Here is the link to some Sway Presentations completed by the Year 3 class. Can you provide them some feedback.
1. Compliment – What was successful?
2. Feed forward – How could they improve?
3. Pose a question – start a discussion
Here is the link to some Sway Presentations completed by the Year 3 class. Can you provide them some feedback.
1. Compliment – What was successful?
2. Feed forward – How could they improve?
3. Pose a question – start a discussion
Free Music Sites:
Free Music Archive: http://www.freemusicarchive.org/
Bensound: http://www.bensound.com/
Free Sound: http://www.freesound.org/
CC Mixter: http://www.ccmixter.org/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/
Jamendo: https://www.jamendo.com/
“I don’t have any interesting stories, nothing has happened to me.”
This is often the initial response people have when faced with the task of storytelling. Here’s a secret: everyone has stories. Human beings inherently have stories about their lives. The problem is sifting through the thousands of memories to find a story we value, and hope others value. Here is a list developed by Christina Baldwin in her book Storycatcher that has been adapted and will help in your search.
1. Describe one of your earliest memories. Who is with you? Is this an actual memory you have, or was it told to you?
2. Think of your grandparents. What is your relationship with any one of them? How involved were they in raising you? Affecting you? Influencing you?
3. Where do you come from? What is the landscape? Who are the people? Is there a person, or memory you have that captures the place?
4. Choose a family heirloom or artefact that has a history. What does it mean to your family? What is its history? Why is it valued by your family? Who has it now?
5. What do you know about the origins of your family? What was life like for older family members when they were your age?
6. Life is full of mysteries. Pick a mystery that you are curious about can you imagine a story that explains that mystery?
7. Is there a family story that you are responsible for passing on?
8. What was a typical family dinner like when you were growing up? Can you share some special family meals or ways in which your family celebrate?
9. Describe a world event that changed your thinking. What were you doing when it happened? How did you view the world differently?
10. If you had to make a time capsule of yourself, what would you include? How do you want to be remembered?
11. Where do you go when you are afraid? Did you have a special place you went to when you were scared? Angry? Lonely?
12. Describe a lesson you learned the hard way. How did this lesson affect you?
13. Describe a sacrifice you made. How did it change you? Was it worth it? Would you make the same sacrifice again if you had the chance to do it again?
14. Where were you at age___? How are you different now?
15. Do you know your birth story? Who told you? Do you have artefacts from around the time you were born?
16. Do you have memories about pivotal choices you have made in your life?
17. Describe an accomplishment that gave you great pride.
18. Think of a decision that one of your family members made that you are grateful for. Why are you grateful?
Behind the Lens
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/video/Behind_the_lens.mp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUZXBc6yRhU&feature=youtu.be
http://digitalstorytelling.ci.qut.edu.au/index.php/stories/digital_storytelling_arrives_at_qut
The 7 Elements
Free Digital Storytelling Tools
https://elearningindustry.com/18-free-digital-storytelling-tools-for-teachers-and-students
Monster Mash
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/video/Monster-Mash.mp4
Pop Ups
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/video/SMALL%20Paper%20Popups.mp4
Timeline
Date | Significant Event/s |
1855 | Species was first discovered |
1916 | Published first detailed observation |
1918 | Black rats ate nearly all the phasmids |
1930 | All phasmids were gone |
1964 | An amazing photo of a dead phasmid taken on Balls Pyramid |
1969 | More phasmid remains were found |
2001 | 5 people scientific expedition to Ball Pyramid |
2002 | 5 people rediscover phasmid on a bush in the middle of the night |
2003 | Two males and two female phasmids were collected on Valentine’s Day |
2003 | Male and female taken to Melbourne Zoo |
2007 | Some phasmids were returned to Lord Howe Island |
2008 | Melbourne Zoo returns adults phasmids |
2008 | Doctor Jane Goodall visited the phasmids – Melbourne Zoo |
2009 | Video filmed of phasmid hatching |
2012 | Program to kill rats |
2012 | Funding for school to incubate eggs |
2013 | 20 minute movie- Sticky |
2014 | A new display set up for phasmids in Melbourne Zoo |
Sticky from jilli rose on Vimeo.
Questions
Here | Hidden | Head |
Explicitly in the text |
Read the clues Read between the lines Gather information from various parts of the text Inferential |
Opinion based on evidence Evaluative based on details in the text |
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Over the next 5 weeks, during RBL/ICT lessons the Year 4 to 7 students will be exploring the non-fiction texts that have been shortlisted by the Childrens Book Council of Australia. Which one of these do you think deserves to win? Why?
We will be exploring the topics presented by these books, and thinking about how the authors have used the topic and language structures and features to good effect. What makes these worthy of making the shortlist?
To begin, what do we already know:
What do I think I know | Confirmed √ | Misconception | New Information | Wonderings |
I think they will save the stick insect | ||||
They will probably try to find some more because they thought they were extinct | ||||
The text will be about the recovery of the stick insect | ||||
Might all be extinct then they find another egg and it breeds | ||||
We think that maybe there is more of them. Where do they come from? Travel to look for them, find more | ||||
Maybe they were endangered, being taken care of in an enclosure, got away, had to try to look for them | ||||
They started to be extinct and they found one | ||||
Some people think they are all extinct then someone finds some | ||||
They are all extinct but some people don’t agree and then go and search and they find them. Find them on the edge of extinction, but manage to save them | ||||
We think that they are on the verge of extinction, try to find some more of the species | ||||
Someone finds a whole group of them somewhere but no one believes them | ||||
Science non-fiction book about the stick insect. They finds one, copy the DNA and then breed more | ||||
What do I think I know | Confirmed √ | Misconception | New Information | Wonderings |
We think it would be sad if this species of insect becomes extinct | ||||
Cool that a guy discovered a new species on the island | ||||
The phasmids were extinct and then found and bred more | ||||
A man will discover a new bug | ||||
Everyone who tried to save the bug would have been really happy | ||||
Story about saving a stick insect. Happy to find species | ||||
Extinct but then a man found on a crevasse in a rock | ||||
Grateful that they found it, now we can learn more. Never give up | ||||
Interesting that everyone thought it was extinct. Need to learn more to keep it alive | ||||
Book about how to save insects | ||||
What do I think I know | Confirmed √ | Misconception | New Information | Wonderings |
Phasmid was extinct but not extinct | ||||
A lot of research before they could breed more. How they kept them alive |
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People that saved them must have really cared about them | ||||
How it got extinct and how they found it | ||||
Publishers are scientists | ||||
Persistence and hope | ||||
Colours which identify it – from other animals | ||||
Send someone to go find the phasmids, research lab to learn more about them | ||||
Care a lot about them, heard about extinction, searched island. Starts a breeding program | ||||
Might try and get other people involved | ||||
Book to create awareness of extinction and other animals that might have same problem | ||||
Work together as a team | ||||
May have been preyed on by predators – birds, animals –maybe snakes | √ birds | |||
Some people wouldn’t care just to become famous |
Lennie goes to Sydney from Melbourne | ||||
What do I think I know | Confirmed √ | Misconception | New Information | Wonderings |
He didn’t flee Melbourne | ||||
Lennie is really brave because he was on a pony | ||||
Probably had to go through a tough time – robber | ||||
Crazy to travel all that way. Was the pony Ok – was it fed? | ||||
Lennie meets the Prime Minister. Who was the Prime Minister at the time? Gough Whitlam? | ||||
31 years after Federation. Lennie was optimistic. During the Great Depression. Pony – Ginger Mick | ||||
Not very well thought out blurb, it shouldn’t tell the outcome | ||||
Maybe the family was struggling | ||||
I wonder how old the pony is and what happens to it afterwards |
What do I think I know | Confirmed √ | Misconception | New Information | Wonderings |
Maybe some people invaded their town, and there was a big fight | ||||
Maybe they were having a war and people were told not to be involved – tried to fight back and that’s why they were called the rebels | ||||
There is the gold rush, Eureka Flag – looks very old – white cross and dark blue background with stars at the end and the middle | ||||
Gold rush – people across the world went to the gold rush, so they could mine gold and get rich | ||||
Maybe the background of the cover is the flag | ||||
Eureka Stockade – mining area – attracted lots of people, Cornish people | ||||
Eureka – I found it! | ||||
Seen a mining film – gigantic field – Burra | ||||
Eureka – Sky Deck building – tallest building in Southern hemisphere – named after Eureka Stockade | ||||
Mining place | ||||
Eureka Stockade in Australia somewhere | ||||
Lots of money involved | ||||
Front cover – flag – burn – culture or belief | ||||
Eureka flag – stars, red, blue | ||||
Up and down story – good parts and not so good parts |
What do I think I know | Confirmed √ | Misconception | New Information | Wonderings |
She is in the French Resistance – WW2 (against the force – Hitler) | ||||
Australian | ||||
She is very secretive and brave – The White Mouse | ||||
She’s wanted – Dead or Alive | ||||
Most decorated Australian woman | ||||
She is rebellious for a good cause – helping refugees | ||||
– works for the army – Australian army | ||||
10 medals | ||||
– parachuted behind enemy lines – sneaky, using a tactic to get around the opposition | ||||
Had to sacrifice and cause destruction |
What do I think I know | Confirmed √ | Misconception | New Information | Wonderings |
A war, a woman’s experiences during WW11 and how she achieved the medals | ||||
She was a spy and her code name was The White Mouse because she could get passed the enemy’s defences | ||||
Women have equal abilities as men, as she can do things that men can’t | ||||
Must have had a lot of courage | ||||
Wonder why it’s called The White Mouse | ||||
Think she’s a spy and the other enemies call her The White Mouse | ||||
Called The White Mouse because of how she dresses | ||||
Nurse, Reporter, Rebel |