Victoria+Lee



**Space for Reflection:** Interesting to meet so many people from different schools. Some good contacts so that I can work on producing some more tangible ideas for my classroom. I've felt at times quite unsure about how the ideas being discussed in meetings play out in a real school environment. Upon reflection, I think that it would have been a great idea to have at least one cohort session specifically based on the integration of tools into the syllabus: the workshop sessions have offered a good insight into what is out there and it would have been good to have been able to sit with other English teachers to work out how to use these tools for maximum effectiveness in different units of work. Please get in touch if you would like to do something about this. Lots of good IWB tools. The session was great and very hands on. Lots to take back to Dulwich. Now I just have to persuade my school to provide me with a SmartBoard rather than a plasma screen!

**Ideas and Takeaways:**

Love the IWB screen capture/camera tool and the tabs that we were shown how to make. //Pirate Pad//. I like the look of //Glogster// and //Bitstrips// but I need to go away and work out how these could best work for my students. See below for idea related to expanding reading/ independent reflection and interaction.


 * Questions:**

Quite a few of the parents at my school are interested in how to maintain their child's engagement in reading through the IB years. Anyone fancy setting up something that allows their students to engage in discussion with my IB students about what they are reading for pleasure? I think that this might be a good way to get them talking with people with a more diverse range of interests but in a safer way that if they were to just engage with random strangers. What would be the best way to do this?


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