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Planet Avatar – Starting A Project on the Planets in our Solar System using Voki
We are doing a project on the Sun, and the planets in our solar system. We thought it would be fun to do our project using avatars. First we wrote down what we were going to say. First Avatar Abi...
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Student Blogging Challenge 2013 – The First Challenge
We are doing the Student Blogging Challenge 2013 You can read about it here The First Challenge “If you could meet 10 people, alive or dead, who would they be? Make a list of the people and include...
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The Student Blogging Challenge – 2nd Challenge
We are doing the Student Blogging Challenge 2013 This is the second week and this week’s Blogging Challenge’ gives us the ‘freedom to choose’ what we, 2nd Class, Room 6 want to write about. You can...
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Student Blogging Challenge 2013 – The Third Challenge – 10 Recycling Socks...
We are doing the Student Blogging Challenge 2013 This is the third week and We found this week’s Blogging Challenge ‘challenging’ We were asked to think of ten ways of recycling socks. You can read...
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Week 4: Student Blogging Challenge 2013: Adding images using Compfight
We are doing the Student Blogging Challenge 2013 This is the fourth week and this week’s Blogging Challenge’ gives us the ‘freedom to choose’ what we, 2nd Class, Room 6 want to write about. You can...
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With the Student Blogging Challenge this week, we are learning about Digital Citizenship. This online game was recommended to us. Digizen Online Game It is just a little bit grown up for us, but we...
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2013 Student Blogging Challenge No.6 Being A Digital Citizen & Our Favourite...
With the Student Blogging Challenge this week, we are learning about Digital Citizenship. You can read more about the Student Blogging Challenge here. We are a little late in posting this because...
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Student Blogging Challenge 2013: Some GREAT posts
For the past number of weeks 2nd Class Room 6 has been doing the ‘Student Blogging Challenge 2013′. During this time, we have visited many excellent blogs and received some very welcome visitors. Photo...
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Student Blogging Challenge 2013 – No.8: These are a Few of Our Favourite Things.
For the last few weeks we have been doing the Student Blogging Challenge 2013. This is Challenge 8. We were asked to write about on Ten Favourite Things. You can read more about it here: Student...
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One of the Best Things about Blogging: Making New Friends
One of the best things about blogging is the friends we make from all over the world. Dijana from Canada is a very good friend to us here on ‘If Only The Best Birds Sang’. She is a frequent commenter....
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Student Blogging Challenge 2013 – Week Nine
This is Student Blogging Challenge 2013 – Week 9 – Game Week. Photo Credit: Charlie Barker via Compfight We read many posts that we found interesting and enjoyed and we left many comments. Of all...
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Student Blogging Challenge 2013 – Week Ten – Evaluation
This is the tenth and final week of the Student Blogging Challenge 2013. You can read about it here We began this challenge at the beginning of March and have learnt a lot of interesting things about...
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Digital Art: We love using ‘Scribbler’.
This is digital art work we did using Scribbler. First we looked at images of Dublin city on Google. Then we drew using the Scribbler digital art programme. Look closely. Can you see The Spire, the...
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Student Blogging Challenge 2013
We have just completed a ten week Student Blogging Challenge. Photo Credit: Kim Piper Werker via Compfight Participating in this international challenge was hard work. It was challenging sometimes to...
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Focus On Friends We Make Blogging; Grade 1-2E Brilliant Blog
Photo Credit: Rich Schieren via Compfight We have blogging buddies all over the world. We visit blogs from Canada, America, UK, New Zealand and Australia. We see the great world that is being done by...
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End of Year Round Up of the Numbers Associated With Our Blog
Photo Credit: Kevin Dooley via Compfight Well done, 2nd Class Room 6. 2011-12 was the first year of this blog. In that year we had 1,000 visits to our blog. This year we had approximately 13,000 more....
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The Edublogs Student Blogging Challenge
Participating in the the bi annual Edublogs Student Blogging Challenge is a very good opportunity for individual students and classes who blog, to learn new blogging skills, to develop their blog...
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Good Practice & Blogging Etiquette: Observing Copyright
We had learned about the importance of observing copyright from The Edublogger: Guide to Copyright Fair Use and Creative Commons We read a very interesting story about an eleven year old boy who got...
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Learning About Voki Avatars with Jack aged 6
Earlier this week Jack made his first Voki Avatar. He chose an avatar that looked quite like himself but as he says the voice doesn’t sound like him at all! Jack’s avatar tells us a little about a very...
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Blogging Tools
We are always on the look out for interesting blogging tools. We use some ones that the children really like from www.fodey.com Students can create very simple but effective animations on it. Photo...
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