2006 - Pictures

We took these pictures in 2006!!

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The end of phase 1 - December 2006

I decided to divide my MA project into three parts:
Part 1: Contextualizing the use of technology
Part 2: Collecting Data + Reviewing theory + Practicing
Part 3: Becoming Autonomous

On December 9th, 2007 we finished Part 1. Participants were aware of the use of blog technology. They can post and comment on the blog, add images, research on the net, include links on the blogs, but they still need adult supervision.

Blog Meeting 11 - 9/12/2006 - Christmas Party

We had a great Christmas Party. The kids got presents, we had some cake and soda...
We had a great time...
We will go on vacation and will be back in February!

Blog Meeting 10 - 2/12/2006 - Things we still have to do this year!

We had a busy day again!
We talked about Eva's visit, posted the answers she gave us, posted pictures we took the previous week and wrote a 'thank you note'
We also talked about the “Programa de Leitura para as Férias” (January 2007).
And ... I gave them a questionnaire to be answered at home. Here are the questions I asked:

• What's your opinion about our Pedagogical Blog Project? Why?
• What did you learn how to do here?
• What was difficult to learn? Why?
  What was easy to learn? Why?
• What would you like to learn next year?
• Have you got any suggestion?

My views: The group works very well together, they establish roles and each one of them is involved in the process in his/her own way. They do not need my help to use the blog anymore!!! Isn't it great?

Blog Meeting 9 18/11/2006 - Eva Furnari's visit

We met Eva Furnari, a brazilian writer. It was a great experience!!

Blog Meeting 8 - 11/11/2006 - Organizing our meeting with Brazilian writer

We did so many things...

We searched the net. Topic: Eva Furnari.

She was born in Italy and came to Brazil when she was a kid! The kids didn't know that.

So, after seraching, each participant had to come up with a question to ask Eva Furnari the following week. The questions were so good... And the best of all, they posted the questions on the blog.

They were so fast... and they are really familiar with the technology and the blog features...

Blog Meeting 7 - 1/11/2006 - Learning how to search on the net

• Some of the kids were not familar with searching on the Internet. So, I decided to stop working on the blog for a while and we shared our knowledge about "Internet Searching"
  First they visited the following sites:
  Google: http://www.google.com.br/
  Yahoo: http://br.yahoo.com/
  Cadê?: http://www.cade.com.br/
  UOL: http://www.uol.com.br/
  Terra: http://www.terra.com.br/
  Wikipedia: http://pt.wikipedia.org/

Then, they came up with a subject and learned how to search. They learned so fast... I guess that's because their level of knowledge was not the same, I mean, some of them already knew how to search, so they shared their knowledge... Knowledge construction...

Then we went to blog search portals:

• Google – Pesquisa de Blogs: http://www.google.com.br/blogsearch
  Blogger – Pesquisa de Blogs: http://search.blogger.com/
  When they found out they they could find our blog on the search engine they felt... so... so... happy!