Animation and Dance - Authentic Learning through the arts

Facilitating an animation workshop for the students at the Arrowsmith School was a great opportunity to bring the arts into learning. The challenge was to create a stick animation dancing in google slides and create music. Students will be able to transfer these skills to their own original presentations.

The link to the class blog after the workshop

http://arrowsmithceosydney.blogspot.com.au/

Graphical timeline is a great way to keep a record of your work history and is less boring for someone else to read!

St Mary's Science project - Soon to be released video by North Sydney Council captures teaching and learning process

A video soon to be released by North Sydney Council features St Mary's Primary School student's innovating sustainable environmental change. The video will be shown to other schools to inspire them about the possibilities that real world learning can provide - benefiting everyone from students, local government, parents and the whole community.

Student environment leaders become change agents following earth hour breakfast meeting recently

Student environment leaders attended an earth hour breakfast with local schools in March. One of the students organised a follow up interview with key speaker, Tim Cotter an environmental psychologist. Tim applies psychology to sustainability and the student team hope to use ideas from their interview to produce an environmental plan for their school.

The breakfast sparks enthusiasm

Science Showcase video produced will show authentic learning process in Year 2

North Sydney Council have commissioned a film maker to document Year 2’s involvement in the water catchment environmental grants recently. This could be used by schools in the future to imagine learning pathways around grants and how the experience can be embedded into the curriculum.

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QR codes - a great way to share student videos

At a community day to celebrate and showcase our science unit “Catching Water”, my Yr 2 students shared their innovations and videos via qr codes at their science stall. Visitors watched videos on both large screens and on ipads as they walked around the stalls. Many students, parents and reps from North Sydney Council environmental team took the take away codes home to watch later.

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CASPA award of excellence received for commitment to professional learning

At the 2014 CaSPA Annual Awards, I received an award for commitment to professional learning. This followed my attendance at a Performing Arts Bootcamp. Here I was able to learn from the CaSPA team. This bootcamp enabled me to transfer film making as an authentic product for my student's learning.