ejourneys

Took my grade 6 class for their IT lesson yesterday and discovered that people were able to enter into discussion with them. This gave me a scare as I thought I was in a safe educational site with these students.  Went back and talked to the girls, one of whom had started receiving emails requesting [...]

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Still trying to decipher the “pathway from the jungle”  that my mind is trapped in. There is still so much to do and I still need to work out the order of learning activities and what we need to know in order to complete all tasks.  Have started up a wikki  on Kanawinka – our vast volcanic [...]

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One of the students was so excited. When “Penshurst volcanoes” was googled, her del.icio.us bookmark site came up with one of the finds. Great to think that a primary student from a small country school can be found by the “giant” global google.
In class we continued brainstorming with bubbl.us as to the software and hardware [...]

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It is now the start of term 3. Have been researching possible web 2.0 pages for use with our rich case study. So grade 6 and I have had a go at http://bubbl.us. We just practised using it in our IT class yesterday by creating a concept map for our school holidays. Thought we did [...]

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Sent out emails to my grade 6 class with a link to this page, asking them to check the blog frequently.  They are so different to the secondary level students. Got a lot of email replies back from them, thanking me and responding to the email. They will be a great group to work with. Listened [...]

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