Literacy+Reading+Senior

This resource is intended to give ideas, tips and how-to's to support e-Learning within the classroom.
 * Literacy: Reading Senior **

Engage students in their 'post reading' activities by using Keynote as the presentation tool for a **novel study**.
 * [[image:KeyNote.png width="58" height="58"]]KEYNOTE: ** a presentation tool.

Generic Student Instruction sheet. Example of Keynote [produced as a pdf]

__ **COMIC LIFE:** __ Comic life is an effective program for students to retell a journal story

//Use Comic Life to gauge your studentsʼ comprehension when reading, by having them ////retell tell their story in parts. They can take photos from their journal and support the photos with ////their text. //

1. Open Comic Life. 2. Press + then choose Create a New Comic. 3. Slide through templates. 4. Tap on template of choice. 5. Use the camera to take photos from the journal. Retell the story/article in your own words. 6. Click **My Comics** when finished [top left corner]. 7. Rename your story. 8. Share and print [see graphic below].

Example below shows a student recording information they discovered when reading Plight of the Sea Turtle by Jill MacGregor.



__ **PODCASTING WITH GARAGE BAND:** __ A podcast is an audio [or video] ﬁle created in Garage Band that can be played back using an ipad, computer, exported and burnt onto a CD or uploaded onto the Internet.

Practical uses: Recording students book reviews, reciting poetry, recording plays etc

__How to Podcast? __ 1. Open GarageBand 2. Click + button 3. Click the audio recorder  4. Click the spanner and turn the M etronome to off 5. Click the red record button and start talking 6. Press the red record button to finish 7. Click My Songs [top left corner] to close your podcast <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">8. Tap My Song and rename the podcast <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">9. Tap **Edit** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">10. Tap the Share button <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">11. Choose where to send it, iTunes or Soundcloud are the easiest

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Finally: if you get stuck press the ? in the top Right hand corner. Yellow helps will light up and also a box in the bottom Right hand corner called **Learn More about the Audio Recorder.**

Script for a book review podcast <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">


 * WINS:** What I need for Success - Book Review

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Examples of Podcasts: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Point England School, in Glen Innes Auckland, are very proficient in using podcasts for book reviews. Visit their site and leave a comment - the students will love it.

Point England School