Our Group Narrative May 26, 2008
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We all contributed bit by bit to this narrative.
Title …. Jomax Jumps
Setting - when, who, what, where
It was 12 o’clock in the morning of the 25th June, 2006.
Charlie, his brother John and their cat were bungy jumping at Niagra Falls.
A problem …
It was the cat’s turn to bungy jump. He felt worried and scared. Charlie and John encouraged the cat ”Don’t be scared .. you can do it”. The cat (Jomax) walked carefully to the edge of the cliff with the bungy rope tied on tight. Jomax shut his eyes and then jumped. He felt scared and wet. Charlie and John looked down … they couldn’t see anything except for the waterfall. Suddenly the rope bounced back. It was broken and the other half (and Jomax) were nowhere to be seen!
Some events in order
maths tests are fun … May 6, 2008
Posted by Al Upton in blogging, literacy, minilegends, numeracy, science.Tags: minilegends blogging literacy numeracy science fun
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… and are much more than maths.
Minis please leave a comment using sentences.
Remember to refer to yourself as ‘mini’ + a number eg mini2, mini30
Click pictures to enlarge. Back button to return here.
How many eye holes? How many holes altogether?
[Hint: Times tables ... How many whole smilies are there?]
B1 (Bonus One): What healthy vegetable are these made of? Why might they be considered unhealthy?
B2 (Bonus Two): What is the difference between ‘hole’ and ‘whole’?
Part Two (leave a line before answering this)
Peep is on the window sill.
Choose two words from this mathematical language to write a short narrative …
horizontally, vertically, clockwise, anticlockwise.
Peep makes a soft landing
You might like to mention what force made Peep continue to fall until he landed on the huskies. Hint: It starts with ‘g’.
A narrative includes
Title
Setting (when, who, what, where)
Problem
Events (in order)
Resolution
Hello world - we’re back! May 2, 2008
Posted by Al Upton in blogging, minilegends.Tags: minilegends blogs blogging elearning education authenti
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This is Phase 1 of our return to blogging.
[Phase 2 is when we have all the right permissions for students to contribute to and appear on our class blog. Phase 3 is when we get our old student blogs back or new ones created.
http://alupton.edublogs.org/ is now Al's own personal blog. It should be viewed using the same 'safe and savvy' techniques you use wherever you are on the internet. It is not a class, school or education department blog. You can see the page with all the comments about our class blog being closed there. You can also see the framework we have all contributed to so we can get blogging again. Let's hope it helps other students and teachers as well.]
There are certain rules we need to follow right now.
There will be no photos or names of students - no identifying information at all.
Until further notice, only Al will add posts or pages to this blog.
Subscribers may add comments. These will all be moderated by Al. As administrator I reserve the right to not approve comments - there will be no justification.
[Very soon a Subscriber User Policy will be added to the pages above]
minilLegend students may only refer to themselves by ‘mini’ followed by a number eg mini17, mini24.
You might have noticed that our old blog Al Upton and the miniLegends 08 doesn’t exist anymore. We are still very much connected only now we are
Al Upton and the minilegends 08 
And to remind ourselves of our strong sense of community (meerkats) and global connections (our old clustr map) we have a new class blog avatar.
Feel free to add a comment.
PLEASE REMEMBER: This is a class blog and comments should be responses to the miniLegend’s learning and/or their blogging experiences. Broader dialogue comments here please.
Minis … please don’t forget that this is your blog and you can still have a lot of input into what appears here. I look forward to Phase 2 and 3 of our framework happening very soon.
We can always negotiate as we do with all our student centered learning.
Cheers, Al 
