28/3/17

Little 1’s Counting Adventure Story Dialogue. Counting 0-5

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Little 1’s Counting Adventure Story Dialogue. Counting 5-10

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Little 1’s Counting Adventure Story Dialogue. Counting 0-10

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This story dialogue can be changed and adjusted to how the teacher sees fit and dependent on their pupils and their interests perhaps.

The written dialogue in the documents above, were written simply so it can be adjusted or made up as the story is read, dependent on class participation.

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This was my first time creating a story using MS Powerpoint.

Before now I have only used powerpoint for creating a presentation, and viewing and printing lecture slides for university classes, as I like to write my class notes on the printouts.  I feel that this allows me to be more interactive within the class and that I am able to listen more closely to what is being discussed.

I have to be honest, I felt that this was my most daunting resource that I had to create (out of the 4 sessions), because I wasn’t sure about where I should start.  So today, I just made myself sit down and have a fiddle with the settings.  I knew I would be able to set animations, as I had used basic animations before but nothing like what I had in my mind that I wanted it to appear like or what I had planned in my original session plans.

Luckily, I live with a PGCE student that is training to be a secondary ICT teacher.  I was lucky enough for him to be free for me to ask a few questions, and he had a few minutes to help me.

After this, I was sorted.  I knew what animations I wanted to use and what pictures and questions I would include.  Once I had got started and had got into the zone of creating Little 1’s Story, the trickiest aspect to the animations was using the custom motion path. The reason I found this tricky was because when selecting and clicking the path that I wanted Little 1 to walk, it was almost invisible to see what path you had created until you tested the slide.  This is why Little 1 might appear to be zig-zagging a little erratically.

It was really fun creating this e-resource and I felt a great achievement once I had completed it.

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Little 1’s Adventure Story was originally created as, counting 0-10 but I felt that this was too long, especially for those pupils in reception.  I then decided to split in in half.  Therefore, in total there are 3 Story’s: counting 0-5, counting 5-10 and counting 0-10.

However, I will only record the video with audio, for counting 0-5.  I have included all 3 dialogues in my blog post, on the session 1 plan page and in the instructional pdf document.

Mondays 20/03/17 class.

In today’s class, I created the Padlet instruction video, for session 2.

This was the first time I have used the software CamStudio.

During class, we were informed about the software and its flexibility with recording video, and video with audio.

This time I decided not to include audio.  This was because it was still during class time and it was quite noisy.

After recording the Padlet access and upload process, the recording came out really well on my first attempt.  I then decided to upload the video to YouTube, as this was recommended by my lecturer, as it was flexible to edit the video to my liking.

It was also my first time using YouTube in this way.  It was a day of several firsts! 🙂

I opened up YouTube and it seemed quite straight forward to upload the video recording, however, it took me a little while to figure out how I could add annotations (the text boxes) to the video.  After a little play around with all the tabs, my lecturer and I worked it out together.

Again, I feel that the video and addition of annotations, came out really well for my first attempt…even if I do say so myself.  As this was a day of firsts, I feel quite chuffed and proud of myself for giving something different a try.  As mentioned before, I consider myself to be quite tech-literate, but I am aware (even more so now) that there are many software systems that I was not aware about prior to starting this module.

Being honest, I was a little worried giving it a go, as all time spent on this project has been valuable, as I didn’t want to risk making a mistake and use more time making adjustments; also time during class, as I wanted to make the most out of the class learning and having a great lecturer there to help and advise when required.

19/03/17

Today I created the Padlet blackboard for Session 2, click here

This was my second time creating a blackboard in Padlet.

I remember my first time was a little daunting but this time, I felt confident in knowing but also remembering how I used it before.

I chose the pencil background, as it was classroom related and it was a bright and bold colour.  The background seems visually appealing…for myself but also for the parents and pupils that will be interacting with it; for their initial picture upload (in this session 2 activity) and for future reference to help as a guide for options of how to count (perhaps for use in session 3 and session 4).

I double clicked the left mouse button anywhere on the screen, which brought up an upload box (as shown below).

Then the following information would need to be added into this box

Then clicking on the (+) icon at the bottom of the box, would allow an attachment to be uploaded.

As shown in the top picture in this blog, I have added 3 examples, to give the parents and pupils and idea but to also show them that it can be anything that involves counting.  To think outside of the box.  Sometimes simple ideas are not associated with something like counting, which can provide a little quick solution or a bit of a cheat sheet to help.  For example, I remember when I was in school learning to count coins and get through any numeracy related question.  I worked out (unsure what made me think of this solution) that I could count in 1’s, there would be points on every number that i could use as a counting referencing point (as the picture below hopefully identifies this clearly).

There are 5 points on the number 5, and 4 points on the number 4.

The idea behind this Padlet is for pupils to think creatively, so if they need counting ideas in the future, they will be able to access this Padlet blackboard at home and school (on the computer or view the poster that will be pinned on the classroom wall).