Learning Platforms & VLEs: How can they be used in the Foundation Stage & KS1?
Posted
Monday, January 05, 2009 3:11 PM
by
kent-teachers
For those unsure about how to start using Learning Platforms / VLEs with younger children, Fiona Aubrey-Smith (Head of Education, UniServity) offers the following ideas
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Phonics: Wiki Wordbanks
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Assessment for Learning / Plenary: children respond to their outcomes through podcast
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Maths: Counting in... quizzes (also useful for keyword spelling, phonic graphemes etc.)
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Student Speak: Sound Recorded ‘Worry Box’
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Talking Stories for book week – writing for an audience / feedback
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Bean Diary: Growth blogging, photo diary, Q&A with peers through text / sound / film
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Virtual Tour (Images / Sound linked – Speaking & Listening
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Reading Diary Blogs (Parent & Teacher through text / Child through sound)
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Ask the Expert: Father Christmas Forum Fun
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This Week’s Learning Objectives: Class feed off to activities within & beyond the Learning Platform
You can also read her article at http://www.naace.co.uk/178 and will find a PowerPoint on the Ranvilles Infant School website: www.ranvilles-inf.hants.sch.uk/FRONTER-VLE.ppt