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Mental Berocca Three!

Add to the discussion page and tell our group what you would like to have in our workshop in relation to kidpix and photostory Pop your responses onto the discussion page and come prepared with your laptop, photos, movies etc and be ready to teach as well as learn!
 * what would you like to learn
 * what can you do
 * what have you and your children done so far with these programmes.

Oral Language

How much student voice is in your classroom?

How do you know whether you students carefully craft their conversations to answer what they thinkyou want them to say? scientists experiment and don't always know the answer games to encourage alternatives science express an opinion and its not wrong

Logic - voice for thought. Grammar - structure Instrument - purpose noises are language to communicate ideas

thinking communicators use all 3 of the above, negotiating the truth as we see it

Is oracy of equal worth to reading and writing in your classroom?

Thinking How do I know what I think until I see what I am thinking

connecting with our inner voice

Speech as a thinking tool to develop inner voice with a thinking buddy asking it questions of it and modelling it speaking back to me then turn the dialogue inwards - chn ask the buddy in their head.

dialogue with others is as important as monologue

"Reading and writing float on a sea of talk"

__The Power of Kidpix Deluxe 3____

Using Kidpix for basic oral language skills is great fun!

You can also insert movies from Youtube that you have downloaded.

We have been learning to say our addresses clearly and linked it to where we live on a NZ map, by adding a 10-20 sec video recording to a kidpix page. Some of the children create their own versions of Karaoke as well! The possibilities are endless. I found out that I could alter the pronunciation of some words using the drop down menu in **Paint zone**, which is very handy when I want the computer to read text we have typed in - it doesn't handle Maori names very well!