Nov 26 2008

Google Earth is our Paper – Part 4: Improve the Story

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In today’s literacy lesson, the third in our Google Earth storytelling unit, we made the leap from audio or spoken parts of the story to some written work.  The use of the mapping in this story has provided us with a structure through the escape route we chose and also it has provided us with [...]

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Nov 25 2008

Google Earth is our Paper – Part 3: Consolidate and Empower

Photo by debaird Attribution-ShareAlike License In our writing sessions today I took both classes, all 60 Year 5 children, over two sessions and we continued and completed our work begun yesterday. The children were completing the task of adding 6 audio recordings to the correct placemarks in Google Earth, please see Part 2 for details [...]

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Nov 24 2008

Google Earth is our Paper – Part 2: Add your Voice

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Your talent scouting has hopefully provided you with a great location for your class narrative and perhaps you have even plotted the journey the main protagonists will take during the tale. What’s next? Today we continued our Google Earth storytelling as we added audio to the placemarks.  In my opinion children’s writing, whether digital or [...]

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