Goals for E-Learning in Term 2

This term Room 11 have had their application for a class set of four netbooks approved, which is very exciting!
The kids have loved jumping on these and going about their inquiry learning, researching and finding out new facts/information when we have borrowed these from classes in the past. This term I want to;

1) Continue this emphasis on inquiry learning, by giving students time during 'topic' to come up with questions they want to learn more about and structure their own research and learning with teacher guidance and support. Inquiry learning is so much more powerful to the individual.

2) Intergrate them into my daily reading, writing and mathematics programmes. Using websites like studyladder to perfect a new maths skill, using them to read for meaning by jumbling up a poem and getting the students to put it back in the correct order, practicing typing skills during handwriting. Using tools like Etherpad for my reluctant writers.

3) Of course use them to make more regular posts on their individual blogs. It is hard to get around everyone and to encourage them to make posts on their learning when you have one classroom computer and a computer suite time that you are trying to balance with research, posting and practicing skills like mathletics.  Having netbooks in class will allow this to happen more naturally so that our ICT suite time is a time for going on the blogs and what ever else we may need them for that day.