Communicating a Product

The students in Mrs Hooker's Year 5 class learned how to create a short expose of their Bee Bot mat creations using iMove app. They explored themes and genres to be able to match their own products theme. They then proceeded to create a presentation with photo and video media they had recorded on their iPads that outlined their 'Aha' moments and inspirations for their product.

Exploring Programming through Geography

The Year 3's in Mrs Stacey's class have been programming a journey through Australia's neighbours using the Scratch Junior app. They have been able to programme using direction and sound controls to synthesis their research of Australia's neighbours and create a journey that describes Australia's neighbours with reference to man-made and natural features.

Communicating to an Authentic Audience

The Year 5's in Mrs Adam's class continued to develop their NAIDOC week posters to be presented at the Year 5 assembly. They explored the comic strip text features in Book Creator app to ensure their creations are communicated with appropriate yet formal language to the whole audience. They also explored how they can ensure that their creations follow appropriate copyright regulations.
The class will be uploading their creations to Connect to enable the presentation at assembly.

Design Phase

The Year 5 students in Mrs Cook's class continued to develop their Bee Bot mat designs using the Explain Everything app. They collaboratively determined the key headings for their explanation and created the designs prior to handling any materials. The students showed a great ability to view their own mat designs and themes from a consumers eyes through their design phase explanations.

Empathising in Year 6

Mr Hort's Year 6 HASS students used two different apps to try to empathise with those that live in different types of Governments than Australia's. Firstly, they compiled knowledge about different types of government by defining them. Then they conducted Google Advanced Search of the countries present and past, that have these types of governance and shared this out on a Padlet board. Finally, the students used Explain Everything app to label a world map and create a multi-slide explanation of what it would be like to live in this country under that type of governance.

Realistic Fiction in Year 6

Mrs Wallace's Year 6 students used learning technology to support their learning in Language Arts. They used their character and settings development book work to create visuals of them. Additionally, they conducted Google Advanced Searches of images for their characters and settings also. Finally, they created a narrative story and brought it to life using Puppet Pals HD app as a platform to synthesis all aspects of their story development.

Programming Starter Kit - Year 3

The Year 3 students in Mrs Wood's class used the Scratch Junior app to learn how to create and run a programme. They programmed and tested a character to make a shot on a basketball court using grids and their Maths skills to independently text their programmes.

Researching for Assembly

The Year 5 students in Mrs Adam's class have been inquiring about NAIDOC Week to inform their assembly presentation in Week 10. They used the Book Creator app comic strip templates to create highly visual posters to communicate their group based research using Google Advanced Search. They were able to extend their inquiry further by developing key words for further research as they created their posters using the app.