Broome Diocese Easter Lunch

Photos can be added to a blog. One easy way is to use the program Hello! from www.hello.com

At Broome Diocese Easter Lunch (Photo M.Gordon)
© Berkeley (2004)

Smart Boards - Electronic Whiteboards

St. Mary's Broome are about to use "smartboards" for teaching.
A smartboard is a whiteboard which has computer connections. The Computer image is projected onto the whiteboard which becomes interactive. If the computer is connected to the internet, web navigation can occur from the whiteboard.
Ngunnawal Primary School, ACT has adopted Smartboard technology and describes the process - Click on: Teachers Desk - SMARTBoards
You can see how St. Francis of Assisi Primary School, ACT, uses the Smartboard for each class at:
http://www.sfa.cg.catholic.edu.au/smartboard/

How to Post to a Blog

Posting to this blog. Try it. You can add a post if you:

1. Go to blogger: www.blogger.com
2. Enter your blogger username if you have one, or kteach if you don't
   The password for kteach is the same as the one for kit (I don't want to tell the world what it is! ... it starts with up)
3. You can then post to either barkcanoe or paperbark, by clicking on the green +
4. Type a title, then type your message which is called a 'post'
5. Click Preview to see what your message will look like, Hide Preview to keep typing.
6. If you use kteach, why not include your name at the end of the post so readers know that you composed it.
7. Click Publish to publish your post on the blog.
8. Click view blog to see what the blog looks like now (It will open in a new window, or its window will appear on the status bar across the bottom of your screen).
9. There is an edit tab so you can always edit the post later if you want to.

Online Storybook Links

Kindersite has a links page of stories at:
Kindersite Directory Stories
which includes a link to: Woolly the Super Sheep
- an interesting story from the BBC (hence non-American voice, our type of spelling, 'colours' instead of 'colors')..
The BBC has a large number of stories at: BBC Storycircle
Of these the CBeebies series of stories are more suited for younger readers or for just listening to.

Kit in the Kimberley

Hi fellow Kit users,

I think the Kit idea is fabulous with huge potential for our schools. I still think the biggest issue is the advertising of the product. How do we get staff and students to use Kit? Maybe teachers need to build it into the students day with starting or ending the day with logging on etc just as a starter, then building the student skills up to using the myclasses pages. For the consultants in Broome I think it has huge potential. We could link all our doc.s to our own page. Well done Berkeley! This is a great innovation! It's underused at the moment but maybe we could talk a little bit about it at Induction to introduce new teachers to Kit? What do you think?

Paula Sgherza

Beginner

Berkeley, I finally got around to trying the "blog". Thank God for a person like you who encourages beginners to experiment with new things. I see the work that you have done in the Kimberley over the last decade and more as invaluable for IT in the remote communities.
Cal

Uploading Images Using Hello

Photo uploaded using Hello. Notes to help you upload an image:
Including an image using Hello

Broome Sunset
Photo © Berkeley (2004)

Poems - Link

http://www.byroncs.nsw.edu.au/starfish/poetry/

Links to Poetry from Starfish Class, Byron Community School, Byron Bay, NSW.

For Example:
Dylan Thomas Portraits: "A type of poetry that tries to get people to use words in an adventurous way. Each portrait tries to capture the essence or basic nature of its subject". The form is (see examples on the site):
First Line: Have you ever --verb-- a -- noun ---
Line 2: --adjective-- --noun-- , --adjective-- --noun--
Line 3: --adjective-- --noun-- , --adjective-- --noun--
Lines 2 & 3 may also include: --verb-- --adverb--

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