It has been a great first week for 5R and 5A students. The students came to school with a great attitude and were all looking forward to the new school year.
Things we did this week:
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Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun! This is your new blog post. Click here and start typing, or drag in elements from the top bar.
What is a blog? Watch the following video. Click here for Blogs in plain English Create an Educator Account on www.weebly.com . Follow the steps and once you are done, you will start from step 1.
Glossary: Categories - used to label a post by category/group (Blogging, English, GD, Writing, Reading, Math) Embed - putting something into your blog as a part of your post (video, PPT, Prezi, MS Word, Excel, Google Doc, PDF); to embed documents use Slideshare or Scribd Hyperlink - creating a link to another webpage or within the same page (Hyperlink to dictionaries, educational game sites, Mathletics) Click here for a Video Tutorial Post - Your entry is your post (this is a post) Publishing - Making your post available for viewing by others Attaching a file/Uploading file - just like in a email, you can attach a file for retrieval (MS Word, Excel, PDF, PPT, Audio, Movie) Save to Drafts - work in progress, saves work so you can work on it later Below is a video embedded to my blog as a tutorialBlogging certificates View more presentations from Ho Lun. Welcome to Jumpstart.You will find some documents attached for your reference and video links to give you ideas of what you will be doing this week.
You will be working on a mini-project and will be doing the following:
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AuthorI teach Grade 5 English, Science and Social Studies (aka GD). Originally from Toronto, Canada, I currently live and work in Hong Kong. Useful Websites:
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