If you’ve used Inspiration, you may want to venture to use the web version which will allow your students to access this Visual Thinking, Concept Mapping & Writing tool from home. Webspiration is an ONLINE tool with features that assist students in capturing ideas, organizing information, diagramming processes, and developing writing. Files can move from Inspiration to Webspiration seemlessly…
Category: SCIT Learning Series
Digging Deeper – How to Introduce Blog Commenting
How to Develop Blog Writing: Brainstorm Session Sometimes our questions may be “how do we start our classes blogging past the basics?”. Here is one way that may help to introduce the students to the idea of commenting. (We did this at our recent SCIT gathering.) This starts in the classroom with good questions. Record…
Cultivating Conversation – Spoken Ink
Moving from the last post on Reimagining Conversation, I wanted to dig deeper into the importance of oral language as foundational to literacy development. We are creatures of connection and we use language to communicate our needs, ideas, feelings and discoveries. The abilities to express ourselves grow over time and practice…lots of practice. Yes, I know…
SCIT 2010-2011 Celebration
This past month, SCIT Participants came together to share their learning journey. As part of the SCIT program, these teachers learned how to use a variety of literacy support software programs such as Inspiration, Kidspiration, Photostory, Comic Life, MovieMaker and WordPress Blogs in classroom instruction. The SCIT program blends curriculum, instructional practice, classroom management, and communication around effective…
SCIT Year 1 – Image Challenge Activity
Homework Challenge Activity for November 18, 2010 Your SCIT challenge will be to take an aspect or program feature from the Microsoft Office Picture Manager. This may include ONE of the following topics: How to export files from one format to another How to rename a batch load of pictures How to crop pictures How to compress pictures You may…