Websites

http://photopeach.com/
Here you can put your photos together and choose the music! Just like our video editing on our flip videos but better?? because you can use saved photos form your computer plus your own music!

http://www.fotobabble.com/
You can add voices to photos on this website.

http://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/
You can make mosaics from words.

http://www.dogonews.com/
A news page for chn. You need to sign in. You can then create news pages for your class. It could be used for reading groups. You can even write questions.
I have heard this site is wonderful but I haven't given it a true look at yet... it's on my to do list :)

I found this AMAZING website for creating photo albums/slideshows etc...

http://www.picturetrail.com/

I tested it out with photos of my "boyz". What do you think??? There are so many other cool album options!

Making your blog private

I had a question from Robyn a while ago... she mentioned that on blogger she could scroll the "next blog" and a random blog would show.

She then asked me... "Could my blog show up here?"

I have now remembered that you can make your blog private by going to settings and changing the 2 questions below to NO.

Doubles song!!!

I found this great song for teaching chn the doubles to 20!!!

If you want to post it on your class blog.... watch it and embed the code (copy and paste into a new post). Remember when you paste you need to click edit html first them compose.

What IT skills do children need for the future?

What are other schools doing?

http://nzedublogs.wikispaces.com/NZ+classroom+student+blogs

This is a great website to view what other schools are doing with digital portfolios!

Check them out (there's quite a lot!!) and I'd love to know what you enjoyed and might try with your class.

Staff Meeting

At our teacher meeting this week we all created our own teacher e-portfolio. We discussed the purpose of having teacher e-portfolios and recorded our thinking on a wallwisher wall on our main staff blog. We came to a shared understanding of this purpose.

All teachers now know how to create their own wall using the wallwisher website and to embed the code onto their blog. I can't wait to go on each wall and post a sticky note!!
Some very excited teachers even created a second wall and posted it onto their classroom blog for their class to add to.

I look forward to viewing and making comments on teachers e-portfolios!