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=For Students = 1. Student Sample - Glogster.com This is a student sample of the Glogster poster which was created in week 3-4. This example would be at a sound level for students, for a better grade students would need to add a lot more to the content side of the poster. Facts, statistics, etc. to show greater knowledge and understanding, however, all requirements of the assessment are embedded within the glogster poster. media type="custom" key="7166989"

Student Sample - Blog Post (see below also) Hi, my name is Kim, I go to Marchbank Public School and I am 12 years old. My favourite colours are pink, purple, green, yellow, orange, red and blue. As you can see, I am very colourful, also I am happy and a bright person. I also love my friends. I like sport and art. My favourite sports are cricket, soccer, and basketball. My favourite part of art is the designing part of it, like colouring it and drawing it. I like sleeping and hanging with friends, also I love going to the beach. I am looking forward to doing this blog and learning more about sustainability. In my opinion, todays main environmental issue is waste disposal. All over the world there are people who are littering, not disposing of their wastes properly and as a result, are increasing the damage occuring to our environment. Within our own school I noticed many students not putting their rubbish in the bins provided, or not recycling correctly. I was sitting here trying to think of a possible reason why but the only conclusion I could draw from it was that we are just lazy. After noting this in just one day I would hate to think of how much rubbish isn’t disposed of correctly around our whole school or even our whole country in 1 week. Bye for now Kim
 * 2.** This is a student example of their week 1 blog post on their thoughts on our environmental issues within our school.
 * Week 1 - Blog post**

**3. Movie Maker student sample**
The following you tube clip has been uploaded for your viewing. This is an Environmental Movie created by a group of 2 students in my previous year 6 class, as an exmple to show future classes a quality assessment piece.

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I found this software to be extremely easy to use aswell as being a great resource to create a word wall/chart. For the purpose of this particular topic it was a great way to add new words, or unfamiliar words that students would be hearing all teh way throughout the unit. Glogster proved to be an extremely helpful tool when designing this wiki site. There are a large number of ways you could incorporate this into everyday teaching and learning strategies. It allows students to create an interactive poster and display their knowledge and understandings of topics in a fun and interesting way.

As a teacher I used this GMail account when uploading my students movies onto YouTube. It is such a quick and easy way to do things and I would suggest everyone set up an account. Not only will it help you with uploading videos but you can use the free wiki site on there to create your own wiki, or there is 'google Docs' where you can work on something as a group or have students work together on a project throughout the semester. These are all things that can be accessed at home by students as well.

Within this wiki, I used edublogs as my student blogging site. This site was easily navigated and simple for both teachers and students to use. It is a free resource which is easily at teachers disposal. The site is also education based therefore is highly suited to the needs of teachers in the classroom.

I have also used a list of Web 2.0 resources provided from the 'Thinking Digitally' project on Education Queesland site. This provided me with a wide range of possibilities when designing activities for my student samples and activities.