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Student Directed Learning - Family, Mentors and Buddies February 24, 2008

Posted by Al Upton in miniLegends.
Tags: blog, blogging, elearning, fun, learning, mini projects, miniLegends, student directed, student initiated
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Hi this is a task I would like you to consider.
‘Consider’??? What do I mean? You don’t have to do it if you don’t want to!?

No. I would like you to consider how this task can best help your learning - make it fun and interesting.
Firstly. I would like you to click the http://alupton.edublogs.org/springboards/ page above and choose some of the questions to answer.
They are above the dotted line ——————–
[NB as a class we negotiated these questions and felt we had covered them well enough and to concentrate our learning on our mini projects and posts.]

Then. I would like you to explore some of the springboards to choose a topic you could do a ‘mini project’ on. Give yourself a challenge. Choose something you don’t know much about but would like to know more. If you always do ‘dinosaurs’ or ‘ponies’ please avoid them here! In the comments of http://alupton.edublogs.org/springboards/ type in what you would like to research and what springboard you used to find it.

Next write a post about your topic on your own blog. You will have a few lessons to do this and use a few posts if you want.

introduce your topic (consider your title carefully)
share what you have found so far
copy and paste any links you have used for information and pictures
(right-mouse-click ‘copy link location)
write what more you might want to find out about your topic
ask your mentors, buddies and family if they would like to join in, share and help you with your topic.
add and present the information you find with pride. Do this using your own words - don’t just copy other people’s. Remember if someone helps you or if you find something somewhere else, then you need to say that. Pictures need to come from sites that allow you to use them for free - be very careful of this.

Finally remember to ‘read and respond’ to the comments that you have received on your blog. Use your internet manners and keep ’safe and savvy’.

UPDATE: your learning does not have to be all online/internet/blogging etc … this is just a starting point, a springboard to how you would like to learn about your chosen topic and present it. Please don’t forget to involve your folks.

Al Wall Mimes February 9, 2008

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Christmas Shockwave Files December 4, 2007

Posted by Al Upton in Christmas, miniLegends.
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We did an advanced Google search with 5 things

“Christmas”
choose 100 results
language: English
File type: … only …. shockwave flash (.swf)
safe search: on

http://tinyurl.com/yrqm54 this is the first page of opur search … we found
Results 1 - 100 of about 103,000 English pages for christmas filetype:swf with Safesearch on.

REMEMBER: Stay safe and savvy .. if something is still inappropriate .. exit the page, minimise it or Alt + Tab to show an adult

http://badaboo.free.fr/merryxmas.swf Santa and friends singing ‘White Christmas’

http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/christmas/advent%20calendar%2005/Advent%20calendar%202005.swf How people celebrate Christmas around the world

http://www.theoworlds.com/christmas/christmas.swf Decorate your own cookie