Here's some videos and photos to illustrate some of the amazing learning that took place during our Lockdown Learning at the beginning of Term 2.
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
Writing and Design Thinking
Writing is one of the many learning activities in our Distance Learning programme and One Odd Bunch each have several writing goals to master. After deciding on the genre for their writing, e.g. narrative, explanation, poetic etc., they then needed to come up with an idea. Sometimes coming up with an idea can be difficult, so we provide them with a variety of prompts and ideas to choose from in our 'Writing Zone'.
The art of writing - whether it be a story or explaining the why and how, involves a series of steps - planning, drafting, recrafting and editing. I feel that the steps in writing are very similar to the process in Design Thinking:
Here is a slice of the published writing that One Odd Bunch have 'designed and produced'. Enjoy!
The art of writing - whether it be a story or explaining the why and how, involves a series of steps - planning, drafting, recrafting and editing. I feel that the steps in writing are very similar to the process in Design Thinking:
- Empathise - reason for writing: to entertain, inform, report, personal etc.
- Define - identify the audience and purpose for writing
- Ideate - plan for writing; generate ideas; what are the key points to include
- Prototype - draft up ideas and organise for paragraphing; consider language and structure; vocabulary, spelling and punctuation
- Test - get feedback and make changes to improve your writing
Here is a slice of the published writing that One Odd Bunch have 'designed and produced'. Enjoy!
Saturday, 16 May 2020
Final Lockdown Post
It was great to meet up with the One Odd Bunch yesterday afternoon in our Google Meet. Hopefully it's our last now that we're at Level 2, with hopefully a move to Level 1 very shortly. There were many questions about returning to school on Monday and hopefully I've been able to answer them all. The classroom felt a bit quiet so it will be great to see everyone again.
I apologise for not posting a video yesterday morning. I thought I would send one from the classroom, but things got a wee bit busy. Aditha asked for the Daily Challenge so here it is, but instead of it being the Daily Challenge, let's make it a Weekend Challenge.
WEEKEND CHALLENGE
Minute to win it!
Check out the link below and select as many 'Minute to win it' challenges you can do. Email your photos and/or videos to Mrs Croll.
How many can you do?
Keep safe,
Mrs Croll
B.Education
Post Grad Cert Digital and Collaborative Learning
Thursday, 14 May 2020
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Crime Scene on the Lego Board
Oscar took up the Daily Challenge on 11th May, to have some fun and create a short movie. He use Lego and the 'stop motion animation' technique to make this crime scene movie. Stop motion animation is when you take a photo, move the objects just a fraction, then take another photo. This process is repeated until you have completed the scene.
Director: Oscar
Narrator: His dad
Morning Meeting - 12.5.20
Sorry One Odd Bunch... I got totally engrossed with reading a few of the awesome pieces of writing that you have sent me. It's taken me 4 weeks, and I've finally twigged that I can use Screencastify to provide you with verbal feedback. It's so much easier than typing comments along the side. However, if you prefer the typed comments, let me know.
Right - here's the daily morning video that I know you've been waiting for :)
Right - here's the daily morning video that I know you've been waiting for :)
Monday, 11 May 2020
Friday, 8 May 2020
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Share and Shine
Design and creativity seem to be the most popular choice in our Distance Learning programme. Here's a snapshot of what Jazlyn and Finlay have been up to.
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Share and Shine
Star Wars - May the Fourth Be With You!
Yesterday's Daily Challenge involved designing a game with code, or drawing a character from the epic science fiction Star Wars movies. These a few of the best that have been shared with me.
Morning Meeting - 5.5.20
Apologies for the delay; I appear to have gremlins in my WiFi this morning. I finished recording my morning video before 9am, but am having trouble uploading. I'm using my GEMS power of determination and persistence - so I will get there!
11:30 Update...
Finally managed to upload this morning's meeting video. Don't know if it's the weather, or what, but I'm being challenged with technology this morning. Might have a break, pause, refresh and start again :)Monday, 4 May 2020
May the Fourth Be With You
Daily Challenge
A long time in a galaxy far, far away...
Star Wars Day, May 4th, celebrates George Lucas' Star Wars. This epic science-fiction film hit our cinema screens in 1977. "May the Force be with you" was the phrase used by Obi-Wan Kenobi, to wish an individual or group good luck or good will.
Today, you have been given a few options for the Daily Challenge (click on the text to be transported to the learning zones):
I'm looking forward to hearing what you did, so please share via email.
Friday, 1 May 2020
One Odd Bunch on Google Meet
Whole Class Meet
This week, Week 3 of Distance Learning, was a time for us to experience using Google Meet so that we could extend our online learning from solitary to group sessions. The majority of us had not used Google Meet before, so the learning target for our initial 'meet' was Google Meet 101 - How to navigate our way around the screen, when to mute and when to talk.With the first 'meet' (for most of us) under our belt, we decided that we would try a whole class 'meet' this morning. I wasn't sure how many would turn up and was excited to see 21 familiar faces on the screen. With the mute button engaged, our chat screen became very busy with 'hi' and 'lol' having regular appearances :) We played a scavenger hunt and shared our weekend plans - a mix of indoor and more outdoor activity, now that we're at Level 3. Some family pets made it onscreen too!
The 'meet' wrapped up with a very laggy 'happy birthday' for Aditha, who celebrated his 11th birthday last Monday.
Thanks for coming along, One Odd Bunch. 'See' you next week!
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