- Exhibitions, displays of products plus student self assessments of learning
- Put up “the story” of learning, as well as the products of new learning
- Let the “voices” of students tell the story.
("Knowing and showing how school library programs help students learn", 2004)
So here goes:
Here's what Kindergarten (Early Stage 1, 2008) said about starting our Fables project:
Do you have the Internet at home?
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Tally
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Additional comments (scribed from oral).
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Yes
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4 x “You can use Internet to go on games/[name of game].”
1 x “I look at Lego 'Star Wars' figures.”
1 x “You can use the Internet to do amazing stuff.”
1 x “You can use Internet to see scary things.”
1 x “You can use the Internet to print things out.”
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No
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3 x “You can use Internet to go on games.”
1 x “When I was five, Mum said 'Wait till you're six' to use the Internet. Now I'm six, she says 'Wait till you're seven'.”
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Don’t know
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0
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(This year, no demonstration of how a wiki page works was required to illicite responses:)
Why are we using a wiki to write and publish our school fables?
* “You can use a wiki to write books.” (x 2)
* “You can share it with everyone/people.” (x 2)
* “Because we want to.”
* “It's good."
* “With the Internet you can talk to people in Scotland about soccer without a telephone.”
* “You can use a wiki to make stories.”
* “You can use a wiki to tell them your stories.”
* “You can use a wiki to print out easily.”
What will we have learned when we have finished?
* “We will learn the first thing you said - but I forgot.”
* “How to play games.”
* “We will know about the Internet.” (x 2)
* “We will have done ten/twelve stories on the Internet.” (x 2)
* “Know about games.”
* “Learn how to drive a car [ie. driving program].”
* “I don’t know.” (x 2)
* “Sharing stories and how to write.”
* “Circle time.”
* “How to type in stories what we wrote.”
Coming: What Kindergarten (Early Stage 1, 2008) said about completing our Fables project.
Here's what Kindergarten (Early Stage 1, 2007) said about completing our Fables project:
Do you have the Internet at home?
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Additional comments (scribed from oral).
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Yes
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“It's Mum's."
"We play games on it.”
"We read our wiki fables on it and printed out my picture and we sent it in an email to our friends in Canada.”
“It's for Mum and Doug to use."
“But I don't use it."
“Mum and Dad use it."
“I showed Mum how to find our wiki."
“We can play 'Cartoon Network' on it.”
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No
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Absent
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Why did we use a wiki to write and publish our core value fables?
* “We use it to write stories.”
* “We can show them to Mr Jackson [the Principal] and he can read them in his office on his computer.”
* “It's easy to show more people our fables.”
* “It's quicker. We can say what we want to happen and put it on there for everyone to read.”
* “If you make a mistake it's easy to get it off. Paper can't do that. You'd have to rub it out.”
* “You don't have to write much [in joint construction writing activities] and your arms don't get tired.”
* “We can share them at home.”
** “It's quicker. Easier. And I'm famous! It's on the computer and it only takes one day.”
** “Pencils run out of lead.”
** “It grows. On the weekend the teachers can read it at their house. Mr McLean can make things ready to see on Monday. He puts the links in.”
* “We don't have to stay in our classroom.”
What had we learned when we were finished?
* “It gets faster and easier. You still have to learn how to make words.”
* “Tanaka's zebra picture helped us to write the fable.”
* “We can show Mr Jackson how to see our fables on the wiki.”
** “We need passwords for Kindergarten so we can use the Internet. We have shown Mr Jackson how good we are.”
** “It's quicker to write and easier to fix mistakes. Like pressing 'Rewind' on the video recorder.”
* “It's quicker and you can use the computer at your house to read the wiki.”
* “Wikis can be at everyone's house.”
* “It's easier to be famous. Easy to fix problems. Easy to change your words.”
* “I liked Daniel's idea of the cat and the ladder to write a fable.”
What will we do next?
* “Write more stories. Make more drawings.”
* “Whatever we want!!! Make a book!”
** “More drawings! Make lots more fables. Make a book with page numbers.”
* “Write lots more stories on the computer.”
** “I'm going to another school next year but I'll tell Mum to bring me back every Monday and Thursday so we can do more work on the wiki."
* “More fables and more wikis.”
* “Put coloured pictures in the wiki for all the other countries to see.”
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Library wiki first uploaded November 2007; this page updated December 2008.
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Main home page first uploaded September 2004; revised 2006, 2007.
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