Coffs Harbour Public School is a Small Planet
This image of our school was created using the Small Planet app for iPad.
Mrs Booth
Oct
3
Oct
10
Stage 3 angles maths using FieldProtractor iPad app
Today students from 5M road tested the FieldProtractor app for iPad. Mrs Booth thinks it is an excellent app for helping students develop a deeper understanding of angles. It is only $0.99 even though Mrs Booth thought it was around $4.00 when she bought it – sorry Oriana for giving you the wrong information:) It was a beautiful day and good one to get outside and discover and explore maths concepts in the school environment. The students estimated the angle first and then needed to identify if it was an acute, obtuse or right angle. Jacob was our photographer.
Mrs Booth and 5N
Sep
6
4P Virtual Racing
4P had some fun today with a virtual athletics race where there was some serious cheating led by Mr Pike I think!
The students also used the QR Code blog post to provide the information and clues they needed to complete quest task 3.
Mrs Booth
Aug
18
3C Claymation
3C have been working hard on their claymation movies that are being made using the iPad. It is a very time consuming process but in the meantime, as you continue with your projects, be inspired by this video of ‘Gulp’ the world’s largest stop motion animation that was shot using 3 mobile phones. The second video that runs for 5 minutes is amazing as it shows you how the film was made. Maybe this is a project for 3C down at the harbour? Here is a hyper link to the wonderful Wallace & Gromit website which is probably the most well known clay animation series.
Gulp. The world’s largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8. from Nokia HD on Vimeo.
Gulp. The making of. from Nokia HD on Vimeo.
Mrs Booth
Jul
26
Virtual World and iPad Library Club
VWiPLC is in full swing again and the iPad booking form worked very well this week….thank goodness. I love this video and Kobie’s line ” look I am in survival mode” which made me a little concerned as his world was in full darkness and he still hadn’t made a shelter…yikes… He is a little trooper and had plenty of students to help him out of his dire situation!
Other students were working on building airships after being inspired by Ener Hax’s ‘Shark Zeppelin’. Great work:)
Our school bookworm April still waved the flag for a more traditional past time in a school library by absorbing herself in a book. Well done April and Emily Rodda is an excellent author (one of my favourites).
Mrs Booth
Jun
25
The Shortest Day of the Year
Robert, Chris, Ben and Aryan started to make a movie trailer last Thursday, 21st June, which was the shortest day of the year, Winter Equinox, for those living in the Southern Hemisphere. They finished it today which had slightly more daylight. It is hard creating a trailer for a movie you haven’t made as you still need a narrative for it to work. Well done boys and it is amazing how much time you need to story board, shoot, edit and produce a 1 minute trailer!
Mrs Booth
Jun
22
Minecraft app review and virtual building on the SMART Board
5M had to select and review either the Epic Citadel or Minecraft app for iPad on Thursday. Some students chose Epic Citadel but most chose the Minecraft app with many of the students experiencing it for the first time. They initially spent time exploring the app before writing their review.
We now have use of the school iPads in our Virtual Worlds Library Club on Thursdays at lunchtime, thank you Mr Hickey.Everyone was either mining in creative or survival mode, Mrs Booth is yet to survive one night,or creating and exploring in the other 3D immersive world of sim-on-a-stick. Due to the amount of students in the library Mrs Booth had to rotate the iPads on a regular basis. It is a little hectic, but just brilliant to watch the students so highly engaged and willing to share their knowledge and hand over the iPads to new students without complaint! Serious learning and fun at the same time 🙂
Courtney investigates the Minecraft app for iPads and builds virtually using the SMART Board from Coffs Harbour PS on Vimeo.
Mrs Booth
Jun
21
The Great Barrier Reef
Stage 2 have been busy for this term studying the Great Barrier Reef and have enjoyed immersing themselves in their sea lab classrooms. Sea lab leaders were elected and held regular meetings on issues that effected their lab, workers and the Great Barrier Reef. Students had to apply for jobs in the labs and personal learning projects were selected from the Blooms matrix.
Here is a report from Sam on the Great Barrier Reef:
Check out our fantastic movie we made using the iPad iMove app.
Here is a presentation of some of our work
Mrs Booth and Stage 2
Jun
14
Minecraft
Kobi loves Minecraft, and so does every other student in the Virtual World Library Club on Thursdays. They all seem to play it at home or know all about it. I think we need to upload the Minecraft app for iPad onto a few iPads Mrs Bullen 🙂
It is incredibly popular and is fantastic for problem solving, digital literacy, maths, science and all those higher order thinking skills. Go to Massively Minecraft ,a white listed, multi player server hosted by Jokaydia Grid. It has been providing free, safe mines for children and their parents since 2011. Earlier this year when Mrs Booth was at the Virtual Worlds Best Practice in Education 2012 conference she was allowed to visit the Massively Minecraft grid and it was amazing. The students showed her and other educators around the space. They had learned excellent cyber safety skills by playing in a massively multiplayer (MMO) online game.
Kobi plays the Minecraft App for iPad from Coffs Harbour PS on Vimeo.
Jun
14
The Zombie Students of Class 5M
Ben, Chris, Robert, Wakjira and Aryan made this trailer during their recess break using the iPad app iMovie. Be afraid…be very afraid…
Mrs Booth
What do you do during recess?