Candace

Hello,

My name is Candace and I am currently teaching at Corpus Christi High School in Oak Flats. I've been teaching here for just over a year but have been teaching for a total of 7 years.

I'm a trained English teacher, but as you are probably aware we teach a little of everything at Corpus through our integrated approach.

We use blogs and wiki's fairly regally through our curriculum delivery. We have found them to be particularly useful for our CLE (units of work) student reflections and a means to negotiate discussions particularly with more reserved students. This is just one example [|Novel based Bolg]

Another blog that we have developed was used as an assessment for one of our year 9 CLE's, where the students went on a hike. So a unit which had no use of technology throughout the delivery, was able to assess the students through the use of technology. This blog is only in the very early stages and will be added to over the coming weeks. [|Survivor North Era]

In terms of sharing students work we have asked students to publish their short films on teacher tube, where other students can make comments and in turn feel their work is valued within a public space. Some of these short mash ups can be found at [|Teacher Tube Student Work Samples]

We are now looking at broadening the parameters of how we use technology in the classroom. We are investigating how we could utilize virtual worlds as a means of building community with our partner primary schools and offer new learning experiences to our students.