Let's see if it will work!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Using Skrbl
This week I am going to try a collective, collaborative sort of web quest with my class as our tuning in aspect to our inquiry topic 'An Adventure in Aquatics'. We are starting with Water safety as we move into school swimming and our Year 5 lakesafe programme. I would like to use the following application for the children to record the facts they find through a whole class activity.
Let's see if it will work!
Let's see if it will work!
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Blogging with my Class
We have had a successful week blogging in Room 18. Our first attempt at it is going well. I think most children have set up their pages within the class blog site and have all written an article or two. The children have been so excited about it and motivated to write which is awesome.
We have had a few glitches which is to be expected but we will work together to solve those problems. For example, quite a few children have lost their blog articles when they save them, the system logs them out and they lose their writing, had some very crestfallen looks. I have a solution for this but will work with the children to see what they think, probably best to write and save our articles in word and copy and paste when we are ready.
Many chidlren have gone online at home to check out the blogs and left comments which is fab. Next step is to get the chidlren reading each others articles and leaving them comments...
All very exciting and having lots of fun.
Time is ticking and I cannot spend all Friday evening in the class... heading home soon...
Ka kite all.
Cola.
We have had a few glitches which is to be expected but we will work together to solve those problems. For example, quite a few children have lost their blog articles when they save them, the system logs them out and they lose their writing, had some very crestfallen looks. I have a solution for this but will work with the children to see what they think, probably best to write and save our articles in word and copy and paste when we are ready.
Many chidlren have gone online at home to check out the blogs and left comments which is fab. Next step is to get the chidlren reading each others articles and leaving them comments...
All very exciting and having lots of fun.
Time is ticking and I cannot spend all Friday evening in the class... heading home soon...
Ka kite all.
Cola.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
My Class Waiata
Check it out, My first podcast. My lovely Year 5's singing some beautiful waiata. I think they sound lovely. Hope it works.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Learning takes time
I'm back, holidays seem to give me the time to blog! How can I fit it in to my daily or weekly routine? Anyho, this post is about learning takes time!
I spent sometime this afternoon exploring sktich, after seeing someone use it in their blog. I thought it looked like a great application to use in my blog. So I created a word document that I was going to practice using skitch with ( I'm not even sure that's what you do) then I discoverd it's a mac application. Doh. I will try to add in here what I wrote, just so I feel like I haven't completely wasted my time.
The following is pasted from a word document.....
Using Skitch In My Blog
I have noticed that one of the classroom blogs I read regularly for guidance and inspiration uses skitch to display various poster and newsletter type articles.
I thought I would have a go and see how to use it and how I can use it on my class blog.
Our topics next term are camp and a “healthy and safe me”. So how can I use skitch on my blog with these topics? Maybe I can load a camp list onto the class blog.
Will it support adding images? I will try.
What skills will I need? I would use skitch to create newsletters and posters for my class and personal blog, so I will probably need some sort of presentation, design and layout skills.
I am creating this in word… will it work….
Fingers crossed. Xx (this is my fingers crossed, not kisses for you, sorry :) )
On further exploration it becomes apparent that the system requirements are a MAC 10.4.6 or later…. I don’t have a mac….
So I learnt, that learning takes time and sometimes you don't get the desired result!
However it has got me back blogging and I do enjoy writing. Even if I do sound like a rambling fool most of the time. :)
The End.
I spent sometime this afternoon exploring sktich, after seeing someone use it in their blog. I thought it looked like a great application to use in my blog. So I created a word document that I was going to practice using skitch with ( I'm not even sure that's what you do) then I discoverd it's a mac application. Doh. I will try to add in here what I wrote, just so I feel like I haven't completely wasted my time.
The following is pasted from a word document.....
Using Skitch In My Blog
I have noticed that one of the classroom blogs I read regularly for guidance and inspiration uses skitch to display various poster and newsletter type articles.
I thought I would have a go and see how to use it and how I can use it on my class blog.
Our topics next term are camp and a “healthy and safe me”. So how can I use skitch on my blog with these topics? Maybe I can load a camp list onto the class blog.
Will it support adding images? I will try.
What skills will I need? I would use skitch to create newsletters and posters for my class and personal blog, so I will probably need some sort of presentation, design and layout skills.
I am creating this in word… will it work….
Fingers crossed. Xx (this is my fingers crossed, not kisses for you, sorry :) )
On further exploration it becomes apparent that the system requirements are a MAC 10.4.6 or later…. I don’t have a mac….
So I learnt, that learning takes time and sometimes you don't get the desired result!
However it has got me back blogging and I do enjoy writing. Even if I do sound like a rambling fool most of the time. :)
The End.
Monday, February 23, 2009
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