Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0’
This morning I worked with our special needs teacher and school librarian to promote reading amongst a group of year 7 students who struggle in developing their literacy skills. This task involved students reading aloud The Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French and recording their performances with web cams before watching their recorded videos, [...]
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Tags: literacy, reading, web 2.0, web cams
Today I tried a more advanced sequence of mini research tasks using Google Reader. Students have been using their own RSS subscriptions as part of wide reading for a unit on contemporary Australia, and it’s fascinating to see how the areas of interest they have developed over the past few weeks have really motivated their [...]
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Tags: critical literacy, google reader, junior english, web 2.0
