Stacy can hyperlink

I worked with Stacy who teaches New Entrants for maths at Outram. She announced to me that she knew nothing about computers and was "the worst in the school". Funnily enough about four people told me that, just that day, they can't all be the worst. In fact Stacy was a very fast learner and had heaps of skills. It is easy to feel like you don't know a lot when you compare your self to what other people know. The only person we should compare ourselves with is ourselves a year ago or four years ago, or last week. That is why we are making a note of changes to our learning and thinking and Stacy did this at record speed.

She wanted to get the students to use the computer well during Maths without interrupting her and to make sure that learning stayed the focus for them when they were on the computer. We discussed a lot of ideas from the Otepoti wiki.

Stacy felt like a wiki was too much at this stage so we discussed hyperlinks. Stacy didn't know how to make a hyperlink and had heard the word but wasn't too sure about what it could mean to her programme. We talked about how hyperlinks enabled children to get the idea of connected thinking. We discussed how children can start to link something they are writing about to something else that relates. I told her about some children who have written poems and linked words to images to create feeling and mood in their poems. Stacy started making a table with hyperlinks for each math group to use during their time on the computer.
Next time I see Stacy we will put these into a wiki. A few people who had been making blogs and using hyperlinks didn't know how to do this in documents so now Stacy can teach them all.