Just sat in a little meeting about some ideas for tech in the PYP.  These were some of the things that were shared:

Managing blogs:

• Schools need to set a minimum amount per week for teachers.  The general consensus seemed to be at least once or twice a week.  This way no one in the set was looking like an outlier (bad compared to others)
• Consent forms for student photos are needed if they are to be used on the blog.
• The idea of an after-school bloggers club came up.  Some teachers were pursuing this.

Traffic light system:

• This is a neat and simple idea for students to self assess along with teachers:
• Red – Student cannot do it
• Yellow – Student can do with help
• Green – Student can do this by them self

Using PowerPoint in new ways

• Students take screen-shots using a program to show progress and incorporate it into the slide-show
• Students add arrows and text to explain what they have done
• Students use the PowerPoint presentation to explain what has been done to others

A resources that was mentioned to stay away from was:

• epals – it was mentioned to be rubbish – not updated and not accessible

Good resources were:

• itass
• textease
• iboard – only for foundation, year 1 and 2
• cricksoft
• spicynodes
• artisancam
• voki
• domo by goanimate
• 2simple to animate
• alice
• thinkquest
• assess ICT for assessment
• videopad for simple editing of video