Doing IT Differently

Gosh! Hasn’t it been a full-on first 7 weeks of Term 1. You ought to be very proud of yourselves (because I am very proud of you all) of what you have accomplished already in such a short time. We still have a few things left to finish off so I thought it would be a great idea to list them here so that you could all see what’s left and so could Mr E. Show off your work so far to Mr E, won’t you? He’s very interested to know what you have all been doing and he’s really keen to help you get things finished off. So here goes …….. our list of things to do!

1.  Blog Posts

There are several events that we haven’t had anyone blog about yet. There’s a list on the whiteboard of topics – Mr E will help you to embed the photos required. You might need to tell him the username and password for our flickr account.  And don’t forget to take Carter on your adventures if you’re going anywhere – remember you need to book his itinerary on our class wiki first.  (I think he’s booked to go to Australia for the school holidays – but check!)  Don’t forget that you can blog from home – you just need to remember the url for our blog (with the wp-admin bit) and your username/password.  I would love to hear about what you’re up to in the End of Term 1 holidays!

2. VoiceThread – Having Diabetes

I made this VoiceThread with the photos taken when a couple of you went to see what happens before lunch when you have insulin dependent diabetes.
You two will need to add your voice recordings to each slide to explain what was happening and anything else that you learned about diabetes in the process. Everyone who wants to, can contribute to the last slide with something they learned when Dr Janet came to talk to us on Wednesday morning. I would love to see a comment from everyone on this last slide. (Remember the username for our VoiceThread account is a little different from our usual username).   It’s already embedded on our ProjectLemonade wiki page and will update automatically as you add your voices!  Just remember to always be respectful to our classmate with diabetes.


3.  VoiceThread -  The Hundred Mile Diet Project

Three of you were working on our contribution to this VoiceThread from  Lincoln Elementary’s Mathlincs Project.  You will need to get Mr E to upload those photos you organised – the fruit, the vegetables, the map of Hawkes Bay, to this voicethread and add your voices  to those photos.

4.  VoiceThread -  Mathslinc’s Geometric Landmarks Project

Now Mr E, this is one for your maths class that might be a bit of fun.  Take a look and see if we can add some interesting New Zealand landmark problems for people around the world to solve – and/or add our voices to solving some of the landmark problems that are already there.

5.  Project Lemonade 

Over the next 6 weeks we will be working with our buddy class, Briscoe Junior High School, on a global project together.  Mr E should have joined the project lemonade wiki and Mr E will get 6 people to request permission to join the ProjectLemonade wikispace – Mr McGee is waiting for those permission requests.  That will mean that you can edit our wiki page on the ProjectLemonade wiki .

And last of all, don’t forget to check Ms H’s Travel Blog – hopefully there will be some posts to read and Kawekakea will have a thing or two to share about his travels!

Be good! (I’m sure you will)  Have a great time with Mr E! (I’m sure you will)  See you in 7 weeks!!