ICT: Simple Machines

• Read through the information on the first page
• Copy this picture on the simple machines onto your own blog

• On the bottom on the page, there are three lessons. Go through all three lessons so that you can learn about each simple machine.

Activity

On your blog, write 2 things that you have learnt about each simple machine that you didn't know before.

ICT: Spicy Nodes

1. Sign up for Spicy Nodes

2. Put the central idea from our previous unit in the middle

 Central Idea
An economy affects people and the environment

3. Put the lines of inquiry around the central idea

Lines of Inquiry
- Organisation of economic systems
- Ways in which trade makes us interdependent
- The ethics of trade

4. Add links, photos, videos, and learning engagements on to them that you enjoyed
Hint: you might want to get some information from here

5. Embed on to your blog

6. Work through some IXL

Aims for Portfolios

Aims for Portfolios:

Pages under Unit of Inquiry:
1. WWA
2. STP
3. WWAIPAT
4. HWOO
5. HTWW
6. HWEO

At least three entries (one for each of the first 3 units of inquiry)

Have added a separate heading for “Specialists”

In addition Year 8 students:

1. A file structure that separates work from last year with this year’s work.

Extras for experts:

Can you use this to show progress and achievement?

ICT: Introduction to portfolios

Success Criteria:

• Three pages under UOI named after our units
• 1. WWA
• 2. STP
• 3. WWAIPAT

• Something on each of those pages that you are proud of.

You can get the content from your blogs or the class blog.

Extras for experts:

Try and create a video like I have here. Hint: I used QuickTime Player

ICT: Learning to AirDrop

Click to access instructions

1. AirDrop AND email a picture to someone in the class

2. AirDrop AND email video to someone in the class
3. Write a blog post about why this would be helpful

• When would this be better than emails?
• Is even useful? Why and when?

4. Fill in the following

Positives of using AirDrop	Negatives of using AirDrops

ICT: Creating videos

WALT: Create a video using our camp photos

There are two ways you can go about this:

• YouTube: Video editor (school account)
• iMovie

Access the camp photos, and create a video to show all that you have done.

NOTE: YouTube videos must be set to private or unlisted.

Using YouTube Video editor:

Using iMovie trailers:

Blogging: Mon 2nd May

• Camp activity: add this picture to your blog and write where are you at in regards to camp.

• Complete the new student blogging challenge
• Update what you have done for "Take up the Challenge"
• Extras for Experts: Find a Ted Ex talk that relates to our unit or camp. Write some questions for others to answer

Blog: Thur 14th April

• Update the homework checklist
• Embed this item and answer the following questions:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Chw8PLQ8ZjWGZqVFZQOFRVNjg/view?usp=sharing

• 1. THINK: What do you think is the most helpful piece of information on this to someone who is going on camp?
  2. THINK: What was something you have learnt from this?
  3. WONDER: Do you have any questions that has come from this reading?
  4. So what?: How is this relevant to camp?
  5. So what?: How is this relevant to our current transdisciplinary theme? (Sharing the Planet)
  
  Add three labels to this post: Sharing the Planet, Camp, Reading
  
  
  • Extras for Experts: Write a reflection on your time helping Room 1
  • Complete the new student blogging challenge
  • Update what you have done for "Take up the Challenge"

A Big Walk In idea

I found this video; do you think it would be worth trying for the whole big walk into camp? Add a comment to let me know your thoughts. I believe our school owns a Go-Pro.

Camp Prep: Is there a doctor in the tent?

• Update the homework checklist with hyperlinks
• Camp pre: Is There A Doctor in the Tent?

Embed this image to your blog:



<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/a/berkley.school.nz/file/d/0B6Chw8PLQ8ZjVDV0SkVTUE5UUm8/preview" width="640" height="480"></iframe>

Read through it and answer the following questions underneath it:

1. SEE: Summarise each section under the headings
2. THINK: What do you think is the most helpful piece of information on this to someone who is going on camp?
3. THINK: What was something you have learnt from this?
4. WONDER: Do you have any questions that has come from this reading?
4. So what?: How is this relevant to camp?
4. So what?: How is this relevant to our current transdisciplinary theme? (Sharing the Planet)

Add three labels to this post: Sharing the Planet, Camp, Reading

• Extras for Experts: Write a reflection on your time helping Room 1
• Complete the new student blogging challenge
• Update what you have done for "Take up the Challenge"

Blogs: Wed 6th April

• Update the homework checklist with hyperlinks
• Camp pre: On the Trail

Embed this image to your blog:



<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/a/berkley.school.nz/file/d/0B6Chw8PLQ8ZjRnNQZlBTOXlvSFE/preview" width="640" height="480"></iframe>

Read through it and answer the following questions underneath it:

1. What do you notice about the layout of this?
2. Why would it be set out this way rather than just have text?
3. So what?: How is this relevant to camp?
4. So what?: How is this relevant to our current transdisciplinary theme? (Sharing the Planet)

Add three labels to this post: Sharing the Planet, Camp, Reading

• Complete the new student blogging challenge
• Update what you have done for "Take up the Challenge"
• Extras for Experts: Complete the form to help out Room 1

ICT: Blogs Tues 5th April

• Update the homework checklist with hyperlinks
• Complete the new student blogging challenge
• Update what you have done for "Take up the Challenge"
• Extras for Experts: Complete the form to help out Room 1

ICT: Wed 23rd Mar

• Christian, Molly, Ryan: Camp group survey
• Write a blog post about earth hour
• Writing Goal based on E-asstle results
• Create a new header using www.canva.com
• Complete the new student blogging challenge
• Update what you have done for "Take up the Challenge"

Blog Lesson: T1W7

• Annabelle and Tiana leading a breakout session
• Student Weekly Blog Challenge: Commenting
• Make sure you have a labelling system (e.g. for homework)
• Show evidence of your learning in mathematics

ICT: Mon 7th Mar

U.O.I.

1. Research for your U.O.I. summative task
2. Record it in your U.O.I. book or on your blog

Blog

1. Make a page. Name it Take Up the Challenge. Record everything you have done to take up the challenge so far. Keep it updated.
2. View privacy settings

Homework

1. Set up your homework on a Google doc with the name "T1W6 Firstname"

Extras for experts:

1. Student Blogging Challenge is now live!
2. Embed the homework document into your blog

Blog Lesson 2: Setting up your blog

Things we have talked through during lesson 2 in the ICT room:

• Customise the template
• Signing up to the Student Blogging Challenge
• Adding gadgets
• Setting up a page gadget so pages can be viewed
• Setting up a labels gadget to organise posts
• Using open-sourced photos (to respect copyright laws)
• Embedding videos to your blog

Student Blogging Challenge

http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/

What’s this challenge about?

The basics of the challenge:

- The challenge is run twice a year beginning March and October for a 10 week period each time.

- It is organized by Miss Sue Wyatt (@tasteach) and help is given by Mrs Sue Waters and her team at Edublogs.

There are three separate sections:

- Educators who would like to mentor a group of students

- Teachers who have a class blog who want to connect with other classes globally

- Individual students who have their own personal blog and want to connect globally with other students

More Details:

- Students, mentors and classes taking part can add a special challenge badge to their blog.

- A twitter hashtag created each year #16stubc

- All blogs must be set to open to the world – the reader doesn’t need a password to leave a comment etc

The Activities Each Week:

- Each week a post is published with a list of activities for students to choose from. You only need to complete one activity each week, but if you want to do more you can.

Examples from previous years

About me – Creating their avatar and about me page so visitors get to know them – includes being digital citizenship and cybersafety

Let’s comment – Teaching what makes a quality comment, how to connect through commenting and again cybersafety and digital citizenship

Using images – Teaches about using creative commons images, giving attribution for images, videos etc, tools for using images in posts

The other weeks of the challenge are based around a topic eg food, games, government, history, maths, nature etc

The final post for the challenge is an evaluation and audit of what they have done over the 10 week period of the challenge.

OK, so you think you might be interested in joining the next set of challenges?

Fill out the March 2016 Registration form at http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2016/02/20/student-registration-march-2016/

To keep track, fill in the 'Subscribe by Email' with your Berkley email in the sidebar so you will be notified when a new post is published.

Blog lesson 1: Starting a blog

Things we have talked through today:

• Go through the "about blogs" and "our blogs" pages on the class blog
• Sign into www.blogger.com with your school address
• Create a blogger account with your first name
• Create a heading "[first name]'s blog"
• Create a web address "firstname14BNMS"
• Create a page
• Add a post (writing or quiz)
• Customise the template

Starting blogs

Using the internet and your email

Every student has an email address, a username, and a password.
You must remember these in order to use the computers.

Logging onto the school computers:

Once you have logged into Student on the laptops (see your teacher for the password), go to the Google Chrome app. This page may appear:

Click connect, and you should come to this page:

Type in your user name and your password. This will get you connected to the school internet.

Using your Gmail and Google Drive

Go to www.gmail.com or mail.berkley.school.nz

Here, you must enter your email address (username + @student.berkley.school.nz)

This should bring you to this page:

Now here, you only type in your username (not your full email)
Type your password, and you should now be online.

You will be able to access your email from home also. You will need to know this because some of your homework will need to be sent to me.

All the best.