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Using Facebook to interact with the New Zealand Youth Olympic Team. media type="custom" key="6724055" Explain how this power point has enhanced your students learning: The power point was developed as part of a poetry writing unit we are doing. It links specifically with Speaking, Writing and Presenting in particular Purposes and Audiences. In this section of the unit the students have really developed an understanding of how to shape texts for different purposes and audiences. The development of a power point to showcase the student's work enabled some of the more IT literate students to assume leadership roles and they were able to help other students and me further develop their skills as we all had to import pictures, overlay them with print and then develop the powerpoint and input music. Free form poetry writing has allowed the students to convey personal voice where appropriate and the use of IT has enabled them to present a high quality 'end product' of which they are justifiably proud.

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Discovering stage of the inquiry: Read the Discuss as a class the issues within and story and how they might relate to 'Fit 'n' Fab.Using a graphic organiser, brainstorm ideas and show links between different issues. Using an ICT tool to record the graphic organiser, as this will become the basis point for the rest of the inquiry process. Learning Intention Thinking - Distinct ideas can be linked and related to each other ICT - ideas can be presented and structured in a way that can easily be referred back to. Reading - Finding Main Ideas How did ICT enhance learning? The use of graphic organisers allowed students to see links between main ideas Using an ICT tool to record brainstorm allowed the thinking process to be the basis of the inquiry. ||  ||
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Sport and PE Planning Wiki
http://mispeandsport.wikispaces.com/ Purpose: Development of a central place to access all sport and p.e planning and timetables. By using the Wiki staff have 24 hour access to resources that they might need for long term and short term planning. Learning Intention: Professional development in creating a Web2 portal with the aim of creating one for classroom use in 2011. Impact:
 * Teacher's ease of access.
 * A central place for storage of planning and timetable information..
 * Ensuring that as teachers we are using 21st Century tools.
 * Having the confidence to navigate around and use new methods of information distribution.
 * Wiki will allow sharing of resources because everyone will have access to the Wiki - this means that not only is information available to all, everyone also has the opportunity to add to the information available from their own resources. - Contributing and collaboration.