Technologies
Year Level:
5/6
Strand:
Digital Technologies
Sub-strand:
Processes and Production Skills
Content descriptors:
- Acquire, store and validate different types of data and use a range of commonly available software to interpret and visualise data in context to create information (ACTDIP016)
- Explain how developed solutions and existing information systems are sustainable and meet local community needs, considering opportunities and consequences for future applications (ACTDIP021)
- Manage the creation and communication of ideas and information including online collaborative projects, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols (ACTDIP022)
- Design a user interface for a digital system, generating and considering alternative designs (ACTDIP018)
Link to other learning areas:
- English (Language & Literacy)
Link to resource:
https://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/blogs/
General Capabilities:
- English
- Information and communication technologies
About the resource:
- This is a fantastic resource as it supports year5-6 English in a number of ways whilst managing the creation of communication ideas and proving opportunity for online collaboration. Blogs provide teachers the ability to support the students learning by including software and word processing programs that encourage student to edit, publish, be selective and add visual or audio elements to their English work. It is a website that allows students to safely blog with how to videos, tips, frequently asked questions as well as quizzes and other activities. The blogs are allowed to be about any chosen topic, which encourages students creativity and additionally enables them to attach videos, or music files to enhance their blog.
Class activity:
- Teacher begins by showing the students the animated video which describes what a blog is, what it is used for and some background history on why blogs are so great.http:/https://www.brainpop.com/about/tour/ – link to the animated video.
- Students then discuss in groups some topics they might like to blog about. Students log in the computers and access the Brainpop blog website. They are encouraged to spend 15 minutes on the website, firstly reading through the FYI part of the website.
- The teacher then demonstrates how to create a new blog to the students and they have a go themselves.
- Students create a blog post that will introduce the topic which they have decided to blog about during the regular ICT class.
- All students are instructed to save their post and have a read of some of their classmates new posts. Each student must write one encouraging comment on one other blog post.
Reference:
“Blogs – Brainpop”. Brainpop.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 8 Aug. 2016.