Today was all about computational thinking. A whole new world for me. I found the links Venessa shared re a school in Auckland were quite helpful. We had some exam prep for next week and then went into groups to try something new. I went into scratch, I found it the most tricky thing so far during DFI and I think I will be heading to scratch junior for a play around. There were some good tips for Google keep and I have saved A lot of the resources I use for my reading planning into Google keep so I do not have to keep driving my paper work to school and home each day. It really is awesome. I am going to work on my Blogger check list, which I think I have completed most of them. Something awesome during the week. We had our class Manaiakalani session with Donna Yates. My class is year 2 and 3. We managed to get the class to complete a digital footprint using Google draw and got 3 children posted to their very own blogs for the first time ever!!! There was lots of clapping as I loaded onto our big screen. So my mission is by the end of week 12 to have all 23 children have their first blog post completed. I made sure to email the blog link to the 3 parents of those children yesterday so they could share in the excitement. I had one parent who was quite excited but his comments were not working. A few handy dandy tips from Venessa who is also known as my technical adviser, I am now happy to say his comment is live. I used some bubble time this morning to set up filters, with my technical advisers help to collate all the blogger comment notifications into one folder, as not to fill up my in box.
1 more week to go!
Thanks
As you can see I have a lot to learn in Scratch, meow
Wow Michelle, you have achieved so much already! You set yourself the goal to have all the students blogged by the end of this week, and you have achieved this! Well done! They look great. I love that you personally e-mail the parents to ensure they get their first post and to provide them with an opportunity to comment.
ReplyDeleteYour scratch looks great, I love how when I put in my name, it replies with 'hmm', like it doesn't believe me, lol.
Keep up the great work.