International Dance day

Today our school celebrated "International Dance Day" Students danced for 1 minute at 12:29 and amazed me with their krumping, breakdancing, bottam slidding and Lady Gaga's moves. The most truely inspirational 1 minute of my life. You guys crack me up.

Term 2: Persausive Writing

It was interesting to view room 11 students opinions of where they sit with homework. Naturally they all agrued against the idea of having homework. Todays topic was taken from an asttle test paper which was to write an article for a paper arguging AGAINST the amount of homework students have to do.

I could tell that room 11 students were very passionate about this particular topic because they were writing quietly for 15 minutes. I will enjoy reading your asttle papers tonight people.

Don't for get at 12:29 tomorrow it is international dance day. So be ready to bust out your moves tomorrow.


Click here to go to Bingo's post
Click here to go to Whaea Christine's blog

Sir Ken Robinson

Karioi Team Singing Post

In this post students can submit songs that we can learn during team time. All music needs to be screened by me before posting. No music with swearing, gang signs, naked booties etc. I only want music with lyrics appearing.



Jason Mraz: I'm Yours

Mr C's blog. Mean As!

This is one of the best blog's I've ever come acroos. Check it out room 11 and show some respect by commenting to a post. We will definately hook up with Mr C's class this term. Click here to connect to Mr C's classroom blog. Check out their "Live Broadcast" MEAN AS!

5TB's Blog

Check room 5TB's blog room 11, click here to go to their classroom blog. My son asked me, What does 5TB mean?......Um maybe year 5 TB is the first and surname of the teacher???

Mr Lamshed's Classroom

A bigshout to our aussie cuzzies. Room 11 check out Mr Lamshed's blog and please leave a comment. We look forward to expanding our learning network with you guys later this term.
Click here to go to Mr Lamshed's classroom blog

Suzie Vesper: Sharing the love

Thanks to Suzie Vesper for creating this comprehensive presentation of fantastic ICT examples to use in the class and beyond. WICKED AS!

Ict Examples Presentation

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Gappy Teeth Boy

I used this happy chappy photo of my son and used http://www.befunky.com/ to create awesome effects with it. Very easy to use, have a try!

Toni Twiss

This is one of the greatest teachers on the planet. Ladies and gentleman I present ICT guru, extraordinaire, educator, philosopher and future minister of education Ms Toni Twiss. CHUR!

Whaea Mana in da house

Last term our class educated our school on using the PRS (Personal Response System) Room 1 is a bi-lingual class that incorporates the use of two languages, Maori (which is New Zealand's indigenous language)and English. The teacher in room 1 is whaea Manawaroa who is the composer of this beautiful waiata (song). This is their gift to our class for teaching them how to use the PRS system. Thank you room 1.

I'm back People!

Thought I'd better get back into our blogs. My intention is to start blogging everyday and update you on things of interest. Either from term 1 or things that are coming up in term 2 or just things in general. Here's a video clip of Maeroa students doing their thang. Hiphop in da house!

What does easter mean to you?

I hope you all have had a good Easter Friday. My wife was asking me, "when shall we give the boys their easter eggs,Friday or Sunday?" Looks like it's gonna be Sunday. What do you do with your family during easter weekend? I did some cleaning (stop laughing now people!) which took nearly a whole day to organise and clean 3 book shelves. My boys just sat around and watched the ad free movies all day, what a waste of a day.

We couldn't go down town or buy anything from the shops, because the government has placed a legislation for shop owners not to sell goods on good Friday. What do think of this action? Should shop owners be fined for having their businesses open or do you think that they should sacrifice this one day out of the year for spiritual observance during easter? What do you think? Comment on this post people and above all, have a nice break.

Twitter Tutorial

If you haven't already heard about Twitter then, "Shame on you." In term 2 room 11 we will be looking at some of the positives and negatives of using twitter.
Twizza Handbook

Publish at Scribd or explore others: How-to-Guides & Manu human twitter

Check this Wordle out!

Twenty Five Interesting Ways To Use Wordle In

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We will look at this in more depth next term

Thought for the Week

Evaluation of Term 1

It's been an awesome term people. You have completed some amazing tasks. Well done!

I would like you now to do some personal reflection of term 1. Please tell me...





1. What liked about term 1
2. What you disliked about term 1
3. What would like to learn about next term

Again room 11 and room 2

This is room 11 and room 2

PRS/BLOG School Wide PD

This week Room 11 have been involved with showcasing the PRS system to 8 classes. All sessions have been great. Room 11 students have been awesome tutors and have truely embraced the school's motto of, "First Learn to Serve." Our aim is to educate and inspire students and teachers with exsisting technologies at our school.

This term we have explored the use of the PRS system as a learning tool in the classroom. This device makes learning fun as students are able to see their results instantly. These results can be collated for teacher assessment or for individual student achievement profiles.

We have also looked at the validity of blogging in the classroom and have found this to be a great support to students learning. Students have created their own blogs, uploaded photos, created and uploaded ppt presentations about responsibility (One of our 5 school values) and collaborated and have made connections with other students within room 11 and around NZ.

Next term's school wide PD room 11 students will be learning and teaching the school about MARVIN and how they can use this tool for creating digital stories. I've been thinking about how we can extend our aim of educating and extending our knowledge through SKYPE. If you're interested, post me a comment and we'll hook up.

We will be setting up a bloggers corner, where students can come at lunch times to blog on particular topics being discussed in class or to collaborate with other students on educational topics. This is not a gaming cafe, it's a bloggers corner. We'll see well this works

PRS'ing with room 16

Thanks Miss Jamieson for bringing your class into room 11 and learning how to use the PRS device.

A blurry room 10

Cheers room 10 for coming to our PD session on the PRS. We hope you learnt something new.

Mobile Blogging Test

Here are some of the cool dudes from room 11...Oops and P from room 8.