Tuesday 6 November 2018

Microsoft Skype-a-thon

Today we watched a few Skypeathon videos and we thought of ideas for our own Skypeathon plan. Here are some of our ideas
JOBS
Greeter -1 student – Greets the incoming class by speaking about our class and going over the rules BUT no giving away of our location. At the end of the call they are also the ones that thank for the call. 

Questioner –they are the kids that ask the yes or no questions, often it is beneficial if we have a decent grasp of geography and can come up with questions on the fly. We should write down our questions beforehand.

Answerer – 1 student – answers yes or no to the questions and should have a good grasp of geography. Holds up a yes or No sign.

Google Mappers – 2 students – Use Google Maps to try to help with questions or find the answer. .

Wall map & atlas mappers –are using any map tools they can to come up with more questions.

Photographer – takes photos of what is happening


TYPES OF YES NO QUESTIONS
Are you in …….(continent)?
Then try to get the north sea east west location
After that try to get the country
Then try to get the city
Does it snow in winter?

OTHER IDEAS
Each person thinks of other questions for afterwards
Two people hold the South African flag.
Bring a recording of the anthem to sing to
Have a yes sign and a No sign
Always say name before asking a question
Ask questions one to one about what you would like to be one day.
Show a PowerPoints of the country with each person talking about one slide. 
Write out the questions
Afterwards works out the kilometres travelled.
NOTE
Add the image that is provided. Download it first into pictures and then add it.

Tuesday 9 October 2018

We Made YouTube Playlist

Today we made YouTube Playlists that contained some of our favourite songs.
Here is mine:



Tuesday 21 August 2018

My Flour Baby Website

I made a flour baby website using Google Sites. Check it out:

Rubtay's Flour Baby Project

This video shows you how to make a flour baby. It is easy and has simple instructions.

Tuesday 24 July 2018

Tuesday 24 April 2018

Blogging Challenge week 7: Visiting other blogs

Today we visited the blogs of other students around the globe. http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/march-2018-students/These are the blogs I commented on today. 

Example
http://matthewy8b.edublogs.org/ Canada



This is what I said
Hello…. My name is ….. from Cape Town.
I enjoyed looking at your blog because…. 
Please also visit my blog and leave a comment (add blog address
Bye for now:



Tuesday 17 April 2018

Blogging Challenge Week 5: Free writing

This week we wrote about our wonderful school camp that we went on last week, using a template in Google Drive. Here is my news:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cJKkxupkKwEKvirbJqfhOvF8oWD1evUG


Tuesday 10 April 2018

Blogging Challenge Week 4: Global Problems

Last week we did a lesson on Global Issues and we used the website https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ . My topic was Gender Equality. We made a collaborative slideshow - here it is. https://goo.gl/162CsE


Tuesday 20 March 2018

Blogging Challenge Week 3: Images, music and videos

We can’t just use any image we like just because it is on the Internet. We have to use images with the right licence. If it is a Creative Commons then we have to say who originally created it. There are also places to find free photos for my projects

 Open Clip Art https://openclipart.org/
 Pics4learning http://www.pics4learning.com/
 Compfight website http://compfight.com/
 The Commons on flickr https://www.flickr.com/commons
 Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 Getty Search gateway https://goo.gl/j6BCC8
 Use Explore in Google Docs

Here is an example image: (from the bottom)

Places to find free music and sound effects for my project

• Jamendo, https://www.jamendo.com/search?language=en
• CCMixter, http://ccmixter.org/
• a post with 14 websites for music, https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/14-websites-to-find-free-creative-commons-music/
• a post with 20+ websites for music, https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/websites-download-creative-commons-music/
• a post with 55+ sites with sound effects https://goo.gl/4CoMva


Tuesday 13 March 2018

Excel

Today we learned the following things in Excel:

  • How to sort alphabetically
  • How to add using Autosum
  • How to add using a formula
  • How to add boarders
  • How to create pie charts and bar graphs

Tuesday 20 February 2018

Tuesday 6 February 2018

Tuesday 30 January 2018

Fake Websites

There are a lots of different websites and they can hold lots of interesting information. However, there are also many fake websites. There are many different ways to tell if a website is fake, for example if there are many grammatical issues or if there is no author name on the site. Here is a link to my tips to check websites.