Hour of Code with Anna and Elsa

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I often wondered what are those floaty things in your eye?

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Dads Pull Out Surprise Dubstep Dance For Christmas

The Hour of Code is coming - December 8-14!

Try this for starters Hour of Code  Puzzle 1 of 20

Can you help me to catch the naughty pig? Stack a couple of "move forward" blocks together and press "Run" to help me get there.

Hour of Code Choices Code.org

• Frozen (see separate blog post)
• Play Lab
• Flappy Code

See give feedback on this blog about activities when done. Good luck!

Can we learn from playing games?

Super Stacker 2
http://www.k ongregate.com/games/inXile_Ent/super-stacker-2
Try Super Stacker 2 can you complete the 10 Easy stacks?
Make your own stack, share it by copying the link into the blog comments. 

Learn to Fly
http://www.thegamehomepage.com/play/learn-to-fly/

When the glider is pointing upward what happens to speed and altitude?
What is the maximum speed you can achieve at Stage 5?
How high can you go?
When the glider is flying level what happens?  

Setting up a Raspberry Pi

edX 11.132x Design and Development of Educational Technology - Week 4.

Activity 1 -  Pair Project 
For this assignment we have to partner up and do a collaborative mini project together.
My buddy for this is Eli from California. I have set up the page below so we can add ideas and findings on the fly. We have some others joining in so I hope they can find the link soon..
Collaboration page : http://padlet.com/jrobson/raspberrypi

So far I have found and watch the setup video below. When I get my Pi I will use this setup. Eli may chose a different operating system. We will see.

Getting started with NOOBS from Raspberry Pi Foundation on Vimeo.

Getting Scratch Jnr started in your classroom

DevTech  have created a brilliant website to get teachers and students started with Scratch Jnr. 
Teachers start here: http://www.scratchjr.org/teach.html 

Who Created ScratchJr?

ScratchJr is a collaboration between the Developmental Technologies (DevTech) Research Group at theEliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University (led by Marina Umaschi Bers, with contributions from Louise Flannery, Elizabeth Kazakoff, Amanda Strawhacker, and Dylan Portelance), the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab (led by Mitchel Resnick, with contributions from Tim Mickel, Champika Fernando, Natalie Rusk, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Chris Graves), and the Playful Invention Company (led by Paula Bontá and Brian Silverman, with contributions from Jack Geddes and Adrian Gabriel).

What's a MOOC?

Perseverance + Determination = Grit = Success

ScratchJr Curriculum Development Video

Exploring Learning with Scratch Junior

Published on Jan 26, 2014

ScratchJr is a developmentally appropriate programming language for children 5 to 7 years old. Children can create their own animated stories, interactive collages and games. ScratchJr is the product of a collaboration between the DevTech Research Group at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University, directed by Prof. Marina Bers, and the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab directed by Prof. Mitch Resnick. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF DRL-1118664), the ScratchJr iPad app is planned for release in early 2014. Learn more here: http://scratchjr.org/at Tufts University, directed by Prof. Marina Bers, and the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab directed by Prof. Mitch Resnick. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF DRL-1118664), the ScratchJr iPad app is planned for release in early 2014. Learn more here: http://scratchjr.org/

TED-Ed launches an interactive periodic table with a video for every element

From TED-Ed:
"If you’ve ever taken a chemistry class, you know that memorizing all of the elements and understanding their properties can be difficult! To help provide a study aid, TED-Ed collaborated with Brady Haran, best known for his YouTube channel Numberphile and his extensive video coverage of the periodic table, to create a clickable periodic table with videos on every element."

Click around the table »

How do you encourage a growth mindset in your school or classroom?

Growth Mindset: A Driving Philosophy, Not Just a Tool

The concept of a growth mindset was developed by psychologist Carol Dweck and popularized in her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.

“In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment,” writes Dweck. Students who embrace growth mindsets—the belief that they can learn more or become smarter if they work hard and persevere—may learn more, learn it more quickly, and view challenges and failures as opportunities to improve their learning and skills.
Taken from http://edglossary.org/growth-mindset/

Bold Innovative Thinking - It's time for a change!

I like these initial quotes from the children:
"We have the basic things that other schools have but we gave them different name. Like maths is Code World and Science is How Things Work." 

"We learn all the things that the other schools learn...but we just learn it differently."

Published on Jul 30, 2013

Katie Salen, executive director of nonprofit design studio Institute of Play, offers a look inside the ground-breaking school in New York City that she co-founded, Quest to Learn. The school uses core principles of game design as a framework to help students become lifelong learners and design thinkers. More resources at http://www.edutopia.org/katie-salen-g...

GAFE Summit 2015

We invite you to join us for the third annual EdTechTeam Summit New Zealand North Island Summit featuring Google for Education to be held at Albany Senior High 
in Auckland on April 14 & 15, 2015. This high intensity two day event focuses on deploying, integrating, and using Google Apps for Education and other Google Tools to promote student learning in K-12 and higher education. The programme features Google Certified Teachers, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainers, practicing administrators, solution providers, Google engineers, and representatives from the Google education teams. 

Register now now to send teachers, administrators, tech directors, library media specialists, tech support staff, CTOs, and anyone who is interested in finding out more about leveraging Google Apps for Education to support student learning.

Learn more...

Design and Development of Educational Technology

Decided to start posting on this blog again. I had switched to a new blog Endeavor which I have been sharing with my students. However this blog is for my PD and for sharing with my colleagues. I'm excited about starting a 6 week course with MIT, Design and Development of Educational Technology. I will be posting some of my course work here.

  

Powtoon

Introducing Powtoon: Overview1



Next: Overview 2

Task1 - Make a presentation to promote reading in the library or choose a new book and make a promotional video for this book.Good luck.

In the comments below make suggestions on Powtoon's you would like to create. 

Math Champ – Send Math Challenges to Your Students’ iPads

Math Champ is a neat system of two apps working together to deliver math challenges to your students’ iPads.


The Math Champ Host app is the app that you use to create classes and select questions to use in the quizzes that your students take on their iPads. With the host app you control when quizzes become active. The host app also lets you see how students are doing on the quizzes.


The Math Champ Client app is the app that students use to take the quizzes that you are pushing out to them. Students can compete to see who will become the “math champ” in your classroom that day.


Learn more about Math Champ in the video below:

BYOD?

Forrest Hill School are thinking about BYOD. Do you think this would be a good idea? 

What are the pros's and con's? What device would you like to bring? Should every one bring the same device? What if some people do not own their own device? Should the school give them one?  

Who is this man?

Future Visions

Young Inventor

Inspirational Ideas to Amazing Invention

The long story: Solar Roadways

TEDxSacramento - Scott Brusaw - Solar Roadways (1of2)

TEDxSacramento - Scott Brusaw - Solar Roadways (2of2)
Read more :https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways#home
Solar Roadways Rethink

A Google a Day

A Google A Day is a puzzle game from Google, the game play involves the player to solve a lateral thinking puzzle by using Google to find the answer. A new puzzle is added every day. The questions may be any of the following categories: Sport, Science, Pop Culture, History, Arts and Literature,or Geography.

Try it today:
http://www.agoogleaday.com/#game=started

Start playing

Interesting: Fear no spoiler feature

To keep the game interesting for everyone, we created Deja Google – A wormhole inspired time machine that searches the Internet as it existed before the game began. Because nobody wants someone's recent blog post about finding an answer spoiling their fun.

ScratchJr Curriculum Development Video

U20 Women's World Cup Canada 2014

"New Zealand have made a dream start to their FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup campaign with a 2-0 win over Paraguay at Montreal's Olympic Stadium. The Kiwis have never progressed beyond the group stage at this tournament, but are now well placed to make history after goals from Emma Rolston and Steph Skilton took them alongside France at the top of Group D." From - http://www.fifa.com/u20womensworldcup/

Next game is against France at Olympic Stadium on the 9th August 17:00. Good luck girls.

TED ED - HOW HEAVY IS AIR?

Did you complete all the stages of this TED Ed talk? About how heavy is air inside the IT Centre? Can you think of an experiment to prove your hypothesis?

Exploring MS Paint

Rooms 2 and 17 play and learn with paint.

Next :
We are going to learn how to draw cartoon animals.

• How to draw a cat 
• How to draw a hamster
• How to draw a bird
• How to draw a horse
• How to draw a rat
• How to draw a dog
• How to draw a seahorse

Using the ellipse tool video

Using the curve tool video

More Judo hero's at the Commonwealth Games

Darcina Manuel wins bronze - Other Sports News | TVNZ

Darcina Manuel wins bronze - Other Sports News | TVNZ:

'via Blog this'

Posted to the NZ Olympic Team Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/nzolympicteam

Getting behind our team - Go Kiwi's!

We have shared this on the NZ Olympic Team facebook page and I have messaged Chanel Kavanagh (judo team member) on her facebook so she can pass it on to the rest of the team. Others such as my daughter Meghan have shared it on facebook so I'm confident that our message will be through to the team.

Supporting our Commonwealth Games Team

Movie Making Time
Create a short movie using an ipad to encourage our New Zealand Judo team to do well. Chose one athlete form the team and create a special message to them. Make it short, snapping and energetic.
Link to team: http://results.glasgow2014.com/nations.html

Once complete we will put all the individual clips together using movie maker. We will also do a whole class clip to add on at the end. Once done we will upload to youtube and share with New Zealand Judo.

XX COMMONWEALTH GAMES

http://www.glasgow2014.com/

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

• How, where, and why the Commonwealth Games began;
• How often the games are held;
• Who decides where the games will be held;
• Does the Commonwealth Games have an oath, motto, and creed like the Olympic Games;
• A description of the Queen's baton and what it means;
• Information about the Queen's baton relay such as where it starts its journey and how it travels;
• The differences between the Olympic and commonwealth games;
• What prizes are awarded to the athletes;
• When and where the next Commonwealth games are to be held.

RESOURCES

Glasgow 2014
Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Commonwealth Games Federation
Stuff.co.nz Commonwealth Games News Site

From:
http://mrfulton78was.weebly.com/commonwealth-games-history.html

TEDEd - For teachers and students

I am planning to use TED Ed with my students this term.

What is TED Ed?
Simply put TED Ed is a new platform through which teachers can build short lessons around short videos that have been given the TED stamp of approval.

It's an excellent tool for flipping your classroom. I'm planning to use lessons others have created, use youtube videos to create my own customised lessons and create at least one video that I will use TED-Ed to make a lesson aound it.

Directly from the TED-Ed Website:
"TED-Ed is a free educational website for teachers and learners. We are a global and interdisciplinary initiative with a commitment to creating lessons worth sharing. Our approach to education is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. 
Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student."

Watch this video to find out how to use TED-Ed: 

Intro to Skype in the Classroom

This term I'm going to try out Skype in the classroom. Some of the possiblities we could explore are; meeting up with classrooms from another countries, taking part in a cultural exchange with another classroom, being involved in a collaborative project and inviting a guest speakers to share with us their passions and expertiences. I have made the first step and signed up as a teacher. My students will guide me as to where to next by commenting on this blog post. Teachers and students from rooms 12 and 13 please make your suggestions.

If you are interested in knowing more about this watch the videos below:





Resources:
Skype in the Classroom  https://education.skype.com/
Twiiter link Skype Classroom @SkypeClassroom