Our Last Day at Brightwater

Today is going to be our last day together. We are going to spend our time exploring these apps on the iPads.

Animal Mix Up

Some animals got a little mixed up like this dorse.

We are going to make our own.

We could use Build Your Wild Self. Here is the creatures that we uploaded with Drop It To Me.

Or on the iPad we could use Juxtaposer.

Here are some of the images we made with Juxtaposer.

Our Favourite Meal

If you could order up your favourite meal right now what would it be??

Allanah's favourite meal would be an entrée of shrimps in a bed of lettuce, followed by lamb shanks. 

The lamb shanks would be all covered in rich, brown gravy and I would have some roast vegetables that I like like parsnips, potatoes and kumara and maybe some peas and corn as well. 

I would have home made mint sauce with it.

To drink I would have pink sparkling grape fruit juice with strawberries floating in it.

To finish off for pudding I would have pavlova, red jelly, hundreds and thousands, Spanish cream with lashings of whipped cream on top.

What would you have has your most favourite meal?

Fireworks Book in ITunes

Our next iTunes Book has been published and is ready for download on the iTunes Book Store.

https://itunes.apple.com/nz/book/fireworks/id942796591?mt=11

This is how we put it together. 

We wrote our stories in a Google Form linked from our blog 

http://moturoa.blogspot.co.nz/2014/11/fireworks.html

We each took screen grabs of fireworks that we had made with the iPad App Real Fireworks.

Then we copied those stories into Book Creator. 

Then we recorded our narration of the text we had written and published it in iTunes for everyone to enjoy.

Here is the book made into a video.

Here is the embed code if you want to put it on your blog.

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/hnHlQZtbOV0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

And here is the link you can just download and view on your iPad.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwaO1y3EpG29SUljVHQwTVN3VkU/view?usp=sharing

End of Year Newsletter Collaborative Doc

Here is our Google Doc for the newsletter.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14CfAiBqJDe_QHc6hk24PUnEsJFEpyB2jlaZb5BWazt4/edit

http://www.cloud.brightwater.school.nz/

End of Year Survey

Remember at the beginning of the year we did a survey. We are going to do it again to see if you have had any shifts in your thinking.

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Fireworks

The very cool Fireworks App we are using is called Real Fireworks Visualizer. It is free!

Here is where we are going to do our writing today.

Brightwater Newsletter #3

Here is our next newsletter- all about the Nelson Mask Parade. Click on the cover to read the whole book.

Multi-Touch iPad Book

This week we put our blog posts together and made a multi-touch book.

You can hear us reading and see our illustrations and text.

1. You can read it on your iPad by downloading it from this link.

Here is the code for you to put the video on your own blog. Remember to put it in the html part.

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9T6ci-UzVEk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

2. Or you can view the book as a video

3. Or you could download it yourself from iTunes.

Here is the link 

https://itunes.apple.com/nz/book/brightwater-combined-book/id933622743?mt=11

Writing a Combined Book to download

We are going to make one combined multi-touch book using our stories.

We are going to do that this term.

Here is the text we are going to use.  Make sure it says what you want it to say.

We are going to add our own illustrations.

Make them great.

Golden Bay

This holidays we went to Takaka for 3 days. We went to Wainui Falls. It was 40 minutes each way. It was a big waterfall that came rushing down. We left at 10 am. We stopped at the salmon farming. We caught 9 salmon between us.

ColAR Magic

On our last day of Term Three we had a bit of treat colouring and bringing our creations to life using the ColAR app on the iPads.

Here is the link to the app if you would like to try it out for yourself. ColAR itself is free but you buy more of the colouring prompts as you like.

Here is a little video showing how Augmented Reality works with ColAR.

ColAR at Brightwater from Allanah King on Vimeo.

Term Three Newsletter

Here is the link to the Google Doc newsletter for writing our notes on.

Here is the newsletter to it all put together.

Click on the image to read the newsletter.

Today is International DOT DAY

Today is 15 September - International Dot Day. We are going to draw our dots using the iPads or Google Draw.

Allanah will put them all together into one slideshow at the end of the day.

Here are our Dot Day Dots. All put together with Google Drawings!

Puterino School showed us their dots too. Aren't they cool.

High Diving Giraffes

Today while we are logging in we will be able to watch this movie of high diving giraffes. You can either write about a high dive you have done or something else of your choice that you want to write about.

 

Newsletter Writing Group

In the afternoon Leah, James, Hades, Sven and Harrison put together a newsletter using a shared Google Doc and Comic Life.

Newsletter

Here is the Google Doc we are using to draft the newsletter.

Going to Kaikoura

In the holidays I went  to  Kaikoura  and  I  saw some baby seals. And  they were cute because  of  their  eyes.

Ethan

Brightwater School Hangi

Here is the Brightwater Hangi.

Here is the embed code for your own blogs.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/t97rZaqCCAo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

FIFA WORLD CUP!!! AWESOME!!!!

I'm a fan of the FIFA world cup. My favourite team is Brazil. I have a friend that loves the FIFA world cup he's good at soccer. 

Matthew