The computer lab at SK Teh has been damaged by recent floods. The lab is still used, though, and teacher Naeiman Bin Che Nazar has set up his own technology tricks for his Year 1 English classes. When I visited last week, the Year 1 class were enjoying a phonics lesson with a reading and writing activity.
Naeiman has attached a clip-on phone holder to the teacher's desk at the front of the lab, and then he used the holder to hold a webcam attached to the teacher's desk computer. He then uses the cam to film and display the text book onto the large screen at the front of the lab. The screen holds the pupils' attention for longer than the whiteboard would, and generally helps to keep the pupils on the same page - or the same part of the page - during the lesson.
Naeiman also uses the webcam to display the text and also to demonstrate handwriting strokes via the big screen. Again, looking at a screen is more interesting for a lot of the children. As well as displaying the text from the book, the teacher also incorporated key vocabulary into a fun PowerPoint presentation for the Year 1 class. The PowerPoint text and images were also copied onto an old-fashioned worksheet for the pupils to practise the words and show how they can match the words to meanings as well as spell the letters out correctly.
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awesome idea!!
ReplyDeleteWith a smaller class it would be fun to bring the pupils up to the teacher's desk, one-by-one, and let them show off their own writing skills on cam!
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