Documentary Competition

To all interested documentary film makers:

Flip Video and Windows Movie Maker competition.

Using the Flip video, capture interview footage with classmates relating to how they use ICT to encourage and enhance their writing skills. Edit it into a 1-3 minute film using Windows Movie Maker.

The winning entries will be showcased at a conference in October.
Prizes will include sugar coated sugar with a gooey cash centre, or a$10 donation by me to the charity of your choice. More than one documentary will be chosen if the standard is high enough.

Digital Story Telling

We will learn about Digital Story Telling in class and create our own digital stories to present our learning.
But what are digital stories?

Click here for the online tutorial on how to use Windows Movie Maker to construct your digital stories.

Digital Storytelling

You must have been miserable with me gone ;-)

[I hope your science fairs are ready. I hope all your sustainability arguments are done.]

I have been doing a digital storytelling workshop with special people. It was amazing! The stories they told were so moving everybody cried :-)
We can do digital storytelling in our class. Do YOU have a personal story to tell? Something honest and poignant that can be told in a few minutes with still images and a voice over/narration?
It may seem hard, but with help, it is easy. Your own stories flow from you once you start.
You can leave comments here with ideas if you like.
Some new friends touched my life this week and I hope we can all benefit from the experience.
See you tomorrow!

Incredible social science learning

Click on the "tiny url" http://tinyurl.com/orkncq


to access a really neat ppt that has 60+ slides with a weblink on each taking us to interactive learning sites [games] relating to sustainability, globalisation, etc.


Try out the games and leave comments here stating which ones were fun, useful and why you recommend them in relation to our studies.


:-)

Teaching Sagittarian

Our friend Chrissy is teaching in Thailand and has a cool educational blog called "Teaching Sagittarian". We all know sagittarians are super cool people, but Chrissy is also a great educator and user of ICT. She was even beamed in live to our keynote speaker's address via skype where she joined in virtually and recorded our version of "Matt's dance", which we performed as a warmup flashmob event set up by AllanahK.
If you're a teacher you might want to check out Chrissy's blog. The dance is shown there, although it's a bit fuzzy. Thankfully I don't think you can see me.