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Our Sticky Post

Al Upton — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:20:56 +0000

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
*** cross-curricula/student initiated learning, higher order thinking,
springboards, questions and links … all in one comment! ***

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):

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

Al Upton — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:36:15 +0000

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

Al Upton — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:52:57 +0000

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

Al Upton — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:12:51 +0000

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

Al Upton — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:07:12 +0000

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

Al Upton — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:17:57 +0000

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