This year 34P have been working really hard with their teachers to learn some essential life skills using technology:

* typing
* researching
* online security
* collaboration
* cooperation
* respect

Just to name a few.
We asked them to reflect on their learning with technology over the year as they collaborated on a Google Document with 28 other students online together. Check out what they came up with.
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What a great year of learning with technology!!

Today you are going to think about all the things you have learnt this year and how technology has helped you to be successful in your learning.

WALT – write a collaborative blog post

TIB – collaboration is a life skill

WILF –
* access Google Classroom
* use one row only!!
* write your name and at least 3 tools you have used this year
* say how you used the tool
* say how it has been useful for your learning

Enjoy!! Once everyone has finished we will make the collaborative post.

34P students have been learning about Excel Spreadsheets.

Here are some of their intial thoughts:

Ibby – I learnt that you can type at the top to where you want to go.

Jerome – 34P have learnt how to use coordinates on an excel spreadsheet.

Ahmed – we had lots of fun using Excel spredsheets. You can scroll down for a long time and it is like an infinite list.

Jana – I learnt how to solve a riddle with an excel spreadsheet. We learnt a new way to use spreadsheets by using the bar at the top to write a cell number.

Zach – I learnt that you can write at the top c3 and it goes there.

Ainsley – if you are writing in a cell and there are too many words, you can double click at the top of the cell.

Danny – I learnt how to solve a problem using the coordinates from excel. Also it was a very hard puzzle to solve but the activity was still fun!

Alan – I solved a puzzle on Microsoft Excel, today! It was really fun and I used a really smart shortcut!

Sarina – I learnt that the letters and numbers on excel is an axis. I would love to learn more about excel.

Nicole – On Microsoft Spreadsheets you could make the cells more narrow. I also learnt to make it easier you can write a letter and number and it will show it to you.

Muhedesa – I learnt that we can make our cells bigger or smaller depending on the size in excel spread sheet

What do you know about Excel? What else have you discovered? Why might people need to use Excel in their jobs?

Today you are devising a recycling survey.

WALT : create an online survey
TIB: The best surveys are shared with a wider audience
WILF:
* sign up to [wmd-buttons style=”web2″ button_color=”#3f11b2″ font_color=”#ffffff” size=”2″ border_radius=”4″ position=”center” target=”_self” ls-id=”5639315214066″][wmd-buttons-button label=”Survey Planet” link=”https://surveyplanet.com/”/][/wmd-buttons]
* select a theme and type your questions
* at least 3 closed questions
* at least 4 open questions
* work collaboratively
* create survey
* save survey
* share survey with others

When you work collaboratively you need to share the learning roles.
This is how you could organise your group
Person A – uses their email to sign up to survey planet and logs on to portal email using a computer
Person B – uses another computer to log in to word and retrieve or type up prepared questions
Person C – reads the questions and assists Person A and B

Last week stage 3 went to Holroyd Gardens for the annual Sustainability Expo. We learnt about how we can maintain the life cycle of plants through sensible compost choices and by looking after our soil. Did you know that worm poo contributes to healthy soil?
Stage 3: Please comment below
What stuck with you?

Today we are going to try again to access Google Classroom.

WALT: access Google classroom and complete a collaborative task

WILF:
* access the blog
* navigate blog links to your portal
* join the classroom using the class code on the board
In Google Classroom…
* access document
* Save as a new document
* complete tasks

TIB: Technology allows us to collaborate in an online forum and work simultaneously with teachers and other students. It is a great way to help each other.

For Fun: If you have completed this we would like you to create a Tagxedo, Popplet or Bubblus about things you have learnt this term. You will be able to save your work onto the collaboration drive using the snipping tool.

Bears are omnivores and they can eat anything. They give birth to live young. They don’t lay egg like some other animals.

There are many types of bear which include polar bear, brown bears grizzly bears and pandas. Australian koalas are not bears, but they are marsupials.

Bears are strong heavy mammals. They have small tails and small ears. They have thick coats and fur which they use to warm them in cold winter night. Bears have poor eyesight and hearing, but they have a very good sense of smell, that they use to smell their food. Some bears live in cold places and some live in tropical forest.

written by: Farwa

Bears are aggressive mammals. Bears are strong heavy creatures. Their teeth are very hard so they can chew on the food that they eat. They have long sharp teeth called molars. Their thick brown fur keeps them warm from cold areas.

Bears have a good sense of smell that is used for hunting. They can smell almost anything anywhere. But they don’t have such good sense of sight. Their hearing sense isn’t good either. This makes it hard for the bear to hunt its prey.

Bears do not lay eggs. They are born alive. The baby stays with its mother for a few months. During those months they hibernate. This means they sleep till spring arrives. The reason they do this is because it is cold in winter, so they build a den and sleep in there to keep warm.

Bears are big in size. Polar bears grow up to about 280 centimetres. They also weigh 700 kilograms. Smaller bears grow up to 180 centimetres and weigh 180 kilograms. There are lots of bears, such as the Polar bear, Grizzly bears and Panda’s.

Bears are omnivores. They eat plants such as berries, fruits and many more. They also eat meat. They eat humans and fish. They eat a lot of meat so they can survive and grow.

They are famous for their brown and white coat. They get hunted down for their thick fur coat, and soon there turned into thick fur carpets or something else. Aboriginals also hunt down bears so they can eat it. Some people even set traps for bears!

There are not much bears in rain forests anymore because some bears get killed and hunted down. Animals known as marsupials are NOT bears at all. They are pouched animals. There are many pouched animals such as kangaroos, Wombats, koalas and many more. Bears don’t have pouches at all they use their backs to carry the little baby bears and sometimes their teeth.

Written By Joelle

Bears are a type of omnivore. They are very powerful mammals. They eat any animal they see. Carnivores eat lots of different animals.
There are many types of bears. Such as polar bears, Brown bears, Black bears and Grizzly bears. All of the bears are very dangerous.

Bears are strong heavy mammals that have small tails and ears. They also have crushing back teeth which are known as molars. They have an excellent sense of smell.
All bears have thick coats or fur. This keeps them warm in the cold climates.

Good Morning 34W.

I am sure you have all had a busy term of learning.
Today you will need to use Tagxedo or Popplet to create a word cloud that demonstrates what you have learnt. The more sentences you write the more interesting your cloud will be.

Make sure you save them in the folder called ‘Term 3’ on the shared drive.

WALT: present information creatively

WILF:
* access the blog
* open a webtool using a blog link
* create a presentation
* save in the correct place
* publish to the blog

TIB: being reflective is an important part of your learning. There are many different ways people choose to present information.