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Hello, My Name is Robyn Gate. I am the teacher in Room 2. My teaching inquiry using ICT is to use projector and screen to show programmes from my laptop to integrate into my daily literacy teaching and motivate student's learning. Learning to use wiki will be challenging....For me it will be like my year 1's learning to swim; if I stand on my tip-toes I might just be able to keep my head above the water, hopefully with a bit more confidence I maybe able to take my feet off the bottom!!

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 * I wish to investigate using kidspix as a tool for learning and using as part of our classroom programme.**

We began using the laptops term two and I showed the students how to use Kidpix. Firstly, we used the drawing tools to make self portraits which we then made into a slide show. The children were very pleased with the results. We then used the animation tools and backgrounds to make a slide show of the children's names. They had fun adding music and movement on to the slides. We have been using the laptops daily and our now confident with handling them and opening up kidspix. We have been finding it it easier to save work on to a stick rather than on to the server, we have used the drawing and writing to publish and display some the student's writing, here is an example:



 Kidspix will be an excellent programme for the class to use. It is very user friendly for junior children and I can see that they will be able to manage independently. In term three I would like to begin using the laptops as part of our Reading task rotation. The students have enjoyed drawing picture and writing about characters from their reading: They have also gained key board and mouse movement skills.

After the students have finished set tasks giving them time to explore and discover things for themselves is also very valuable.