This was such an amazing evening. I won the collaboration section of the Microsoft Innovative Teacher competition with my Bonding through Blogging project. The next round is in Mauritius and then, if I am successful there, the final round will be the Global Forum in Brazil. Here is my photo gallery:
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Collaborative story-writing between three nations
We achieved writing a three-nation collaborative story before the end of the Canadian school year an the mid year holidays for Argentina and South Africa! Here is an example of one of our stories. (We used the amazing programme Etherpad for our collaboration).
Monday, June 22, 2009
A collaborative story between two countries
I have found another free online programme that converts PowerPoints to flash and embeds them in blogs. I am curious to see if this programe opens faster than Empressr. We have been writing collaborative stories in groups in class using an online programme called Etherpad, and then putting them in our blogs using online free programmes. We wrote Part 1 in a circle group and Miss Ale's class in Argentina wrote Part 2 in a circle group.
Here is the full story "Princess Laura of Napolia" written with Miss Ale's class. (Don't forget to click on the full screen button on the bottom right.)
Here is the full story "Princess Laura of Napolia" written with Miss Ale's class. (Don't forget to click on the full screen button on the bottom right.)
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Creative writing using Photofunia
Hello! This is Grade 4/5 B's blog in Cape Town. Please look around, especially at our Senior Citizens project. We love creative writing in this class. Today we used two webtools. The first was a newspaper clip generator called 'Fodey's newspaper clip generator' http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp. After that we used a fun programme called Photofunia where you have upload a picture of yourself to a fun image creator called Photofunia. We then created a story around the picture.
’A great surprise’ by Geocro
It was Christmas Eve 1999 in the United States of America, and the Lock family were sitting having a nice dinner in their huge house on Dodger Road. All was dead quiet except for the scraping of knives and forks on plates. To break the silence Maria (the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs Lock) said,
“Can you pass me the salt, please mother?”
“Why don't you get it yourself?” asked her bratty sister Emma.
“Hush, Emma,” said Mrs Lock. “I will get the salt for your sister.”
“Thank you mother,” said Maria.
A few minutes later I was in my room. If you are wondering who I am well let me tell you that I am Rose, the older sister of Emma and the younger sister of Maria. That night I prayed to God, and I always said the same thing.
“Please may my face be on the Christmas decoration balls!”
I didn't know why but it was like a weird obsession. I didn't know how it started and I didn't know how to stop it. That night I slept badly and when I woke up I had circles under my eyes. I was so.o.o tired. But when I went down stairs I brightened up for there, on the decorative balls that were on the Christmas tree, was my face! I could hardly believe my eyes!
’A great surprise’ by Geocro
It was Christmas Eve 1999 in the United States of America, and the Lock family were sitting having a nice dinner in their huge house on Dodger Road. All was dead quiet except for the scraping of knives and forks on plates. To break the silence Maria (the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs Lock) said,
“Can you pass me the salt, please mother?”
“Why don't you get it yourself?” asked her bratty sister Emma.
“Hush, Emma,” said Mrs Lock. “I will get the salt for your sister.”
“Thank you mother,” said Maria.
A few minutes later I was in my room. If you are wondering who I am well let me tell you that I am Rose, the older sister of Emma and the younger sister of Maria. That night I prayed to God, and I always said the same thing.
“Please may my face be on the Christmas decoration balls!”
I didn't know why but it was like a weird obsession. I didn't know how it started and I didn't know how to stop it. That night I slept badly and when I woke up I had circles under my eyes. I was so.o.o tired. But when I went down stairs I brightened up for there, on the decorative balls that were on the Christmas tree, was my face! I could hardly believe my eyes!
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