The Magic Receiver Project Overview Teacher Planning Work Samples & Reflections Teaching Resources Assessment & Standards Classroom Teacher Guide Pre-service

The Magic ReceiverProject Overview

Teacher Planning

Work Samples & Reflections

Teaching Resources

Assessment & Standards

Classroom Teacher Guide

Pre-service Teacher Guide

Staff Developer Guide

Office Training Resources

Learning Areas

Levels

Objectives

Software

Description

ICTIncluding other areas

9- to 10- year-olds

Students will:• be able to use ICT both for their educational purposes and for

entertainment• practise subject matter• be positively motivated to further studies

Students‘ parents will be informed more efficiently

Microsoft Office FrontPage, Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Internet Explorer

The all-year-long project called The Magic Receiver transforms the subject matter into a children‘s play using the magic telephone receiver which pupils know from a well-known children‘s story. The project is presented on our class website.

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Author Mgr. Jiří Luka, ZŠ Mendíků, Prague 4, The Czech Republic

About author and his school


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Teacher Planning and Management

The theme of the project for the third class of elementary school is taken from a well-known cartoon called Mach and Sebestova. The phone receiver has the magic power to get the pupils into various adventurous situations (partial projects). The project guide is a ‘painter’ ( the teacher in role) and two new fellow students Mach and Sebestova (pictures). To be able to present the project‘s progress, at the beginning of the school year the teacher prepares a website template.

Project plan:

• arrival of the painter, project introduction• learning with the magic receiver• Christmas musical• various actual projects• morning oasis session• theatre performance ‘Mach and Sebestova’ at the end of school

year• class website presentation (www.sluchatko.com)• going to theatres• and many planned as well as unplanned activities

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Work Samples, Teacher and Student Reflection

The project is monitored on the class website. www.sluchatko.com

Teacher Reflection: I have had very good experience with all-year-long projects. I have been working with them for nine years. Read more in the attachement.

Student Reflection:

‘Learning with the painter and the receiver is simply fun’

‘I love working with computers! I like our photos on the web’

‘When our teacher leaves the classroom, the painter usually comes and brings some adventure. The teacher then never believes us!’

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DocumentsBibliography


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Assessment and Standards

At present our school system is undergoing major changes which will result in new teaching programmes made by schools themselves in accordance with the new curriculum issued by the Government.

This project (The Magic Receiver) is based on these documents.

The Key Competences:

• Learning Competence

• Communication Competence

• Working Competence

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Click the documents below to learn from this project and create your own classroom project:

The Starting Point: Analysis of subject matter of the year; main theme; composition of the all-year-long project; creating a template of the class website

Implementing ICT: one PC for each student in the PC room is recommended, plus one for the teacher in the classroom

Authentic Assessment: The project is very well accepted by the pupils and by most parents. Students’ motivation to school work has increased dramatically as well as parents’ cooperation with school.

Implementing a Project: problems: time consuming, but it pays; It can lead to fatigue and boredom, subprojects are necessary to refresh students’ interest

Record Your Thoughts: The project is transferable and flexible. Creating the website is quite easy, don’t worry .

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Téma


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The Starting Point: Questions to keep in mind when reviewing this project.

Using the Tour Model: Questions to consider before you begin to create a technology-integrated project based on this Virtual Classroom Tour.

Authentic Assessment: Understanding that assessment needs to move into the realm of authenticity helps to make learning more meaningful for students.

Implementing a Project: Some questions to consider at the implementation stage of a learning project.

Record Your Thoughts: A document in which you can record your comments and reflections as you create your own learning project.

The Starting Point Using the Tour Model

Authentic Assessment

Implementing a Project

Record Your Thoughts

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The Starting Point: Implementation ICT into the project; staff training (Front Page); content of the project, creating the structure of the project .

Using the Tour Model: This project can be easily used in another class or school. Moreover it is possible to create newall-year-long projects using this one as a model. New ideas and subprojects may be added ad libitum.

Implementing a Project: Having gained some experience with this project, please let me know about your success at @.

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Microsoft Office Training Resources

Click the links below to access training resources on Microsoft Office and other software:

Microsoft Educator Network – The Microsoft Educator Network provides you with the latest classroom resources, professional development tools, and communities of practice and expertise.http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=EducatorNetwork

Tutorials - Learn to create rich learning experiences using Microsoft products and technologies.http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=Tutorials

Productivity in the Classroom – Lesson Plans with great ideas for integrating technology into teaching and learninghttp://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=LessonPlans

Office Tips for Teachers –Ready-to-use ideas that integrate Office applications into subject areas such as math, science, and language arts. http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=ClassTipsArchive