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Monday 27th May Staff Meeting

 * 1) Create a blog. Give them all a consistent name format - AdamPoukawa, SuePoukawa, etc. This will help kids and parents find the blogs once you start going public.
 * 2) initially all children will sign on as Room1Poukawa etc so all posts will have the same tag. But as you are a google apps for ed school, each child has an email address so this can change as you are more proficient.
 * 3) Learn how to make it pretty. Be original - no need to all look the same.
 * 4) Get a YouTube account for the school if you don't have one already.
 * 5) Juniors - you will be posting to the blog for your children. Look at Room 10 at Carlton School, Room 9 at Carlton School
 * 6)  Seniors - Initially, you will get your children to post to the class blog but you need to create a blog for each of them fo the future.
 * 7) The focus is literacy, so just stick to the knitting until you get rid of the trainer wheels. KISS.

My suggestions:

Juniors
Use the //**class blog**// to showcase their learning at this stage, but some will be able to post on their own blog further down the track. You will need to do the posting for them for a while until you are comfortable that you know how and that you can fix their mistakes.

Task: Create something on the iPads or on paper and put this up on the class blog.
 * You recently visited the Peka Peka Swamp and have some photos. Try the activity described here from Room 14 at Carlton School - "A secret hides in this forest" but make it "... in Peka Peka Swamp". Children can brainstorm their ideas and get these recorded on the wall.
 * Children can then create a picture through Doodle Buddy or on paper or computers that represents their idea. They may even want to use a photo from the CD that you were given by the HBRC environment officer and annotate this (this can be done in doodle buddy easily).
 * Ask them to describe what is hiding in the swamp and either they write this story on their drawing or you write it for them. Take a photo of their picture and put it on your class blog for them.

Seniors
Your children can create their //**own blogs**// but initially they need to post on a class blog. Task: If they also went to Peka Peka, we can modify the activity the juniors have done. Have a look at Ada's and Skye's stories - Room 7 at Carlton School to see an example of posting stories about a shared topic. Create a story about A Secret Hides in Peka Peka Swamp
 * Use Book Creator. This can be done in groups with each child adding a page. Perhaps a children's story book format could be used to guide this process. Rosie the hen goes for a walk would be great!
 * Use Puppet Pals to retell the secret stories. You can have 5 scenes so five people could work together to create the play and each have their own secret.
 * Video the book or play as you replay it.
 * Upload the video to YouTube and share it on the blogs.

or...

Your students have been creating books and mihi etc on the ipads over the past few months. Put these onto your class blog.
 * Play the books etc and use the iPads to video them being played
 * Upload these videos to YouTube
 * Share (get the embed code) the video onto their own blog
 * Comment on how these were done