October '18: Student Blogging Challenge #2: Writing quality comments

My two classes are enjoying participating in the free Edublogs Student Blogging Challenge.  This is a great way to learn about Internet safety and blogging at the same time. If you would like to add some students from your class to this challenge it is not too late! Find out more at:
http://bit.ly/2Abv09v

We are in week two of the challenge and this week’s post is all about writing quality blog comments. I am adding some of the highlights in this post.

Benefits of commenting
This is taken from the Week 2 Blogging Challenge post found at:
 http://bit.ly/2Abw6lP  

"Here are ten reasons why comments are important:

1. Comments turn your blog from a static space to an interactive space. This means it’s not just you talking. There is interaction. 
2. Back and forth conversations are fun and you can learn a lot. 
3. Because comments are not instantaneous (like online chat or text messaging), you can have more time to reflect, research, or think about your response. 
4. When someone leaves a comment, they can leave feedback, constructive criticism, or give you new ideas. This can help you grow and learn. 
5. A commenter might suggest something that you didn’t include in your post. You can learn new perspectives. 
6. When you have an authentic (real) audience, it’s more motivating! You know someone will read your post, so you will probably put more effort into it than if you were just writing something in a notebook. 
7. Commenting can be an ideal way for busy parents to get involved in the classroom. 
8. You can learn how to interact politely and how to have conversations. 
9. You can meet new people and form friendships. 
10. Students who don’t have their own blogs can enjoy the benefits of blogging by being a participant in the comment section.” 

How to comment
Week 2's tasks included discussing good commenting skills, creating a ‘How to comment’ page' on their blog and making a set of commenting guidelines, time permitting of course. Kathleen Morris from Australia, who is running the challenge, added this lovely commenting image this week,

A video on how to commentThis video is featured on the Edublogs page. I like it! Sling’s class in Canada has completed this must-watch video on commenting.



Interesting pointers from this week's Student Blogging Challenge post
1. Each week the best posts from the previous week's Student Blogging Challenge are featured in the 2018 Student Blogging Challenge Flipboard http://bit.ly/2AbncVf.. Since I only see my classes once a week, we won't have time to do all the lovely activities. We plan to dip in and take out what is important for us.

2. Some teachers like their students to make screencast videos about commenting. This is what Kathleen says about making your own video. "To make the video you could use a free Chrome extension called Screencastify . Loom is another good tool for making screencast videos if you use the Chrome browser. If you use an iPad you can make a screencast without any special app. Tony Vincent shows us how to do that in this graphically."

I had no idea you could do this on an iPad. How awesome!

This week's task for my classes
Write an encouraging post on four blogs from another country. Use this frame:
Hello. My name is (use your online name)
I like this post because...........
Ask a question OR add some new thoughts about the post
I think your blog.......
Please visit my blog (add your blog address)

October '18: Student Blogging Challenge #1: Introductions, online safety and avatars

I have joined two classes to this year's free Edublogs Student Blogging Challenge. It is the 21st Student Blogging Challenge - two a year for the last ten years http://bit.ly/2Abv09v. You can join your students individually which is what I have done or you can join as a class. It is a great way to learn about Internet safety along with 1550 other students from 27 countries and six continents around the world. My two classes are very excited about it.

Introductions
This week's post is all about Introductions. We will be creating poems about ourselves using our online names. I gave my two classes this poem outline to complete:

Online Name

Three descriptive traits
Who lives in Cape Town

Who enjoys…… (at school)

Whose hobbies are….

Who likes... (food)

Who thinks….

Who loves…
Online name

Instead of adding a photo we use an avatar. An avatar is an image that you use to represent yourself on the internet. It’s like a character that represents your online identity. In the past we have made different avatars - I rather like the way www.cartoonify.de does their avatars so we will use that site to create ours. 

The other things we learn about this week is online safety. We are introducing ourselves online in a safe way - not revealing too much about ourselves. I like the poster that Kathleen Morris from Australia (who is running the Blogging Challenge) has added to the post.

This week's tasks for my classes

1. Register for the Blogging Challenge
2. Add the Blogging Challenge badge to your blog
3. Create an avatar using www.Cartoonify.de and add it to your blog.
4. Make sure you have an introductory poem about yourself on the blog
5. Add your avatar and poem to a collaborative slide show. 

Stories inspired by the Quiver app for International Dot Day

My Grade 1-3 classes have thoroughly enjoyed being part of a team blog doing activities together for International Dot Day on the 15th September 2018. The lesson I am going to describe now is possibly the last activity we'll do for Dot Day seeing that today is already the 13th September! Dot Day is based on the inspiring children's book written by Peter Reynolds. You can find it on YouTube here.

On our collaborative team blog the Australian classes formed themselves into teams. Each team wrote some words on dots and challenged us to make a story with the words. They called this activity 'Connect the Dots'.  Here is one of the Australian teams:

Team Shark
pen, splash, China, shark, potato

This is what today's activity sets out to do - create those stories. However, in a previous lesson we used the wonderful AR app called Quiver and those 3D balls that my class loved viewing through the app led to the inspiration for the following stories.

The task:

• Using the provided world map (which is royalty free map) write a quick imaginative story about the journey of your dot as it comes alive and leaves the classroom taking you with it.
• Make sure you use the words from your assigned Australian team. Underline or colour the words that they ask you to use.

The result

I was really pleased with the outome. The class wrote some imaginative stories showing the dots travels, I have embedded them below using PowerPoint online.

Write some amusing 'dotty' rhymes for International Dot Day with grade 3

We are loving our Dot Day activities in preparation for International Dot Day on 15th September. We love being part of the collaborative Dot Day project with three other countries (see http://dotday.edublogs.org/)

We had a fun, dotty lesson recently that involved grade 3. What happened is… the Grade 3’s wrote some DOTTY RHYMES!  Let’s say it another way - amusing nonsensical rhymes!

This is how Google defines 'dotty':

This is what happened in the lesson.

In a previous lesson the grade 1s listened to the Dot Day story by Peter Reynolds found on this page. They each had to think of two or three words, which I then wrote lightly in pencil on their coloured dots and they traced over the writing in khoki pen.

The Grade 3s then chose one of these coloured dots and created a dotty rhyme from the two or three words on the dot.   They wrote their dotty rhymes in PowerPoint. You’ll see, in the example below, that the two or three words on the dots they chose are underlined in each dotty word.

Here are the dotty words:

What I did after they wrote their rhymes is I copied and pasted them all into one PowerPoint. PowerPoint is great for this because it allows you to keep the original formatting. I then uploaded the PowerPoint file to Microsoft OneDrive where it became a PowerPoint Online document. PowerPoint Online can be embedded into a blog or website so it was easy to embed into this post.

Here are the dotty rhymes.

Dot Day fun with the Quiver App in Grades 1, 2 and 3

Do you know the Quiver app? It is a 3D colouring-in application based on augmented reality technology. It is available on both the Apple and the Android store. My Grade 1-3 classes have had a lot of fun with this app as part of our International Dot Day Global connection via a collaborative blog with three classes in Australia, the United States and Canada. QuiverVision has partnered with Dot Day, so it is added as an activity on our 'International Dot Day project' blog.

My Grade 1 lesson using Quiver
We used Quiver in conjunction with Paint 3D. My Grade 1s created colourful dots on our Windows 10 computers and watched them come alive. My students were amazed to see what they saw! I loved the shouts of excitement

This is what happened in our lesson.

• I downloaded and imported the Dot Page from the Quiver site and converted it into a JPG image. (This sheet is also available for download from our International Dot Day project blog).
• The students imported this image into Paint 3D. It was the first time that we had used Paint 3D so that was a fun experience as well. In this instance we used it as a 2D application.
• The students coloured in their dots using Paint 3D.
• We then looked at them using the Quiver app on my cell phone.

Importing the Quiver dot image into Paint 3D

Viewing the dot on the computer screen through the Quiver app.

The dots come to life!

The brief video below shows the ball 'quivering'.

When using the selfie mode on the app, the ball became small. I was amused at the way some of the grade 1s tried to get the ball into their mouths!

Our Grade 2 and 3 lesson using Quiver
In this lesson I printed the downloaded Quiver Dot Day PDFs and we coloured them in during our computer lesson. We then used the Quiver app to make the dots come alive. The Grade 2s and 3s hadn’t used Quiver yet and they were very excited about their dots that turning into 3D balls. Here are some pictures with their comments:

This is amazing!	The ball keeps growing!	It is bigger than my head
I wonder if this is a chocolate	This is such fun	I have got to get this in my mouth

Here is a video I found on Vimeo showing Tina Schmidt's class colouring in Quiver dots and then using the app to create 3D images. This will show you more or less what my class experienced.

Celebrating Dot Day 2014 from Tina Schmidt on Vimeo.

How to use the Quiver app for educational purposes
The Quiver website has a number of different drawings that can be downloaded and transformed into 3D drawings for different subjects. I thought I would use the photos of my students with their 3D dot day balls in one of the following ways:

• as a story prompt for a quick imaginative story about a dot that came alive. 
• for a guided poetry-writing activity.
• as a mapping adventure showing the journey of the ball as it leaves the classroom.
• to create a story by selecting from a number of headings such as:
  "The princess's magic ball''
  "A trip to China with a magic ball'
  "Travelling in a hot balloon''
  "The day my team won the soccer match"
  'Flying around with my magic ball"
  ...along with any other headings that the class suggests

Could you think of any further ideas? 

Our Grade 3 'What happens next?' stories

Can you add an ending to any of our stories?

My Grade 3 class has been having such a lot of fun with prepare preparing for International Dot Day.which is on the 15th September 2018. What has made it an extra amount of fun is that we are part of a team blog with classes 3 other countries - Australia Canada and the United States and we are all doing fun writing and other activities together, connected related to Dot Day.

If you take a peek at our collaborative blog you will see that one of the activities is Connect the Dot stories. My Grade 3 class has done a variation of this activity and we have called it 'What happens next?'

This is how we went about the lesson.

• We all listened to Peter Reynolds reading the DOT STORY (we unfortunately do not have the book yet).As we listened to the story we wrote down words that had caught our attention during the reading of the story, on a piece of paper.
• After that we chose 3 or 4 of our words, plus we added 2 random words that were not in the story, and we swapped papers.
• Whoever received the new set of words needed to write a story using those words. The story needed to end with 'What happens next'.
• We did this lesson using a collaborative Google slides presentation. We used two slides from the Slides Carnival free template Eglamour because the template contained two lovely dot slides.

We had fun reading each other's stories. However we did not have time to write about what happens next. Can you help us? If you would like to help us just add the the name of the story in the comment ox along with another few sentences. We would love that!

Here are our stories:

 

My Grade 1 class asks - How will you make YOUR mark on International Dot Day?

Dot Day is around the corner...15th September-ish! I have already started the fun in my classes. My Grade 1 students discovered a way to make their mark on International Dot Day on the 15th September and they challenge you to come up with your ideas for making your mark!

Let's tell you about our lesson. 

My first plan was to introduce the class to Dot Day, and to get them listening to the story, The Dot,  via YouTube (as we unfortunately don't own the book yet). The class loved the story. In this particular lesson I got them listening to the author Peter Reynolds reading his story 'The Dot'. I wanted them to see Peter so that we could bring into the discussion the fact that he has also made his mark by writing such an inspiring book!


The idea behind the story, is to encourage students to discover their talents and energy, and use these to help make the world a better place. After listening we discussed how we could make our mark on the 15th September. Most of them thought of ideas revolving around their families, which is a great start.

I used and adapted the template created by Di Benner called 'About Me Google Slide Activity'. which comes from her wonderful page of Emoji links http://bit.ly/2M6Dhmc.

Since this was an ICT lesson we focused on the following skills:

• Working collaboratively on a Google slide presentation.
• Changing font
• Adding circles and writing in them
• Using online names
• Adding colour to a slide 

We'd love to know how you'll make your mark! Head over to the blog 'International Dot Day project' http://dotday.edublogs.org/ for some more Dot Day challenges.

International Dot Day 15th September - get your classes involved in this fun learning event

Have you heard of International Dot Day? Recently I have been researching it, and honestly, my eyes got bigger and bigger as I flipped through the Internet. It is HUGE around the world. International Dot Day is simple: “Start with a dot and see where it will take you,”  It is an encouragement to children to make their mark in their community. I love this positive approach Children all over the world celebrate International Dot Day. If you are from South Africa and you are reading this...think about joining in this fun event. Dot Day takes place every year round about 15th September 2018 http://www.thedotclub.org/dotday/.

What is Dot Day all about?

The author Peter Reynolds wrote this delightful book which has become famous and is enjoyed by children all around the world. The story is about a young student who doesn’t think she can draw. Her teacher tells her to just make a mark which she does with rather a bad attitude. She makes a dot. The teacher asks her to sign it, which she does and the next week she finds the dot framed in a lovely gold frame. This inspires the young girl and it marks the beginning of her journey of self discovery and sharing. She starts to inspire others and makes her mark in her community. The message of this book is GREAT - for both student and teacher. Terry Shay introduced his classroom to Peter H. Reynolds’ book The Dot on September 15, 2009, and that marks the beginning of the first International Dot Day.

I enjoyed watching this video of Peter Reynolds reading his book on YouTube.

Why should we celebrate Dot Day?

This is a real fun way to encourage our learners to 'make their mark' on the world along with a huge community of other students around the world. I love the positiveness of this project. The idea is to encourage students to discover their talents and energy, and use these to help make the world a better place.

How did I get involved?
Well, I was given a very exciting opportunity to link up with a Quad blog along with three international blogging greats - Kathleen Morris from Australia, Linda Yollis from the USA and Rebecca Versteeg from Canada. Our quad blog, set up by Kathleen,  is called 'International Dot Day Project - four classes making their mark'. There are some lovely ideas on the blog:
 http://bit.ly/2oLCxW2. 

Getting started with Dot Day

If you would like to get started with Dot Day, head over to  http://www.thedotclub.org/ and sign up. It is all free. I signed up at http://www.thedotclub.org/dotday/register and downloaded Peter Reynold's handbook which has loads of ideas in it:
https://www.reynoldstlc.org/international-dot-day-handbook

Ideas for Dot Day

Since I am the ICT teacher at my school, my interest is in digital expressions of Dot Day.  Here is what I came across in my Internet search.

1. Display your school Dot Day activities on a Thinglink/
You would need to head over to 'A Thinglink Synopsis of International Dot Day' on the Tech tips blog http://bit.ly/2wNPKkG to see how effective a Thinglink can be for displaying the work of a number of classes in a school.. For the record, a ThingLink is a web tool that allows users to tag images and add links, videos, text, notes and many more. The tagging is simple and easy to use.

2. Connect on Skype or Google Hangout
This is a great idea. Why not connect with other classes via Skype or Google Hangout and read The Dot together or share your ideas. If this appeals to you, head over to a Google Doc titled 'International Dot Day Connections' http://bit.ly/2ColNxJ to link up with another class. 

3. Get some Ideas from Peter Reynolds' free handbookI was interested in some of the digital ideas mentioned in Peter Reynolds' handbook.

• Create dot artwork in MS Paint, then upload the pictures to www.blabberize.com to give their artwork a voice. Upload to www.schooltube.com
• Create some Dotty stories or poems and upload them to an app similar to Padlet https://padlet.com/khodgson1/ppanregi1rnx. 

• You and your class can have loads of fun with the Quiver app which can be found at http://www.quivervision.com/dotday/ Transform your dots into 3D using augmented reality. Take a look at this class making use of the Quiver App. This video Celebrating Dot Day 2014 from Tina Schmidtcan be found on Vimeo.
• Use Flipgrid and get your class talking about their Dot Day celebrations.
• Make a video using Animoto.com::
  https://animoto.com/play/umF0C3DpHgxL0mVA3bLeYg 
• Take a look at the ideas in A DotDay Hyperdoc http://bit.ly/2oKdsL9 
• Get your classes singing the Dot Song. http://bit.ly/2oId5AR  The vrsion below is the result of a collaboration between singer-songwriter Emily Dale and Peter H. Reynolds, author and illustrator of The Dot. Listen and sing along as the lyrics appear on the screen. 

Further Reading:

• Kathleen Morris has written two superb articles which are full of ideas on the Edublogger: "International Dot Day: Get involved': http://bit.ly/2oH31Il
  "International Dot Day 2018 - your guide to getting involved' http://bit.ly/2oK92E5
• International Dot Day is just around the corner: https://www.smore.com/cyt2-international-dot-day

This is defintely an event worth following. 

ISPA SuperTeacher Competition - winners and some of the projects

Last week, on 23rd August,  the Awards Ceremony of the ISPA SuperTeacher competition took place at a glamorous Gala Dinner in Cape Town. There were three categories in the competition. At the Gala Dinner, South Africa’s 'Internet Service Providers’ Association' known as ISPA, named Matema Jacobeth Malatji of Diopong Primary School as the ISPA SuperTeacher of the Year 2018. Leanne Bishop of Grantleigh College was selected as the ISPA Tech Teacher for 2018 while the ISPA Mobile Tech Teacher for 2018 title was awarded to Khatija Osman from Durban Girls' College.  You will find a summary of some of the projects below.

Leanne Bishop (left), Khatija Osman (centre) and Matema Malatji (right) 

Finalists and their projects
During the professional development part of the event there was no time to actually present our projects to one another. We were asked to submit written entries saying what our projects were about  for the Digital Institute blog which is where I have retrieved the information that follows. Only seven of the finalists actually described their projects, so I am adding the information from those seven below.

The ten finalists
The ten finalists who competed for the three titles were: Leanne Bishop of Grantleigh College, Mabore Lekalakala of Mapudithomo Primary School, Matthew Hains of Saheti School, Fiona Beal of The Rock Academy, Matema Jacobeth Malatji of Diopong Primary School, Peggy Jona of Bakuba Primary School, Dimakatso Sefora of Saron Primary School, Khatija Osman of Durban Girls’ College, Nombuso Precious Thobela of Vulamasango Primary School, and Cyril Nkosana Nkabinde of Zonkizizwe Secondary School.

Matema Jacobeth Malatji
 

Matema was the overall winner. She is a Foundation Phase educator at Diopong Primary School in Gamakanye Village in Limpopo. She taught Grade 1 learners phonics using tablets. She also taught
Grade 3 learners Maths using technology to transform the negative attitude of learners towards the love of Maths. 

Leanne Bishop

Leane is from Grantleigh College in Kwazulu-Natal. She was awarded the ISPA Tech Teacher for 2018 title. Leanne says: "My project demonstrated the creative and efficient use of ICT to enhance teaching and learning in the 21st century. My project involved a fairly ordinary section in Geography (Population), and with the help of ICT, I made the content come alive. I was not teaching. I was guiding the learners to be at the centre of their learning. I used an augmented reality application to make words on a seemingly boring, blank A4 page, come to life. From there, there was discussion, thought, the asking of questions and…great learning. All learners were actively involved and this project was an absolutely wonderful journey to embark on."

Khatija Osman

Khatiya is an intern at Durban Girls College. She was awarded the ISPA Mobile Tech Teacher for 2018 title. Her project was called Y-NOT? / PROJECT V and it was all about vlogging using Flipgrid.

Dimakatso Sefora

Dimakatso is from Saron Primary School in NW Province. Her project was about 'Teaching with Mobile Technology' with the Grade 7 E-FAL learners. She says, "Our school is situated in a rural village of Bafokeng where we don’t have resources." 

Peggy Jona

Peggy is from Bakuba Primary School in Tabankulu, in the Eastern Cape Province. Her project was about the effective use of teaching and learning strategies to improve learners performance in Mathematics so that they can reach the International benchmark (TIMSS - Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study). They used smartphones and desktop computers.

Fiona Beal

Fiona is from the Rock Academy in Fish Hoek. That's me! My project is about how I have changed the way I teach! I called it: ‘Using blogs empowered by badging as digital portfolios in a 21st century classroom'. My goal was to increase the motivation of my learners, and bring fun along with excellence into all our lessons. I thought of some of the 21st Century teaching approaches that are trending at the moment such as the paperless classroom, gamification, digital writing, and e-portfolios, and I put them all into the mixing bowl and came up with my project idea. I got my Grade 6 class to do the term’s work in ICT lessons, using a variety of applications, in a gamified way. They used blogs, which we called e-portfolios, to display their work. I used gaming terminology in the lessons and awarded badges for work well done. My learners loved this new approach. My project is ongoing and will be expanding continually.

Matthew Haines

Matt is a  well-known CAT teacher in South Africa. He is from Saheti School in Johannesburg. His project was called Learning critical thinking and problem-solving skills through the creation of a mobile device application. He used Microsoft Teams, OneNote and Thunkable. Matt has since turned his project description into a well-presented video, so I will add here that instead of the written information.

Enter the ISPA competition in 2019
Think about entering this ISPA competition in 2019. You will start seeing adverts for it on the Internet in February/March 2019. Take a chance and enter - you might get a big, wonderful surprise like I did and be selected as a finalist! 

How to get started with Instagram

Instagram is a social-media photo sharing application, and a very popular one at that! Up till this point, and to my shame, I have not uploaded anything to Instagram! I have joined and I have 114 followers - but no photos! So today I decided to change all that. My first sober discovery was that Instagram does not work from a Windows 10 laptop if it is not a touchscreen. So, I used my Samsung phone.

Here are the steps I followed.

Step 1: Find a video that you can follow step by step
I found one called ' How to use Instagram' by Techboomers.



Step 2: Download the app to your phone
I already had the Instagram app installed but if I hadn't I would have found the app in the Google Play Store. Since Instagram was already downloaded, I opened it up and logged into my current Instagram account which has no photos as yet. I go under the username of Fiona.Beal.  I also looked for people I know so that I could follow them - but I only did this after I had posted my first Instagram photo.

Step 3: Post your own photos and videos on Instagram
So, now my  task was to create my first post!
a) From my Instagram account I tapped the + icon at the bottom of the page. I selected a photo from my phone Gallery. Then I tapped Next.
b) I typed in my caption and saved. I also added hashtags, Instagram is all about hashtags!

Step 4:  Take a look at Instagram and at your feed
Wow! Another daily activity coming up - looking through Instagram every day.

I am excited! I did it!  My next task is to see how I can use Instagram in the school context. But that is for another day!

Reflecting on our #ZAedu Twitter chat - 'IBL, CBL, PBL - What's the big DEAL?'

I have to say, I love Twitter chats! Just a reminder of what a Twitter chat is all about - it is a public Twitter conversation which takes place via a unique hashtag such as #ZAedu, in our case, once a month. This hashtag allows one to follow the discussion and participate in it. Twitter chats are usually recurring (ours is on the last Wednesday night of every month)  and on specific topics to regularly connect people with these interests i.e. education topics. By the way, #ZAedu also has a Facebook community. Click here to join: http://bit.ly/2PeKtKO

Tonight's Twitter chat topic
So, tonight we held our monthly #ZAedu Twitter chat. It took place from 8-9pm and was hosted by @BronwynWrites from St Stithians and @chezwi from Penryn Preparatory School. The topic was very interesting. 'IBL, CBL, PBL - What's the big DEAL?' As we got started with the chat I had to do a Google search. I know that PBL stands for project-based learning as I have done several PBL projects in the past, but the other two acronyms were not familiar... at first! As it turned out, the discussion was about Inquiry-based, Project-based, and Challenge-based learning - looking at how we can use these in the classroom.

Introductions

What I like about these chats is getting to know teachers from around the country. We had to introduce ourselves using a piece of stationery that typifies our teaching.

We had all sorts of different stationery items referred to. I loved @LadyWesner's...

Mine was Google Keep (oops, just noticed a spelling error!).

Question 1: What do you know about IBL, CBL and PBL?
We usually do these chats by breaking down the main topic into bite-size relevant questions.

That's the great thing about Twitter chats. I wasn't sure about these acronyms to start with. Others were polling knowledge in the chat, and in between, I was searching for answers online. Comments varied from person to person. For example":

• A1: I know that these are types of teaching that put the learning into the hands of the Ss and switch the T to more of a facilitator role. They rely on student engagement and exploration, as opposed to students just listening and writing."
• PBL is not the same as doing projects.

We had many different offerings showing what teachers understood by these terms. Several felt that PBL is the future of education.

• I found the book "A More Beautiful Question" helpful in reflecting on how we pose questions both for young learners and adult learners. 
• A2 #IBL Encourages students to ask better questions, and then go about figuring out the answers 
• A2: I think the lines between P and IBL are quite blurry. I haven't dipped into CBL so will reserve "judgement", I like the idea though?

Question 2: What differences are there between IBL, PBL and CBL?

Here are some of the comments:

• They are very similar but also very different. The jargon and anagrams around this tend to confuse people, myself included! I think they are all looking for a way to engage the student in a meaningful and practical way. They also let teachers feel and be more creative. 
• A2: I came up with this analogy #PBL is playing in a sandpit, #IBL is playing at the beach and #CBL is being tasked with a real life challenge while playing at the beach. 
• A2: #ibl is the act of doing, #pbl is the act of exploring and play, and #cbl is completely a challenge whilst doing and engaging? 
• A2 #IBL is about #Knowledge #CBL is about Challenges and #PBL is about #Skills. 
• Here is an image showing an explanation of Inquiry-based learning created by @trev_mackenzie:

• @BIEpbl offered a great diagram summarising PBL.

• My thoughts after a while:

Question 3: Have you used PBL, CBL or IBL? Please share examples
Teachers came up with many great ideas on what they had done. @LadyWesner suggested letting her know details about these so that they could be displayed on a platform where everyone could see them and be inspired.

Question 4: Any resources to share:
Quite a number of links were shared throughout the session.

Links shared in tonight's Twitter chat: 

• Get Rocket notebooks: https://getrocketbook.co.za/ 
• What the heck is inquiry-based learning?: https://edut.to/2PjCc8l 
• Challenge-based learning: https://cbl.digitalpromise.org/ 
• Types of IBL from @trev_mackennzie: http://bit.ly/2Pg0r7y 
• Edutopia has some great resources on Project-based learning https://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning …
• Life hacks for your project assessment map: http://bit.ly/2PiNSrR
• Assessment that matters: https://amzn.to/2PcvZuI
• Hacking Project Based Learning: 10 Easy Steps to PBL and Inquiry in the Classroom (Hack Learning Series) (Volume 9) https://amzn.to/2Pl8Uq3
• Four Inquiry Qualities At The Heart of Student-Centered Teaching: http://bit.ly/2on4bIY 

Question 5: Do you have any questions or anything else you'd like to share about IBL, CBL, or PBL? 
This was the closing question. I think we were all left with thoughts and ideas to ponder and introduce into our teaching.

• A5: I think that if you are thinking right now "oh, but my curriculum", you need to stop, take a breath, and realise that your Ss being in involved in real world #learning is so much more important than #tests and #curriculum
• A5: How do we persuade our colleagues that the curriculum won't suffer when using these strategies? And the parents? and the students?
• A5. For many teachers deviating from the 'norm' is scary and they do not want to go that route. Just start small. It starts with a small spark that turns into a raging fire for learning. #ZAedu Try one project. Perhaps even start with subjects that are already joined (Social Sci)
• @MeldrumKim provided an important take  away for tonight's discussion: 

• The amazing @LadyWesner who is the co-founder of the Twitter chat, made an exciting announcement for a future event - a PUBPD:

What a novel idea! See http://bit.ly/2PitJlI for details.

Conclusion
This was a great chat. I left with a much better understanding of these terms and some implementation ideas have arisen in my mind!

The good news is - @adyWesner used www.wakelet.com to summarise tonight's chat. She says: "Did you miss tonight's incredible #ZAedu chat about project-based, inquiry-based and challenge-based learning? Need some time to digest the awesome ideas and resources shared? Well, here's a summary for you to browse at your leisure: http://wke.lt/w/s/8K5WA @MsMorrisTeach" Awesome! I was wondering about which tool can be used for summarising Twitter chats now that Storify is discontinued.

The next #ZAedu.Twitter chat will take place on Wednesday 26th September 2018.  Why not join us!