ejourney with technokids

Year 11 Accounting Tasks

• Work out the principles or characteristics that have been either used or abused in the slides of this presentation. Click on this link below to view the presentation. Key your answers into a word processor.

Principles and characteristics1

Year 9/10 students, you will have started your observations of the moon over the weekend. Here are your tasks for today.

1. Add two  links to your blog, under the heading of Global Projects 2010. (Bold the heading) – The Moon Project and our wiki pages on this project. Give this the title – Moon Project wiki
2. Add a blog post briefly describing your involvement in the project, when you started and what you saw over the weekend, when you looked for the moon. Add the taggalaxy and a clipart of the moon to your post.
3. Add two or three sentences to the wiki from the subject heading given to you by your teacher. Make sure that you ask others in your group that you can actually edit so that we do not get a wiki war.
4. Add a tag galaxy of the moon to the bottom of your post.
5. Add a clip art or creative commons image to the top of your post.

A blue moon in South Africa

As part of an exciting global moon project, we will be studying phases of the moon, working with approximately 16 teachers and 683 students from three states in Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, The Bahamas and several states in the U.S. The project is being organised by Dr Walter Smith from College of Education, Texas Tech University, USA.

As part of this project, you will be required to study the moon together with other school students and students from universities. You will need to observe the moon each day, recording your findings, over several months. Each week, we will discuss your findings, compare observations and prepare a report.

As part of the project and your assessment in this subject, you will need to complete the initial test to determine what you already know about the moon. Please complete this test by going to this link.

Add the following links to your blog under a heading of Global Projects

• The Moon Project
• Our Moon Project wiki pages

Welcome to Accounting Units 1 or 4. Before we get started, let’s look at what accounting is about.

1. Although we will be studying small business, watch a video , listen to an interview and check out what an eBay accountant does.
2. Make sure that your blog is still active. If you dont have one, register for one at http://globalstudent.org.au and activate the subsequent email.
3. Write a brief summary for a blog post. Add a major heading “What is accounting?” and a smaller heading in the text writing area “the role of an Ebay accountant”. Goto page three of your text and add another possible 5 tasks that accountants might complete in a day’s work.
4. Look at some famous accountants. Many would say that accounting is boring and just bookwork. Find  and choose 5 names from 10 famous accountants . Add a second heading on your blog post, Top 5 accountants, name them, explain what accounting they were involved in and why they are now famous.
5. Add a comment back to this post, telling me what you have completed for the day.

Hi everyone and a big welcome back. I look forward to having you in my class for this semester. Let’s get started!

Information Technology  instructions – Setting Up

• Ensure that you have a blog and that it is still active. If not go to globalstudent and register for one. You will need to add 5 goals for 2010, at least three must be school related and two can be personal.
• Insert a table (7 rows x 5 columns) into  MS Word and draw up your timetable. Add a page to your blog and give it a title Timetable.  Highlight your timetable, copy (CTRL C), edit your timetable page on your blog, choose the option “paste from Word” and use CTRL V. Your timetable should appear.
• If you are in year 11, add a link to your blogroll to the VCAA url that gives the course outline for year 11.
• Set up a gmail account. If you do not have one, apply for one. Then start an igoogle page and customize.
• Last week saw the launch of the iPad. Search online for information concerning this new piece of hardware. Using MS Word and appropriae headings, write a brief review on the iPad, based on your research, covering the following:- its function and purpose, intended audience, strengths and weaknesses. Would you buy one, why or why not?

How wonderful it is to get Christmas greetings from other countries! The first came as a result of our work on the voicethread, Questions for Hawkesdale with grade two students from Boston. They sang year 7s a delightful Christmas song. In response, Grace and Georgia made  a video with their Christmas greeting. 

Recording the Christmas greeting

From the teacher of the grade two’s, Lorraine Leo came this response:-

Thank you, thank Grace and Georgia too.  It will play perfectly on our screens.  I recognize the two girls’ names since they answered several second grade questions.   I see the second graders  on Thursday and will share it with them then.  I love having the chance to share these sorts of things since students get soo excited to see the faces behind the voices.

From typhoon ravaged Manila in the  Phillipines came more greetings both in English and in Tagalog.

The ICT students of Hawkesdale P12 College and I would like to wish all our global friends, class mates and teachers a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Image drawn by Grace

How fascinating to hear from my friend, Julia from Siberia, Russia that they celebrate Christmas on 7th January!

A Christmas and New Year survey to complete for our Russian friends from Soglasie school.

Students from Hawkesdale P12 College and Soglasie School in Russia will learn about the differences and similarities of  our  schools, culture, geography etc. Information  will be shared on a joint  wiki – acrosstheworld.

Getting started

• add a sticky note to the wallwisher Special School Spaces Add photos etc where possible. These will appear on the wiki special spaces page.
• complete the survey on Christmas and New Year
• Choose one of the following options and add your answer to the appropriate wiki page – school lunch, sporting lessons, extra curricula activites, foreign language lessons, my class, school life.

The City Square Christmas Tree, Melbourne

Whilst half our year level is absent on the Great Hawkesdale College bike ride, we have some tidying up to be done and a new project to work on. The voicethread with Boston grade 2s needs to be finished and the photos of bikes etc added to the philozbikes wiki with Manila.

You have also been asked to be mentors for a group of students from an overseas school who are involved in the digiteen project. Please respond on the discussions tab to these three questions:-

1) Which Action Project Design has the best chance of meeting all the Design Specifications?  Why?
2) Which Action Project Design do you like the best?  Why? 
3) Do you have any advice for how we could improve any of these designs?

Each page is organised with a link to the Design Specifications at the top.  This is MYP language, basically it is the set if criteria that we will use to judge whether their projects are successful.  One of the things it would be great to get feedback on is which design would best allow the group to meet these specifications.

You can access all the team pages on our School Digiteen Page, but I will provide links here as well:

• Online Marketing and Protecting Privacy
• Cyber Bullying (there is only one design for this group; please just comment on how it might be improved)
• Copyright
• Safety – Pop Ups, Spy Ware, Ads etc

Here is my voki to share with the class from Russia. The sound still needs tweaking.

Year 7 students, we are going to work on a wiki with students from Russia. A start will be made this year, and we will work on it further next school year.

Here are your instructions

• Goto wikispaces and ask to join. Activate the email you get from them.
• Goto acrosstheworldwiki and ask to join
• Complete your voki for your introduction. Grab the resultant code. (copy the standard code for a web page, small size and paste into MS Word for later retrieval).
• When the acceptance comes through for the wiki goto the introductions link, edit the page, insert the widget using the monitor icon, add html code from the voki page, save. Important Note Make sure that you do this one at a time, or there will be a wiki war and work will be lost. Add a note to say that your have added the voki. Save
• To add the code to a wiki follow these guidelines:-
• logon to the wiki
• Goto the introductions link
• Choose edit (Remember one person at a time or there will be a wiki war!)
• Scroll down and find a row in the table that hasnt been used. Click. Choose the following ”embed widget” button  from the edit toolbar. (see below)

Choose the monitor button (see arow)

•  Choose the other html link on the LHS. Paste the code in the resultant window.

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  Choose the other html link on LHS

• Paste the code in the text scroll  box of the resultant window. (see below)

• Preview, save then save the page after adding a comment in the bottom of the wiki page.

You also need to complete the following:-

• Finish the voicethread for the grade 2 students in Boston, USA, add the photos/videos on bikes at Hawkesdale to philozbikes wiki.