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Who are Room 3?

WALT: take care of our Chromebooks and use Google Drawings to create a poster

Room 3 used Google Drawings to create introductory posters. 

We learned how to use Word Art for a title, insert our photo and change the font style, colour and background in a Drawing.

We then downloaded our posters as a PNG (so we had a transparent background) and uploaded it into the shared slide deck above. 

Ko wai to ingoa - Collaborative Slides

 

We are learning to work together on a shared slide deck.

• being able to work collaboratively like this is an important skill (share a sample of everyone’s mahi, more efficient, can work together even when not sitting close to each other or even in the same room eg manaiakalani team, share ideas and help each other with problems,) and something that we will do often in our sessions.

• What can we do when working on this collaborative doc to make sure we are being SMART LEARNERS (using devices in smart and efficient ways, and being respectful to others online)?

• Only work on your assigned slide (use role to assign slide number)

• Focus on the task (don’t get distracted by changing backgrounds etc)

• Get straight to work and complete the task as quickly as possible following the directions given.

• Shark device when complete.

Writing Quality Blog Comments

We are learning to identify what a quality blog comment needs.

Here are some examples of our Google Drawing posters showing the parts of a quality blog post.

We practiced writing a comment that contains:

a greeting

something positive

something thoughtful

something helpful 

a question

Here is our example:

• Kia ora. My name is Cypress. I'm from Coastal Taranaki School.

• You did a great job of explaining the meaning behind the kite. And I also like the way you included different versions of the story.

• This reminded me of when  I was little and sang a song about the rainbow.

• May sure if you use another kite it is as perfect as the first one.

• What did you use to colour it?

How do you feel when someone says something positive, thoughtful or helpful about something you have created?

Jason

Hi my name is Jason, I am 100 + 56 - 6 + 6 - 106 years old. I am the best teacher at Coastal Taranaki School, well that is what I think. I love dad jokes like, I'm tired, Hi Tired, my name is Mr Brewer. In my family I have four people and three pets, my son Noah, My Daughter Elize, and Elizabeth my wife. My dogs are Sam and Tess, sam is white and Tess is Black. They look like the keys on a piano when we walk them down the road. 

It's Almost Time!

Next week something very exciting is about to happen... Room 3 is going to be the first class at Coastal Taranaki School to have individual learner blogs!

Today we were learning to choose information to share about ourselves on our individual blog. We needed to make sure the information we were sharing was personal information (ok to share) and not private information (which can identify us).

First we looked at some other learners blogs to see what information they have shared in their blog profiles for inspiration.

Then we wrote our own blog profiles and took an appropriate photo to put on our blogs when we finally get them.

Don't forget to come back next Friday to read our first blog post!

Do you have a Digital Footprint?

We are learning that everything we look at, click on, upload, download, comment or share leaves a footprint.

We used History (Ctrl H) on our Chromebook to look at all the places we have been online in the 24 hours. 

We placed icons of these websites on the beach and used footprints to mark our trail.

This represented our digital footprint for the last 24 hours.

• Every-time we go online we leave a trail.

• Footprints online are called a digital footprint.

• We need to make smart decisions about what we share online.

• Our digital footprint will be online forever.

• If we are not sure we don’t share and check with a trusted adult.