Kidsconnect July 2, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in connect, miniLegends.1 comment so far
Really cool – all the effort to get it going was worth it! 
The Surprise March 13, 2007
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It could be … just a big box, decorations, sports stuff we ordered, a computer. books and stationary, maths equipment
Now it could be … 5 little boxes, reading papers/magazines, sleepover stuff, computer games, robo puppies, keyboards, minilaptops, mobile phones
MiniLegend question … Does everyone know what it is now?
miniLegend question … What are we going to do with it?
It must be a field mouse 
Al’s question … We have 5 of these for a ten week trial. (really!)
What would you like them to do?
miniLegends first questions and comments … WOW! and THANKS!
It’s so cute, we could use them for our maths, literacy, all our learning, we can make our computer games on them, maybe for tests, there’s an on/off button – no it could be an aerial, is there no need for wires and cables (wireless), listen to Nova radio, blog other schools, does it have a touchscreen, it has lots of holes for different things – microphones … we could type up procedures on it, can we connect to our intranet, the internet, google, email, Word, Powerpoint (MS Office?), where will we keep them safe, where will we use them (classroom, room 18, with our buddies/other classes, library, outside in the school yard, on excursions), do they come in different colours???
Networking March 5, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in connect, global, learning, miniLegends, networks.6 comments
Look at the way networks can happen! – well, just one important bit of it anyway
Here is the blog of the Assistant Headmaster (Tom Barrett) of the school in the last post – Priestsic Primary. He is helping set up blogs for his school like I am (with your help) for all of our school.
Here is his class blog – Years 5/6. http://priestsic6.learnerblogs.org/
Here is his wiki with a lot of other blogging examples and resources. http://classroomblogging.wikispaces.com/
Tom lives on the other side of the world – England.
His dad lives just up the road from us!
I know this because Tom contacted me suggesting our school/class blogs connect up.
He asked for some pictures of our school so here are some Virtual Earth maps from last year.
Here is the blog of a teacher who is helping organise class blogs on the wiki Tom created. [We could go to this page and add how we organise our blogging.]
John Johnstone is also a well known class blogger. Here is the blog for classes at his school.
http://www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/pivot/index.php
John lives in a different country to Tom. I would like to go to Scotland one day.
I last went to Sydney for a Global Summit (conference) and met another amazing educator also called John – John Connell. He said I should get in touch with John Johnstone. He thought it would be a good idea for our classes to read and comment on each others blogs. This John (who also lives in Scotland) has a wonderful list of blogs around the world.
I met John through a mutual friend Judy O’Connell a very famous Australian blogger!
[We need to ask him to update the link to our new 2007 blog.]
I’m trying to get a list of class blogs connected at ‘create, connect – blog’ and hope to have some lists and links in the ‘blog’ pages.
So there is so much happening out there and I teach a class with so many good ideas (and I have a few of my own) … perhaps I should get networking! 
Perhaps WE should get networking!
Sandaig Otters – Scotland
The AllStars – What country are they from? What year level?
Check out their ‘fake fact’ writing – leave a comment?
Here is the All Stars Blogroll – what do you notice?
The AllStars teacher is Kim Pericles. I remember when she started blogging and chatting to her at the Global Summit in Sydney. She has recently returned from the UK after meeting some of the people above in person.
Networks are often already there – you just have to make the connections. :D
