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“Embedding ICT across the curriculum”

Weather Watch Poetry Day

Over six hundred pupils from twenty Kent schools took part in the Kent Weather Watch Poetry Day, in February 2008.

Pupils posted poems they had written on the Making the News website and read their poems to others over the internet using FlashMeeting.

Pupils used ICT to:

• Compare poems about a similar theme
• Discuss vocabulary and express views about a poem
• Explore how messages, moods and feelings are conveyed in poetry
• Write poems using similes and other devices to create imagery
• Work collaboratively to organise, rehearse and present their poems using FlashMeeting to pupils in other project schools
• Publish their poems (using Audacity) in an audio format
• Comment on and evaluate each others work using 'Making the News'

Publishing our work on Making the News website

Click here to see examples of work produced on the day

During the morning the pupils wrote and published their poems on Making the News. To illustrate their work their many used digital cameras but some created their own art compositions using familiar software (RM Colour Magic, 2Paint and Clicker Paint.) Finally, to share their work with a wider audience the pupils were encouraged to use Audacity to record and create a short sound file (mp3 format.)

To listen to a selection of the children’s poems click on the sound icons below:

“Snow” Telonie – Brent Primary	“Snow”      Josh – Brook Primary	“Rain”     Nicky – Brent Primary	“Blizzards”          Orla - Brook Primary

Reading our poems aloud to others

FlashMeeting – an opportunity to view and listen to yourself reading and talking to others!

To provide an opportunity for the pupils to read their poems aloud many of the schools took part in FlashMeeting conferences during the afternoon. Lasting up to 30 minutes the sessions were an opportunity for the pupils to read their poems and to discuss poems written by their favourite poets.

Following the conclusion of the conference many schools played back the session to their pupils using Flashmeeting’s replay facility.

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