Thursday, November 20, 2008

Contributions to my School


This year I have been involved in many extra curriculum activities such as: Wearable Arts, Zone netball, Inter zone Netball, Coca Cola Netball, Writing Workshop, competitive Athletics, cross country, 5 Sports Mentions and 4 Merit Mentions. This is what I have done this year and this list will grow next year.

The Maui's Dolphin


My class have been researching the Maui's Dolphins. Victoria from WWF came into our class and she taught us some very interesting facts about them like there are only around 111 Maui's left. They are only found in New Zealand so we really need to save them. I have am really interested in Maui's Dolphins because of what i have learnt over the time that we have been reaserching them and I really hope they stay in New Zealand for a long time.



Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Being in a Digital Classroom

My name is Tegan and i am very lucky because i am in the only Digital Classroom in my school. We have 16 apple computers and we learn a lot of things that we can use in the future when we get jobs. We are very lucky to get the opportunity to be in this classroom next year which most of us have said that we would love to so we can learn more challenging things. Most of us share a computer with a buddy. We change our seats around once a term so we all get a turn in front of a computer. Next year the people that stay in this classroom will be designing websites and updating our school website. We have quite strict rules about what we can and can't do on the computers and what not to click into on the web, and that we have to be careful with where we eat and drink around the computers. We do most of our work on the computers instead of doing it all in our books. When our teacher is trying to show us something to do on the computers she will project it up on the white wall so we can follow what she is doing. My classroom is becoming really good at using these computers. We have learnt short cuts to copy, paste, save, print and much more using the command key then a number or letter. We use a bookmarking system to bookmark pages to get to them quickly and we save all of our work to the home directory and you can open your work from all of the computers. I really enjoy being in a computer classroom and i hope that i have a good time next year.