Using the Flip

Today my class viewed Room 16's blog. They were very impressed with the video footage- explanations, haka, jump jam...

Then "Why can't we do that?!" So I asked the children, what are they proud of this term and what did they enjoy doing this term that they would like to share.

Check out 6gigs.blogspot.com to see what we have come up with.

One downfall has to be the loading time it takes when uploading video footage. They are only short clips and I think they are small 23-100ish mb.

Is there something that I need to be doing to speed this up?

Just incase you're not counting... only 13 School days to go and that's without taking out release days, sports exchanges, zero waste, etc. and we have soooooo much work left to do.

Only 16 School Days to go!

I can't believe we have only 16 school days to go. My class will have to work overtime to try and find answers for their inquiry questions! And then there is still the creating & social action part of the process!

They were able to use keywords to help them search for information. The wonderwheel feature on Google was very effective to help the children think of other possible key words/phrases. The issue is the children's lack of confidence with skimming & scanning and this can be difficult because not every site that they go on has information that they want or need. It has been great listening to the children reflecting on their findings e.g. "I thought algae was always bad... I didn't know it can be used as a biofuel!"

I would appreciate any suggestions to help with research :)