ejourney with technokids

My twitter  network gave the following tips for converting animoto and xtranormal into mpg or other video formats. If you try any of them, please post a comment below on your findings. Thanks

xtranormal and animoto   conversion

billgx@murcha Cam Studio can capture everything on your screen & export to AVI or SWF. Not sure if it does MPG or WMV. http://camstudio.org/ h …

gardenglen@murcha you can upload video to YouTube and then use http://www.zamzar.com/url/ to convert to .mpg or .wmv Premium account may be required to upload to YouTube

craff2008@murcha handbrake will convert any video but its mac

animoto conversion

courosa@murcha from the animoto site - http://bit.ly/gTyMq2:17 PM Jun 16th

adrian_camm@murcha use Super to convert - http://www.erightsoft.com/S…

Year 12 ITA students are working on MS Excel. Today’s task involves adding a macro and associated button. Here are the instructions:-

You are to add  macros and  buttons to take the viewer from one sheet to the next.
Create a macro

Open MS Excel >goto  view>macro>record macro>name the macro
Then act out the steps required for the macro
When complete goto view>macro>stop recording
To add a button
Goto insert>shapes>choose  a shape
Then right click on shape>add text>key in appropriate text>click off into another cell
Right click on shape>assign macro>choose  appropriate macro>click off and test.

This week’s award for the best student blogs goes to two students.

1. Luigi in year 7. Luigi has added all posts asked of her and continues to add voluntary posts. Her reflective piece of work on the Ping music project was great! Thank you, Luigi!
2. Em from the primary school. Em’s blog has posts that she has voluntarily added and wrote an interesting post on Canberra, complete with photos.

Please see Mrs Matters in the library to collect your prize -  a usb drive.

Welcome to the regional SLAV meeting at Hawkesdale P12 College. The first part of this session is to introduce you to elluminate and its potential in education. You can listen to the recording of our session in elluminate here.
The second part of this session was to show what a 21st century classroom may look like, with examples from my classroom.

Here is a bit of fun. Add your sticky note for “What would you like changed?” in our school canteen.

I would like to create a site where students who you have mentored or even students who you have not mentored can ask questions about their use of computers. We have been blogging and using web2.0 tools for more than 15 months, so you people would be perceived as ‘experts’ as most other schools are only considering using these tools now. I would like a selection of students from years 7 -10.  This could evolve and rotate over time. However, if you do volunteer, you would need to be willing to respond quickly, so this may mean you need to do so from home. You may also be responsible for posting possible blog post prompts.

We are fortunate to be able to work with Sue Waters, the editor of The Edublogger and Sue will help us to design an appropriate online presence.

Therefore I would like to know

• 1. Who amongst you would like be mentors and respond to pleas for assistance.?
• 2. What is the best tool to use on the internet for this purpose?
• 3. How should we go about setting it up?
• 4. What should we call the site? My suggestions is “Ask Technokids” but I am open to suggestions.

Please fill in the document below and press submit when finished.

Students using elluminate for the Ping project

There is a lot of work to be done today. As the Ping music project is formerly concluded we need to get all your work uploaded on to the blog.

1. Check that all your work is on the blog, as some may have been lost or misplaced. Some of the pieces that should be posted are “Where am I?” and “What animal am I?”
2. The last piece that should be uploaded is your musical story without images and words. With each piece should be a short summary of what you tried to show, what you had to do to complete the piece and any challenges you faced. Remember that your final story should inclue at least 3 clips from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra recordings.
3. Check for any comments etc from the Portland or Camperdown students and please respond. If you do not have any comments, make sure that you go to their blog and add comments.
4. The final report - this is a reflective report on the Ping project and should be completed on your globalstudent blog.  Use the following headings to guide you:-

• Use a series of hyperlinks to link to each of your musical stories on the Ping blog.
• What were the challenges? What advice would you have for future students?
• How did you enjoy using elluminate? Give reasons. Do you see virtual classrooms as becoming a part of schools in the future? Why/why not?
• Comment on the project overall.
• Complete a powerpoint slide grabbing images and text that summarize the project. Save the presentation as a jpg and upload it into your post. Add your musical story without images and words to your globalstudent blog as well.

Demonstrating the trombone

Your last piece of work is a reflective blog post on your role in the digiteen project. Answer the following questions on your globalstudent blog post.

1. Your membership on the ning - hyperlink to your page and briefly describe your experiences using the ning - how sociable were people, did you meet many others, what countries
2. The group you were in - brief summary of the topic. Add a hyperlink back to your wiki page. Any comments about working with the wiki.
3. Discuss your outcome - what you produced, software used etc
4. Any challenges, advice for future participants.
5. Overall comment on the project itself!

Year 7 students put together this presentation for their visit to Portland to teach the grade 6 students how to start a blog.

Today 28 year 7 students accompany me and Tammy to Portland Primary School, as part of a peer to peer mentoring project. Hawkesdale p12 students will teach the grade 6  students at Portland how to get started with  individual student blogs. A big thankyou to Britt Gow for helping to organize all this. This will include cyber safety and appropriate digital citizenship. As there are three sessions, we will try to cover the following:-

1. Cybersafey and introduction showing  the pre-prepared presentation by year 7s.
2. How to register for a blog at globalstudent
3. Writing the first post, including tags and categories
4. Adding an ‘about me’ page with the following headings

About Me

Could include the following First Name, year level, country, best holiday, birth month, career goals, favourite band(s), favorite singer(s), favouritesnack, favourite main meal, favourite soft drink: favourite subject/sports, pets, family members:

If time permits:- insert avatar, clustr map/feedjit map, how to insert image and add a blogroll.