my youtube channel

these are my favourite songs on my youtube channel

Digital storytelling project - add narration to a story

This is part of Challenge #3: Become a STORY NARRATOR WHIZZ. We turned our stories into videos with narration today using a Chrome extension called Screencastify. First we installed the Chrome extension, Screencastify, and then we practised narrating our stories. The extension saves them in our Google Drive. Here is mine:

My digital story - The little girl and her flowerpot

This story is part of Challenge #2: Become a STORY WHIZZ KID. We used stories from the African Storybook website (https://www.africanstorybook.org/) that are free to reuse and change completely, and we recreated them. We kept the art. We did these in Google Slides. Here is mine: 



                                                                                           

Badges for our Term 3 Digital Portfolios

From Mrs Beal

In Term 3 we are continuing with our challenges and badges program. There are six challenges and six badges available. Here are the challenges.
Challenge #1: Become a GOOGLE SITES CREATOR
Challenge #2: Become an STORY WHIZZ KID
Challenge #3: Become a STORY NARRATOR WHIZZ
Challenge #4: Become a BADGE SHARER
Challenge #5: Become A CODING GENIUS
Challenge #6 Become an GOOGLE EARTH WONDER

The link to my personal badges document is on the side of the blog under 'My Term 3 Badges 2018'. Click on the image to see how I am doing. I want to get all six badges.

Review of Term 2 Challenges and Badges

From Mrs Beal

Let's review the seven Challenges we did last Term, in Term 2. How many Challenges did YOU do? Did you get all seven badges?a Remember, if you missed one you can make it up.  Here are the seven Challenges summarised.

Challenge #1: Become a BLOG VISITOR

Since we are participating in the Student Global Challenge we will visit other blogs and see what they are look. Look through the list of participating students and choose someone your age from another country and open their blog.  Write something encouraging on their blog. Record their blog address.

Challenge #2: Become an AVATAR COMPOSER

In order to be digitally safe create an avatars of yourself using cartoonify.de.  Add this to the side bar of your blog and replace the previous avatar.

Challenge #3: Become a SOCIAL SCIENTIST

For this challenge you will work in a whole class collaborative group and research some of the challenges facing the world.  Each person will take one of the challenges presented in two sites and answer three questions about it.  You will work on a collaborative Google Slide presentation.

a) What is the problem?

b) What can be done about it?

c) What are some interesting facts.

Challenge #4: Become a RESEARCH CHAMPION

In this challenge you will work in collaborative groups of 3 and create a single Google slide together that shows your written summary of research about an endangered animal.  Make sure you use a video icon to link a short video about your endangered animal.

Challenge #6 Become an ANIMOTO GENIUS

Animoto is a video creator. You will learn how to use it and add music and images creatively.

Challenge #7: Become a STORYBIRD WHIZZFor this challenge you will write a story in Storybird.  Once it is finished and has been edited you can add it to your blog with one picture at the top – the cover page. The story must have

a) a beginning, a middle and an end

b) a hook at the beginning to get people interested

c) a problem to solve

 So now, let's get ready for Term 3

Storybird

I love to write story's on Storybird because it is fun to explore the artworks and use your imagination to write stories. This is my Storybird story called 'Lost in the Wild'. Unfortunately it can't be embedded as an e-book in my blog. I am adding my cover page and my words as evidence that I finished the story.

Here is my story.

The Cat's Secret:

This cat has a lot of secrets and he doesn’t tell any one . You are about to know his secrets.

He eats ice-cream. I know! Whoever knew that a cat could like and eat ice-cream.But that is not the only secret there are lots more where that came from .

He has three ‘friends’ called Molly, Polly and Grey.When he made friends with them he had a good meal afterwards and he never saw them again. You know...he ate them!

The problem is that the owner of those birds was Mr.Blamton .He is the owner of the ice-cream shop where that cat always goes to get his ice-cream.He never even feeds the birds.So that cat ate the birds for their own good  Their owner never fed them.

One of his secrets is that he builds robots .I can't believe it that a cat builds robots! Have you ever seen a cat build a robot? I don’t think so.The problem is that the robot is tiny - it is the size of a bird.

One day Mr.Blamton was selling ice-cream for only R10 (the price had changed to R22 to R10). He needed money. Then he saw someone coming towards him. He found out that it was a flying elephant.You don’t see that every day. He saw it was being held up by balloons . The cat saw that happen as well.

Yes, this cat has many secrets. If there was time I would tell you more. 

Story Text:

[1] This cat has a lot of secrets and he doesn’t tell any one . You are about to know his secrets.

[2] He eats ice-cream I know who ever knew that a cat could like and eat ice-cream.But that is not the only secret there are lots more were that came from .

[3] He has three ‘friends’ called Molly, Polly and Grey.When he made friends with them he had good meal afterwards and he never saw them again.

[4] The problem is that the owner of those birds was Mr.Blamton .He is the owner of the ice-cream shop were that cat always goes to get his ice-cream.He never even feeds the birds.So that cat took the birds for there own good .

[5] One of his secrets is that he builds robots .I cant believe it that cat builds have you ever seen a cat build a robot I don’t think so.The problem is that it is the size as a bird.

[6] One day Mr.Blamton was selling ice-cream for only R10 (the price has changed to R22 to R10)He needed money until he saw someone coming towards him

[7] He found out that it was a flying elephant.You don’t see that every day ,but he saw it was being held up by balloons . Well someone was trying to do a experiment ,but we can see that it did work that well.but the elephant is only one ruler above the ground.

[8] He could not get anyone’s attention

My Animoto video

We learned how to make videos using a free program called Animoto. We added web images and music to our movies. It was fun.


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Endangered animals mini project

We worked in groups of three and did a collaborative mini-project on Endangered Animals. Each person in the group was assigned a different animal to research. We had to put the information into our own words and we also had to add a video ico and link a video to the icon. Here is my group's work.


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My Zoomout story

On the 10th April we played the Zoomout Game as part of the blogging challenge.. This is a follow up post. The Zoomout Game is when you add an image to your blog, and start a story in the comment section. Other classmates add to your story in the comment section. Finally we had to create a story from what people said in the comments.

These are the comments made by the people on my blog

1.The wolf got lost in the snow when it was young and now it is trying to find its pack again.

2.The journey has been a long one. Suddenly he sees wolves coming his way.

3. He tries to hide.

4. He was was so white that he could hide in the snow and intruders wouldn't see him.

5. As the pack got closer he moved back. "Snap" went a bear trap and the wolf howled in pain.

6. The pack rushed up and then the one said, "Look it is our long lost cub. Let's free him and get him home to get well again. The wolf was so happy!


This is the story I made from the comments.

The Lost Wolf

This is a story of a lost wolf. It all started when he was young he was wondering around at night in the full moon. One night he saw a group of bears running towards his pack.His mother said he must run and save himself, so he did what he was told. As he got to a safe place he could hear the wailing and the crying of the wolves.

As he grew up he had to hunt for himself and find shelter, but he is still haunted by that night. He  wandered around the snowy forest to see if there was any food and that's when he heard what he was always afraid of...bears. As soon as he heard them he ran and ran and ran far away, but they seemed to follow him. As he got deep into the forest...SNAP! His paw got trapped in one of the bear traps and he yelped in pain. You could see the blood dripping from his leg and he carried on crying.

He could hear the bears paws crunching in the white snow as they took each step closer and closer and closer. Then, something unusual happened. There was something running fast behind the bears and then he saw that it was.....another pack of wolves He was so happy that he started to howl. He saw how they attacked the bears to save him, but after a few seconds the bears ran away and far away until they couldn't be seen. When the lost wolf saw the other wolves he was so happy, but he saw that he couldn't get to them because of the trap. He was sad. Then he saw another unusual thing. He saw a human walking towards him. The human helped him set him free. He bandaged his woulnds and let him go to his new wolf pack.              

THE END 

Blogging challenge: Global issues

This week we learned about Global Problems. We opened two websites so that we could research a problem. 
http://www.kidsgoglobal.net/the-issues 
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AWEcGu1IfVTReSjrinmYPcU_C91Zyrqa-SRBsDjHjP4/edit#slide=id.p
We each chose a different problem and researched it. We added information in two headings:
a) What is the problem
b) What can be done about it.
Our collaborative slideshow follows.

Visiting other blogs

This activity is part of the Blogging Challenge. Today we visited the blogs of other students around the globe. http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/march-2018-students/These are the blogs I commented on today. 
https://cssith.blogspot.co.za/ NZ

Hello. I am Anapug from Cape Town.
I enjoyed looking at your blog because it is very interesting. 
Please also visit my blog and leave a comment (add blog address https://anapug2018.blogspot.co.za/
Bye.:

My avatar

This is my avatar. I love it. I created it.

Badges for our Term 2 Digital Portffolios

Our blogs are our digital portfolios. This term my teacher is awarding digital badges for our work on our blogs. If we complete our work every week in the allotted time we will get a badge. There are seven badges available in Term 2. (We will also get our normal marks). Each badge is linked to a challenge. Here are the challenges.
Challenge #1: Become a BLOG VISITOR
Challenge #2: Become an AVATAR COMPOSER
Challenge #3: Become a SOCIAL SCIENTIST
Challenge #4: Become a RESEARCH CHAMPION
Challenge #5: BecomeA ZOOMOUT CREATOR
Challenge #6 Become an ANIMOTO GENIUS
Challenge #7: Become a STORYBIRD WHIZZ

The link to my personal badges document is on the side of the blog under 'My Term 2 Badges 2018'.  http://bit.ly/2mrTjZq. I want to get all seven badges.

Introducing the Zoom out blog comment game

Let’s play the “Zoom Out” game! It’s fun, easy, and collaborative! Just take a look at the picture below. What do you think is happening? How did that happen? What is the story behind this? I just need one commenter to get the story going, and the rest of us will continue to add ONE comment until his story is told. Just follow these simple guidelines to contribute to our mysterious story:

• First commenter starts the story in the comments below by writing one sentence (include subject in photo).

• The next commenter copies the sentence, pastes it in their comment, and adds onto the story by writing the next thing they would see if the picture was “Zoomed Out.”

• This process continues until the story ends.

I will update my blog with the full story at the end.

My animal puzzle

Today we made a jigsaw puzzle on jigsaw planet


42 Anapug's animal puzzle

Blogging Challenge: Images, music and videos

We can’t just use any image we like just because it is on the Internet. We have to use images with the right licence. If it is a Creative Commons then we have to say who originally created it. There are also places to find free photos for my projects

 Open Clip Art https://openclipart.org/
 Pics4learning http://www.pics4learning.com/
 Compfight website http://compfight.com/
 The Commons on flickr https://www.flickr.com/commons
 Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 Getty Search gateway https://goo.gl/j6BCC8
 Use Explore in Google Docs

Here is a Creative Commons image explaining this: (add)

Places to find free music and sound effects for my project

• Jamendo, https://www.jamendo.com/search?language=en
• CCMixter, http://ccmixter.org/
• a post with 14 websites for music, https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/14-websites-to-find-free-creative-commons-music/
• a post with 20+ websites for music, https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/websites-download-creative-commons-music/
• a post with 55+ sites with sound effects https://goo.gl/4CoMva