Our Sticky Post January 30, 2008
Posted by Al Upton in fun, learning, miniLegends, safe and savvy.Tags: blog, blogging, learning, links, miniLegends, student directed, student initiated
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This post has been time stamped
to January 30 2008 @ 20:52
What is it?
click the shape to see more - if that doesn’t work visit this post
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cross-curricula/student initiated learning, higher order thinking,
springboards, questions and links … all in one comment! 
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2007 miniLegends pages below (worth checking)
Our 31 day Blogging challenge
Our 6 word challenge post and page
Choose Your Own Adventure – voicethread and post
We are trying to find an easy way so all other posts made this year
appear after this post.
This should also help us navigate within our blog and to other sites.
Tricky huh?
Here we can add and edit whatever and whenever we want
Links to some of our other posts (our archives):
- ACMI Competition and Samorost
- Checkers – Our First Animation
- Term 3 Surprise
- Nova Response
- The (Nova) Surprise
- Local and Global Networking NETWORKING Connect Across the Globe
- basic blog building blocks
- Our Very First Post
Links to previous miniLegend blogs and posts:
- http://alupton.wordpress.com/ 2006
- right now this site is filtered in South Australia!
- we can add post links for other visitors later
Any other links and tips we want here:
- Google nlvm and click ‘I’m feeling lucky’ – National Library of Virtual Mathematics
- Pacman – a Bluearth Game
- Creating Experts – Scan and Broadcast (now we also use our interactive whiteboard as well as all the computers on our desks to broadcast)
- the school section of edna (thanks Lynley)
- http://www.scotedublogs.org.uk/blogs/
- previous post pages 2 3 4 5 Why not choose one at random?
Right-mouse-click to open links in a new window or tab.
six words August 26, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in 6 words, Blog Challenge, Edublogs, connect, fun, learning, miniLegends.35 comments
Ernest Hemingway was a very famous author.
He was encouraged to write a story in just six words.
Here is one that he really liked and thought was one of his best works … so the story goes.
‘For sale: baby shoes, never worn.’ [This started a brilliant class discussion]
Please add your own 6 word stories in the comments.
Please let other people know so they can visit us and join in the fun.
We will collect them and present them for everyone to share.
Our negotiated task
- Write a ’story’ using 6 words.
- our 1st one – by Kyle “We have lots of fun here”
- It can be any 6 words but sentences are good too
- no swear words, it must be appropriate for our age (8 and 9 year olds)
- remember ! “…” , ? capitals . ‘
- it must be a story, give the sense, idea or part of a story … people can read into it what they want
- twists (unexpected endings) are fun
minLegends - write as many as you like for a post in your own blogs but please add a comment here with your best one.
Click here to read some examples – opens ‘6 words’ page above in a new window
— feel free to leave comments there as well 
Lynley’s Calendar Visit March 21, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in competition, edna, fun, learning, miniLegends.3 comments
Last week Lynley from edna.edu.au visited us
Can you find the link to the Year of the Dolphin resources?
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/schooled
Thanks Lynley for the calendars, the card, the post its, the stickers and the pens.
Al got one pen and we voted on the other pen.
We voted on having a competition for it. One idea is the Premiers Reading Challenge but we need to talk about it more.
The Surprise March 13, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in NOVA5000, connect, fun, learning, networks.add a comment
Click to enlarge. use the back button to return here.
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???
My weekend with Husky March 5, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in fun, miniLegends, rewards, technology.2 comments
I was lucky for Husky. I won the raffle prize to take home a toy. On the weekend Husky and I played game’s. Husky ate breakfast with me. At School I scamed in the photo and did this post. by Jessica K
Connect Across the Globe March 4, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in fun, global, miniLegends.add a comment
Here are a couple of classes who have also begun to blog.
And here is your chance to read, comment and connect up with them.
I will tell you they are Year 3 students. What can you find out?
How are we similar? How are we different?
Click to enlarge. http://priestsic3.learnerblogs.org/
Back Button to return here. http://priestsic33.learnerblogs.org/
Please remember:
- blogging manners (Hi/Cheers …)
- make your comment easy to read (use sentences)
- share something of yourself (no identifying information eg last names, address, phone numbers)
- be interested in the other person (ask questions, keep the conversation going)
- if you get a comment make sure you reply, remember manners
- have fun
