Digital Learning Objects

Hello official research monkeys [that means students in Room5 who used the digital learning objects and were recorded by Annick and Rob] - can you please make statements here about your experience with the cartown digital learning object? I would like to know if it was fun, engaging, whether or not you used it properly, or just rushed through trying to answer things so you could get to the next stage, etc. Did it help you learn anything? Was it useful in relation to your inquiry studies about Hamilton? How did you enjoy working in pairs?
Please be honest so i can learn from your experience.
The more detailed your answer, the better.
regards,
Mr WOody - research monkey manager

p.s. the primate shown is a bonobo. bonobos are a type of chimpanzee and are apes, not monkeys. there is a difference and as scientists we need to be clear about our distinctions between different groups when making classifications. [put your hand up if you understood what i just said]

Measurement

Our maths for Term One is to do with measurement. I have attached some hyperlinks to NZ Maths online, digital learning objects, and TKI's eLearning sites...

http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/LearningObjects/

http://www.tki.org.nz/e/search/retrieve_search.php?&search_term_data=DC.Description%3BDC.Title%3BDC.Subject.Keyword%3BDC.Subject.Classification%3BTKI.SupplementaryTerm%3A%3Adigital+learning+objects+maths

Phew! That was a mouthful.

This is to backup what is being learnt and covered in class. You can find extra homework here if your parents want it. You can revise issues covered in class if you didn't understand. You can do it for fun if you really love maths.

Digital Learning Objects

To all research partners, former Room5ians and immiment Room5ians - here is a list of the digital learning objects to be covered in Term One 2008:

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=1288&vers=1.0 beach safety and instructional video creation

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=2844&vers=1.0 basic video production [with other related DLOs to follow]

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=862&vers=2.0 bike design incorporating descriptive language, including metaphors

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=3455&vers=1.0 learn about creating an online news page [maybe we could construct one for the Room5ians to have their say and inform parents, the Principal, etc about what we are doing in Room 5]

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=934&vers=2.0 editorial writing skills [to complement the online news]

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=350&vers=2.0 a very basic DLO to remind us how to use coordinates on a map

More DLOs [Digital Learning Objects] will be added to this list. Do your best with each one. If it seems easy, challenge yourself to try to get more out of it.
Always remember, You will achieve according to your effort.
:-)

Room5ians RulE!!!!!

omigod - i can't believe how cool the official research monkeys are. such inspirational students.
many thanks to those of you who allowed us to go off into the old board room to do our session with Rob and Annick. [i must say it's a shame that some people let us down a bit]... anyhoo - we are on track to develop some very interesting new research, ideas and ways of facilitating learning thanks to the valuable insights or our own Im a Room5ian and her fellow official research monkeys. a big thank you also to the other room5ians who are working so hard and creatively in class to produce scintillating projects.
Luigi and his cronies have been so unbelievably cool in working on developing the animation software "marvin".
please add more examples of amazing achievements by room5ians this week:

[if you work hard at this we can help convince the adults that there is a new and better way to learn...]