Graduate Criteria Labels

 

• Participating and Contributing (Respect + Aroha)
• Managing Self
• Thinking Skills  (Commitment + Excellence)
• Symbols and text (Excellence + Commitment)
• Relating to others (Respect + Aroha)
• ICT Skills
• Wellbeing (Hauora)

Let's Get The Conversation Going!

Today we were learning to reply to comments on our blog.

We learned the three parts to replying to a comment:

1. Thank you (postive)

2. Answer (helpful) and

3. Question (thoughtful)

We practiced replying to a comment, then we went onto our blog and replied to a comment that had been left. The idea is to get a conversation going with at least five exchanges!

We also remembered how to embed a slide deck on our blog. Would you like to leave a comment on our class blog?

 

Embedding animations - roly poly baby!

 This is Ms Dohig's example of an animation embedded into a blog .... I admit it is definitely NOT as expert as most of the animations* made by 9LDO learners....for better examples check out some of the learner blogs on our website.

The main thing I learned was the process of embedding a slide deck onto the blog.

The main steps again:

1. Publish the slide deck to the web (File > Publish to the web)

• Click on 'Embed' and select 'Small'
• Tick the boxes to start the slide show and replay the slide show
• Click on 'Publish' to see HTML code
• Copy the code

2. Back on the blog on a new post

• change from 'Compose view' to the 'HTML view' using the dropdown menu next to the pencil picture on the top LHS under the title
• Paste the HTML code into the body of the blog
• To speed up the slide changes change the number 3000 in the code to 100
• Change back to 'Compose view' and watch the animation begin!

*Note: as Caden and Ryleigh pointed out - this type of 'animation' is a version of stop motion animation. There are websites that allow you to animate differently.

Next time I make one of these I am determined to include a background and tell a story ... the roly poly baby makes me dizzy.

Sharpening up the writing tools

 

Preparing for creative writing:

We have been talking about intent ('positive' or 'negative') and intensity (high or low) in writing. 

Here are some great examples that came out of our class discussion of adjectives that make the intent AND intensity clear.

The first smile is positive intent, low intensity

The second smile is positive intent, high intensity

The third smile is negative intent, high intensity

I am looking forward to reading more creative writing from 9LDO that shows deliberate word choices for sharper sentences.