ejourney with technokids

With the students

• Year 9/10 wrote a post on ‘what makes a good quality blog’ See some responses. Response 1 from Luigi, grade 6, response 2 from skippy grade 6, response 3 from flurogreen, year 10 They then worked on completing their Kahootz animation on their favourite Olympic games.
• Years 7 and 8 are in the stages of completing their VCAA unit on ‘which mobile phone plan’ Students were really interested in researching the internet for potential plans, disliked intensely having to design their spreadsheet, but seemed to be settled completing the spreadsheets comparing two plans. Finally a report had to be typed up.
• Grade 5 and 6s were absent on their school camp

Student blog of the week

Congratulations Vicki, grade 4. The post you wrote on ‘fruits and vegetables’ telling us all about your artwork and how you achieved it was very thorough.

Student WOW factor

Nat was bored in my class under directions to complete a short animated movie in Kahootz reflecting their favourite sport in the Olympic games. This was to be uploaded onto their blog post. Unbeknownst to me, he had been busily checking out his feedjit map and feeds and gone to his locker to get a slip of paper that had the results of an interview with his grandma. This interview had taken place earlier in the year as part of an English assignment and had described where she was born. So Nat, by trial and error painstakingly used the feedjit map to find exactly where she was born in Holland!! (I had queried his activity when I saw him surfing around the globe and not in Kahootz) Student directed learning at its best!

Personal involvement

• Placed an online application for year 9 and 10 students to complete digital stories in a flat classrooms project.
• Also sent away a list of my year 9 and 10 students for cross blogging with schools in the USA, Korea and Japan.
• Attended an Innovations Liasons Officer’s meeting in Melbourne at Treasury Place
• Ordered an Acer 1 for me to take when travelling.

Comment of the week

I am honoured to have @Inpi translate one of my blog posts into Portugese. Here is her comment when I posted about it.

 have been honored to translate you.
Your post will be great as an exemple of the wide variety of possible activities that blogging with students enable, with the respective benefits both academic and pedagogic.
Hopefully students parents will be relieved and enthousiastic about the new horizon their children are about to unveil.
Trough translation we keep in the spirit of web2.0, where collaboration and sharing remain prior values, thus enabling beginners to take “on line-life lessons” from veterans and accelerate their own development.
Ines

My photoFriday

Just over the road from our school is a swamp and Apex Park. My husband was helping the Green Corps group, when he noticed this black wallaby sitting on a rock waiting for the photo shoot.

My day in a sentence

I love it when web2.0 tools become normal classroom practice! So here is my day in a sentence:-

Whilst teaching my year 11 accounting group in the computer pod,  a dozen grade 4 and 5’s came into the pod, to complete some class work and to my delight they were all completing set tasks using posts in their blogs.