Digital storytelling project - add narration to a story

 This is part of Challenge #3: Become a STORY NARRATOR WHIZZ. We turned our stories into videos with narration today using a Chrome extension called Screencastify. First we installed the Chrome extension, Screencastify, and then we practised narrating our stories. The extension saves them in our Google Drive. Here is mine:

My digital story-

This story is part of Challenge #2: Become a STORY WHIZZ KID. We used stories from the African Storybook website (https://www.africanstorybook.org/) that are free to reuse and change completely, and we recreated them. We kept the art. We did these in Google Slides. Here is mine:

Badges for our Term 3 Digital Portfolios

From Mrs Beal

In Term 3 we are continuing with our challenges and badges program. There are six challenges and six badges available. Here are the challenges.
Challenge #1: Become a GOOGLE SITES CREATOR
Challenge #2: Become an STORY WHIZZ KID
Challenge #3: Become a STORY NARRATOR WHIZZ
Challenge #4: Become a BADGE SHARER
Challenge #5: Become A CODING GENIUS
Challenge #6 Become an GOOGLE EARTH WONDER
The link to my personal badges document is on the side of the blog under 'My Term 3 Badges 2018'. Click on the image to see how I am doing. I want to get all six badges. 

Review of Term 2 Challenges and Badges

From Mrs Beal

Let's review the seven Challenges we did last Term, in Term 2. How many Challenges did YOU do? Did you get all seven badges? Remember, if you missed one you can make it up.  Here are the seven Challenges summarised.

Challenge #1: Become a BLOG VISITOR
Since we are participating in the Student Global Challenge we will visit other blogs and see what they are look. Look through the list of participating students and choose someone your age from another country and open their blog.  Write something encouraging on their blog. Record their blog address.

Challenge #2: Become an AVATAR COMPOSER
In order to be digitally safe create an avatars of yourself using cartoonify.de.  Add this to the side bar of your blog and replace the previous avatar.

Challenge #3: Become a SOCIAL SCIENTIST
For this challenge you will work in a whole class collaborative group and research some of the challenges facing the world.  Each person will take one of the challenges presented in two sites and answer three questions about it.  You will work on a collaborative Google Slide presentation.
a) What is the problem?
b) What can be done about it?
c) What are some interesting facts.

Challenge #4: Become a RESEARCH CHAMPION
In this challenge you will work in collaborative groups of 3 and create a single Google slide together that shows your written summary of research about an endangered animal.  Make sure you use a video icon to link a short video about your endangered animal.

Challenge #6 Become an ANIMOTO GENIUS
Animoto is a video creator. You will learn how to use it and add music and images creatively.

Challenge #7: Become a STORYBIRD WHIZZFor this challenge you will write a story in Storybird.  Once it is finished and has been edited you can add it to your blog with one picture at the top – the cover page. The story must have
a) a beginning, a middle and an end
b) a hook at the beginning to get people interested
c) a problem to solve

 So now, let's get ready for Term 3!

Story: Lost in the Wild

This is my Storybird story called 'Lost in the Wild'. Unfortunately it can't be embedded as an e-book in my blog. I am adding my cover page and my words as evidence that I finished the story.

Lost in the Wild

Once upon a time there was a girl named Kindle. She was lost in the bushes. She saw something creeping out the bush and it had red and bright brown eyes sticking out. Suddenly Kindle was brave enough to go see what it was behind the bush and guess what it was? It was a BIG, HUGE, ENORMOUS FAT BEAR.

Luckily Kindle had a torch and looked at the bear fearlessly. She was not afrain afraid. The bear asked, “What is your name?” “My my my my my name is Kindle and what is your name?” asked Kindle. “My name is Hudson. What are you doing here in the wild?” “I am lost. Can you please help me get home? I don’t want to be alone in the wild.” Hudson, the bear,said to Kindle, “Sure.”

Kindle saw a mad owl looking at here face to face and she was scared. The owl came down so fast and it bit Kindles hat off. Hudson ran as fast as he could.And then the Hudson tripped over a stick and he fell hard and the owl flew away.

Then Kindle saw a constellation in the sky and she said it looked beautiful. Hudson said it indeed looked beautiful and then they carried on walking. Kindle saw a house and said, “Hudson there is a house over there. Let’s go and see who lives there.” So they went to go see what was there and guess what it was?

Kindle found a key on the floor and opened the door and guess what it was?

It was a Dinosaur’s house. Kindle screamed so badly she lost her voice. Then the Dinosaur ran after Kindle. She ran through the woods and then she saw Hudson and jumped on his back. The Dinosaur was getting tired. Suddenly it went splat on the floor and Hudson and Kindle were safe. Then they went in the house and lived happily ever after. And Kindle was happy again. The End

My Animoto video

We learned how to  make videos using a free program called Animoto. We added web images and music  to our movies.

 

Endangered Animals

We worked in groups of three and did a collaborative mini-project on Endangered Animals. Each person in the group was assigned a different animal to research. We had to put the information into our own words and we also had to add a video ico and link a video to the icon.

Here is my group's work.

Blogging Challenge my Zoom out story

On the 10th April we played the Zoomout Game. This is a follow up post. The Zoomout Game is when you add an image to your blog, and start a story in the comment section. Other classmates  add to your story in the comment section. Finally we had to create a story from what people said in the comments. 

These are the comments people made in my blog

1. The little rabbit stayed completely still because it was hiding from from the cat.
2. Then the cat saw him and pounced but the rabbit was too fast and he ran away to the safety of his nearby burrow.
3.He was so scared that he got out his paintball gun.
4. When he started shooting it was so powrful the little rabbit started to bounce every where.
5.He hit the cat a couple of times and the cat went away.
6. Little rabbit was relieved. he was very scared of the cats

Here is my story made from the comments

The Rabbit And The Cats

One sunny day a rabbit came and saw a cat in the yard. The little rabbit stayed still and it pretended that it was dead.Then 
more cats came and looked at the little rabbit. The rabbit peered open one eye and saw the cats.The cats walked around the rabbit and the cats thought that the rabbit was dead.They came closer and closer to the rabbit .The cat surrounded the rabbit.

The rabbit hid a paintball gun underneath its fat belly. he was so scared that one of the cats jumped,and the rabbit took out the paintball gun and shot the cat that was in the air. The rabbit ran away from the cats but there were to many cats surrounding the rabbit. It jumped over on of the cats and the rabbit hid himself underneath the car. The rabbit thought that he was trapped and he didn't know what to do.

The cats waited for the Rabbit to come out. The rabbit had faith inside him and he came out and jumped up in the air and shot all the cats around him with the paintball gun. The cats were still moving and all the cats asked for forgiveness to the rabbit. The rabbit was revealed that he was no more scared of silly little furry cats. 

Global issues

This week we learned about Global Problems. We opened:
http://www.kidsgoglobal.net/the-issues 
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AWEcGu1IfVTReSjrinmYPcU_C91Zyrqa-SRBsDjHjP4/edit#slide=id.p
We each chose a different problem and researched it. We added information in two headings:
a) What is the problem
b) What can be done about it.
Our collaborative slideshow follows.

Visiting other blogs

Today we visited the blogs of other students around the globe. http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/march-2018-students/These are the blogs I commented on today. This is what I said
https://cssith.blogspot.co.za/ NZ
http://afascinatingblogbyjessem.edublogs.org US

Hello.  My name is Malbut from Cape Town.
I enjoyed looking at your blog because you have set it up very well.
Please also visit my blog and leave a comment (https://malbut.blogspot.com ) 
Bye for now:

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Badges for our Term 2 Digital Portfolios

Our blogs are our digital portfolios. This term my teacher is awarding digital badges for our work on our blogs. If we complete our work every week in the allotted time we will get a badge. There are seven badges available in Term 2. (We will also get our normal marks). Each badge is linked to a challenge. Here are the challenges.
Challenge #1: Become a BLOG VISITOR
Challenge #2: Become an AVATAR COMPOSER
Challenge #3: Become a SOCIAL SCIENTIST
Challenge #4: Become a RESEARCH CHAMPION
Challenge #5: BecomeA ZOOMOUT CREATOR
Challenge #6 Become an ANIMOTO GENIUS
Challenge #7: Become a STORYBIRD WHIZZ

The link to my personal badges document is on the side of the blog under 'My Term 2 Badges 2018'.http://bit.ly/2mrTjZq. I want to get all seven badges. 

The Zoom out blogging comments game

Let’s play the “Zoom Out” game! It’s fun, easy, and collaborative! Just take a look at the picture below. What do you think is happening? How did that happen? What is the story behind this? I just need one commenter to get the story going, and the rest of us will continue to add ONE comment until his story is told. Just follow these simple guidelines to contribute to our mysterious story:
First commenter starts the story in the comments below by writing one sentence (include subject in photo).
The next commenter copies the sentence, pastes it in their comment, and adds onto the story by writing the next thing they would see if the picture was “Zoomed Out.”
This process continues until the story ends.
I will update my blog with the full story at the end.

Malbut animal puzzle

We made jigsaw puzzles using jigsaw planet


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Images, music and videos

We can’t just use any image we like just because it is on the Internet. We have to use images with the right licence. If it is a Creative Commons then we have to say who originally created it. There are also places to find free photos for my projects

 Open Clip Art https://openclipart.org/
 Pics4learning http://www.pics4learning.com/
 Compfight website http://compfight.com/
 The Commons on flickr https://www.flickr.com/commons
 Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 Getty Search gateway https://goo.gl/j6BCC8
 Use Explore in Google Docs

Here is a Creative Commons image explaining this: (add)

Places to find free music and sound effects for my project

• Jamendo, https://www.jamendo.com/search?language=en
• CCMixter, http://ccmixter.org/
• a post with 14 websites for music, https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/14-websites-to-find-free-creative-commons-music/
• a post with 20+ websites for music, https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/websites-download-creative-commons-music/
• a post with 55+ sites with sound effects https://goo.gl/4CoMva

Blogging challenge 2018 week 1

We joined the Edublogs Student Challenge today. We looked at the posts found at: https://goo.gl/wXZBtr and https://goo.gl/zYlL7W . We also uploaded our 2018 badge. I have learned how to upload images. I have completed an introduction and I have made an avatar

Valentines

We made Valentines day poem using story bird

MY AWESOME HOLIDAY

On the holidays i went to Ratanga Junction. My friend and i went on all the rides, we went on the cobra, the monkey falls, the bush waft, the slingshot, the, slingshot, and the vortex. We didn't go on the others because they were boring. We ate nice food there, the scariest ride was the cobra and the slingshot. Ratanga Junction is in Century City behind Idols. Once we were done we jumped in the car and drove to Blue route mall. Then we got of at Blue route mall. It was a long drive and we were starving. We went to KFC to go eat there. That was the best and scary day of my life.