Mar 21 2007
reading and writing
An interesting week and its only half way through. On Monday I attended the open exc-el group meeting at John Muir House (photographic evidence currently available on Ewan’s blog ) where the group morphed into the edubuzz open group. Tuesday morning at Prestonpans East Lothian Glow mentors got a first look at the new portal. Initial impression was that the look of the site hadn’t changed much. Thanks to further investigations by Tess at Knox Academy we now know that it has developed a great deal. I’m looking forward to being able to access the portal next week. Various colleagues in DGS and the Library Service are keen for a shufty as well.
Today’s best bit was the last period lesson. One of our S1 classes is in the Library to participate in Accelerated Reader, only many students in this class have severely underdeveloped reading muscles - can read , won’t read. We wanted to make sure that everyone had attempted at least one quiz to get them started, so tried a different approach. We read a short book to them and then everyone sat the same quiz. All seemed to enjoy the experience but the proof will be what happens next Wednesday. The relieved librarian will confess that she is really happy to discover that you can log twenty people on to the same quiz at the same time and it works - something she din’t think about until she was giving everyone instructions to log on. Nothing like forward planning!
