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.
31 Day ‘Improve Our Blogs’ Challenge August 13, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in Blog Challenge, learning, miniLegends, safe and savvy.10 comments
Well the class has chosen to enter into this challenge
31 Days to Building a Better Blog
Click here to follow our journey
All the miniLegends want to
build on their blogging skills and knowledge
Most are highly motivated by the chocolate and that we are the only class and a young one at that – 8 and 9 year olds (and one 7yo) … Year 3.
We have decided to pick and choose what we want for our blogs. It’s already 13 days into the comp but we can still try to see what we can get out of it
We have decided that we will use ‘Less is More’ to make our blogs easier to read.
Two Cool bloggers I met through Twitter
Sue Waters Frances McLean
Darren Rowse started it all
More later.
For now two unusual things that happened today.
Jack and Brodie do you have any explanations?
Whenever you want edit this post and add whatever you want 
‘Telling Our Stories’ July 22, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in Edublogs, Telling Our Stories, animation, connect, global, learning, literacy, miniLegends, safe and savvy, video.add a comment
This is our Term 3 theme and as decided last term will include some animation. We have much to discuss, negotiate and decide. It will be another exciting theme I’m sure.
http://tinyurl.com/2ebr8s
This is a search of the word ‘animation’ in teachertube.com
It is this term’s spring board.
Please remember, stay safe and savvy, share your learning (comment/use your own blogs) and have fun! Cheers, Al
A cool new way to search Google! July 22, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in safe and savvy, search, technology.2 comments
Download Video: Posted by rbunn83815 at TeacherTube.com.
“The Visual Search Firefox Extension allows you to search visually in all of your favorite search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, and countless others). Simply double-click on any word (or highlight any phrase) then plus and minus buttons will be displayed. You can press either button for the term to be added (or -added) to your current search and then it returns a new set of results based on your updated search string. This extension really does save you vast amounts of time and is a great usability increase. To get this extension go to: http://www.visual-search.net/”
Worth checking out for using Firefox (rather than IE) and of course the speed and ease of searching.
Note: This blog is a dual educator and classroom blog experiment. Cheers, Al
Test podcast using box.net July 20, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in Edublogs, Telling Our Stories, animation, connect, filtered sites, global, groups, learning, literacy, miniLegends, other countries, podcasts, safe and savvy, search, technology, video.add a comment
Why is Web 2 Important to Education? Al Upton 2 MB Nov, 2006
[this file has now been 'embedded' into this blog]
Stored on box.net – a free storage site http://www.box.net/
Upload your mp3 (sound file) – perhaps use audacity
To get the link, click the file in box.net and copy the url (address at the top of the player)
You can also paste in the public link
(IE visitors to your blog can link across to box.net to listen to recording/podcast)
http://www.box.net/shared/qd1kz42r6g
BUT this technique is likely to be blocked/filtered in SA government schools. This means you will need to upload and embed the files away from your site. It is possible for a site administrator to unblock sites at the local level but I do not promote this.
In the editor (when you write a post or a page) there is an icon with an ‘A’ on it. This is for embedding (copy and paste) the URL of different media files such as You Tube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm etc – not all are recognised but it’s worth a try – very quick, easy and powerful. NB You do this in the Visual editor (not Code) but will see code until you save the post or page.
