Allanah's Appleby Showcase

Made as a podcast in Garageband '11

A few weeks ago we went to Te Awhina Marae. We all got together to record what we did at the marae.

This week we decided who are school councillors for the next couple of terms. Summer made a great job of making a speech to encourage her classmates to vote for her. She took the Easi-speak home and after a few practice goes managed to record her speech. Well done, Summer.

My Dream Last night I had a funny dream, I blew up my balloon, Then held on tight, jumped into space, And landed on the moon. The people there looked very strange, Three eyes and one green nose. They had six legs and walked like crabs, With corks instead of toes. They showed me all around the place, Then gave me things to eat, A nasty drink that looked like ink, And funny tasting meat. They said,"Now come and see our king, He's grand- his nose is red." I said, "No thanks," and shut my eyes, And woke up home in bed. Jeanette Lingard.

When Mum says, "I'll be there in a minute." She really means, I'll be at least another half-hour." But when Mum says "I want this room tidied NOW, or there'll be trouble." She really, really means it! A poem by Margaret Schroder New Zealand School Journal

Here we are on another school year at Appleby School. We are concentrating on making our voices the best that we can. To do that we record ourselves, play it back and discuss how we might improve and then re-record. Here is our first attempt for 2010. It is based on a poem, My Other Jandal' by Don Franks. My Other Jandal by Don Fanks Have you seen my other jandal? I had it just before. It shouldn’t be too hard to find- It’s somewhere on the shore. It disappeared all by itself When I was in the waves, And that’s the way my other jandal Usually behaves. The jandal photo was taken by Michael Fawcett

Mr Cook is Keeley's grandfather and he used to go to Appleby School 58 years ago. We interviewed him about his school days at Appleby School. 2.8MB 5 minutes 11 seconds

We are learning how to interview people to find out more about them and to follow up with open ended questions. We are also learning about how schools were in days gone by. Appleby School is soon to celebrate 150 years. That is quite an achievement. 5MB 7 minutes

This week's podcast was made to describe how we made chalk. The instructions are in New Zealand School Journal Pt 2 No 4 2000. School Journals are a wonderful resource for reading for NZ children. It was a bit of a competition between two groups to see who could manage their group better to produce a clear well constructed audio file. 2.4 MB 1 minute

River Bugs by Jan Trafford. Based on a NZ School Journal Story Part One, Number One, 2001. For reading this week Kakapo group made this radio play of Jan's article about a water adventure on the Buller River, near Nelson. Kakapo group were focussed on reading with fluency, expression and clarity. They would love some feedback on how they might improve their oral skills the next time they read aloud for a audience. 3 minutes 18 seconds 5MB

We have been thinking about all of the wonderful ways that our mothers help us. Mothers are such a treasure. 3MB 3 minutes 20 seconds

We had a really busy day as we Skyped into Bangkok International School and learnt a lot about life and living in Thailand. 3 minutes 26 seconds 7.9MB

Today we had fun with our first Skype call with students in other parts of the world. We talked and learned with students from Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. We had brainstormed some questions to ask the children and they had done the same for us. It was lots of fun and we learnt from each other. We learnt that it was snowing in Canada and it was yesterday there and they have seen wild bears!!!! 4 minutes 9.3 MB

This week at school we have been learning about water safety in, on or around water. Because rivers are the most dangerous places for drownings in New Zealand we have been learning a whole heap of water safety rules for around rivers and lakes. Listen carefully because one of these rules may save your life one day. 4.1Mb 2 minutes 7 seconds

After a year with myself on leave we are back podcasting. Just to remind myself of the process using iLfe09 I thought I would make a quick podcast. This week is swim week and we started off the classroom component by telling stories we have had in, on and near the water. Grace told this entertaining story of an encounter with some eels. 1.2 MB One minute 15 seconds

At the end of last term Discover IT Tasman teachers and principals went on tour of a few Nelson Schools. Brightwater School was the first on our list and we learnt much about the the journey taken by Brightwater School to cater for their 21st century learners from Janice Gulbranson. Well worth sharing. 8.8MB 8 minutes 55 seconds

After spending time learning about pre-European settlement in the Appleby are Moutere classroom have built their own Maori legend by combining their knowledge of legends and creating one that fits well with the local area which was well known for kumara growing. Kumara are like a sweet potato. Very yummy. 5MB 3 minutes 48 seconds

Miriam has gained the confidence now to sing for the whole school. It is great to see how Miriam's voice is developing. 7.3MB 35 seconds

As part of Spanish Language Learning at Upper Moutere we called Chrissy H who is in Argentina with a Language Immersion Award. We used Skype and Apple’s Call Recorder to record our conversation and edited it in iMovie... It is a great part of my new job to facilitate engaging learning experiences like these. 7.4MB 5 minutes 6 seconds

Today I got a quick Skype call from Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach who was talking to teachers in Buffalo about the sorts of things you can do with Web 2.0 technologies and I thought I would share the call with you as I haven't made a podcast in a while. Here is a link to the wiki we were talking about. Comparing Hemispheres Wiki

We are at the end of the 2007 school year at Appleby School and what better place to review some of the projects we have undertaken over the year. This movie was compiled by Raewyn, Moutere's classroom teacher. 4.7MB 3 minutes 16 seconds

This week Moturoa class went on camp to the Abel Tasman National Park staying in tents at Bethany Park camping ground and exploring Kaiteriteri Beach. We also got to take the launch out into the Abel Tasman National Park and walk back to Marahau. It was a fabulous experience enjoyed by all and well supported by parent helpers. These excursions help broaden the children’s experiences and hopefully help them treasure New Zealand’s beautiful national treasures. 13.9 MB 3 minutes

Kieran, Zach and Josh got together to create this podcast about Shaun Tan's book, The Lost Thing. You can hear how much they enjoyed the graphics and storyline. 1.4MB 1 minute 52 seconds

Today while the Year Five children were at Inter-school Athletic Sports the Year Fours made a few podcasts. In this one Georgina, Miriam and Amberley chose to share Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes with you. 1.8MB 2 minutes 10 seconds

We are learning about people's occupations and we thought we would interview Grant, our school bus driver. Grant is a great bus driver who helps us get to and from school safely. 4MB 3 minutes 53 seconds

This week Waimea, the New Entrant class, shares their animation based on the Maori legend 'How Maui Found His Mother'. Maui's mother wrapped him in her topknot because she thought he was dead. He was taken to the beach but his uncle found him and taught him many tricks. When he was older he went back to the beach and met with his mother and brothers. Maui and his brothers went on to do many wonderful things like fish up the North Island of Aotearoa, New Zealand and slow down the sun because it was travelling across the sky too fast. 6.7MB 33 seconds

This week's homework focus was music- making it, listening to it or performing it. Lots of children had great things to contribute. I was amazed particularly by Miriam- who sings 'Johnny One Note'. We knew she went to singing lessons but we didn't realise that she has such a great singing talent until she brought along the CD she had recorded with her singing teacher. She is only nine years old and has such a strong voice. Thank you for sharing with us, Miriam. 7.5MB 5 minutes 27 seconds

After reading the School Journal story, 'Who Gets Tiger?" we decided to record the story and take photos of our classroom fish to illustrate it. We found out that taking photos of fish is really hard. That's why lots of the photos are a bit blurry! Our classroom fish are pretty special- one was named by us, one was named by children at Cefn Fforest School in Wales and one was named by children at Binghamton Elementary School in New York. Here is our post about it. 3.8MB 3 minutes 25 seconds

Stickers are the latest fashion at Appleby School. All the girls are spending their playtimes and lunchtimes swapping and trading stickers. Everyone has their favourites. Which are yours? 1.9MB 1minute 35 seconds

This Friday Appleby School showed all of Nelson their wonderful masks as part of the Nelson Arts Festival. Families, groups and schools all worked to create masks and join in the fun of the parade through the streets of Nelson. The theme this year was 'Sparkling, Sustainable Future'. Our theme was 'When the wind changed'- you can see the wind coming through our ranks. Children really enjoyed themselves and worked together to create a masterpiece of music, art and creativity. 56 seconds 4.3MB

Georgina composed this music by herself using the Apple application Garageband. I never taught her how to do this- she taught herself. 612KB 36 seconds

I made this podcast to accompany my Bling4yrblog blog post trying to explain how to embed your Podomatic podcasts into your Blogger blog directly rather than using a link to it. People at my workshop on podcasting were finding it difficult to understand so I thought a podcast that you can watch a couple of times after you have subscribed in iTunes would be useful as a reference if they get stuck again. To subscribe to this podcast in iTunes just click on the iTunes logo on the right hand side of this podcast page. To get the code I am talking about go to the blog post I have linked above and download the pdf so you can just copy it! Acknowledgment must go to Jing for the free Mac and PC download that allows video screen captures and to Audio Hijack that allows some tricky audio capture but mostly to Chris Betcher in Sydney that tried to help me with some even trickier swf file conversion. 3.5MB 2 minutes 24 seconds

Each year we bring together a group of keen, talented students to be in our school band. They practice one afternoon a week at school and go on tour around some local schools to show what they have been learning. This year's group is called Blue Moon and we filmed this at Moturoa (Rabbit Island) which is about a five minute drive from our school. Aren't they very cool! 5MB 3 minutes 50 seconds

It has been two years to the day that we made this video- I publish it for the first time in memorium to those lost their lives in Hurricane Katrina. We spent one school day preparing and filming the video. We based the day around Bloom's Taxonomy with the class gathering content through the discussion of photographs I had found on the internet the night before. We then divided into teams and each prepared a section, tying it all together by making a news report. We started to run out of time as the three o'clock bell came so we had to film some of the rain sequence inside as we didn't have time to go outside to film! Because of the tight time frame we had little time for rehearsal and the children had total control over what they wanted to say. I edited that night in iMovie and was pretty pleased with the result- both with the children's learning & engagement and technically with the production. It is good that we can publish our work to a wider audience for the first time since Hurricane Katrina hit. I do apologise to those for whom the video took a longer time to download but did not want to miss anything from what the children had done. 23 MB 4 minutes 42 seconds

Every second year the whole school learns more about Keeping Ourselves Safe. The programme is supported by parents, police and a variety of videos as children are helped to understand more about being safe and getting help. The Year Five and Six class prepared this animation using the Apple application I Can Animate. The animation script follows closely one of the support videos 'Home Alone'- what to do if you find yourself arriving home and your parents aren't home yet. Everyone in class had some role in the production- script, set,animation, filming or production. It was a great effort- deserving of a wider audience. 12.7MB 3 minutes 5 seconds

New Zealand is heading for a win at the Rugby World Cup. To celebrate that fact I thought I would publish this video that we made a few years back. The Daniel that we refer to is of course our hero, Daniel Carter. The video was played on nationwide TV in the afternoon kids' programmes. It was the first time we had been published. I had written the movie to DVD and long ago deleted the source files. Thanks to our podcasting buddies at Cefn Fforest School, Wales we were able to use the cross platform download Handbrake to turn that DVD into a file ready for podcasting. It was all so easy. 8.6 MB 56 seconds

Towards the end of last term I gave children free reign to create podcasts of their choice and create music with Garageband. Jordan chose to make this podcast using the memorised template that we often use to scaffold our podcasts. She had previously taken home my camera to take photos of her family's newest arrival, baby Luke. Luke is really a child of the 21st century- his first podcast! The photo was composed using Scrapblog and captured using the wonderful new tool, Skitch 404 KB 34 seconds

In New Zealand if you need to call the police, ambulance or fire-brigade you call 111 on the phone. Zach made this animation to help people know what to do in an emergency- he made it using Quicktime Pro. To make it you take all your photos and then go FILE- Open Image Sequence- find the first photo of your animation, choose how many frames per second you want and Quicktime will do the rest. How cool is that! We used Audacity to record Zach’s narration. Then I put them both together in iMovie. 1.8MB 46 seconds

Last year I posted a video podcast of our school band and thought I should do so again with this year's band as last year's bad got really good reviews. From Moturoa classroom you will see Tegen singing, Tyler on drums, Elliott on keyboard and Kieran on guitar. Our band is very good and we like to listen to them play at assembly. 6MB 1 minute

In the last week of our school holidays Jason Hando from Macarthur Anglican School in north Sydney put out a call for educators from around the globe to discuss their experiences with Web2.0 tools. The call was taken up by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Jen Wagner and my good self. I was aware I was boxing above my weight but am always up for new learning with others around the globe. These opportunities always present opportunities for me to learn as well as share. Jason made a wiki to co-ordinate the venture. The concept was a fun one- that of speed dating!!! The idea was that participants would have 15 minutes to speak with each of the experts via Skype and then move on. Sheryl, Jen and Jen's cat, Mac were on one computer and I had to hold the fort on the other.Scary stuff. I can really recommend you listen to Sheryl and Jen's podcast which is much more eloquent that mine! 10MB 18 minutes

I am starting to feel a bit better after the dreadful cold I had the other week and we are keen to share a couple of new podcasts with you. Thank you to those kind people who emailed, blogged or left me comments about my attempt at podcasting from home last week. Today was a first for us, Elliott, Nicole and Zach were chosen to go to a Lead Children's Day with our ICT cluster at which they were able to use Quicktime Pro to make short animations on our safety theme. They will be able to show us how it was done. 1.3MB 20 seconds

I have been at home this week with a nasty cough and cold and tomorrow I need to set a new homework task so to help get my message across I thought I would send my class a podcast explaining what I want. Each week we have a homework Bubble Map that we have brainstormed of activities we can do to support that week's target. Over the year the grid has built up over time so much of the grid just ticks along and children record what they have done in each of the grid boxes as they complete it. This week I want the children to think about something they can teach the rest of the class. This task needs to be ready for us to hear about next Thursday! 1.5MB 1 minute 25 seconds

Rob Waddell won an Olympic Gold Medal for rowing the single scull at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Now he is grinder for the Team Emirates New Zealand yacht to help us to win back the America's Cup in Valencia, Spain. Following from our contact with Zoe's parents in Valencia we were able to talk to Rob and ask him questions about his work. This was our most ambitious podcasting project yet as TVNZ, our national television network, got wind of the story and sent one camera crew around to film us at Appleby and another to Zoe's parent's flat to film Rob. We are going to be on TV!!!!!! Rob Waddell was a fabulous person to talk with, his sense of humour and warmth came across so well to all of us assembled at 7pm back at school on a cold winter's night. Thanks for your time, Rob- it was great to be able to talk with you. I am sorry that I had to edit out some of the interview as it was just too big a file but we will enjoy watching the full movie played back at school. 13.5MB 9 minutes 35 seconds

Today we had a sharing day showing other classes at Appleby School some of our learning about our 'Destination' studies. You may have seen our sharing video about our Destination- New York, in last week's podcast. The New Entrant classroom, Waimea, learnt about life in Tonga. We had a shared umu lunch for the whole school. Waimea also made this video about how to get coconut cream from a coconut. 5.1MB 1 minute 26 seconds

What an awesome week we had with linking across the globe! On Wednesday Lauren spoke to some students in Outram School, Dunedin who have been learning Spanish. Lauren spent last year in Chile so is a fluent Spanish speaker. On Thursday Moutere classroom spoke to Zoe, whose family is in Valencia, Spain, as part of the New Zealand contingent to help us win back the America's Cup. Watch this space for a further podcast with crew from Team Emirates New Zealand. Listen to our first podcast in this series On Friday my class came back to school on Friday night to catch up with Dino who is spending the morning with Cefn Fforest School who we link with in Wales. He was able to meet in person his on-line buddy, Harry. It was awesome also that, because it was night-time many mums and dads, grandmas and grandads, were able to come down to school and see how the children were linking with each other and better understand what we are doing. These opportunities for learning and communicating are so rich, real and relevant. An awesome and exciting time for us all. Thanks for the team from Skype who offer us these Web2.0 tools for free! 15MB 5.16 minutes

Ryan impressed us with his go-karting trophies that he brought to school to how us for news time. Appleby School is lucky to have a go-kart track really close to it. Dino and Ryan travel all over New Zealand to go to go-kart meetings. Ryan, Elliott and Kieran recorded this podcast. 1.5MB 2.47 seconds

We are learning about living in America and our friends in Binghamton, New York, are helping us answer some of our questions. They sung us some songs and said the Pledge of Allegiance for us. We tried to say it with an American accent but are not too sure how it will sound to American ears. We also learnt God Bless America which we sing with much enthusiasm. Then we thought we would sing New Zealand's National Anthem in Maori and English. Lastly it was my birthday last weekend and our friends in Wales sung Happy Birthday to me in Welsh and English which was lovely and well worth sharing. 4.6 MB 6.46minutes

This week Nicole, Tegen and Shania chose, prepared, photographed, recorded and edited this podcast all on their own. Other children helped them with the bee drawings. It is great how children are getting more and more confident at using the technology and speaking clearly for an audience. A few children are even making podcasts just for fun before school! 1MB 1 minute 36 seconds

ANZAC Poem They shall not grow old As we who are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, Nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun And in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM Shania, Tyler and Elliott put together this podcast about their attendance at New Zealand's ANZAC day dawn parade. ANZAC stands for Australia & New Zealand Army Corps- a grouping of our soldiers who fought and died on the battlifields of Gallipoli in the Great War. It was on 25 April 1915 that some say New Zealand was born as a nation, through the sacrifice of our soldiers on foreign soils. 1.7MB 2.52 minutes

One of the families from Appleby School has recently left to go to Valencia, Spain for a few months to be involved in the America's Cup. Zoe's Dad, Rod, is helping install animation software designed by New Zealanders that will help people all over the world get more enjoyment of the America's Cup because they will be able to see in 3D where the yachts are up to. Rod came to school and spoke to our senior classes about what he is going to do and then we each took a photo and spoke about it so you would know more too. The beginning sound bite is of when the New Zealand yacht 'Black Magic' won the America's Cup in 1995. We hope to hear more from Rod while he is in Valencia. Wouldn't it be great if we brought the America's Cup back to New Zeland. 3.3MB 6 minutes 18 seconds

The New Entrant class at Appleby School have prepared a co-operative digital story constructed with iPhoto describing the things they like best about being at school. 13 MB 2 minutes 42 seconds