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 * Following our work with e-time our classes have been looking at how we share our learning with a wider audience and how to involve our communities with our e-learning journey. We have been looking and thinking about class blogs and wikis. Aoraki Mt Cook, Room 13 and Room 9 have started blogs trialling Blogspot. Check them out following their links or the side-bar class wikis link. **

===**At the end of term 1 our Cluster came together for some awesome sessions with e-Time, who are from Christchurch. They worked with Twizel Area School middle school students on Podcasting and Moviemaker. Our cluster schools joined together in Room 4 for a day of manic moviemaking. Please check back for more movies and broadcasts to be posted soon.** ===

**Room 13 have had a go at sharing their poetry with Voicethread, practising their clear speaking voices too.** media type="custom" key="9280558"

===A group of hand-picked volunteers from Room 5 spent a day with Steve Lowe learning how to become movie-making coaches for their class. they followed the process from start to finish and left with a checklist of how to coach their peers and a cool video celebrating the work of their classmates in peer mediation.===

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===Year 7 Students at TAS are introduced to the Room 15 wiki. The boundries of what is acceptable have been explained ... watch this space Room15 wiki 2011 ===

= Year 9 & 10 Food Technology students are recording their International Foods Study on the M3 wiki. check out their discoveries. M3 Wiki 2011 =

=__**Welcome to 2011, year two of our three year ICTPD Contract **__= =**The year has got off to a flying start with staff booked on the Learning@Schools conferences, eportfolios being launched in Twizel Area School's senior classes and agreement between all three school to strengthen collaboration with a term 1 week 11 get-together for an ICT day packed full of workshops and a follow-up showcase day.**= =__Junior Syndicate goes online! __= Junior classes have started to experiment with their class Wikis. It's early days but "even the longest journey starts with a first step!" Check the class wiki link in the side menu.

__**Lake Tekapo School Wiki - Visit ** __ Lake Tekapo School have just launched their Wiki, their Principal Anna is working hard to maximise the value that ICT can add to their production this term. Check it out as they document their progress to show night!

__Room4 and Room13 are sharing their Inquiry topic this term with a theme of "Water in Africa" __
We are using digital content including video and still images to stimulate discussion during the tuning in part of our inquiry.

Room 3's Wiki
==**__<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">//Food Technology - Years 9 & 10// <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Year 9 & 10 Food Tech Wiki __**== <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I'm trialling an inquiry unit based around soups. Students will research and devise their own method of presenting footage of their work to created a soup for a specific purpose. I modelled the documentary style, the tv show and a powerpoint presentation. We have a four week time period to plan, gather, produce and present the finished result. Very brave of me to let go and allow the students to come up with what will be presented!!!! I have every confidence they will do a fab job .... their concentration levels were the highest I've EVER seen this year .... lovin it! Lyn TWIZEL

==<span style="color: #0042ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">__Room 13 Inquiry - why is water important? - the Movie!__ ** ==

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Room 13 at Twizel Area School have been planning a mini-video about our Water inquiry, ideas so far involve a time lapse animation showing the water cycle with student voiceovers for the key processes and a fascinating facts section with voiceovers and still images from the net. Should be finished within a week and we will look forward to sharing it with our partner schools. - Mike

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 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Software: Audacity, TimerPro, Moviemaker, Photostory3

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Following hard on the heels of the Learning@Schools Conference, the students from Aoraki Mount Cook School have been working with Marvin software to produce a message about water safety. I'm looking forward to sharing it but there's a bit of work still to go yet! -- Bu =====

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Room13 have set up their Activboard and are getting to grips with it, if you fancy a go them please see Mike. =====

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