstory.pbwiki.com] /.... the purpose of this wiki was to encourage my students to build a collaborative story====
 * ====[|creation1.pbwiki.com] /...... the purpose of this wiki was to showcase the RE LITERACY PRODUCTS. It was created as a wiki with the view of other schools also adding their products, thus creating a diocesan wiki====