English+&+Technology

= = Most schools will have the following programs installed on their computers:
 * SOME IDEAS **

· **WORD **

o Type up any assessments tasks/answers o Footnote an essay (insert – reference – footnote) o Create a whole class story – each child writes a paragraph and then swaps computers to add to the story (a variation on word at a time story development) o Create a resume in preparation for leaving school o Design a lunch time menu for the school canteen · **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">PUBLISHER ** <span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'courier new'; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Use the templates for any one of a number of different writing activities. <span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'courier new'; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Create a travel brochure for “fair Verona where we set our scene” <span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'courier new'; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Create a class newsletter -- link to newspapers and reporting <span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'courier new'; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Make an invitation to a school event <span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'courier new'; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Create a resume in preparation for leaving school <span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'courier new'; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Make a program for a school event <span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'courier new'; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Design a lunch time menu for the school canteen <span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'courier new'; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Design a card to send to: <span style="font-family: wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: wingdings; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">§ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">An author <span style="font-family: wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: wingdings; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">§ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">A younger/older buddy student <span style="font-family: wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: wingdings; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">§ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">A character in the book you are reading

<span style="font-family: symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: symbol; msofareastfontfamily: symbol; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">· **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">POWERPOINT ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">1) Create a presentation on: <span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'courier new'; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· staging King Lear <span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'courier new'; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· your favourite subject <span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'courier new'; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">the themes of a novel <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">2) Create a moving story book – link to Picture Book unit, journal writing <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">3) Create a moving story book – link to Poetry/Creative writing <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Create an animated story book.

<span style="font-family: symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: symbol; msofareastfontfamily: symbol; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">· **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">EXCEL ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Make a graph of all the people who like/dislike Harry Potter <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Create a timeline of:

<span style="font-family: symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: symbol; msofareastfontfamily: symbol; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Events in a novel <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o The works of a writer <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o Personal goals -- links to a unit on “Biography”, or “Our Place” <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o Personal milestones -- links to a unit on “Biography”, or “Our Place”

<span style="font-family: symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: symbol; msofareastfontfamily: symbol; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">· **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">EMAIL ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">1) Establish a buddy class in: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">a. The same school <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">b. A school in the same area <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">c. A distance education school <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">d. A school overseas

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">**MOVIE MAKER** (free software in XP Operating system) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Use the “titles” menu to create a digital portfolio of poetry <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Draw a series of pictures in Paint (free drawing software on all computers) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">and then animate them. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Animate a play or story using paint or imported still photos. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Create an animated story with a digital still camera or webcam <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Take series of still photos using lego/small toys, and painted backdrops and <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">create an animation of an episode in a novel you read. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Film a news report of a school event <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Role play interviewing a: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o Character from a novel <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o The author of a book <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o Politician <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Create your own chat show <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Interview a: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o Sports student prior to and after a school carnival <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o Performance student before and after a concert <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o An elderly person in your community -- links to a unit on “Biography”, or “Our Place” <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o Debating student before and after a debate <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o Make a film clip to accompany a piece of music <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Make a documentary or a mock-umentary <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o on exam s at school, sports crazy fans <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o An historical event <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o A day in the life of a school student <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o A day in the life of a teacher <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o A school event <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Shoot an expose of: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o Homework: Is it taken seriously? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o School canteen: Promoting healthy eating? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o What kids bring for lunch and what really happens to it? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Create a short educational film about <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o Sun safety <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o Saying no to drugs <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o How to prevent bullying <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o Peer pressure <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o Tips and tricks to surviving in the playground <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">o Handling the pressure of homework <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Record a poetry reading (or a poetry rap) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Perform and record a short play <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Create a documentary of an historical event using Microsoft® Photo Story and/or Windows Movie Maker <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· Create a 30sec commercial <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="font-family: symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: symbol; msofareastfontfamily: symbol; msofareastlanguage: en-au; msolist: ignore;">·


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">RESOURCES **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Movie_making_manual <span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'times new roman'; msofareastlanguage: en-au;">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/getstarted/default.mspx <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">§ http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001585.shtml <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">§ http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/ilifesearch.php <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">§ http://etc.usf.edu/wireless/plans/lp0055.htm <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">§ http://www.saskschools.ca/resources/techref/moviemaker/movie.html <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">§ http://kidsvid.hprtec.org/index.html <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">§ http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/nisa/moviemaker.htm

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">But Wait --- There’s More ! <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">1) **CREATE A VIRTUAL COMMUNITY --WEB FORUM or DISCUSSION GROUP or BOOK RAP** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">a. BOOK RAP <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">i. Choose a book <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">ii. Start a discussion or join an existing one <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">iii. Eg http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/schoollibraries/teaching/raps/index.htm <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">iv. Eg http://rite.ed.qut.edu.au/old_oz-teachernet/projects/book-rap/how.html

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">**b. WEB FORUM or DISCUSSION GROUP** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">i. Start a Yahoo Group or MSN Users Group (it’s free) http://au.groups.yahoo.com/ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">ii. Start your own Moodle http://moodle.com.au/ or http://moodle.org/ (a free online <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">learning development tool) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">iii. Conduct an online discussion or debate in real time <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">1. eg King Lear was a fool. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">iv. Conduct a poll <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">v. Vote on a class issue <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">vi. Write sn ongoing novel or “Choose your own adventure” story – each person adds tothe story as it goes around vii. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Eg http://www.discover.tased.edu.au/forum/support/vcintro.htm

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">**2) ONLINE LEARNING** – webquests, knowledge hunts, and cyberguides <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">a. Choose a topic, formulate some questions, collect some links and go….. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">b. Cyberguides – interactive investigations (guides) to novels and plays <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">i. Eg http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">c. Webquests -- <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">i. Eg http://bestwebquests.com/ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">ii. Eg http://edge-ucator.com/ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">iii. Eg encouraging reading for meaning <span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'times new roman'; msofareastlanguage: en-au;">http://www.ozline.com/learning/thinking.html <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">iv. Eg http://webquest.sdsu.edu/matrix/9-12-Eng.htm <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">v. Eg http://webct.education.tas.gov.au/SCRIPT/soapoperasB/scripts/serve_home

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">**3) CREATE A DIGITAL PORTFOLIO/DIGITAL STORYBOOK** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">a. Use the “titles” menu in movie maker to create a digital portfolio of poetry <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">b. Draw a series of pictures in Paint (free drawing software on all computers) and then animate them. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">c. Animate a play or story using paint or imported still photos. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">d. Create an animated story with a digital still camera or webcam <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">e. Picture books in powerpoint/movie maker <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">i. Animations <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">ii. Story writng <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">f. Digital poetry – using powerpoint or movie maker <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">g. Use Movie Maker, Paint, to create story books, animations, and digital <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">portfolios <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">h. Free software <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">§ PHOTOSTORY – free download from the Microsoft Site <span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'times new roman'; msofareastlanguage: en-au;">[|http://www.windowsphotostory.com/#] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">§ PICASA – free google download – graphics manipulator <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">FROM THE SYLLABUS: p 77

<span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'times new roman'; msofareastlanguage: en-au;">http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_sc/pdf_doc/english_710_syl.doc

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Assessment tasks in English will include tasks with a specified time limit and tasks to be accomplished over a <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">longer period. They include:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· responses presented in a different type of text and through a combination of modes: for example, converting <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">prose to script, or using information from a factual text to compose a literary or imaginative text

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· prepared and impromptu oral presentations <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· written or spoken, short or extended, responses <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· listening and viewing tasks: for example, responses to taped stories, films and television programs <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· research tasks using information drawn from library, internet, databases and spreadsheets <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· reflective tasks: for example, completing a written text, explaining the processes used to produce the text andself-assessing the text <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· oral and written critical responses to texts using given or learnt criteria (for example, the strengths and <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">weaknesses of website designs and functions) and assessing balance and objectivity in texts <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· limited-time composition of texts in particular forms for specific contexts (for example, preparation of a twenty-second radio news bulletin) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· extended research, composition and presentation (for example, development of multimedia texts and <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">presentations) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· identification and analysis of the components of multimodal texts (for example, how sound and visual components work together in a film) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· reading tasks requiring skimming, scanning or close reading <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· drafts and completed versions of written texts or representations <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· editing texts to remove errors, improve style, shorten, lengthen, or adjust for a different purpose, audience and <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">context <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· collecting portfolios or folders of work with negotiated content and reflections on the learning processes used <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· directed reading strategies (for example, cloze) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· imaginative re-creation or extension from a text (for example, writing as a character, creating an additional <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">incident, interviewing the composer) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· self-assessment of the achievement of outcomes during a series of tasks (for example, collaborative <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">presentations of an advertising campaign) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· evaluating and challenging views through group discussions of issues (for example, gender in the workplace) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· composition of a folder of everyday and workplace texts such as reports, letters of application, record of interview <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· peer evaluation of performance for particular audiences <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· composing a visual representation that emphasises a particular point of view <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· a multistage task with opportunities for teacher observations at key stages.

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