Maths Groups - what does it all mean?

Check out where our new numeracy group names come from:

NATO phonetic alphabet

iConnect Art update

I was really impressed this week with the positive attitude and artistically articulate students in Halberg (try saying that ten times fast....). Check out the progress on our mixed media digital portraits:

Blogging!

On Fridays, we have 'modules' where each class has three different lessons with three different teachers over the day. Fridays are quickly becoming favourite day - jam packed with new learning and energy!!

I am teaching an Communication, Collaboration and Blogging unit. Over the past three weeks we have investigated how we can communicate online and how to do that responsibly and appropriately. All of sprint have practised logging into their google accounts and managing their folders and, in Halberg, their own blog.

These blogs are set up as part of each student's google account and provide a 'sharing space' where students can publish work, share ideas and connect with others. So far we have learnt how to log on, make a new post and insert a picture.

The links to our blogs are on the left hand side of this blog (see Student Blogs) and will only 'go live' once we have drafted and checked our first posts. Please have a look and make a comment on our work so far.

Our next step is to work on commenting... watch this space.

What is a citizen?

Where are you a citizen? What makes a good citizen? What are citizen's rights and responsibilities? What is a digital citizen? These are some some of the questions we are going to explore for the rest of the term. 

Here are some helpful links to get us thinking: 

Be a digital citizen - watch this video and record some of the key ideas and key words. Write a comment with what you find. 

iConnect Art

This week we will be creating some portrait art using a digital photograph as our base. I found the idea on an Art Blog. I used this sketch website (Photofunia.com) to turn a digital photo into a black and white sketch. Like this:

What does a digital citizen have to think about?

This week, we have started discussing what it means to be a citizen, particularly in the digital world.

Today we are going to use an interactive quiz, to refresh our memories on some of the issues we have to think about when working in the 'digital world.

Here's the link: Privacy Pirates

How do you learn?

We are going to use this survey to get to know our class AND learn more about statistics and data-gathering.

Here is the summary of responses so far: How do Halberg learn best?

What graphs are used to display this data? 

What did you learn about your classmates?

What could we do to improve Halberg for our learning style? 

Thanks to studyladder for the idea and questions.