[senit] social interaction via technology

hi the Byron report says that much of teenager's

This term I have been working on an email topic with 2 KS 4 classes with an 
ability range between P6 and NC 2.  One class is at The Bridge School and 
the other at Richard Cloudesley School.  We have been using a combination of 
WWS2000, RM Easymail (with a single account for each class) and PowerPoint 
to exchange information via email - this is what we have done:

We have used WWS2000 to create email text which has been copied and pasted 
into Easymail to send; conversely we have copied and pasted the emails that 
have been received into WWS and had the computer 'read' them out.

Both classes have taken photos of their schools which have been put into 
PowerPoints to send to the other school as attachments.

All the students have created personal profiles using WWS which were then 
copied and pasted into PowerPoint to go alongside passport photos.  I used 
Sound Recorder to record WWS reading their profiles and added the sound to 
the slide transitions (and to each photo as an action setting so they could 
listen again).

I think creating slide shows of the schools and the students worked really 
well, both groups loved looking at the photos and finding out about the 
other school/students and I was very impressed at how much they understood 
and remembered from the slideshows.

As I teach both classes I have been able to make sure that there was 
something waiting when we checked our email each lesson - I have found 
coordinating this with another school can be a bit hit or miss.

I will be taking one group to meet the other group later this week and am 
already thinking of more ways to develop their relationship alongside their 
ICT skills.

Best wishes,

Sally

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Subject: [senit] social interaction via technology

> hi the Byron report says that much of teenager's
> social interaction with peers is mediated by
> technology, rather than being face to face. Have you
> got any examples of students with learning
> difficulties interacting with adults or peers via
> technology in this distance sense? And any comments?
> David
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