ejourney with technokids

Talk about playing tag and sharing through our school learning network. Britt, our science teacher wrote about galaxy first.  Then Margm shared it on a post with her grade 6s. These grade 6s showed me what they had done and on looking at Jess’ blog, I find that she has given instructions and taken it further. So, I have had a go and searched for a tag on laptops as there were thousands upon thousands for the tag “computer”. Above is the result. Now, that all this “tagging” is going on, I wonder if my secondary students will pick up on it and create one without being alerted to it.
Grade 6s have created galaxies on eg the Olympic games 

<This week, Mrs Baird from Wedderburn, will ask us the post question and here is her post.

Last week we thought about what makes our school special. It was lovely to see that so many of you think our schools are very special places.

This week I want you to think about your school again but this time think about what you would like in your school that you don’t currently have.

If you could wave a magic wand and create or build, employ or buy something for your school, what would it be and why would you want it?

If I could wave a magic wand I think I would like to have a computer for every student that always works and never breaks down.

Instructions

1. Write a post to answer this question on your blog
2. Then save it and publish
3. Goto Mrs Baird’s post, add a comment and paste your post into a comment for her.

Once you have completed these activities, you might like to add some sparkling text. Goto www.sparklee.com and key in the text that you want as your heading. Alter the colours etc and then click create glitter text.  Copy the resultant html code, goto your post, choose html tab and paste the code in desired location.

This was our first week back after a two week holiday break and it means we now commence semester two.

Student Achievements

• experimented with wordle (teachers and staff love using it)
• commenced blogging with Wedderburn grade 3 and 4s with my IT grade 4 and 5s. I wrote the post for joint blogging and commenting:- Why is my school special? Most of the students appeared to handle the task and some of their answers make delightful reading.
• started an IT class with grade 2 for one lesson a week. They are a bright group who are very tech-savvy so I look forward to seeing what they can achieve. (At present they have a class blog, so they told me what they did in the holidays ‘in one sentence’ and then used MS Paint to draw an image for their sentence)
• taught students how to hyperlink in their posts
• live blogging using www.coveritlive.com with grade 6 and 7

My involvement

• joined in the web2.0 Wednesdays (I like these activities as I meet like minded people and learn skills for use in the classroom)

Observations

• As soon as students come into class and logon to their blog, they checkout their clustrmap and double click on it to determine which countries their dots are appearing from. (Great motivator and geography lesson)
• Grade 2 are a bright group who are very tech-savvy so I look forward to seeing what they can achieve.

Student blog of the week luigi of grade 6 who has independently posted some interesting journal entries and I really like the six words she used to describe Olive Riley the world’s oldest blogger at 108. (who died last week)

My clustrmap is dear to me. I used to look at it all the time and couldnt wait for more dots to appear. How do you feel about your clustrmap.? Make a screen dump in your blogAnswer the following in a post:-

• Where are your dots from?
• How do you know what countries they are from?
• How often do you check your clustr map?
• Describe In 6 words, how you feel about your clustr map.
• Does it have any effect on your blogging? Explain

A big hello to Wedderburn grade 3/4s who will be joining our techno4/5s in a joint blogging venture this week.  We are a class at Hawkesdale p12 College so we have a school similar to yours. There are 260 students in our school and 26 students in our combined class.

My first question of you all is “Tell me in a couple of sentences what is special about your school?”.

• Write the answer in a post.
• Publish your post when you are happy with it.
• Now copy what your wrote and goto the bottom of this blog, click on “comments”, add your email address and your blog address, if you have one. Then paste what your answer into the text box.

My answer would be:- Our school is special as it is small and everyone knows everyone. People know how we feel and someone will always look after you when you are sad. I like the smaller class sizes and the different age groups.”

Olive Riley, the world’s oldest blogger dies at 108 years of age. Read an article on her , search for other articles or her blog and then answer the questions below.

• Briefly describe her background.
• Why did she take up blogging?
• Why do you think she continued to blog? What advantages did it give her?
• Did she use the internet in other ways?
• Describe in 6 words how you feel about this achievement.
• Do you think you will still be blogging when you are old? Why or why not?
• Find her blog and add her site to your post.

Read what some of my friends on twitter wrote, when I alerted them to this news article.

lsshanks @murcha Wow, your countrywoman (Olive) sounded like an amazing person. It’s a loss for the blogosphere and Australia.  zecool @murcha Older bloggers: this trend will continue to rise. They stay connected, way beyond their retirement home…

Hi everyone and welcome back to term 3. This term has 10 weeks and if it is like the others, it will fly along. How were your holidays? Tell me about them in a wordle.

To do this, goto www.wordle.net and key in at least 20 single words to describe what you did and how you felt about your holidays. Make a screen dump and convert to jpg through MS Paint, and insert as an image into your blog. Heading is My holiday in Wordle. Make sure you give it a category and tag with holidays, wordle etc.

See “my holidays in a wordle!”

 This is was made wordle

Internet has not been quite so easy to find so updates will be spasmodic. However, see why London is a great city.

After three nights in Barcelona, we were able to see many of its best attractions. There is so much to see as the slideshow below depicts.

I see…

The photo above is a stall of lollies!!! The Spanish love lollies and this stall was so colourful that it took my eye but I resisted temptation and did not buy any.

I hear….. bang, bang, fireworks, crackers, bang, crackers, crackers, bang!!!! It is a festival day, of St John the Baptist,  here today in Barclena so there is lots of entertainment, fireworks, bonfires etc I have jumped out of my skin so many times as people just throw crackers in the streets.

I smell…… only my poor old aching, tired and weary feet.

The markets are sensational. We are right near Las Ramblas in a small pension.