Another Web 2.0 Marvel “Wallwisher” .

November 10, 2009 at 3:09 pm | In Educational Websites, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment

Wallwisher” allows you to create an online wall for mini posts.

The topics can be about any thing you like.

As the teacher you can set your wall so that anyone can write a post but only those you approve are displayed.

A real bonus is the ability to link to a media file URL.

Fantastic, Free & Fun

Wallwisher

Wild @Monteney

October 28, 2009 at 9:58 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

“Where the Wild Things Are”

Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children’s picture book by American writer Maurice Sendak. The book is about the wild adventure of a boy named Max who is sent to his room without his supper by his mother as punishment for misbehaving.

To coincide with the release of the movie the Y1’s & Y2’s have been creating their
“Wild Self”

We used the website Build Yourself Wild

To view all of pictures Click here

Bubblr: Putting Some Fun Back in Writing

September 29, 2009 at 8:42 am | In Visual Literacy, Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment

Here @Monteney we have been using a website called Bubblr to have some fun writing stories.

Bubblr allows you to access the Flickr archives to create photostories.

We thought about what type of images we should search for and how we could create a simple story sequence by changing our search words.

for example: Cat-House-Cat-Garden

The following stories are all first drafts:

The Y2’s were first to try…..

cat by harry

cats by kennedy

cat by lily c

Then some of the Y6’s had a go……

woosy shark by t. jay

soppkey hauted church by brianna

Using Speech, thought and narrative bubbles.

Then EVERYONE wanted to try…..

Naughty Lion Lost by Alannah

Using Bubblr

Walk On The Wild Side

Liones and Meerkat by Niamh

Meerkat and lion by Chloe

Next time we will recycle our strips and complete them.

Watch This Space

(if you would like to see more of our Bubblr stories click Here)

Logo Fun: ‘Arty Maths’

January 22, 2009 at 10:33 am | In Logo | 1 Comment

We have been learning to use the Logo language to create spiral patterns. First we had to work out the angle of turn to create regular shapes e.g. a regular Octogon. Then we created a procedure to instantly create this shape.

Octogon Procedure

Once we created our procedures we incorporated them into a sequence of commands to produce our patterns.

Logo Spiral

Finally we saved our patterns as image files and opened them up in a graphics package e.g. Paint.Net or Gnu Paint and used the fill tool to create these beautiful patterns.