FILAMENTALITY

This afternoon after school we had another successful cluster workshop where we created our own hotlists using Filamentality. What a great tool this is to link learning between home and school. Particpants marvelled at how easy it was and how useful for student learning, home partnership links and classroom management of ICT. Tools such as this aid inquiry and allow us to have students learning in small groups on inquiries based upon their interests. It assists 25 students to work in small groups exploring a range of various inquiries as opposed to all doing the same. We explored Hotlists and there are more options to find out about - scrapbooks sound interesting...

To access Filamentality go to: http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/
For the one I made on the Brain check out: http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listbrainpolw.html

OUR BRILLIANT BRAINS


After last night's meeting I have been asked to post my inquiry links for "Our Brilliant Brains". Here it is:

http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listbrainpolw.html

The hotlist was created in Filamentality which is a wonderful tool to post up weblinks to support student inquiry (and staff development). Having the links posted on the net allows students to explore further at home or anywhere there is an internet connection, involve their parents and extend their learning boundaries. Next term we will run some sharing sessions on this and you can create similar sites yourself to suport your students' inquiries.