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[ICTs in English] Re: Much Ado About Nothing on Facebook


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  • From: Karen Melhuish <karen.melhuish AT core-ed.ac.nz>
  • To: ictenglish AT mailinglist.tki.org.nz
  • Subject: [ICTs in English] Re: Much Ado About Nothing on Facebook
  • Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:42:17 +1200

..and while we're on the topic...

How Shakespeare & Social Media Are Fighting Cyber Bullying


As well as the example Claire, shared, there are some great clips here: http://mashable.com/2011/04/25/shakespeare-facebook-cyber-bullying/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29


Love the hip-hop "Much Ado...";-)

Cheers
Karen M


On 26/04/2011, at 8:15 AM, Claire Amos wrote:

If your students are studying Much Ado, you might like to get them involved with this project which involves a modern day version of Much Ado being played out on Facebook. Starts on today!

http://weeklyreader.com/ado

A Shakespeare play on Facebook? Yes! It's true! Beginning on April 26 at 4:00 p.m., you can be a part of Shakespeare's classic comedy as we present it in real time over three days. Connect with the characters on this page to see the play happen LIVE in your own Facebook news feed.* Click the "Like Us!" image to the right and, on the next page, click the "like" buttons next to the character images to be a part of the upcoming performance! Make sure to "like" them all to get the full theater-going experience.

Cheers

Claire

Claire Amos
Director of e-learning
T +64 9 630 5963
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-----Original Message-----
From: Louise Tredinnick [mailto:5treds AT xtra.co.nz]
Sent: Mon 25/04/2011 8:29 a.m.
To: ictenglish AT mailinglist.tki.org.nz
Subject: [ICTs in English] Re: RE: Re:  Re: Reading Planning

Thanks Bruce that's really helpful and you are so lucky to have Alison Davis in your cluster.  Yes, I can see how it all fits together now and also having taught reading for some time without the direction so specific from the last few years I also highly motivated by being able to take much better reading lessons.  I'm also now using Sheena Cameron's book for help with the daily implementation.  

Thanks so much for your insight.
Louise

On 20/04/2011, at 9:50 AM, Deputy Principal wrote:

Hi Louise

Each of the sub tests have had specific skills identified (through our
PD cluster) that the children require to meet the demands of word
recognition, sentence / paragraph comprehension or the use of vocabulary
in a text.  When the teachers analyse the results of the assessment,
(particularly with target children / groups), they will be able to
identify their next steps in teaching.

The plan does not cater for the day to day guided reading planning -
this still needs to be reflected in the teachers' weekly plan where it
is far more specific and, in answering your other question, yes we do
run a task board rotation.  We make great use of modelling books where
the direction for the week is set out, including:

*  Learning Intentions and Success Criteria;
*  Prior Knowledge activities;
*  References to challenges in the text;
*  Opportunity for formative assessment;
*  Opportunity for the children to contribute;
*  Follow up tasks.

Is it easy? Nope.  Is it quick? Not really.  Maybe for some.

However, for the first time in 19 years I am comfortable with my Reading
planning.  While I am sure the children I previously taught certainly
did not suffer, I am confident that I will see some accelerated growth
through well planned, well informed, targeted teaching practice.  I know
what their needs are....so do they.  We also know what and how we are
going to meet these needs.

In saying that, our facilitators within the cluster (lead by Alison
Davis) work hard to ensure success for the teachers and children - as do
the lead teachers. The planning is just a small piece of the puzzle.

Bruce McMillan
Deputy Principal
Kelvin Road School

dp AT krs.ac.nz

Ph. (09) 298 8417
Mob. 021 180 8206

http://kelvinroadschool.blogspot.com/


-----Original Message-----
From: Louise Tredinnick [mailto:5treds AT xtra.co.nz]
Sent: Monday, 18 April 2011 3:56 p.m.
To: ictenglish AT mailinglist.tki.org.nz
Subject: [ICTs in English] Re: Re: Reading Planning

Dear Bruce
This is quite different to what I've seen before.  Thank you so much for
sharing it.  I can see how the top data part would be filled out and the
whole right hand side of the plan and I just wondered how the bottom
part would be filled out.  Are you putting the specific skills that
would attend to issues with Word Recognition etc that would then feed
into the learning intentions on the other side?  This is a really well
thought out plan and so different from how I have been planning. After
the initial time spent working out the plan does it not only make it
useful but save you time over the subsequent weeks of teaching?  

On 15/04/2011, at 11:21 AM, Deputy Principal wrote:

Dear All,

I am a lead teacher in a cluster called the Papakura Achievement
Initiative - affectionately known as PAI.  It is a cluster that has
enjoyed quite robust professional development with literacy
(predominantly Reading) over the last few years.  Attached is an
Action Plan for Reading that has been developed over that time (and,
to be fair, continues to develop with our own pedagogy).  Its original

purpose was to target the groups with a greater level of need, but we
use it for all groups as each group really needs to have quite
specific teaching for their quite specific needs.

The data and the knowledge of the children informs the Learning
Intentions and we try to maintain a good balance of:
1)  Comprehension strategy focus;
2)  Decoding focus;
3)  Vocab focus;
4)  Fluency focus.

The next development in the plan will ensure there is allowance to
plan for a maintenance focus.

It is a five week plan - it was originally a 10 week plan but it did
not work the way we hoped.

The plan ensures a good relevant direction and keeps everyone
explicitly conscious of what they are trying to achieve.

Helpful?

Bruce McMillan
Deputy Principal
Kelvin Road School

dp AT krs.ac.nz

Ph. (09) 298 8417
Mob. 021 180 8206

http://kelvinroadschool.blogspot.com/


-----Original Message-----
From: Louise Tredinnick [mailto:5treds AT xtra.co.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, 13 April 2011 8:17 p.m.
To: ictenglish AT mailinglist.tki.org.nz
Subject: [ICTs in English] Re: Reading Planning


I am interested in how people do reading planning - to plan for
specific needs - groups - rotations compared with somehow constructing

more generic planning that can be used again with other groups and in
the future.  If anyone has some good planning ideas I would love to
hear them.

Louise
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