Welcome to ICT for 2010
Term 3 2010
"I'm here - now what!"
This is our topic focus for this term - we are looking at our past and how it influenced and impacted on what happened in the future. We are looking at the movement of people and what led them to where they are now.
We have several focus questions to look at as well like identifying with our culture, what challenges people face and where I will be in the future.
Some of our class members are Year 8 and this is the second to last term they have at Marina View School - they are very busy reading themselves for High School. And the year 7 children are watching them knowing they will be in the same position next year.
We have lots of cool ICT projects and programmes ready to use this term - a really exciting time !
We have our Citizenship Cup Presentation Assembly the first Friday back and ICT have been working very hard last term getting prepared for this assembly.... our theme is Avitars and it might be good to bring the popcortn for the movies in assembly .. no more hints !
Term 2 2010
This term we are having a Science focus and we are doing lots of experiments and seeing how to write them up properly. We will be using Glogster to create posters on line of our experiments, using Photoshop to enhance photos and create drawings not only for our Science Board but for Art as well
We will post some pictures up when we have finished
We are using Publisher to design the Science Boards and to set them out ready for the final phase
We have a new MVTV crew this term and quite a few are from ICT.
We are having fun making movies so check out the Dressups video as well as the Cool Class one we started last term.
Keep coming back as we have lots of pictures and video to show you
We ROCK !
Term 1 2010
Welcome to ICT 2010
We have an exciting term ahead of us and as usual we have lots of cool programmmes to learn how to use.
This term we will be using Adobe Premier Elements to create a video sequence about someone in history who has made a difference
Our topic is about "Our Voices are Powerful" so we have lots to look at and lots to do
We have lots of cool fun in class and get LOTS of EXTRA time on the computers - learning all sorts of cool things
Have a look at our pictures we posted
Below is part of the report we wrote for MVTV and quite a few children from ICT went down as part of the MVTV Crew
READ ON !
This year we had 2 workshops accepted at the Learning @ Schools Conference in Rotorua. So it was up to us to get it all organised
We had 23 children who wanted to go so we asked parents for transport. I had already told the children that not all of them could come but they still had to ask their parents. We got 5 confirmed vehicles which meant that we could take them all.
The next step was getting there on time and getting set up and prepared.
That meant that the children had to be there by 5:30 am (in the morning !!!!) ready to go to Rotorua. We finally left at 6 oclock and it took 4 hours to get to Rotorua. We wasted a bit of time just getting out of Auckland at that time - we did a great impression of a slow moving car park for about the first 20 minutes going through South Auckland. Once we got out of Auckland we were fine.
We arrived at about 10:00 am so we had a bit of time to set up and chill out before our workshop
We had one in the morning on Video Editing entitled "Our Children are Video producers not Video Consumers. In the workshop we showed the teachers what type of work the children were producing and then we showed them how to use the Adobe Premier Elements programme. We managed to cover quite a bit but still ran out of time. Some of the MVTV crew presented someof the segments on what to do for different aspects of the programme. They did exceptionally well.
In the afternoon we did another workshop on Visual Communicator 3 and how we use it in MVTV. We made a mock script and then showed the teachers how to insert video clips, pictures and special effects. We ran out of time again but the teachers enjoyed the workshop. A lot of them said how helpful the children were and that they learnt so much more with having a "teacher" beside them all the way.
After the conference we went to the park by the lake, ate pizza for tea and then travelled back to Auckland. It took 3 hours and 40 minutes of driving time - and that excluded the toliet stop on the way.
We got back to Auckland at 8:30pm - it was indeed a long day for the children - but even as they were going home they were buzzing about their day.