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Hi there. Hope you all found Wednesday's meeting valuable and I know that most of you have also added some pictures and links to you blog pages. I don't use the grab function on my apple for screen captures, I discovered through AllanahK,  http://bling4yrblog.blogspot.com/    a downloadable application for apples that enables you to manipulate, draw on and add text to your photos or screen captures. I use this for adding to photos and uploading to the blog - like this and for making step by step instructions for the children to follow where I can directly send them to a icon on the desktop or window e.g. like how to log on, use kidpix etc. So to download it - you go to  http://www.skitch.com/  , sign up , download it and then I put it in my dock. Once you have made a screen grab with skitch, you can drag it to the desktop, and it automatically saves your image. (: happy screen capturing Jac

This link is to a blog that explains how to take a screen capture .  This is what Jac taught you to do at the last PL session when taking photos of websites you want to add to your blog. The link is from a site Jac put me onto by Jacqui Sharp who is an ICT facilitator in NZ.  It has lots of great tips and tricks and is well worth a look. Good luck adding pictures, learning links and games to your blogs. Rachael To add a picture link to your blog follow these steps.. . Take a screen capture  (photo) of the part of the website you want the kids to see. C opy the website link . Open a new tab (go to... File - new tab) and open up your blog. eg.  http://room5goldfieldsschool.blogspot.com/ Sign in to your blog with your class number... Username:  room5@goldfields.school.nz   Password... Click on design in the top right hand corner of your blog. Click on A dd a Gadget down the right hand side of your b...

I'm sure we can all relate to this! We can learn a lot from our children  and they enjoy teaching each other. But how do we get to this...  Supporting each other  and  one small step at a time!

Kiwi /Motor cross multiplication (Rachael) http://nzmaths.co.nz/kiwi-multiplication http://nzmaths.co.nz/motocross-multiplication Julia’s activity can be found here too… http://nzmaths.co.nz/home-school-partnership-numeracy-activities Adding multiples of ten.  You need two zeros and cards A-10, place a card beside both zeros and add the two numbers together eg. 20+30=50  The winner keeps the cards. Snails – outside room 3  – using beanbags, throw them on numbers and add or multiply the numbers.  You can say what comes before or after.  Count forwards or backwards. Hop scotch – say the numbers before/after.  You could add 10 add on 2 etc (Jac) Ambleside primary website– timestables (Patrick) http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/supersequencer.html Here is another good link on the same site… http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/tabletrees.html Learning objects activity called ‘arrays’ http://digistore.tki.org.nz/ec/vie...

Hi. I use this site quite a lot and I know there are heaps of things out there showing reflection, rotation and translation but I quite like the tutorial type activities on this one and they would be great used with your mimio boards - they are called elabs. So click on the link, go to geometry and see what is there and what suits your class. I put some of them onto my blog last year for the kids to play after we had done as a class. Love to know what you think. (: Jac http://www.harcourtschool.com/hspmath/na/index.html

Hello I have made a computerised version of myself ( and I know some others have too). It is very cool and you can use them on your profiles instead of using a photograph - mine is on facebook and my google account. Also I am trying to use it for my email signature and if I succeed you will see that happen cos I will send you an email. Here is my wee mee If you want to know more about it you can go straight to http://www.weeworld.com to make one straight away ...  http://jacquisharp.blogspot.com/search/label/Avatars or if you want to choose a different type and know more about them look at http://jacquisharp.blogspot.com/2009/01/weemee-graphic-signature-for-emails.html Tell me what you think of my weemee!! Jac