Deb

Hi, this is Deb Tregilgas from John Pirie Secondary School in Port Pirie. I am impressed with the idea of **delicious.com** and being able to access favourites through a web site. How many times have you been at work and realised the address for that particular whatever is on your computer at home and you have no idea how you found it in the first place....

Language and writing skills. I am looking at a short story unit for year 9 English students. Most of my students are unable to write extended prose in any form for any subject. The students get to investigate and choose appropriate rules, design/create their own characters, develop their own plot lines, explore genre and style. They have the opportunity to draft, edit and polish their work on a step by step basis and use their class mates as sounding boards and editors in the process. Short Story Workshop- an exploration of the rules and structures applied to the writing of short stories through research, reading and viewing short stories in action. Students will produce their own original short story using the guidelines they develop along with various rules of language, punctuation, grammar etc.
 * Project Discussion focus questions. ****What real world connections are you considering?**
 * What would be the role of the students?**
 * What project scenario are you considering?**

[] - Thought you might like this Deb! Sarah :-)

Seeing Reason Tool. I can see how this can be used after a lot of work on a topic in a class. Students can take the knowledge they have developed and make the connections to their topic, or explore new ideas in relation to old ones. Again it depends on access to computers, online time and placement in the unit. I want an electronic whiteboard in my classroom... PLEASE Nigel.


 * Monday- Day 4, Week 5. ** How much school have I missed? None really, done more work to get here, and more work while here, than I would normally do. Should be easy to write reports this term. That must be soon. What a thought!!!