Thursday, May 22, 2014

My prior knowledge about Maori art

Today in class we were doing our art Te-Ara-Tika and this is my knowledge about it. The small box is a zentangle (maori art), the other box is a few korus; The boat is a waka in the ocean.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Student led conference feedback

This is the conference feedback by the people who have been to the conference.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Writing a Quality Blog Comment

Writing a Quality Blog Comment  
We are learning to write quality blog comments.


Choose your top three tips from the video and list below.
Highlight each line and replace with your text.

  1. never use more than one exclamation mark
  2. complement the writer in a specific way
  3. end with a question

Take a look at this poster here: Writing Great Comments on Blogs

What are the main points of this, add a point to each number below:

1. be nice

2. keep your comments short

3. check your spelling and punctuation



Let's look at some comments on Manaiakalani blogs.

What do you notice about the comments?  That they were short and sweet.
Do they have anything in common? Yes, that they all say well done that the person that made it.

Share your thinking with a friend.
Visit our class blog on a class mates blog and read two or three recent posts
Select one post and leave a comment

Proof read your comment - capital letters, punctuation, spelling, does it make sense?

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Publish your comment.


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Compare your comment to our Quality Comment: Success Criteria

  • How is your comment positive, thoughtful or helpful?
Positive: it says “wow”.
Thoughtful:
Helpful: we asked 2 questions.

  • How could you improve your comment?

We could make a connection e.g.
I’ve seen a recipe on how to make a gingerbread family in a cookbook.





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