Room 21's Class Blog

 We rolled out individual blogs in Term 2. The students in Room 21 were excited to use this new tool. Screenshots from Sofia and Nicoles Blogs This week when I said we were going to do a blog post, I heard a range of sighs and groans. We had a bit of a chat about it and it became clear that students had a lot feedback. I created a shared doc where students shared their thoughts about blogging. It was a structured task with questions to guide their feedback.  In hindsight, that lack of choice featured largely in the feedback.  I am amused with myself. Here are the main points that were raised in the feedback; It's just writing about learning We have no choice about what we can blog about It is so detailed and it takes too long I get tired The topics are not very exciting quote " I was excited to share my art and Minecraft creations but then I got disappointed because we just shared maths and stuff that sounded like a science experiment :(. Like seriously who would get exci...

We are exploring animation using Google Slides as our first tool. Here is Ms Corbett's first attempt.  Looking forward to sharing our individual efforts on our individual blogs.

Room 21 working together to make sense of perimeter and area. Fantastic explorations.

Ms Corbett has never seen Room 21 as engaged in problem solving and as agentic as they were when they found out Minecraft went live on the chromebooks. 

One of the perks of being in Room 21 is that we get to help clean, label, organise and distribute ICT equipment. It is great to be able to contribute. 

 We used paint to make the secondary colours green, orange and purple.  Next we practised blending from dark to light by adding white paint.