Donna Sirmais
Connecting learning at home and school
  • Home: Connecting learning at home and school in the 21st century
  • In the classroom and home: Short videos for parents and schools
    • Our children, 21st century learning and the new NSW English Syllabus
    • Digital Literacy: What is multimodal?
    • Writing and Composing
    • Visual Literacy: Modelled ideas for parents and school
    • Super 6 Comprehension strategies: Modelled ideas for parents and schools
    • Parent teachers in the classroom
    • Researching using technology
    • Blogging in the classroom
    • Final wrap up
  • Me You and Us in 21
    • Me You and US in 21 Parent project examples
  • Creative ideas for promoting events
    • Creative ideas for promoting events at school
  • Links to Programs and Apps we used
    • Avatars: Tellagami
    • Video slideshows: Animoto
    • Movie trailer: Apple imovie
    • Editing program: Windows live movie maker
    • Adobe photo shop express
    • Strip designer
    • aTypo picture app
    • Magisto: Movie maker
  • Resources
    • Visual Literacy: Information and activity sheets for use at home
    • Visual literacy Prompt cards
    • Super 6 Comprehension prompt cards
  • Educational support links for families and community
    • Public Schools NSW: Parents page link
    • Public Schools NSW: translated documents link
    • School A to Z: Homework and study, well being, technology and more, translation tab available >
      • Comprehension help for teens
    • Family - School and Community Partnerships Bureau
    • The raft, the river and the rainbow
    • Crunch Crackle and Create
    • Community Snapshots
  • International Children's Digital Library link: Online books for all ages and languages

Short videos for parents and schools



The short videos for parents and school tab navigates to a collection of short videos filmed in schools describing 21st Century learning, Multimodal composing, Visual literacy, Super 6 Comprehension strategies and Blogging.  The videos provide tips for parents to use at home with their children or when volunteering in the classroom as a parent teacher.


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