My favorite songs.

Digital storytelling project - add narration to a story

This is part of Challenge #3: Become a STORY NARRATOR WHIZZ. We turned our stories into videos with narration today using a Chrome extension called Screencastify. First we installed the Chrome extension, Screencastify, and then we practised narrating our stories. The extension saves them in our Google Drive.  Here is mine:

My digital story - Jadan and the fire

This story is part of Challenge #2: Become a STORY WHIZZ KID. We used stories from the African Storybook website (https://www.africanstorybook.org/) that are free to reuse and change completely, and we recreated them. We kept the art. We did these in Google Slides. Here is mine:

Use Google Sites to make a website

We are learning to use the new Google Sites. We created websites about dogs. Then we embedded them into our blogs by using a free program called www.embed.ly. This is our first Term 3 challenge: Challenge #1: Become a GOOGLE SITES CREATOR. Here is my website.

Natedews dog website

Badges for our Term 3 Digital Portfolios

From Mrs Beal

In Term 3 we are continuing with our challenges and badges program. There are six challenges and six badges available. Here are the challenges.

Challenge #1: Become a GOOGLE SITES CREATOR
Challenge #2: Become an STORY WHIZZ KID
Challenge #3: Become a STORY NARRATOR WHIZZ
Challenge #4: Become a BADGE SHARER
Challenge #5: Become A CODING GENIUS
Challenge #6 Become an GOOGLE EARTH WONDER

The link to my personal badges document is on the side of the blog under 'My Term 3 Badges 2018'.
Click on the image to see how I am doing. I want to get all six badges.
 

Review of Term 2 Challenges and Badges

From Mrs Beal

Let's review the seven Challenges we did last Term, in Term 2. How many Challenges did YOU do? Did you get all seven badges?a Remember, if you missed one you can make it up.  Here are the seven Challenges summarised.

Challenge #1: Become a BLOG VISITOR
Since we are participating in the Student Global Challenge we will visit other blogs and see what they are look. Look through the list of participating students and choose someone your age from another country and open their blog.  Write something encouraging on their blog. Record their blog address.

Challenge #2: Become an AVATAR COMPOSER
In order to be digitally safe create an avatars of yourself using cartoonify.de.  Add this to the side bar of your blog and replace the previous avatar.

Challenge #3: Become a SOCIAL SCIENTIST
For this challenge you will work in a whole class collaborative group and research some of the challenges facing the world.  Each person will take one of the challenges presented in two sites and answer three questions about it.  You will work on a collaborative Google Slide presentation.
a) What is the problem?
b) What can be done about it?
c) What are some interesting facts.

Challenge #4: Become a RESEARCH CHAMPION
In this challenge you will work in collaborative groups of 3 and create a single Google slide together that shows your written summary of research about an endangered animal.  Make sure you use a video icon to link a short video about your endangered animal.

Challenge #6 Become an ANIMOTO GENIUS
Animoto is a video creator. You will learn how to use it and add music and images creatively.

Challenge #7: Become a STORYBIRD WHIZZFor this challenge you will write a story in Storybird.  Once it is finished and has been edited you can add it to your blog with one picture at the top – the cover page. The story must have
a) a beginning, a middle and an end
b) a hook at the beginning to get people interested
c) a problem to solve
 So now, let's get ready for Term 3

  

Story: The Journey

We like to use Storybird for writing because of the wonderful art. This is my Storybird story called 'The Journey'. Unfortunately it can't be embedded as an e-book in my blog. I am adding my cover page and my words as evidence that I finished the story.

The Journey

One hot day in North Africa, a herd of elephants were just starting a journey of a lifetime.They were heading south towards the rain so they could have calves. It is a dangerous journey but it must be taken. The head of the herd was a huge elephant called Elena.

The elephants knew the dangers along the journey. One of the most feared animal of all was the tiger. There were also hunters who might shoot the elephants and steal the ivory from their tusks. There were many different animals also taking the journey - mammals, reptiles, birds and there were insects. They all traveled together. There were females, males and babies. They were all wishing to complete the journey. Food and water was scares so there were many fights along the way.

Let's get back to the elephants. They did about 1 km. So far so good. Then they did another 5 km. They were now about a quarter of the way. They had not had water for 2 weeks. They would drink anything that had liquid in it ,but there was nothing. Then all of a sudden the elephants saw a HUNTER! No, hunters! Elena fought hard because she knew that the herd would die if she did not. The hunters would take the ivory on her tusks and would ship them away to China. Finally the elephants won the battle and killed the hunters. Elena knew they would come across more hunters. She would fight them off.

Finally they finished the journey. They had their calves. Elena’s children grew up and they became the head of the herd. They then did the journey, just like their parents had done when they were having children. The End...

My Animoto video

We learned how to make videos using a free program called Animoto. We added web images and music to our movies. I like this program.

 

Endangered animals mini-project

We worked in collaborative groups of three. We did a collaborative mini-project on Endangered Animals. Each person in the group was assigned a different animal to research. We had to put the information into our own words and we also had to add a video icon and link a video to the icon. Here is my group's work.