Ideas+For+Classroom+Integration

On this page I have included a list of suggestions to help you start thinking about ways to use technology in your classroom to reach a global audience. You will also find links to examples of planning to help get you started.

**English**

 * __Create a podcast.__ It could be an interview, a reflection, a web log of classroom happenings, presenting speeches, sharing pieces of writing, book review, current events and happenings at school. Children in a particular reading group could hold a book club session and discuss their thoughts and opinions about a particular book. A good podcast needs a script - this creates another opportunity to practise writing and explore a different genre. Feeling really clever? Add a slide show to support the dialogue. Feeling super clever? Why not try a video podcast. Subscribe to a podcast from another school - share feedback with them.
 * __Create a blog__. Share classroom/ school wide happenings. Draft writing straight onto the blog - comments and feedback from readers could be used to encourage revision/improvement of ideas - a great way to encourage awareness of your reading audience. Post examples of classroom work through use of digital photos and file sharing. Provide a format to reflect on new learning or pose questions to your reading audience. Read and comment on blogs from other classes in NZ and around the world.
 * __Travel Buddy.__ Create stories based on your buddy. Use email and/or blogs to share the travel buddy's adventures with your buddy class.
 * __Postcard Exchange.__ Create a digital postcard to send online. Use digital camera to take photos and create your own postcard. Practise letter writing skills.
 * __Penpals & Keypals.__ Writing letters and emails. Provide links to a class blog or website to enhance the experience.
 * __Flickr.__ Use images to spring board writing. Create 5 frame stories and upload to the Flickr site (See links page). Leave constructive comments about other people's 5 frame stories.
 * __Create a web page__. It could be a general class page or else based on a particular topic or theme. Enter a page in the Netguide Web Challenge.
 * __VoiceThread__ Read & listen to what other people say about a voice thread. Children add comments and ideas in writing or orally. Create a voice thread - maybe your class could make up a shared story and create illustrations which can then be uploaded. The children then read the story out loud so it can be recorded to accompany the text. If they are really lucky people will add feedback about their story. VoiceThread can be embedded in blog posts too.
 * __Wiki__ Create a class dictionary or encyclopedia with everyone contributing. What about a class story - a lot of collaboration and respect for other people's ideas and contributions.
 * __Quest Atlantis__ Use as a springboard for writing within your classroom. Encourage children to respond to blogs, chat, instant message and send emails within the virtual world. Select quests for your class to complete that have a link to English strands e.g. There is a quest available discussing book characters from the novel that supports QA. They also have a quest where the children have to suggest 10 books for the Atlantian library and say why they think they should belong in the library.

**Maths**

 * __Podcas__t Pose a maths challenge question and provide an email address (maybe gmail or similar rather than school email) for people to share their answers. Announce the winner during your next pod cast. Make it a video podcast and share info on how to use certain equipment to help with problem solving. Or have children share and describe their different strategies to solve a maths problem.
 * __Blog__ Share and reflect on new learning. Adapt ideas from podcasting suggestions.
 * __Wiki__ Post a problem solving task. Children collaborate and add their ideas and strategies to solve the problem. Invite contributions from others. Share and reflect on learning. Post links to online Maths games. Children could add reviews and ratings about the games.
 * __VoiceThread__ Create a VoiceThread to teach a particular concept to the children. Share and reflect on new learning. Children create a VoiceThread to teach a concept to others. Collaborative problem solving.
 * __Quest Atlantis__ Select quests for your class to complete that have a link to Mathematics & Statistics strands
 * __Survey Monkey__ Create surveys and link to blogs or wikis. Use data as part of class programme.

**Science**

 * __Blog__ Share & reflect. Journal daily notes during an investigation. Share a prediction or hypothesis and ask for feedback via comments as to whether others agree and why. Science challenge questions (see Maths above). Post an experiement and ask others to try it out and send in their results - compare results.
 * __Podcast__ Share & reflect. Science challenge question. Interview an expert. Broadcast diary of an investigation.
 * __Wiki__ As for podcasts & blogs. Also adapt ideas from Maths section.