iTEAM++elearning+examples

**Here some of examples of elearning across our cluster.

Here is a teachable moment that got utilized in Room 17 at Tauranga Intermediate: Mary Woods  To start the story, the students were involved in journalistic report writing and we were in the process of focussing on sports, and thats when things changed. We had a live mouse in the classroom and it was seen climbing the wall by a student during a very focussed Math session. Well most students took part in trying to catch the mouse apart from some (including myself) that decided standing on a desk was the safest option. This happened on the 4 May while the Assistant Principal and then a bit later the Principal was visiting the classroom. The following Friday (after the caretaker had put some poison down) the mouse was caught by a student. The year 8s in the area tried to claim the mouse as being Cheezles, so obviously he had been seen before. And that is how it all started. I went with the teachable moment and not very often does this happen in a very busy school. We drafted the reports, the students had to come up with a catchy title, a hook to attract their audience, they had to include features of a report at a level 4 which I gave them the rubric while drafting their draft copy. I had a good look at the 'Pages' programme on the Mac computers and how I could use the templates. And this is how it came about.

The students used a 'pages' document to publish their news report and they saved this as a PDF. This was a huge process in it self, because they had to choose a template from the 'Pages' programme, one that suited the genre, most students did not know that 'pages' had so many templates, they had only used a basic publishing document. From here they put their saved PDFs into a folder and thats when I took over. After I had investigated how 'YouBlisher' worked, I cut and paste all 31 copies of the students reports into a another pages document that was similar to cut and pasting images, from there I saved this document as a PDF and then uploaded it into youblisher. Have a look.......

http://www.youblisher.com/p/27914-Room-17-News-Reports/ **