My current position is Nursery Manager of a small nursery providing Early Learning and Childcare for 24 children aged two to five years and I supervise a small staff team of three practitioners.
In this narrative I will describe how I plan to use Photo Story 3, with the children, as a tool to review and illustrate their learning for their parents. The main aim is to develop partnership with parents through information sharing and to improve their understanding of what their children are doing in nursery and of how the activities and experiences provided support their child’s development.
As the manager I have a variety of responsibilities that ensure the National Care Standards 2009 are met. This includes care standard 13 ‘You can be confident that the …show more content…
When parents are dropping off or collecting their children they are often rushing and the time they can spend reading displayed information and looking at their child’s work is limited.
Completed films produced with Photo Story 3 can be sent to parents via email which will allow them to look at it at a more convenient time, to view it as many times as they wish and to view and review it with their child and with other family members if desired.
The progress of ICT and its growth of use in society and in everyday life make it an important part of a child’s education that cannot be ignored. As educators I believe we have a responsibility to embrace it and develop confidence to use it to enhance children’s learning and development.
Reviews of Photo Story 3 are mixed and range from ‘Unusable’ to ‘Awesome!!’ http://microsoft-photo-story.en.softonic.com/comments (accessed 29/11/15)
I have found Photo Story 3 is easy to access and simple to use and is an effective addition to my ICT