Monday, 10 November 2008
K8's WInd Energy
This is my glogster that has information about Wind Energy. There is also a link to Flickr which is where I got my photo from.
By K8!!
Friday, 7 November 2008
Geothermal Energy - AR
Geothermal energy is heat whithin the earth. Geo means land/earth and thermal means heat. geothermal energy is produced by: volcanos, mud pools, guysers, steam and water and produces hot water and electricity. The first ever geothermal power plant was bulit in Italy around 104 years ago. Geothermal energy produces 7% of the worlds elelctricity and 1% of New Zealands electricity. By A.R Info by B.B, G.B and A.R.
Sunday, 19 October 2008
Delightful Descriptions - VoiceThread
Towards the end of last term we contributed our ideas to Mrs Shearing's wiki page on 6 word memoirs. Basically you have to tell a story or share a thought about a picture in exactly 6 words. The idea is that the combination of a powerful picture and a carefully constructed "memoir" will be all that is needed to convey a message.
We had to learn about adjectives and how a well chosen adjective can help to create a powerful description. We also explored how your punctuation can change the way a message comes across. We revisited similes and alliteration, which we had learnt about earlier in the year, as these can make all the difference to our descriptions too.
Once we started drafting we discovered that it is VERY hard to get your message across in only 6 words. We all wrote several different versions and then discussed them with our conference group before choosing our best one to revise and publish to the wiki.
We had so much fun doing this that we thought we'd have a go at using this idea to create a VoiceThread. By using a VoiceThread we were able to choose to either type or make our voices heard. The other thing we liked about using VoiceThread is that other people can contribute to our VoiceThread either by adding their own descriptive phrase or by giving us feedback about our efforts. Please take the time to listen to/ read all our contributions and add your own comment or contribution if you like. Thank you to the wonderful educators who have already been to visit and left us a comment.
P.S Mr Guhlin blogged about our VoiceThread here. Thank you so much Mr Guhlin.
We had to learn about adjectives and how a well chosen adjective can help to create a powerful description. We also explored how your punctuation can change the way a message comes across. We revisited similes and alliteration, which we had learnt about earlier in the year, as these can make all the difference to our descriptions too.
Once we started drafting we discovered that it is VERY hard to get your message across in only 6 words. We all wrote several different versions and then discussed them with our conference group before choosing our best one to revise and publish to the wiki.
We had so much fun doing this that we thought we'd have a go at using this idea to create a VoiceThread. By using a VoiceThread we were able to choose to either type or make our voices heard. The other thing we liked about using VoiceThread is that other people can contribute to our VoiceThread either by adding their own descriptive phrase or by giving us feedback about our efforts. Please take the time to listen to/ read all our contributions and add your own comment or contribution if you like. Thank you to the wonderful educators who have already been to visit and left us a comment.
P.S Mr Guhlin blogged about our VoiceThread here. Thank you so much Mr Guhlin.
Friday, 17 October 2008
5 Frame Stories
We have finished and uploaded our 5 Frame stories to the Tell a Story in 5 Frames - Kids group on Flickr. (The name of the group is a hyperlink - just click on it to be taken to the page where you can view our stories. Please leave a comment after you visit - we like comments.
taupo
In the holidays I went to Taupo. The best day was when we went on the high ropes and i had to walk across 1 rope and hold on to 2 ropes. When we got to the other side I had to walk backwards and hold on upside down and then come down. After that we went dirt bike riding through big puddles and jumps it was really fun. At first I didn't know how deep the puddles were but the when i went in one it came up to my hips. when we got back to the motel dad didn't want to go swimming so me and mum went. I went down the wild slide 26 times and i went down the mild slide 18 All together i went on 44 times for $2
LH
LH
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