Testing Makewav.es

In recent sessions, we have been looking at a new type of software that was mentioned on the Mozilla Trip some of us attended last year-Mavewav.es. It's a very interesting site which allows you to obtain online badges for your efforts and achievements. This site could benefit us as Digital Leaders and is very fun to explore; at the moment, we are looking at creating stories on our own individual Makewav.es accounts. New member Josh has been promoted to 'Senior Reporter' on the site, and we will take a look at the new responsibilities that come with this role.

Today's Meeting

First session back since half term-in today's meeting, we will be updating the main blog, looking at gaming and software reviews, completing a PowerPoint on our plans for the school link in Sri Lanka and also taking part in a chat with Riddlesdown School in London.

Links To Sri Lanka

Miss O'Grady, a Geography teacher in our school, is setting up links to a school in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Some Digital Leaders are working on a PowerPoint to send to people at the school talking about Arden's e-Safety assemblies and what we do to promote e-Safety in and outside of school.

Welcome back to another year of Digital Leaders! We’ve had a nice Summer break, but now it’s back down to business. Today was our first proper meeting back; we meet briefly last week to organise who the Chair and Vice Chair of Digital Leaders were going to be. We decided that Will D is to be Chair of Digital Leaders and Will G is to be Vice Chair. Last year, different Digital Leader’s were assigned different departments in the school and this year, depending what departments each of us have been assigned to, we will be assisting these. We also have some E-Safety assemblies to devise and present over the next few weeks. App of the week is running again this year, so look out for updates in the following weeks. We have briefly tested the new Frog OS software, which was very interesting. We will exploring that further in the next few sessions.

New Yr 8 Digital Leaders

A fair while has passed since we first started digital leaders here at Arden, and we are pleased to announce that we have now recruited 6 digital leaders from year 8. They are:

• Isla
• Megan
• Lewis
• Shirin
• Lucy
• Will

We are looking forward to starting work with them, and their photos will be uploaded to the "Meet the DLs" page soon. We have already linked their blogs so have a look!

BT Digital Champions

Megan and Sophie are leading on the BT Digital Champions project. Everyone is registered  on the site and we are all going to try to teach people in our community diiferent softwares and how to use different technology. Everyone is going to try to log at least one activity.

"The Art of Being Brilliant" Seminar

On Wednesday 1st May 2013 our school hosted the "The Art of Being Brilliant" and because we are Digital Leaders we were identified as leaders in the school and selected to take part in the seminar.
Andy Cope who was leading the event has been doing these seminars in schools across the country and to big companies as well, such as Ikea, and Toshiba.
Throughout the day we learnt about how to think positively and how to use our happiness to influence othere people, and make them feel the same way. It was a great day and we all learnt a lot about how to be more positive and happy. We are all trying to put what we learnt into practise now, and give the Arden Digital Leaders a good image.

On Tuesday in the last week of April Will Davison and Matt Best visited Miss Brennon to teach her about Prezi. She strugled at first to understand but caught on very quickly. A follow-up will be aranged soon.

We are recruiting...

 

 

Year 8 Applications need to be emailed to the Digital Leaders email
address on the poster above by Monday 13/5/13

E Safety Assemblies

Our E Safety assemblies went really well! We presented to every year in school. We made some videos to back up our presentations; the links are at the bottom of this post. On Monday, we gave our first presentation to the Sixth Formers. We were nervous at first, because we didn't know how they would receive our presentation, but they laughed at the jokes and seemed to be interested in what we had to say. It went well, and we were proud of our efforts. The next day, Tuesday, we were presenting to the Year 10's and 11's. We were particularly nervous, as it was the first time we would be presenting with our script. I think it went well, and the videos played seemed to have the desired effect. The last assembly, on the Wednesday morning, was to the Year 7's, 8's and fellow Year 9's! The previous assemblies had been in the school hall, but for this special assembly involving 3 years, we presented in the larger sports hall. This time, Megan introduced the assembly and we all stood up and said our pieces. At the end, I was so relieved it had been done, but I was glad I'd done it. We all really enjoyed the experience and it helped build up our leadership skills. It was a chance to show the school how proud we felt to be Digital Leaders and to show them the skills we were building up by being one.

By Daisy Brown



Assembly E Safety DL's April 2013- www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWoAcARKVDw

Arden's E Safety Assembly (Movie Maker)- www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCFo_No9hds

Arden E Safety Assembly (iMovie)- www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9|Dzitilll

New E-Safety Tips Poster - for ICT rooms at Arden

This was made using the Grafio app on the iPad and will be displayed

all classrooms with PCs or Macs.

Whole school assemblies

We have planned and made resources for whole school assemblies

Monday 22/4/13 Year 12/13
Tuesday 23/4/13 Year 10/11
Wednesday 24/4/13 Year 7/8/9

The assemblies will focus on E-Safety and Digital Citizenship

Safe use of the internet, impact of what you post online and cyberbullying...

Quadblogging

We have enjoyed Quadblogging with the 3 schools in America.
It is now coming to an end, but we hope to do some more Quadblogging in the future.

Video for #TMBrum2

Here is the video we made using iMovie for a meeting of teacher on 20th March 2013. The meeting was about 'Student Led Learning' and we were asked to explain what we do as DLs at Arden. We did a Prezi and also showed this video (unfortunately You Tube stopped working after a minute).

Blog Update

I've updated my blog and mentioned all the different things we are doing.

- Daisy

DL Updates

A few teachers have asked for assistance in different areas of technology such as blogs, Movie Maker and Wikis. Megan and Sophie will help with the blogs, Lochie and Matt will help with Movie Maker and Charlotte and Daisy will sort out the Wikis. Some DL's are going to a TeachMeet next Wednesday and will make a presentation about how Digital Leaders works and what it involves. Our video will also be shown during this meeting.

Here is our video about Arden Digital Leaders

 

Mrs Allton asked us to make this short video - just 2 minutes, but we are now working on a longer version which explains more of the many things we have done, are currently working on or have planned for the future.

Digital Leaders Video

Today, the Arden Digital Leaders were asked to make a video which will be shown at an upcoming 'Teach Meet' and will be shown to 350 teachers up and down the country! In the video, we include exactly why we became Digital Leaders, what we have done and what we are going to do! We used MovieMaker, which Megan used for a piece of homework a couple of weeks ago; check her blog out to see more! We edited the video ourselves and filmed it ourselves; it was really fun!! The video will be up on the blog a bit later.

Quadblogging Week 7

This week we are looking at the Blog from Luella Middle School, USA.

Link here: http://kidblog.org/LMS_Theodocion/

Make sure you read and comment where possible... what has been added since last time we looked? Have they replyed to your comments?

Mrs Allton

Have you looked at our individual blogs recently?

Sophie has updated hers, as have others...