Douglas,+Helen

Helen Douglas Year 1 (K) teacher at Chinese International School in Hong Kong hdouglas@cis.edu.hk ......I'd love to hear from you!

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An example of using technology to increase a young student's reading confidence.

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 * 1) ====Digital camera - essential tool in a junior classroom. The children photograph their learning as a lot of their work (particulary in mathematics) is done with equipment====
 * 2) ====Hyperstudio - software program that you need to purchase - can use for animation, drawing inserting image====
 * 3) ====Firefox - speed dial - great for regular websites that children use====

Action Plan
**Summary paragraph:** Portfolios - wiki, start in keynote and garageband (enhanced podcasts) portfolio that will show development, move with kids need to be able to pick up whenever they enter school

have a standard - recognise when you’ve hit, recognising evidence shows standard key points. Start in maths to produce evidence

**Goal**: Produce student digital portfolios for regular reflection and will eventually be used for SLC

**Indicators:** Students have produced a portfolio of their work Students have developed in their ability to reflect

**Action Plan**
 * Baby Step 1 - Introduce learning intention to children, talk about what will look like, children focus on developing ability to reflect on work - what makes a good piece of work vs what needs improvement
 * Next action - In lesson children photograph evidence of learning
 * Next action - From lesson put images into keynote/garageband/wiki to display evidence
 * children analyse whether evidence demonstrates learning intention and to what level, do oral reflection on evidence (front load oral reflection support)
 * Baby Step 2 - repeat regularly with new learning and repeated learning
 * Next action look at reflecting on repeated learning and showing development.
 * Next Action - adding to portfolio and ensuring that the work is saved regularly.
 * Review - before SLC reflect on overall learning and give final summary.

**Support network:**
 * Who are they:
 * Building a support network Jane, Lindsey, Paul Welsh and Susan from SAS), Andy from HKA
 * Next action - read about e-portfolios


 * Finding a Personal Learning Network (PLN)
 * Your areas of interest
 * 1 effective formative assessment
 * 2 self and peer assessment
 * 3 impact of self reflection and being able to look back at prior reflection

**Marketing your ideas and plan:**
 * Who is your audience?
 * children will be main users, parents viewers for SLC, and this will also provide an example for other staff members


 * How will you become remarkable and standout?
 * By sharing my learning and assisting my team to learn about digital portfolio.

**The resistance:** My team will find this challenging to adapt to using media work in portfolios rather thn written work. I will need to baby step them through the process and provide evidence of the effectiveness for student learning.
 * Who are they?