Exploring and Sharing

We started off the day reading the comments that people have left on the blog. Thank you people- they are much appreciated.

Today we began looking at a new app- Book Creator. I have the paid for version but you can also download a free version in which you can only make one book.

If I could only have one app on my iPad it would be this one. It has such potential for writing and sharing.

I showed the boys the very basics and let them explore adding images, video, photos, writing freehand, typing and adding audio to add as much as they could on one cover page.

I was also very proud of Zane who took it upon himself to show his classmates how to use Tellagami.

To share the app I used Reflector.app to mirror my iPad onto my laptop which was then projected onto the home class display screen.

Writing inside the Tellagami App

We used some of the backgrounds that we could write on in Tellagami and we made the app do the talking.

This one is by Riley and Jack

This one is by Ethan. We thought we had lost his story but Allanah found it. Yay.

This last one is by Matthew.

 

We would love to hear your feedback in the comments.

Picasso Head

Today in Dobbie's class we looked at Picasso and digital ways of making a Picasso head.

We used the Picassohead web site.

After that we blogged the picture.

Ethan's War Story

Last week Ethan made a cool war story and we thought we would publish here on its own.

 

Getting Tellagami to do the talking

Today we looked at the text to speech function of Tellagami. The boys could write about the storm or something of their choice if they wanted. It was great fun experimenting with the voices.

Using our own backgrounds for Tellagami videos

Today we looked at adding our own backgrounds to our stories made in Tellagami.

Choosing our own story topics

Today we chose our own image backgrounds to write about by searching in Google Images- and saving them on the iPads by pressing and holding the image and saving it to the Camera Roll. We also finished some of our recordings from last week.

Here are some others.....

1. Hawks
2. Motorcross
3. Minecraft #1
4. Minecraft #2

Using Tellagami to tell about our names

Today we used Tellagami on the iPads to share something about how we got our names.

We practised asking questions of each other about our names, then had a quick look at how Tellagami works, wrote down what we were going to say, practised saying it and recorded it.

 

That was a lot to do in 40 minutes so some of us didn't get finished. It was a great start though.

How do we feel about writing

Today we looked at how we felt about writing at home and at school.

We used a Google Form to get the results.

Then Allanah asked us to write for ten minutes about Brightwater School to see what our writing was like.

Moturoa Day

1. We will have a piratical sort of morning this morning.

2. We are going to do a little pirate maths on the computer. We are learning to how use map co-ordinates to find out where the pirate treasure is hidden.

3. Then we are going to use the free iPad app to solve the eight challenges of The Pirate Treasure Hunt. Arghhh me hearties.

4. Then we will write our own pirate like dialogue using Puppet Pals.

If we need some pirate vocabulary we can look here!

Talk like a pirate vocabulary list. If we come across some more pirate words we can add them to the list.

Emelia's Pirate Story from Allanah King on Vimeo.

We also showed our creativity by using Pirate Scribble on the iPad. You have to complete each of the pirate drawings and then they come alive! Pirate Scribble costs $2.59

Here are a couple of pictures Hannah drew with the Pirate Scribble App.

Emma's Pirate Story

Claire's Pirate Story
  Helena's Pirate Story
 

Matai's Pirate Story



Chloe's Pirate Story
 

Ava's Pirate Story



Grace's Pirate Story



Genieve's Pirate Story



Echo's Pirate Story

Judah's Pirate Story

Sam's Pirate Story

Augmented Reality Poetry

Today we did some pretty tricky eLearning with Allanah.

1. You need to have Aurasma on your device. Here's a link to the iPad version and to the Android version.
2. To read these auras you need a QR code reader like QR Reader on your iPad or QR barcode scanner on your Android.
3. Scan the QR codes and let the aura load on your device. Then shine Aurasma at the pictures and you will be treated to us reciting the poems for you.
4. Good luck

Blackbird by Charlie

Erosion

Stargazing with the girls

Boys version of Backyard Stargazing

 

The Dare

There's a Wonton on my Pompom

Introduction to Augmented Reality

We are going to have a go at making some auras. To get the idea we looked at the app AR Dinopark. It was great that some of the class already knew of it because they had been reading the blog and seen what we had been doing in other classes.

If they were still living like this we would be scared.

Me Oma Tāua Ki Te .......

We are learning to understand and use words for common classroom objects.

We are going to read Me Oma Tāua today to practise our reo.

Me Oma Tāua

Here are the common classroom objects we are learning to say.

Eight classroom objects

Here is Ewan reading the book on line.

Spelling

Today we are going to look at some fun spelling activities.

In this first we site you type in your word and then chase the letters around with your mouse.

http://dotty-dots.appspot.com/

In this next activity you roll a dice for your word and do what it says.

Roll a word

We can also use Spellosaur on Allanah's iPads and iPod Touch.

Spellosaur

Dinosaurs

Today we had great fun having our photos taken with some dinosaurs!

We used the free Augmented Reality app AR Dinopark.

The slideshows were made with the free HaikiDeck app.

To look at all our photos click on the little arrows to the left and right of the photos.






Here is Ruby with her scared face on!

Here are a couple of the stories we wrote to go with the photos.

Moturoa Monday

Today we are going to have some fun with our writing. This is a Random Story Starter. You can try your own or I will give you some random starters

Here is Marcus' story starter- 'Write a birthday party invitation for a depressed gorilla who races go-karts.'

Here is what Marcus wrote- 'I can't wait  until Jeff the gorilla gets my birthday invitation. He is really good a go-kart racing. He will be so happy because he is so depressed at the moment. His life is practically over so that's why he's coming and we are going go-karting to cheer him up.

Later in the day we are going to be learning all about bees- we are going to 'bee' using these resources...

Connected 2012

Bee Movie

Bee body parts

Hexagon Template

Hunter used the bee body parts Google Drawing that I had made to label the bee body parts.

Arthur did the same. They both did very well to log in to Google apps, copy the drawing file, label the drawing correctly and share it back with Allanah.

Here is Brooke's image too.

For news we structured our news with three frame story telling. Here is Anna's story.

And here is Sam's table tennis storytelling event.

Harrison has a broken arm so he got to use the iPad all day to do his work on. He liked that idea.

The Dot

Today we watched a video called 'The Dot' based on a book by Peter H Reynolds. Then we drew our own dots on paper and using the iPad.

Sophie is enjoying using one of Allanah's new iPad styluses.

Here are some of our dots. Click on the full screen mode on the bottom right hand corner to see our dots up close.

 

We are going to add them to everyone else's dots for Dot Day, 15 September.

How fabulous. We helped put Nelson and all of New Zealand on the map!

What a great collaboration!

Xanthe Writes a Great Story

Today Xanthe wrote this great story. She has only been at school a little while. Didn't she do well as she reads the story to us.

Sock Puppets at the Appleby Country Fair

Today we made a movie about one of the activities at the Appleby Country Fair. It was about a craft activity at the fair. What better iPad app to use than Sock Puppets!

 

Hoop Gliders

Today we had such fun making and trialling hoop gliders. Emily and Hunter's gliders went the furthest after we modified them.

Here are the instructions for making the hoop gliders. After we had made the basics we changed them to see if we could make them fly further.

Here is a video of us throwing the gliders.