Research Write up!

The Pens and Quills writing groups will be using this interactive to help guide your writing about your passion project research. Great design starts with great research!

How we like to learn.

Last week's question of the week asked what we do that helps them learn in our class. It was also a chance for them to suggest things we could do better or different.

Here is a brainstorm I'm collating of all their answers. It makes for great reading.



Create your own mind maps at MindMeister I am often impressed with the creativity of our students. Here's Gabby explaining through a video about the idea of 'Kaizan' which is an idea about improvement. Thanks for doing sush a good job at explaining it, Gabby!

3D Nets!

Today we are going to start learning about 3D Nets - their shapes, vertices, faces, edges and how they can be categorised. Work through this interactive series to gain a better understanding before we start our activity.

What is Empathy?

Watch this video and brainstorm ways we can listen with integrity. How can having empathy helps us?

Embeding a flickr image into your blog.

Here's a challenge for your question of the week - embed a picture from flick into your post. You can watch this tutorial I made to help remind you of the steps.

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Writing Masterpieces

I'm writing some comments on everyone's blogs and I thought, Wow! There has been some amazing progress last term with your writing!

Here are some highlights from two great posts... What do you think makes these posts great?

This is by Gabby (her name is no shown at the top).

Cardboard Challenge!

Today we ripped into making our cardboard challenge designs - here's a slideshow of some highlights. It was a great way to have a go at the design process for the first time and we really understood the importance of 're-design' to fix up and make our ideas better.

Great work, everyone!

Cardboard Challenge on PhotoPeach