Recommendations for Students Running a Similar Event in the Future

Get along more

Be clear about what audience can touch, take and what they couldn’t

Be more focused

Don’t go on the computers lots

Be organised – knowing what your role is

Do not leave things late

Make sure your stall is eye catching

Get more food

Wear a costume because it really stands out.

Be confident when presenting. – Know what your role is and how to do it well. Practice.

Do your best.

Eclectus Parrot

http://theanimalfacts.com/birds/eclectus-parrot/

Eclectus roratus-20030511

By Doug Janson [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eclectus_roratus-20030511.jpg

https://australianmuseum.net.au/eclectus-parrot-eclectus-roratus

Year 3 and 4 – Who Tells the Story?

Last week we read ‘My Grandad Marches on ANZAC Day’.my-grandad-marches-on-anzac-day

What are the characters in the book remembering?

Why are they remembering?

Where did the war happen?
Why was there a war?
Who was involved in the First World War? – Who were the participants?
Whose stories do we hear?
Who tells the story?

Watch and discuss these questions.

http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s4058058.htm

Week 2: Reflection and Goal Setting

Room 9 (Year 4):
What did you enjoy learning last year during RBL/ICT sessions?

  • being on the computer
  • climate change work
  • newspaper report on Captain Cook, Abel Tasman
  • Animals of Australia
  • Camp slide show
  • Cyber Safety
  • learning about rivers in Australia

What can you do now that you couldn’t do before?

  • hyperlinks
  • make tables
  • make and paste web links into documents
  • research like a pro
  • learned keyboard commands – computer tricks and shortcuts
  • type faster
  • search safely
  • Word tricks

What are you looking forward to learning in 2015?

  • writing books
  • making a website
  • learning about the human body
  • dinosaurs
  • researching
  • history of sport
  • other countries
  • making video games
  • how computers work
  • history of America and London
  • more computer tricks
  • learning about Google

Room 15 (Year 7):

What did you enjoy learning last year during RBL/ICT sessions?

  • making movies
  • researching and going to various sites
  • creating multi-modal texts – War on Worlds
  • Pic Monkey
  • Cyber Bullying sessions – Bully for You – solutions
  • Advanced searching
  • Weebly
  • Domo animations
  • how to add other components to an ICT project
  • website making
  • safe searching
  • making house
  • Inquiry – Miracles and Catastrophes of War
  • photo editing
  • how to download free music to add to videos

What can you do now that you couldn’t before?

  • keyword search
  • make movies using Windows Movie Maker
  • make a website through Weebly
  • animation – Domo
  • use Pic Monkey
  • copyright images
  • create multi-modal texts – to communicate a message

What are you looking forward to learning in 2015?

  • how to make websites and blogs
  • how to make movies/ videos to put on You Tube
  • how to create games
  • fun computer sites – solving mysteries (like Bully for You)
  • 3D animation
  • basic computer code
  • website using html
  • Java
  • You Tube
  • book reviews – (put these on You Tube)
  • more picture editing
  • building a video game
  • Stop Motion
  • 3D models – Sketch Up