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2011 International English Conference  Auckland University.

Wiki page on Conference with Everything on it  Check it out as there are some great resources media type="youtube" key="dGCJ46vyR9o" height="273" width="336" A vision of students today. A collaborative project by students. 3 years old now

media type="youtube" key="-_XNG3Mndww" height="273" width="448" The start of the updated version of students' vision of themselves.

 Moon﻿ dir. Duncan Jones ( David Bowie's son!) Apparently fits well alongside 2001 - a Space Odyssey if you download the worksheets. 

 Below is a presenation incorporating games and exercises to allow those lower ability pupils to access Grammar. Literacy for low level learners

Bugs, Buffy and Santa's Giant Sack : Sci Fi and Fantasy in the Classroom ﻿ An incredibly enthusiastic presenation of how to get Sci Fi or as he calleded it SpecFic. Leigh Daniel referred to Buffy and Josh Whendon site Slayage which has many scholory essays on that series. He also referenced Starship Troopers as a great film to teach. [|Slayageonline.com] Below are notes on Leigh's presentation. Included are ideas of texts that could be taught.

 W e're Getting Somewhere: Engaging Low Achievers and Disengaged Students Through Film. Hamish Maskell. Northcote College. ﻿Great workshop presented by a young teacher who has engaged pupils that are turned off from English, for a variety of reasons such as language barriers or low ability. Notes: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Resources used: Getting Nowhere by Magnetic Man feat John Legend. Lyrics and Video <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Work sheet to close read the video and create a static image. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Workshop on Making Inference and drawing on pupils identity. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Essentially this workshop explored ways of getting pupils to make inference from texts. As the basis, they used the pupil's birth order. They worked out what theirs was e.g forst born, they were given traits associated with this which they then argued for or against. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Also, the pupils looked at themselves in a rather neat bio poem. There is a reading of this on You Tube.

Inference and a great year starter the whole workshop page

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A great resource was engaging pupils with poetry. It used Where I am From by George Ella Lyon. It celebrates individual's cultural bakground whatever it is. The spin off from this that a previously disparate group found connetcions in the class thanks to the revelations feom the poetry that they had written. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They found the original poem challenging and could not see how it could be poetry until it was read aloud - there is a You Tube of her reading it. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To get the pupils into the poem, get them to close their eyes and take them through a 'dream sequence' where they go up their street to their house, in the door, and look at specific things e.g post box, gate, pantry, keep to specifics. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Writing activity - who are you. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The exercise was to get the pupils to think where they were in their family - oldest, middle etc. They were then grouped according to that. Then factual information was given on that groups traits. The pupils then discussed this and came up with arguments for and against. This led to constructing an essay. Because of the personal context, it worked very well. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">**Literary Analysis Activity. Inference work** 3 step process. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">It says. I say. And so... The workshop then looked at The Hills by Patricia Grace and how inference could be drawn from that using a rather useful template available in the Wiki page and below

The pupils take examples from the text and ask it questions and draw conclusions. Excercise uses The HIlls by Patricia Grace.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__**Dylan Hor**__**rock**__s <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The premier NZ cartoonist thanks to his book Hicksville! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">He presented at conference on Graphic novels, a resource that many schools are now using in the classroom. At his presentation, we were given a history of graphic novel and an insight into how they work. Below is a summary of wrokshop notes. Sadly, it is without the benifit of the powerpoint where we saw a lot of the graphic novels mentioned. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> His website is here.<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|His Website] Note, some of the content is not suitable for all pupils. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">There is also available a video on the history of cartoons The Cartoon Show researched and directed by his relative Shirley Horrocks

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">NZATE and Shaun Hawthorne has put together an incredible resource looking at the effective teaching of writing. There are hopes that at a BETA meeting the resource will be presented, but here is the worshop. The order forms for the resource can be found on the NZATE page.e <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">The workshop below could easily form som in house PD along with the resource. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Workshop of NZATE resource <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Effective Practices in teaching writing **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Glenn Colquhoun spoke on conference nad presented his prose piece on The Thereputic Uses of Ache.

A presentation to help upskill yourself or remind yourself about approaching visual texts. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Workshop notes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Deconstructing film for Senior Students **

A workshop that challenged us to think of other uses of the powerpoint. The interative powerpoint allows pupils to decide their own pathway and has a myriad of uses. And a simple and useful web site building tool - Weebly
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Powering up the Powerpoint - Interactive Powerpoint. **

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