Comments on: Fish Friday and Dancing Turtles – My Sealife Topic Ideas

By: Fish Friday Challenge | ICT in my Classroom

Fish Friday Challenge | ICT in my Classroom — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:30:58 +0000

[...] I was gathering ideas for our Sealife unit (centred around the use of Endless Ocean on the Nintendo Wii) I began to think [...]

By: James Bird

James Bird — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:10:55 +0000

Great ideas here – I’m working on some planning at the moment with a class I work with. We have practical questions – how and when is the game used – attached to IWB, TV ??? How often do they dive? Just in pairs? Whole class dives?

Thanks, James

By: Sarah Peacock

Sarah Peacock — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:43:16 +0000

Hi Tom,

Great post. We’ve also been working with Endless Ocean on the Wii with primary schools. It started as activity days in June/July with Year 6 and Year 2 and now taking it forward to embed in 4 primaries. Starting with one school doing activity weeks based around the game for each year group. Margaret Cassidy and the teachers in Stirling were really helpful in terms of sharing resources – as is this blog! – we ought to keep in touch – I’m happy to share resources and what has / has not worked for us. Also looking at Wii games in Literacy (early stages!). There’s more info/photos/films on our site.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:50:44 +0000

Thanks for the comment Steve and for the suggestion of wireless headphones and using them for diver signals, that would be a great way to work with it.

I had a look at your Little Big Planet – UNDER WATER! http://bit.ly/BTFgF it looks like fun – have you played LBP with kids before or classes?

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:47:59 +0000

Thanks Oliver – I am also looking forward to how it all works out. Should be exciting.

By: Steve Bunce

Steve Bunce — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:45:49 +0000

A tremendous summary of ideas which sounds very exciting! Your new class will be totally immersed!

The 3D Top trumps look great and are something that the children can simply go out and buy – not requiring expensive ICT equipment, other than a webcam; this can strengthen home-school links. (Since your link on Twitter, I’ve ordered a set for myself).

Did you mention wireless headphones before? The children playing the game could use either wireless headphones or even cheap wired ones with an extension. This could then help them to develop the use of sign language or diving signs to communicate. Another advantage could be the game sounds would not distract the other pupils.

Looking forward to hearing how it develops.
Steve

By: Oliver Quinlan

Oliver Quinlan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:29:30 +0000

This looks fantastic Tom, so many great uses of technology and really inspiring ideas for learning. I look forward to seeing how it unfolds.