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):

• 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.

http://www.earthcam.com/

here are the top four entries from a Google search ‘webcams kids’

EarthCam – Webcam Network

Animal Watching Webcams – Animal Biology for Kids – A to Z Home’s …

Kids Webcam directory – Top Rated webcams from Kids

5 webcams for kids you don’t want to miss Instructor – Find Articles

Have fun … who can find the dentist????

here are a couple of swf (flash objects) and their websites …

How do you think they did this?

http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/flash/cntower_timelapse.swf

http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflaHage_site/Kor/hestekor.swf

Clicking this shape on “Our Sticky Notes’ does not always work so we have added this alternative post and copied the comment here.

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

Scroll down for the springboards.

Do you guys think it’s a scalene, equilateral or isoceles triangle – and why?
What other triangles are there?
How is a prism different?
Can anyone explain why one source of light going into a glass prism would come out in different colours?

Where in the world might you see giant prisms … no that’s pyramids
Where in the world would you see giant pyramids? What do you know about them?
Al

Higher level thinking (this is a hint) …
Where in the world WOULD you see giant prisms??

Check out all the links and themes here – look in the top-right corner
http://tinyurl.com/242adf (many thanks to Jenny Eather)

REMEMBER … right-mouse-click to open links in a new tab or window

Maths Dictionary
Rainforest Maths
Writing Fun (text types)
Ask Jeeves Kids
Google — also Google nlvm > click “I’m Feeling Lucky” direct link
Wikipedia

We have talked about how our learning is becoming more student directed by
# taking greater control (responsibility) of our learning and helping each other
# negotiating criteria together
[what we need to do]
# choosing our own topics and ways to extend our learning
[what we want to learn more about and how we do it]

Lots later – here are some ‘local’ springboards
(thanks to everyone who saves reinventing the wheel)
Sue
Jackie
Colin
Jenny

Remember … stay safe and savvy

1000 Hands & 1000 Eyes Dance – from China (luatdanh)
Amazing Free Form Dance – from USA (jfredericks)

Videos downloaded from YouTube but not put here because of the filtering system. I will show you these dances and we can experiment with these styles. Please put your comments here.
[Also, remember when we said we could show different videos and maybe even have a video page? Good idea.]

What can you find out (do you already know) about these dances? How do they make you feel? What ideas do you get for our learning?

‘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