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This is the LearningNI Virtual Learning Environment
This is the homepage that meets teachers as they log-on
This homepage is totally customisable through the 'personalise' button
so I can add and take away certain areas as I wish
This is my own personal page
The initial screen shows the library
It is a simple 'Google' style library
where, if you type in a topic you require, for example,I will type in nouns
It brings up a range of age, or Key Stage, appropriate activities
that I can do with the children
You will see this used for the angles lesson that is taught
but if I click here, you can see that it opens
an activitity that I can use to teach in my classroom on the
Interactive Whiteboard.
As we wait for the screen to load!
You can see how I would use that, and implement that,
within part of my teaching plans.
I'll just close that down now
and come back to the Homepage.
In navigating the Homepage you'll notice
a number of things that are relevant to my project.
The 'My Courses' page
is the area where I set up the courses for the children
to access the homework, from school and home.
You can see the amount of courses that I have been doing with the children.
Each of these courses contains activities linked to their school work
that they can access to support them in their homework.
I have the 'General Discussions' up here.
On the left-hand side of the screen there is an 'All Links' button.
This is very interesting!
Contained within the 'All links' are certain other areas of the Internet
that can be accessed via the LearningNI environment.
This is from the Police for Online Safety,
resources for Home Economics.
This is the ALTA screen, which is maths, and can be used to
help teach and assess children, as well.
As well as Pathe News, the Guardian and so on.
And the Newsdesk that was used within the homeworks.
An extremely interesting applications that was added
recently is 'NI Maps.'
I will briefly show you this and I am sure you
can imagine how it can be used within the classroom.
The screen loads and I logon with my own
username and password.
(Typing)
The NI Maps is the Ordnance Survey maps of Northern Ireland
that is fully customisable by the children.
It can add certain elements of information
'Wikis' photographs, so it can all be project based.
(Waiting for it to load)
The intial map you will see, down here, will be the map
of Northern Ireland as an OS map.
This is an exciting resource for teachers within the classroom,
and it is brand new, within the classroom, now.
Up here,
What is interesting,
we can actually switch between the aerial view and the
OS view (Ordnance Survey Map)
If I move that across
you can see how the aerial view
blends in as well.
If I 'go into' Belfast
(Issues with sound)
(Video shows how users can find the famous Harland and Wolff shipyard,
zoom in and have a similar map overlay)
I go back into my home screen.
And go back to the library.
You will be able to see that there are some areas
where I will be able to take the resources I have
been filing previously
and add them to 'My Basket'
In the 'My Basket' area
I can take each of these as I use them in the classroom
during the day and publish them to courses for the children to access.
Here is the real beauty of what I do between the classroom and home.
The chilren, and parents, are able to access the exact same resources
at home that they are doing in school
which totally opens up the classroom for interactivity between
the children,
the parents
and myself.
On the right-hand side there is also an email tab.
All the children in the school
but, specifically, the children in the class
have an email account.
This email account is used within school only
and it gives the children the opportunity to contact me
if there areas in which they feel they require help.
I have also received emails from parents
who have asked for some help on previous times
in regards to areas they would like to help their children with.
You can see it is a valuable,
very easy to navigate resource
which I will have a lot of pleasure showing you on the floor