Room 11's Recounts

Students are to do a recount of their weekend into their draft writing books. Then have this published on the classroom blog. Check out room 11's recounts (comments)

First Learn to Serve

As you can see Whaea Christine and I were very busy in Flaxmere. We presented two sessions on the PRS clickers. We had a good group of teachers who made a lot of noise and who were intrigued about how the clicker could help their students learn better in the class. As a result of our presentation, Whaea Christine and I would like to "Share the love" to all classes at Peachgrove intermediate. So rooms 11 and 22 will be doing a school wide PD on the PRS and blogging. We have taken our approach from our school motto which is, "FIRST LEARN TO SERVE." We will give both classes more information tomorrow.

Funny as!

Raed Tihs

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it

Power Typing

If you want to increase your speed in typing, try this online program called Power Typing." It's really cool and will help you get your work done faster

http://www.powertyping.com/
http://www.typingtutor.com/

PRS 101 Resources

In this post I will include all material and resources based on the PRS 101 presentation. If you find any, please share your knowledege with other teachers.

This is a youtube video of a University teacher who uses the PRS in her class.

PRS (Personal Response System) Video Tutorials
Step 1: Software Installation. Click here
Step 2: How to create a class. Click here
Step 3: How to create lessons. Click here
Step 4: How to create a session. Click here

Congratulations B

The Winner of the Responsibility presentation assignment is BP. Well done. I will get Mrs
Barham, (our school principal) to present you with your award on Monday.

A picture of a thousand words!

Click on a students name and it will take you to their poster based on another of our school's values, "QUALITY" Student interview each other share their veiws as to what inspired the artist within.

Corban

MARVIN VALUES ASSIGNMENT

Your next assignment will be to choose one of our 5 school values and make a short MARVIN animation presentation of how you use your particular value at school, home, on the sports field or, wherever.
The assignment will be assessed in 6 parts and will be for the duration of term 1, which is 3 weeks.

1. Your storyboard: 10%


2. Your MARVIN presentation 30%


3. Your contribution to the "MARVIN help & tips" area. (located in the classroom blog). Every time you use MARVIN I would like you to share with the rest of the class what worked for you and what didn't. What you liked and what you found difficult. Your comments are very important, as this may help a student who is struggling with a certain problem using MARVIN that you found easy to do. 20%


4. Uploading your MARVIN presentation to your own blog and the classroom blog 10%


5. Teaching another student how to use MARVIN during the school wide PD 20%


6. A personal reflection of your journey using MARVIN. What you liked? What you didn't like? and what you would do differently next time? (This will need to be written in your draft books and then published on your own blog. "Word count is 100 words"). 10%

Total 100%
Assignment is due 3:10 on Tuesday 7th April 2009
All final grades will be sent to your Gmail account by Thursday 9th April 2009.
(I will send a test email to make sure that your account is still active)

If you have any problems, just Hola!

Responsibility Power Point Assignment

This has taken a few go's and some tweeking to get things right, but it's finally all here room 11, your anticipated and long over due power point presentations.

I have decided that this assessment task will be a competition. Please rank each slide from 1 to 5 along with your constructive feedback.

E.g.

Rank 3
Positives: All headings were bold, good use of colour
Improvements: The spelling of your words need to be carefully checked before it gets published on the blog.

The Competition will finish at 3:10 on Friday the 20th March. The winner(s) will be posted on the blog before 4pm that same day

The Prize pack will include the following,
* Your very own MARVIN disc, Thanks to inchain http://www.marvin.com.au
(Retail value $80)
* A cold juicy from the canteen
* half an hour on the blog to thank all your fans for voting for you (during class time)

You will also be ranked and receive constructive feedback from other schools in Hamilton.

SO GET VOTING!

B's Presentation

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F's Presentation

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L & K's Presentation

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M & C's Presentation

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R's Presentaion

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R & K's Presentation

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Y & A's Presentation

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A, J & T's Presentation

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B & D's Presentation

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B & N's Presentation

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B & B's Presentation

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C & A's Presentation

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P & D's Presentation

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C & D's Presentation

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Principal visit to room 11

Room 11 had a special visit from our school Principal, Mrs Louisa Barham. This is a formal meeting that Mrs Barham has with all classroom teachers and students about our schools exxpectations. She spoke about our school's values which are: Respect, Resposibility, Quality, Fairness and Passion.

She gave examples of what each value looks and feels like when a student is learning at Peachgrove. She also said that, "Peachgrove is a place of learners" Teachers, office staff, cleaners, caretaker, teacher aide etc are all part of a collaborative team that makes our school an awesome place to learn.

Mrs Barham concluded with a question and answer time which can sometimes be dangerous for any principal. The students asked questions like, "How old are you?" and how long have you been at peachgrove? cheeky little monkeys!

I won't say how old Mrs Barham is, but I will say that she is a very experienced eductor with 29 years of teaching. Farout, I was ony 5 when she first started teaching! "Kaumatua Status"

Something that I didn't know, was that she taught Mr Blair Cocks when he was at intermediate. I bet you he was a little rat-bag and had lots of detentions.

Thank you for visiting our class Mrs Barham and we'll hope to see you soon when we showcase some of our awesome projects this year.

R & C's ppt Presentation

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L & H's ppt Presentation

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Tutpup

Check this out room 11

http://www.tutpup.com/

I will give you all the class code and class name tomorrow

OPERATION: ANZAC SPIRIT

Got this in my e-mail today. Would you guys like to have a go at this? Hola


OP ANZAC SPIRIT

As part of Anzac Day, the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is running OPERATION ANZAC SPIRIT, a design competition for Year 7 and 8 students.

How to enter
To enter students need to submit a poster showing what Anzac Day means to them. This can be in the medium of their choice (drawing, painting, collage etc) but please no items larger than A3 size.

There are three prizes up for grabs:
1) A day with the Navy, plus a copy of The Reluctant Hero signed by Corporal Willie Apiata VC.
2) A day with the Army, plus a copy of The Reluctant Hero signed by Corporal Willie Apiata VC
3) A day with the Air Force, plus a copy of The Reluctant Hero signed by Corporal Willie Apiata VC
Four runners up will be awarded a prize pack of NZDF products.
Entries close on 25 April with the winners announced on 5 May.

A selection of entries will be made into a calendar for 2010 which will be sold by the RSA.

Entry criteria

The competition is for Year 7 and 8 students.
Entries can be drawings, paintings, collage; no computer generated entries please.
Please keep entries A3 size or under.
Please include your name, age, address, contact phone number, email address, and the name of your school on the back of your entry.
The deadline for entries is Anzac Day - 25 April.
NZDF reserves the right to use entries for publicity purposes.
Entries may not be returned.

Where to send entries
OP ANZAC SPIRIT
Defence Communications Group
HQNZDF,
Private Bag 39997,
Wellington.

Further information about Op ANZAC SPIRIT, including a downloadable poster, is available at www.nzdf.mil.nz

Constructive Feedback on students blogs

Date
WALT: Give constructive feedback to other students blogs in room 11.

Display Name: Lewi
http://jonahjohnson1rules.blogspot.com
Please give constructive feedback on Lewis’s blog.

Display Name:XOXO
http://xoxoblogsplat.blogspot.com
Answer her question about cats & dog

Constructive Feedback

Please give constructive feedback on all students presentations.

1. Comment on what you liked about their presentation
2. What they could do to improve their presentation next time

Net Basics

Check out this awesome website that has links to our classroom discussions about piracy, copyright and cybercitizenship. I will add this to my favourite webites area. Click on the (Net Basics) title of this post to take you to this website.

Shot Melville Intermediate

Hey Mr Cocks is this what our school did? An awesome event put on by the New Zealand Police. These photos show Melville Intermediate students going hard out during this event. Well done guys. This presentation was created by Myles Webb: http://melvilleroom8.blogspot.com/
BubbleShare: Share photos - Play some Online Games.

Women In Art from Philip Scott Johnson on Vimeo.

I remember seeing this at a conference in Christchurch last year. Mean as!

Women In Art from Philip Scott Johnson on Vimeo.

Nominated for Most Creative Video
2nd Annual YouTube Awards
Contact information:
eggman913@gmail.com

Server is slow as

Hey room 11. Just had a little chuckle to myself. Still cracking up over Abdullahi's April fools day experience. You are so funny! Unfortunately the server is down so I will try and upload your ppt presentations tonight from home. I want you all to think about this project and do some reflection.

Could you all please do an honest evaluation of the following,

1. What have you liked about your own power point presentation?
2. What have you disliked about your power point project?
3. What would you do differently next time?

Tomorrow we will be looking more into the mathsmate website and how skillbuilders can help improve your marks

Please bring your togs tomorrow, unless you have a signed note from home.

Sports Class Karate

These are some photo's of room 9's induction to Davies Karate Centre

Sports Class Karate

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What are your thoughts on corporal punishment?

Writing Topic:
Do you think that "Corporal Punishment" should come back into schools?

Yesterday I was reflecting on my secondary years as a student and pondered about corporal punishment. This sparked huge discussion with room 11 students as they all had an opinion to share. If you have an opinion, comment on this blog

Please excuse student puntuation and grammatical errors.

World Maths Website

Check this cool maths website people (Click on the world maths title)

Sorry guys, I was a bit too late to register our class on the world maths website.

What a stink one!

Thanks Ms Perry

Room 11 had an impromptu gate crash of room 8's game of "long ball." As I watched this game unfold, I noticed that room 8 displayed the virtues of passion, fairplay and team work. Well done room 8, you guys ROCK! The class councillor from room 11 thanked room 8 for letting us play longball.

Both classes lined up and exchanged "HI 5's"

Thought for the Week

"Haste has no dignity"

Always take time to complete your work to a quality standard the first time. Don't rush it!

Responsibility Power Point Assignment

Your assignment is to create a 6 slide power point presentation around one of the schools values, "Responsibility."

Each slide must include the following,

• A picture (from the internet or using your own camera) showcasing responsibility.
• An appropriate font style with an appropriate font size.
• Appropriate colours.
• An appropriate background e.g. using a gradient style fill.
• If you would like to send a link to another website or video clip you may do so but this does not have to be displayed on the every page.
• A 7th page will need to be added as a reference page, displaying where you got all your resources and websites from.

*Try and be witty with the wording of each slide. E.g. For the value fairness, I had a student who made a poster of two boys eating a cake with writing down the bottom saying,
"I'll cut, you choose." Fairness: It's the icing on the cake!

At a later stge I will teach you all how to upload your presentation to your blog and classroom blog. This will also be judged and commented by your peers from room 11, (maybe even from another class)

I will put onto the blog an exampe later tonight

Enjoy this assignment bloghetty bloggers

Matua

Due Date: 6th March 2009