Year 10 Travel Blogging

Hi All,

Here is a copy of some resources we have covered in class to help you along with your blog writing.

Getting serious about travel blogging

Come back again soon for more updates and resources.

Mrs P

Yr 11 - Digital Citizenship - TED talks

Hi All,

Here are the TED talks that will help you along.









Enjoy.

Mrs P

Media 1CD - Reality TV Vids

Hi All,

Here are some additional vids about Reality TV techniques

conflict and resolution

Reality Show Casting Secrets

Year 11 English - Digital Citizenship - Cyberbully

Hi All,

Here is the link to where you can watch Cyberbully on YouTube.




Enjoy.

Mrs P

Year 11 Digital Citizenship and Online interactions

Hi All,

Here is a copy of the upcoming PowerPoints associated with our upcoming lessons and activities.

Digital Life
Feelings on Display
Cyberbullying
Who are you online

Many resources to create these PowerPoints were from Common Sense Media.


Reviews and Ratings for Family Movies, TV Shows, Websites, Video Games, Books and Music. 2013. Reviews and Ratings for Family Movies, TV Shows, Websites, Video Games, Books and Music. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.commonsensemedia.org/. [Accessed 21 July 2013].

Film resources are available from me or are accessible via my YouTube channel.

Mrs P

Media 1CD Lego animations

Hi All,

Here is a little reminder of the steps you need to follow when completing your lego animations:

Step 1: Select scene - this will be a scene or trailer of a well known Hollywood film

Step 2: Annotate & get screen caps - this will help you determine shot duration as well as camera angles and shot sizes, as well as camera movements. See eg. below.

Step 3: Equipment request - this will include cameras, lego, lights etc. Everything you will need to "hire" from school resources"


Step 4: Character design: create a costume design for your minifigs. This may mean creating custom decals to stick on your minifigs. You can find a variety of custom decals by googling "Lego decals" or find tutorials by searching "how to create Lego minifigure decals."

Step 5: Production schedule: this is so your team knows exactly when deadlines are for both shooting the scene and editing the final product

Step 6: Shoot - remember you will be taking approximately 15 shots per second of screen time. A minimum of 6 shots per second will be permitted, but this will make the animation look 'choppy'.

Step 7: Edit - organize which group members are editing which sequences, and bring together to form final submission.

Step 8: Reflection - complete the written reflection of the pre, during and post production process and evidence of contribution.

Step 9: Submit - place final film on to DVD or USB and submit your written components to Student services.

Happy shooting :)

Miss F

Year 11 & 10 Essays

Hi All,

Well, we have reached our fist bout of essays. (Duhm Duhm Duuuuuuuhm!!!!) But it doesn't have to be all doom and gloom.

The following words and techniques have been thrown left, right and centre at you: minties, thesis statement, topic sentence, grabbers...

Here is your first port of call for essay writing. I have included for your downloading pleasure, a few of the resources we have been looking at in class to help develop your essays. Remember, your final copy is to be hand written.  This gives you practise in the writing skills needed for your examinations.

Links:
Essay writing framework Year 10-12
Writing the Ultimate essay

Don't forget to check out my YouTube Channel for some helpful vids on essay writing also.

More links added soon.

Cheers

Miss F

Welcome to the 2013 Academic Year

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And whilst everything in society seems to be winding down, we are only just beginning.

If you aren't already familiar with this site, here is a chance for you to get acquainted. This is the place that you can come to seek information for those times that we are not in the classroom. I will be making sporadic posts throughout the upcoming year, relating to the content and tasks covered.

You will notice the navigation bar above you in which a specific page has been created for your class. This page will give you details about what is being covered throughout the upcoming weeks, and information relating to assessments. I will also be posting links to websites and YouTube vids that I feel are important for you to view. Here is the link to MissJFitton's YouTube Channel

I encourage you to comment on as many posts as you wish, and I will be setting "Blog exclusive" tasks now and again to make sure you're checking back regularly.

Good luck and happy studying.

Miss F.

Week 7 & 8 Recap - Yr12

Over the past two weeks we have been investigating the structure and language use within a variety of different blogs. This is to build up to the next assessment task in which students are required to create a variety of blog post with the same overarching theme.

The Task:

Students are to create 7 different blog posts which share the same overarching theme.

• 3 posts must be written blogs that are a minimum of 2 pages in length
• 3 post are to be picture/image blogs with a minimum of 5 pictures per post
• 1 Vlog of approximately 4 mins in length.

Planning and research:

Written blogs
Students have studied these extensively prior to their examinations for the first part of the assessment task.
All written blogs have a post title as well as a blog title (the blog title may be used throughout all 7 posts.)
Blogs use tags to easily categorise what a blog is about.
When writing their blog posts, students will need to be aware of their audience and ensure what they write engages them.

Picture/Image blogs
In class we investigated the social imaging networks of Instagram and Pinterest. These social media sites allow users to blog images surrounding certain subject matter, interests and/or themes. Students should be aware of visual language conventions and the aesthetics of their images to ensure a strong point of view is being conveyed.

Vlogging:

In class, we investigated some of the most popular Vlogs and Vloggers on YouTube. We also investigated the conventions and stylistic devices used within Vlogs. The vids can be found on my YouTube channel for this class.

Glove and Boots Vlog on blogging.

Students should note:

• must be aware of audience at all times
• blogs should be created with purpose
• the overarching theme should be explicit
• language should be appropriate
• correct conventions should be used
• BLOGS ARE NOT TO BE LIVE BLOGS

Happy blogging!! :)

The Death of the Real World

In today's Year 12 English class, we commenced our study of social media. These students are digital natives, and have never known life without the Internet. Because of this, these students not only learn differently, but are motivated by different things.

Most students admitted to spending large amounts of time on social networking sites, including messaging friends who they'd previously spent all day at school with. In this class of 24 students, only 1 student in this class did not have their own personal facebook page. The majority of students in this class, also admitted to being distracted away from their school studies because of social media websites. If students are so reliant on this digital world, should it mean that schools and teachers should shift their classrooms to the virtual frontier?

Today's students seem to be so emerged in this digital world, that it would be difficult for them to imagine life without it. If the Internet suddenly disappeared, what would happen? How would this affect their academic studies? How would it affect their social interactions? Would life as they know it cease to exist?

As part of little classroom social experiment, I've asked my students to come to my blog and leave a comment based on this post ( hi guys!). So what I pose to my students within this virtual classroom environment is this:

Imagine that an electro-magnetic pulse hits Australia, and other countries around the world, as an act of terrorism. All electronic devices, including computers, smart phones, and the Internet, cease to work. How do you think this would affect your life, especially in the areas of socialising and education?

As a teacher, it is often difficult to motivate and engage with students 'in real time' during a traditional classroom lesson. I believe this is related to this generations constant usage and reliance on the digital world. The very nature of the Internet is instantaneous, so these students are often expecting results to occur just as rapidly in 'real life'. So how do you motivate a student to study long term and set long term goals when they're use to receiving things NOW! Even the task of getting student to come to this blog is a mission, when their Internet browsers seem to know only four locations: Google, YouTube, facebook and Wikipedia.

Will your facebook account one day be more important than your drivers license or your birth certificate? Will people start to forget or never learn how to interact with each other outside the digital realm? Are we all bound to be like the humans that are depicted in the Pixar film Wall.E? Who will be left to write the content of Wikipedia and other information sources if future generations aren't taught to be inventive or think for themselves?

Thoughts?

Let's get started!

As a student I always found it frustrating when I never got a chance to speak to my teacher. I was the kind of student who always had questions and wanted to do my very best at school (to put it simply, a bit of a nerd!) When you only see a teacher for 4 hours a week, and you're trying to compete with the other members of your classroom, it can be very difficult for a student to ask their teacher everything they want to know. In addition, it is often difficult for teachers to deliver their lessons and say everything they want to say within those four hours.

When I began teaching, I set myself two main goals:

1. Be the best that I could be, and
2. Be better than my English teachers

So far, I think I'm doing OK. However, the main struggle I face is delivering content to my students to an excellent standard within four hours AND have enough time to for every student to ask questions. In a class of 24 students, this is near impossible.

At the start of the year, I wanted to come up with a method in which I could allow my students to access information they were given in class, additional information to deepen their learning, and the freedom for them to access this at home. In addition, I wanted something that parents could access too, to see exactly what their child is doing, instead of the "English stuff" response they usually get.

So, about a term belated, I have created this blog. My hope is that my students and their parents will check on this regularly to help gain the best outcomes possible. My plan is to post lesson recaps either on a daily or weekly basis, so students can revise and study content on a more regular basis. I want to add links to newly updated videos that I have posted on my YouTube Channel. I also want to add exclusive online content for students, which I don't have time to cover within the set class time.

If any other fellow teacher/bloggers have any suggestions on creating a successful blog that would be great.

Well, I'm off and racing. Wish me luck.

Til next time,
Miss F.