Evelyn Mann’s keynote to open the conference was interesting. She discussed the ‘literacy’ of drama and how drama reinforces many literacy skills. The fact that you can ‘think, feel and represent messages through drama’ enables it to be a literacy. This is interesting – as an e-fellows group, the discussions on ‘what is literacy?’ have […]
Here is a little video file that I have recently shared with people both within and beyond our school. Already though it is out of date as our blog approaches its 300th comment (only 2 to go!!) Bloggers in Action
The mentors have taken the idea of contacting authors and run with it. As a result they are taking more care to add detail and thought to their posts. In the last week Aidan has made contact with Kate de Goldi’s agent, Lucy has e-mailed Tania Roxborogh, Tyler has e-mailed Joanne Harris and others are […]
Well where do I start? 7 of the 10 ‘Buddies’ have had running records taken that show 5 of them have made significant progress in the term on the programme. One of them has shown 2 years improvement since February and another 1.5yrs since February. This is significant. When I chatted with them about why […]
I didn’t realise how long it has been since I made a post on my blog!! I have been keeping a thorough journal of what has been going on – but unfortunately this has been of a very old fashioned nature – pen and paper!!! I have so much to share with you that I […]
I have taken the time to chat with one of the classroom teachers (remember that I bring students from classes throughout the school together). This teacher has 1 student involved as a mentor and three as buddies. HER RESPONSE HAS BEEN SO AFFIRMING . . . She made note of the following: That all of […]
It has been too long since I have made a post regarding my E-Fellowship project. With being away in Week 5 it has taken me a while to get back into the swing of things! The blog looks like it is ticking along nicely: *it is taking shape with reports, photos and podcasts *it has […]
Things continue to buzz. This is great considering half of the group are reluctant readers, who are often hesitant contributors to classroom lessons. All of the ‘buddy’ bloggers, have either made a post (or two) or have posts ready to go. Now that we have all of these posts on I would really like to […]
BubbleShare: Share photos – Easy Photo Sharing We are well and truly on our way! The mentors are doing a great job of working with the buddies -the only thing is that we have come to a standstill – our blog has used up our quota of 20MB!!!! I am in the process of upgrading […]
While we didn’t meet as a group of ‘Bloggers’ today it has been exciting to have had a raft of nine comments roll into the blog. THANKS ROOM 13! The comments that have been posted are from students who have read some of the books and are agreeing with the comments eg: At this link […]
