Aaahhh…. another joyous flash mob moment to lighten our hearts and remind us all that good exists in our world. This time, two schools joined together for a flash mob performance to deliver the message of acceptance in honour of International Anti-Bullying day. Very nicely done.
It’s the end of another busy week, one that saw our Year 7 students working on a wiki and embedding their Google My Map creations into it. They get it. They just need to be shown once, and off they go, ready to figure it out and make it work. It’s so confirming for me. Seeing them embrace the task (connected to their geography curriculum) and enjoying the work involved helps everyone to understand the need to adopt new technology and make it part of our school curriculum. When I canvassed the classes about how they and their family find their way to places it was overwhelmingly Google Maps and Navman GPS locators. No-one mentioned a paper street directory such as a Melways (a very Melbourne book of street maps). They really loved understanding Google My Maps and learning how to emded HTML code to enable pictures and video to appear. The following video from Google was really helpful, and even showed me a thiing or two I was unaware of.
This weekend I intend to spend a bit of time following the 21st Century Learning Conference from Hong Kong. The hashtag on Twitter, #21CLHK will help update me as to what’s happening. It’s not as good as being there, but it’s probably the next best thing. Already I’m gearing up to watch Stephen Heppell’s keynote, that has been loaded onto the conference site already. I can share it with you!
Have a great weekend. Get some sleep. It’s what I’m aiming for!
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To me, the most impressive part of this week’s video was the combination of age groups. It was so nice to see the younger students dancing with the older ones. It sends the message of the importance of mentoring from older students, especially as students transition from primary to secondary school.
I agree Virginia, that kind of mentoring is essential in our school communities.
I love the idea of Flash mobs and hope to one day see one in real life. What I liked most about this video was the shot of the older gentleman at about the 1:30 minute mark and the expression on his face was of quiet enjoyment, I don’t think we have enough spontaneousness in our lives.
Thanks
I hope one day to be part of one!