Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Learning about Tinkercad

Watch this tutorial and do the intro lessons. 
First you must sign in to the website https://www.tinkercad.com/

Good luck and have fun.

First design project: Make a table and chair set for Mr R's doll house. 

Bookmark the Arataki Blog!


Find the link on the Forrest Hill School website on the Our Classrooms page.


Tuesday, March 17, 2015

World Peace Song Project

Arataki students practising the chorus of the World Peace Song. 
  






Sunday, March 15, 2015

Teachers As Change Agents

Visible Learning Summit 
27 March 2015
Ellerslie Events Centre, Auckland
From: http://visiblelearningplus.com/summit2015
The goal of the Visible Learning Summit is to share stories and practice across a range of schools, providing unique insights on building better outcomes for learners. 
We bring together some of New Zealand’s and Central Australia’s voices to share pragmatic insights on how Visible Learning ideas are brought to life. The last word lies in the ‘big voices & small voices’ of our learners. 



Thursday, March 12, 2015

Cyber Citizenship at Coatesville School

Room 9 and 10 at Coatesville School have been learning about Cyber Safety and KOS. 
Today they are going to work in pairs creating a google doc to share their what they have learnt about Cyber Safety so far.

Start by creating a google doc.

Share your doc with another group. allow them to edit your doc and add more content. 
Rules to collaboration.
  • Respect each others opinions.
  • Read the shared doc before adding your contribution.
  • Be careful to aviod writng over or deleting each others content.
  • Make sure what your are writing is relevant to the topic.    

Final process - create a google slide together to be shared the Forrest Hill School students. 

Google slide Cyber Citizenship at Coatesville School

Follow up:

Take a quiz

Do a Cyber Safety quest



Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Arataki - Update

Checklist for - Week 6


  • Avatar created (My Blue Robot) and upload image to google drive.
  • Complete cyber safety websites certificates ie. NSTeeens, Webonauts
  • Post learning about cyber safety on the Endeavour blog under NSTeens and Webonauts posts. 
  • Setup personal blog. Customise the look.
  • Bookmark - my blog in chrome browser.
  • Symbalooedu  make sure this is set up and bookmarked. Remember you can login with your gmail.
  • Copy and paste your Moon Story on Blogger to share with someone from another Arataki class.
  • My Mysterious Me - Shared Doc
  • First blog post - What does Cyber Citizenship mean to me? 
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