This week was a little dificult to get back into the flow of classroom work as I had spent the greater part of last week with students on the successful Tasmania trip.
- years 9/10 completed a post on the trip to Tasmania and commenced putting their choice of photos into a digital movie. Most images required resizing using irfanview. Movie clips had been taken with my flip video but as we have an earlier version of both MS Moviemaker and Sony Vegas, I had to put them through my laptop to convert to useable mpg files. These were placed on the student drive for ready access. The latter part of the week involved exams.
- discovered the need for blog etiquette when some terms used in a comment by a student caused offence to our global partners.
- Years 7 and 8 students completed live blogging with me on their use of social networking and online technology. They attempted to find connect with fellow global student bloggers by writing comments on other student blogs and replying to any who commented on theirs, by email.
- Year 6 continue to work on their digital movie “A typical day in our school” for sharing on a ning site with schools in France and USA.
- So proud of the way our global project with MrKp and KimCofino and their students developed on moving on together where students from UK, Australia and Thailand all spoke about what they are looking forward to, what they are nervous about, yet what they all ctually have in common on a voicethread. Take time to listen to it. It an easybut effective collaborative project. Thanks @MrKp for setting it up.
Getting staff on board web2.0
- tried to comment on most of our staff’s blogs
- For WIWOW (walk in walk out Wednesday) started our science lab assistant off with blogging and other staff present, converted powerpoint presentations to slideshare for embedding in their blog. Our internet access was woeful so it impeded much advancement.
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Presented at a Grass ICT Day at Casterton on “what is a blog?’ and ran several
workshops on blogging and MS Photostory. However, I did go home rather disquietened realising how many staff still lack computer confidence and online usage.
Student blog post of the week
….goes to leecie in year 10. Leecie took a turn to write the post prompt for collaboration nation and received more than 65 comments in reply to “what activities are you involved in after school?”
Blog post of the week
I have followed with interest the comment challenge and was disappointed that I could not participate in it due to technological difficulties. However dswaters has summarised the challenge with some really interesting reading. So, if you are into blogging, or even if you are not, check it out!!
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Murcha, I have just read your week back from Tassie, and the snippets of what each grade is focusing on, and the highs and lows of your experiences using all sorts of web 2.0 resources. I looked at the site you sent me from your connection in India, and found it to be fantastic. A lot of ongoing thought and preparation MUST go into something so easy to follow and interpret. This is a site I will be following, as I hope to have Technomaths working something like this. WOW!
And thank you for your ongoing support, and stretching your self in a million different directions to get your peers up and running in the blogging world. You’re a Gem! …..now for reports Mrs!
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