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 Middle Goals and Examples TERM TWO 2008

MARY Auta Yr 3/4 **__Goal:__** Use ICT to improve children's oral language skills   WALT: Read a poem with fluency and expression. This term the children have been working on podcasting a poem. They have had to think carefully about how they could read this poem so that they were using fluency and expression and it would be interesting to an audience to listen to. The children also had to add images to their podcast and make choices about which images would best suit the poem they were reading and where these images should be inserted. Here is an example of one of the poem podcasts produced. media type="youtube" key="hWa6vsHtcN8" width="425" height="350"

 MEGAN Wilson Yr 3/4 **__Goal:__** Use ICT to improve children's oral language skills   WALT: Review a story read to share with a collaborative buddy at another school. This year, the children in my class have a collaborative buddy from another school in the city which we collaborate with. Each child has a buddy with similar interests and during the course of term 2, we chose books which we thought our buddies would enjoy reading. We read these stories ourselves and then worked towards podcasting a book review with a partner telling our collaborative buddy about the content of the story. We also had to add 4 images to our podcasts which matched what we were saying. 

NOELINE Smith Yr 4/5 **__Goal:__** Use ICT to enhance the visual arts.

WE ARE LEARNING HOW TO MAKE OUR VISUAL PRESENTATIONS MORE EFFECTIVE FOR A SPECIFIC AUDIENCE… WE ARE CONTINUING TO EXPLORE WAYS OF • CONVEYING A MESSAGE… • GIVING INFORMATION… • DRAWING A RESPONSE FROM OUR VIEWERS…

WE ARE FOCUSING ON STATIC IMAGES AND COMPOSITION WITH EACH TASK WE ARE LOOKING AT VARIOUS WAYS OF ORGANISING THE VISUAL AND/OR WRITTEN ELEMENTS IN ORDER TO CREATE PARTICULAR EFFECTS.

THE ELEMENTS WE ARE CONSIDERING WHEN CREATING A MONTAGE USING COMIC LIFE ARE: IMAGES (DOMINANT & SUPPORTING), TEXT FRAGMENTS, PLACEMENT, SIZE, SPACING, BORDERS, COLOUR, HEADINGS, TEXTURE…

WHEN CREATNG AN IMAGE THROUGH DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY WE ARE ENDEAVOURING TO CAPTURE A MOMENT… AN EVENT… IN ORDER TO HIGHLIGHT THE MOOD OR EMOTION. WE ARE WORKING ON INCORPORATING ACTION PHOTO’S, (PROFILE SHOTS RATHER THAN FRONT-ON) AND SHOOTING AT JUST THE RIGHT MOMENT…