To much computers is making writing bad?

Mike Anderson Elmwood School
mikea@elmwood.school.nz.

Notes from Breakout 2

ICT tools positive influence
Information
Access

Negative influence

At first glance ++
Perceived enhancements

Writing In decline?

If so why so may emails, the first speaker this morning spoke about digital age yet she read her notes and loved her new tablet.
Txt email C4 Channel steaming writing across the bottom of the screen.

Writing exercise.
John suddenly found himself in a library. He was surrounded by old books and really old furniture. What he couldn’t understand was how did he get there from the top of the spire and where were the rest of the group.
As he wondered about he started to realise that he wasn’t even in the same

Texting is the devil’s work
Beach cricket - test matches (wrong equipment, strange rules) emersion on your own terms

Swimming hole/hydro-slide – Olympic games (mucking about in pools swimming hole)

Text and informal email – formal writing (Kids messing around)

Teachers are the Key
Standards
Modelling (correct signage around schools)
Values an beliefs

Swimming – hole writing
Make a teaching point
Real contexts – txt, blogs, email, websites
Practice match values.

The sequence and order of things
Digital shots of popcorn iPhoto then drag and drop the pictures into sequence. Projector into the classroom.
On the plastic container and projected onto the small whiteboard on the mat.

Storyboarding for a movie.
Setting
Character
Problem
Scene changing lends well to teaching paragraphs

Scene one a narrow shot of the inside of an old library
Scene two John is in close up a look of amazement is on his face
Scene three wide shot of the John in the library looking around now he looks worried

When you return to the photos have the children look carefully at the shots and look in depth. Emotion colour.

Junior Kids
Write about what we do when we get to school
One word staters
Snap a simple shot to ignite or to end the publishing
Reflective writing for juniors paint snails and then reflect back and write about it
Type directly onto a laptop with a projector model Thankyou letters in shared writing.