1000 Hands + Free Form Dances August 26, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in dance, learning, miniLegends, video.add a comment
Cultural appreciation and understanding of different dance styles.
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?
Cool Toy – A Visual Procedure August 26, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in miniLegends, technology, video.add a comment
Apologies to other educators who have linked to this learning opportunity.
This 'unbelievable paper toy' video has been removed as it's educational value cannot be accessible to us. The site that hosts it displays other random videos which cannot be monitored but can easily be linked to. They may or may not be appropriate. Our chief priority still remains to equip our students with strategies to use when they come across inappropriate material. Keep safe and savvy. [Thanks to another of our astute parents for pointing out this possibility for our students to so easily surf the internet.]
Now create your own. Hint: use the pause button to follow the steps more closely. 
Term 3 Surprise July 24, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in Edublogs, Telling Our Stories, animation, connect, global, learning, miniLegends, video.16 comments
Our theme is ‘Telling Our Stories’
hover your mouse over these pictures to see the start of an exciting story 
click to enlarge the pictures > use the back button to return here
‘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
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.
