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Mary's Online Portfolio

Elearn Professional Development day 19/6/10 Guest Speaker Kath Murdoch. Below is the link to her web site. There is some really interesting readings on Inquiry learning. What do effective Inquiry teachers do? Inquiry teachers are working with the students and she has Top 10 practices of the effective Inquiry Teacher. Click on the links on her web site for all the readings that she gave at the work shop. http://www.kathmurdoch.com.au/ The wiki space link has all the breakouts and professional readings and resources from each breakout that was available on the day. http://elearnandnetwork.wikispaces.com/

Over all a very good day and very productive. Came away with many ideas to do with inquiry such as putting up in the classroom a wall of wonderings, a place where students could ask a question and even answer the question. Also during the seminar, she gave me a visual image of what an Inquiry classroom looks like, she explained this really well. The top 10 practices really breaks inquiry down in to steps that are easy to implement. This is very helpful for those just starting out in the inquiry process.

A recent visit to Selwyn Ridge Primary school, provided an opportunity to look at another schools vision. Soaring high, further thinking, learning culture indicators, consistent and high expectations, authentic context, recognition of learning styles, risk taking, these are just some of the things I came form from the visit. 

Attached is their vision, practices and principles.

http://www.selwynridge.school.nz/

Web site above

Bucklands Beach Intermediate Recently we visited Bucklands beach Intermediate. This was also a very productive day, learning how they incorporate ICT into their classroom programme.

http://www.germywormy.co.cc/ The above link is a students science experiment published on the web. This science project was published on Iweb. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students alo have used weebly.com and also wix.com website builders.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Recently my class used wix website to publish information on a Future Problem solving scenario 'child poverty' <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Below are some of the students web sites. This is an excellent way to get students into building their own web pages

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">http://www.wix.com/matyda/chinaschildpoverty <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">http://www.wix.com/carsonluke/terroronthestreets <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">http://www.wix.com/cambrioah/street-children-philippines

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Glogster.edu <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Room 17 students absolutely love publishing book reviews using Glogster.edu. This is also a great way of hosting student made movies that they have made and for parents to look at home.