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May the Fourth be with you.

Sorry.  Couldn’t resist.  I’ll get me coat.

There are some classes who try to scare teachers by being rowdy, belligerent and generally just Not Nice. (Actually, I can’t think of ahy who do that at this school). However, when I get a class as inspirational as 9Y I get really scared. They are intelligent, polite, hard working and they listen to instructions. What a challenge - there is NO challenging behaviour other than the hum of work and the buzz of enquiring minds. Today is a case in point. I love to push these kids as hard as I can. Last week we looked at different ways of presenting information.  I taught them to use Animoto, Comic Life and some of them experimented with the lesser-known aspects of Word.  Since then my inbox is inundated with messages about new Animotos - the creativity is awesome.

So today they’re doing some coursework, on databases.  It’s a really dry boring task but to spice it up I suggest they can  collect their screenshotted evidence and display it how they like.  Some played safe with Word but others started to tell a story in Comic Life - some really excellent renditions of coursework are coming out.  With 10 minutes to go they were asked about other ways of showing the info - they suggested Animoto and my eyes sparkled with the vision of an OCR moderator watching Animoto’ed files of coursework evidence.

I’m not sure if they managed to get any done with only 10 mins to go…still watching the inbox.  I bet I get some next week though.