Week Five

Today we looked at how to make a short animanted film. We used the website http://www.dfilm.com/live/moviemaker.html to make a short film below is mine that I made. We had to copy the link at the end of the movie by pressing Ctrl A then Ctrl C and then copied it below.



We then moved on and made an animated character using the website http://www.buildyourwildself.com/



I really liked this site and I know that students would enjoy using it. These are the sorts of sites are the education oppurtunites that I would like to introduce in my classroom. I really like the technology and find that these sites could provide lots of education and enjoyment for the students. Greg also mentioned that children dont build enough things at school. Animation websites could be relly good tool for those children who do not enjoy the hands on side of being creative.

We also spoke about rebus stories and how they can be used in the classroom.

Week Four

Today we watched a short film made from an aboriginal dream time story from the site http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoesc.net.au/dustechoes. Greg then asked us to make a concept map in insparation about one of the dream team stories. Below is a storyboard that I made useing insparation about the dreamtime story 'spear'.




I enjoyed doing this and thought it was a great way for children to retell a story.


We then moved on to counting and graphing
cholcloate mm's in the exel program. We looked at some of the different ways the children can use excel and graphs. We then made our own graphs in excel. To the right is one I made I got the pictures of the mm website http://www.m-ms.com.au/index.htmlww.m-ms.com.au/index.html.

Week Three

Today we were given the task of making a small paper frog jump. We were given a small paper frog a piece of cardboard and a rubber band. The following is a step by step process on how we made our frog jump.

1. Tape frog to cardboard

2. Fold cardboard

3. Put ruber band around two fingers

4. Place folded cardboard over both sides of the rubber band

5. Pull back and shoot

(Our jumping frog is essentialy a sling shot)

We also documented our deign process on a design brief. This shows what the problem was and how we solved it. It would allow students to practice there problem solving skills and also procedual writing skills.

We also had a shot at making our own games on http://www.quia.com/ to the left is a quiz i made about Mighty Ducks 2. I can see how this would be a useful activity for children to do in the class as they could put there own ideas into it or be given a topic. It also allows for many diffrent quizes for students to try and therefore many diffrent learning opportunities .

Week Two

Today we discussed applying for jobs in primary schools and some of the do's and dont's of what to do when applying and preparing for an interview. We spoke about what sort of interview process we should expect and the type of atmosphere that will be presented to us.

Greg also mentioned that we should always ask a question at the end of the interview, this is something that I find interesting as I have known from past experience that after an interview I want to get out of there as soon as possible.



To the left is an example of a travel brocher that I made in Microsoft publisher. The country is Guniea which was a random page came up on wikipedia. I can see how using this would be a good teaching tool in the classroom. It gives students the tools to all work on the same skills while being able to choose a topic of their choice that intrests them to research when they make thier own brocher.
I found the process of making it realitevely easy and i think that students of most grade levels would be able to follow instructions on how to make one.





We also looked at some examples of e-portfollios. And started thinking how we would make our own e-portfollios. To the right is one that I started.

Week One

Today we worked with the program Insparation. To the left is a concept design that I made. I found this a little difficult as I am used to using a Mac computer and found it time consuming to transfer images that i worked on from a Windows PC to a Mac.

To do this I needed to learn how to print scree on Mac as I had never done it before. I simply googled 'how to print screen on mac' and this is a screen grab of the page that was the top hit.

We then went on and made a mind map. I find map's very helful and often do one before assignments. This is one that I completed in my previous degree about a document published by the Nazi party in WWII