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PROMPT 8
I decided to due my search of #picturebooks in Instagram and once again I was not disappointed. I loved these 4 pictures that I found but I think the quote represents books in their entirety. Everything I saw was so colour and vibrant and made me happy, and I think thats what books do. They make people happy!
This looks like the end of the story; but it isn’t!
Beatrix Potter
The last prompt, PROMPT 8
This week we are still using the hashtag #picturebooks
Your task this week is to do a search using the hashtag, in another social media platform. Can you search Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other platforms using the #picturebooks hashtag.
Make a comparison with last weeks results, tell us what you have found.
Reflect on whether or not you could use the hashtag to research something related to what your class is doing. Can you unlock a whole world of information to help your class become researchers using online information? Could your class hashtag #sustainability #palmoilfree #poverty
Is the hashtag a viable alternative to do doing classroom based research via Wikipedia, on-line encyclopaedia’s, and designated websites found with a google search?
Thank you to all of those that have made an effort with your reflections, there have been some absolutely stunning TUMBLR posts and we are very proud of those that have taken on the challenge,
Regards
The ECL310 team.
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Prompt 7
Research a #hashtag
Your task for this prompt is to do a search, on TUMBLR, of #picturebooks.
Type in #picturebooks to the search panel, and then have a look at the numerous TUMBLR posts that include that hashtag that are shown.
We want you to find something and share!. You may find the details of a new picture book being released, you may find a discussion or information regarding an obscure, or famous picture book. If you see an interesting hashtag in one of the posts you may like to follow that.
We ask you to reflect and report back on what you have found interesting when you have research #picturebooks. You may choose to follow some TUMBLR sites and recommend these to others. Remember to hashtag #ecl3102016, and #ecl310prompt7 and #picturebooks
Happy Hashtag Hunting
From the ECL310 team!
PROMPT 7
When searching the #picturebooks I was in awe of the colour and the vibrance that exploded on the screen in front of me. I was amazed at how many resources and wonderful art I found, as I scrolled through the abundance of posts.
I picked this post because the illustrations caught my eye, the way that the colours are so simple but the drawings are so detailed, it really moved me. I am so excited to start my picture book collection after searching through this hashtag. I didn’t realise how many amazing books there were in this world.
Prompt 7
Research a #hashtag
Your task for this prompt is to do a search, on TUMBLR, of #picturebooks.
Type in #picturebooks to the search panel, and then have a look at the numerous TUMBLR posts that include that hashtag that are shown.
We want you to find something and share!. You may find the details of a new picture book being released, you may find a discussion or information regarding an obscure, or famous picture book. If you see an interesting hashtag in one of the posts you may like to follow that.
We ask you to reflect and report back on what you have found interesting when you have research #picturebooks. You may choose to follow some TUMBLR sites and recommend these to others. Remember to hashtag #ecl3102016, and #ecl310prompt7 and #picturebooks
Happy Hashtag Hunting
From the ECL310 team!
PROMPT 6
After watching ‘Discover the diversity of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages’ (http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1916032/discover-the-diversity-of-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-languages)
I would create a front-loading activity surrounding the diversity in Australia. This could be focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as well as different cultural diversity that we find in Australia. Students will be able to make connections between their culture and Australia’s cultural diversity. ‘About Me’ posters could be made to put on the classroom wall, so students can see the diversity within the classroom.
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Prompt 6
I would like you all to have a look at the fantastic teacher materials on this website.
For this weeks reflection, I would like you look at one of the many grade 5 and 6 videos. You can check the grade 5 and 6 boxes, as well as the video box, down the left hand side.
After watching one of these indigenous related videos, describe how you might use this particular video in the front loading of a literature unit based on an Australian and Torres Strait Islander book. You may choose any of the video’s, and you don’t have to match it to a particular book. For this purpose you don’t need to have a specific book, but if you do know one, then that would be great,
good luck
The ECL310 team
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PROMPT 5
Part 1 – That night was so cold, I could have died, along with having absolutely no strength. I felt hollow and laid there in silence as the food in front of me was basically transparent.
Part 2 – We see those who are in need right in front of us but yet the world is too transparent to see it.
Part 3 – For a basic front loading session I would use a KWHL chart for students to make predictions before it is read but also this could be added to after the book is read to see if their thoughts and opinions have changed.
PROMPT 5
Welcome back to those that have been on placement, and to everyone else. This weeks seminar involves the powerful children’s picture book Dust. First, I would like you to write a sentence using every word in the Wordle attached to this post. Many of you have already done this in seminars, you can just re-use the possible sentence you have already written, or add in a new one. The entire book is available to be read, in the week 6 seminar file on Cloud.
Second, I would like you to re-write the sentence for the attached image of the food being placed in the rubbish bin. Just one sentence, but it can be a challenge as you already know what the sentence is!
Both of these great front-loading activities were devised by Marsha Dickins and are two of several that were modelled in the seminars. Finally, for a third reflection, can you briefly describe another short ten-to-twenty minute front-loading lesson you may do, before the book is read.
Good luck!
WEEK 4 REFLECTION
I didn’t get the chance to take a picture of the displays in my classroom but there were some which I thought were very interesting and that I would definitely think about incorporating into my own classroom one day.
The school that I was placed at had a big emphasis on goal setting, with each student’s goals for reading, writing, maths, spelling all up and visible on the wall of their classroom, which I thought was a really good idea.
As it was a grade 5 classroom they didn’t have a lot of displays, they did have a display of a writing wall, where all the student’s best work would go in there too when they had completed a published version.
Prompt 4
Classroom Displays
I found this today in a local Primary School. I spoke to the teacher about it.The teacher is hesitant to take the bold step of incorporating real social media platforms in to her classroom for a number of reasons. The students do use EDMODO as a form of Facebook, which is a closed cache able to be accessed by the students and the school only. Some of the students use EDMODO regularly, such as one of my daughters. Several of her classmates never use EDMODO at all.
This Twitter Feed board seems to work quite well and the students enjoy seeing each others posts.
The #dismoment heading in the image is a reference to a resilience project the school is working on.
For discussion this week, please take a photo of something interesting you see in the classroom on placement, remember to ask for approval. If the teacher seems hesitant don’t push it. Remember, no children’s images whatsoever.
Displays that are unusual and even unique would be great, or displays that you think are just downright impressive will also qualify. It may be a great writing task someone has done, an interesting method of teaching a writing genre perhaps, or a class project. Please make sure names are blurred or any child's full name is unable to be identified.
Some of you are not on placement, can I get you to reflect on your opinion of what is good content, and what may be unhelpful content in a classroom display.
If you don’t want that as a prompt, go back to the top of this prompt and have a reflective moment on what your current attitude is with social media and the classroom. There are some stunning successes, but also some difficult cyber bullying narratives, what do you think about all of it?
We hope you are enjoying placement, and if you get the chance, see if you can grab a literacy planner. This might be a whole year planner, a term planner, a monthly planner or even a weekly planner. A Gardiner’s Multiple Intelligences / Bloom’s Taxonomy / VCOP / CAFE or similar planner would be terrific. These are rich sources of literacy teaching thought, and will be something to help you in ECL410 next year,
good luck!
WEEK 3 REFLECTION
When I think about when I have made connections with texts in the past week, I realise that I do it frequently every day.
I have made connections with texts in the following ways: Scrolling through facebook, reading assignments and readings for uni, responding to friends on Facebook through messenger, responding to text messages, reading the newspaper on my work break, reading and responding to emails.
I don’t have a book I am reading at the moment, so that isn’t my frequently read thing. The things that I do read the most is probably my social media, including Facebook, emails and Instagram.
Multi-literacies.
For this weeks reflection I would like you to make a list of all the different ways you have made meaning from text, in the last week.
Personally, to name a few, I have read The Age on-line, written and read emails, I communicated with an old-friend on Facebook, I have had text messages from friends and family, I have read a graphic novel, called Sisters by Raina Telgemeier. I also read a few chapters of a novel by Thomas Keneally, I looked at a sports catalogue, read a newspaper, read a scoreboard, read a smart board and I have used numerous other different source of text.
It is difficult to remember all the different types of reading i have done.
This week please reflect on the main types of texts you read, what are your most common sources, is it blogs, emails, text messages, or rather novels, magazines and text books. Whatever it is please let us know what you are reading,
regards
the ECL310 team.
WEEK 2 REFLECTION
Prediction Activity for the cover of Are You Seeing Me? By Darren Groth
First of I would get the students to infer what they think the book could be about just by using the pictures that the front cover is showing. Then I would get them to investigate the way the words are positioned on the cover, what else can they infer? Another way I could approach the task would be to have an open discussion with the class, starting with a think, pair, share with a partner and then together as a whole class, create a mind map about what they can infer from the front cover to see what the students think the book is about. I would also ask them if they have ever seen any writing from the author, Darren Groth and to if they can relate any other writing with the title and cover of the book to see if they can infer and predict better that way. If students had never heard of Darren Groth before and if he had other books, I would read some paragraphs from work of his and the titles and see if they can make connections between what kind of writer he is, then they can use that to infer and predict what Are You Seeing Me is about.
Short Listed for the 2015 CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers.
Are You Seeing Me? by Darren Groth, Random House Australia isbn:9780857984739
Welcome to the week two prompt.
We have read many of your responses to the first prompt and we are thrilled with the lovely reflections many of you have posted - thank you!
This week we are going to use the cover of one of the books selected in the 2015 Children’s Book Council Awards. It is Are You Seeing Me? by Darren Groth.
For your reflection this week we want you to think of a prediction activity you could do, just using the cover. The cover has graphics and text, you can use either or both. We only want an idea, a thought, for a ten to fifteen minute activity. You can record your thought on video, or use audio record on a device. You might download a copy of the cover and add post-its with prediction questions on it. Or you can simply just write your thoughts. of what you might do if you were about to start reading this middle years text.
You may like to read Winch text book p92-94 if you are unsure of what a prediction tasks is, Winch explains further the reading comprehension approaches of Inferring, Predicting and Before Reading strategies.
Remember to add in the hashtag at the end of your reflections.
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