Charlotte Has Proved Benjamin Franklin Right!

This time last year, the staff at TAPS  developed the e-Learning vision we want for our learners.

Connect ........Learn..............Innovate..................Share

Kotuitui..............Ako.................Auaha.......................Tohatoha

I was staring at this vision as I was sitting at home tonight in front of my laptop.  I was busy completing a review of the digital e-learning plan at TAPS for 2015, that is due in tomorrow.

I hear a 'bing' as a new e-mail arrives in my inbox.  It is from Mrs Scott (Charlotte's mum).

Over the past 3 weeks, Charlotte has been involved in learning how to make StopMotion. Today she went home and made her own StopMotion movie.  

These are the moments that keeps me in teaching.  It is those times when students take what they learn at school and go out into the 'big wide world' and use those skills.

Charlotte, 

Thank you for proving Benjamin Franklin, one of the world's most 

famous inventors, right!

AND

Thank you for sharing your learning with the world!

Our Final Session For The Year

Today was our final session for the year and we FINALLY finished our StopMotion movies.  Congratulations to Bobby, Viktor, Jackson, Lily, Yasmeen and Charlotte for your movies.

Jake The Snake

By Lily, Yasmeen and Charlotte

A Silly Slippery Snake

By: Jackson, Viktor and Bobby

We had lots of comments from Mahutonga and Senna's movie last week.  One comment came from Mahutonga's Aunty Riria.  She shared some of her favourite StopMotion Movies:  Here are her links:

• GULP   ~   https://youtu.be/ieN2vhslTTU
• How Gulp Was Made   ~   https://youtu.be/fza5QdTfyxs
• DOT  ~  https://youtu.be/CD7eagLl5c4
• How Dot Was Made  ~  https://youtu.be/XTbzSiwbRfg

I am so proud of all the efforts all the students have put into their one hour a week with me.  So engaged ... so focussed ... so keen to learn.  Looking forward to seeing all your progress and learning in Syndicate 3 in 2016.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Inserting Screencasts into Blogs

Today I made a screencast and inserted into my blog.

My Kitty Poem (stop motion movie)

Mahutonga and Senna worked very hard today as they were away last time we worked together as a group.  Today's learning tasks:

• Select an animal poem
• Create the characters with playdough
• Choose other items to help tell the story
• Take 150 photos to make the stop motion movie
• Practice reading the poem and decide who is going to say what line
• Record their voices
• Choose background music

Mrs T uploaded it onto YouTube ....  

Here is their final product.

The Making of our Slithery, Slidery, Scaly Old Snake Stop Motion Movie

Today we were on our own ... Mrs T said today was the day we had to practice what we learnt last week.  

Viktor
I had to remember to move the snake only a little bit.

Jackson
I had to remember to only take photos when no one was in the background.

Sienna
To take 5 photos before I moved my snake a little bit.

Lily
I had to remember not to move the setting of my movie.  Only move the snake a little bit.

Charlotte
I had to remember to take 250 photos to make my movie.

Yasmeen
I had to remember to move all the parts slowly and only little bit.

Our First iMotion Movies

Today the students were given the challenge of creating an iMotion movie using lego as their materials

They had to work collaboratively in ...

• deciding what they were going to create.
• moving the pieces into place.
• following directions from the camera operator.
• decide and share out the tasks to complete the challenge within an hour.

Viktor and Jackson giving direction to Bobby (not seen)

Here are our first attempts at iMotion movies.

Our Google Slides Stories

The student's have finally finished their shoebox stories.  It has been an amazing learning journey for both teacher and students.

The digital skills they have been learning and practicing:

• Logging into Chrome and Google
• Accessing their work in their Google Drive
• Creating mind maps to plan their writing - MindMeister
• Writing a script in Google Docs
• Selecting their work - Ctrl + A
• Copying their work - Ctrl + C
• Pasting their work - Ctrl + V
• Publishing their work in Google Slides
• Inserting their photos from their Google drive.

Here are our digital stories published on Google Slides:

Yasmeen, Lily, Senna and Vikor's  will be uploaded onto the blog soon.